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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 32, 8 January 1885, Page 3

Mass meetings were held m Melbourne and UiiUarai last night re German annexation m the Pacific. French journals allege that merchants m China have tried hard, since the Tonquin difficulty, to export poisoned tea into France. . Says the Marton paper, Constable Gillespie has been transferred from !Feilding'to Waitara, where he will be under Constable Day. It seems a pity that such an active and intelligent police man as Constable Gillespie should not be better appreciated! . by his superior . officers. Constable Meehan, , of. Wan; ganui, takes charge of Feilding. The Auckland Star thinks that the fact of there being a difficulty m connection with the loan is m itself a condemnation of the financial policy of the Government, and that, the financial reputation of the Ministry has received a great blow. . . ; . ■ The Marton paper says there was a capital attendance at Messrs Beckett Hammond.ahd Dick's stock, sale at Marton yesterday, and good prices: were realised for ajlclasses of stock. : \ ; Evi--. ! dently the present favorable weather is giving the farmers heart, and making them believe that the dark, cloud L is at last about to turn but iibis silver lining. A Kiwitea correspondent states ihat; if the bad " -weather continued " J tniAjh longer, the settlers who have bush to burn will be great losers. Some hundreds of acres have been felled this year, and there is a large quantity lett unbtn-nt from last year. A few weeks of' dryj weather are much needed to render the bush fit for fire. The wool market is quiet and arrivals to date for next series of auctions now 1 amount to 110,000 bales. ' ' The latest novelty m English wedding is to have the bride met at the church door by a surpliced choir, who precede, her singing up the aisle, and -then arrange themselves about the r wedding' party. , The Taranaki Herald says it is; very,: probable that Major Atkinson has' gone' to the Empire City m connection - with the libel case pending against the- New' Zoaland' Times, of which rtimor says he: has .a large share m the proprietary. j The Victorian Association have asked; the Australian team who visited England last season to explain their refusal to play- an English eleven. - . . ■ ; . iTho following is not bad~ from one ooint of view. ■ Eider praying at a weekly meeting of congregation : " Qh,| .Lord keep our minister liumble and poor Oil, Lord if tbou keepest our minister humble we will keep him poor." The popularity" of v Calfed Back " j may be judged of from the fact Ihat in' •the window of a Napier bookseller; a copy is to be seen — one of th« twenty-' fourth ten thousand issues; ■ ■ ■ ' ; 1 Agonizing Neiiralgic Pains.— 'Baxter's Anti-Neuralgic Fills have been named by the public " Magic Pills " on account: of their marvellous action ;in curing; Neuralgia, Toothache, Sciatica, Lum-; bago, and other Neuralgic pains: — To.be; had of all chemists and storekeepers, orpbst free on receipt 'of 19 or 44 postage B tamps. — -J. Baxter, Chemist, Victoriastreet Christchuroh •■:- Gurefor Indigestion.— -Baxter's Co.n- i pound Quioirie Pills, used according, to the directions, have-proved a certain and speedy cure for indigestion:, bilioiis and' liver complaints, wind m the stomach! aud bowels, nervous debility, &c. Theiri object is the removal of debility arid derangement by assisting nature, and! imparting' tone 1 and power tothe 'system. — To be had of all chemists and storekeepers m boxes, Is l^d.nnd 2s 9d each, or post free tin ''eceipt of, 19 or stamps. — J., Baxter, Pharmaceutical j Chemist, 21, Victoria-street j. Christchurch ' . ' .' Indigeßtidri anfl Liver Complaints.— For these complaints Baxter's Com pound Quinine Pills have proved a specific, acting powerfully on the liver and , mildly on . the stomach. Sold everywhere, or post free from J. Baxter, Christchurch, for 19 ' or 44 stamps. i