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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 65, 18 February 1885, Page 3

To-day being Ash -Wednesday service was: hekl m all Saints' Church. ; The R.M. Court sits to-morrow. The special adjourned sitting of the District Court will take place next Monday. : ' - ■■■■'"■•' -' ; ' •'-■ -■'■ Borough Council meets, this even- ■*■■■■;"■'.".■- " v V W. H. BishoD, of Bulls, coachbuilder, Ms filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. ' . > The steamer Te Anau sailed from Melbourne for the Bluff yesterday afternoon. > . .: ' The Palmerstbn School Committee will meet this evening, the principal business being . the election ■ of Board members. ■ .•■..;■, The pitblicans 1 m the Lamb ton Ward Licensing J)istrict, Wellington, returned their five candidates' This is the second 1 ward which hasjbeen declared m favour of the publicans. | From the Napier Evening News we learn that funds have been subscribed to enable Messrs' Collins and Greenwood lo bring to Napier a couple of tons of stone from the reef they discovered, when it will be subjected to a stringent test, and some trustworthy' measure of the value of the discovery, obtained. Says the Htiwera Star the whisky sei--zediby the police preparatory tolnu recent prosecutions was sent away to WanI £anui on Saturday. We are not aware what the Collector of Customs proposes to do with it, but the best purpose to | w ( hich it can be put Wo'tild bo that of in- | creasing the volume of tho Wanganui river for a second or two. • The Rev^ Mi- Gorloti, Presbyterian minister, at Marton, is attending the general assembly at Christchiirch. His place was taken last Sunday byMr George Bruce. .