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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 59, 11 February 1885, Page 3

Messrs 'Stevens and Gorton's sale ot landed properties was taking place as We went to press. •" The poll for the Middle Aorangi line was being taken to-day at Karere. • ; ■ "Members subscriptions m connection, with the Boating Club are coining m very satisfactorily. • . • . . . : ' Owing to great pressure of sales, m various places, Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Woodville sale which should have been held to-morrow m ordinary course will not take place this month. By latest cable we learn that the Coptic's frozen mutton has arrived m good condition. ~ .-.■..-... > » :■ r The steamer lonic arrived at Wellington from Napier yesterday. She sails for London on Tuesday. - The Government are,. calliT>g"for tenders for Hie supply aiiil delivery of ten" million telegraph forms. * A verandan m George-street, Sydney, fill on to the footpath yesTcnlay. : Sov-' oral persons were underneath at the time, ondueiug, killed, .nud others .injured more or less severely. i iMr McKerrow arid Percy Smith of; the . Survey Department have gone toToka-{ no to detefraine.iwliieh is.tljo host point; for the Taupo-Watigauui Road to cross- . Ih e Central Trunk Lino of Railway. The Jane Douglas is advertised to leave .Soxton for Wellington this eyelid ing at 6 p.m. . MrG. M.Snelson will hold a sale of stock at the Karere yards on Febnjary 16th. Tho entries at present received" are published m our advertising columns. They include beef, two-year-old steers, yearliugs,' two-year-old heifers, cows, fat sheep, prime . fat ' wethers, Romuey Marsh ewos, lambs 'm wool; pure-bred Lincoln rams,. and on account of Mr W. Akers, 100, pure-bred^ Roinney Marsli ewes, and (5 two-tooth Romney Marsh rams,' by imported ranis out of pure-b.recl. ewes." ; " ! The date of Mr /Greenwood's next professional visit to Paiihftrst.on is published m our advertising 'columns. : 4 * Wo.nn(]ers'tftnd tliat.Mr J. ft. Hogg, [ manager of ! the Bank 1 of New South Wales, at Bulls, is about to leave for Masterton to open a bianch of tho Bank of New-South Wales m that town. Taßmah : has ! been fonthe Durie'dih Giip. : ; - " - l; '■'/ ■■"■'■ ' "In all the Auckland 'City Licensing Districts temperance ' candidates havo been returned unopposed. ■■ '■ An'Aucktand saddler named North has had one of h>^ feet tut- off by a tfamcar, it being the first accident on the Auckland tramway . - : • ■ At the Wanganui Police Court a man . was charged with' having been three times convicted. within the lnst 6 mouths. Sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hanUabour. Mr G. Miller, Bangitikei Line, announces having started as general carrier. . Messrs Stevens & Gorton's new advertisement appears elsewhere. ! Tenders are wanted for stumping a pori tion of the, Standard hay paddock, m Ferguson-street. . Tenders are 'required for taking down and re -building tho Taomii. school chimney. ' .' An advertiser requires a handy girl. B*MrG. Kendall advertises for sale a few good Romney Marsh rams. Mr Hftnkins has a special notice re money to lend. The borrower will be oharged neither commission nor ( valuation fees. :. ; :./t " Sanitas " requests us to hold over his letter pending certain inquiries he is making m reference to the matter alluded to.