The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 67, 20 February 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY. ) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—♦ A quartz reef said to yield stone containin ff 60oz. of gold to the ton is reported to have been discovered on private property about 30 miles from Bleu • heiin.^ Tna * Woodville Examiner says if there is one thing more noticeable than another m, Ml' Mocorthnr's speeches it is that he ta'ka 80Uud sens*. The Onehunga Iron Sand Company is pushing on with the erection of the heavy machinery lately to hand, and it is believed that manufacturing operations will be commenced about the end of next month. During the dry season 50,000 men will be employed ou the Panama Canal. .'A number of' German immigrants are to be despatched to Tasmunia m March. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the residence at present occupied by Pastor Gaustad. Tenders will be received till l'at of March. '* Meßßls^hftand, Allen, & Co., of Christchurch, have a special announce---J boot 8 which have acquired quite a colonial reputation. Special attention is directed to Mr A. Fergusons advertisements appearing m ' W^TOpT^ 1 "S*SS2 town and country readers. It . g officially notifiGd that the election of five persons to form»Licensinir Committee for Pahnerston will take place on Wednesday next. V A n a . . .- .. T,. . ■ corießP?"den.^:? £ the. Lyttelton Tmes Bays Braz,i j 8 a fine ,narket for New Zealand butter and other protI UCe. Marlborough papers say that Dv Schwartzbnch, who is well known m Wanganui, lias beeu very successful m Blenheim. Funds are being raised m Engird for the defence ot the woman Dudley, who "J 10* P'^ovan^oiisa. It is reported that her father lives m Australia. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next sale at Feilding will be held on the 24th inst. The entries at present received are pubhshed m our advertising columns. '1 hey |»c»"<le-l< at cows, imxed cattle, two to tliree-year-old steers cows, two-year- ; old.steers, two year-old heifers, shorn lambs, fat cows, store wethers, lambs and stud fat ewes. Thus sensibly speaks the Saturday Advertiser about Vesey Stewart's new enterprise, the "N.Z. Cadet Agency" : —We do not want clerks, and the employmcnt of endets on stations has for long teen given up. It takes about as much interest tp. get.a ypinig- nian pn a good run as would secure him the ap= pointment of Sp aker m the Houpe of Representatives. Dunedin has a school of music with a -killed professor at ,6000 per annum. He has two pupils.

A "tweuty-iiino" hand m cribbage is a rare one. The members of tho Middleton Club were playing recently, and one of them hold the knave of clubs and liireo fives. The card turned np was the five of clults. The hand was framed and the rest of 4.1 1 e pack destroyed. An accident which terminated fatally, happened at Waverloy, yesterday. Mr George Wilkiu, a settler on the Kohi, was driving a waggon loaded with firewood, when the seat on which ho was silting split, and he fell m front of the wheels, which went over his shoulders .ami chest. A doctor was sent for, but life was extinct before he arrived. The s.s. Tui arrived m the Rangitikei river, on Thursday, with a full cargo; and was announced to leave for Wellington yesterday morning. Mr Downes, C.E., has been engaged to lay off the proposed road from the Maungamahoe Block to the Bulls-San-son-road. The proposed road will come out! on tho Bulls Sansou-road at the foot of the cliff, by Mr J. Bull's old sawmill. Mrs We,alleans, widow of the late J. Wealleans, who died at Awahuri on Saturday, was interred m _the Clifton cemetery on Monday. She survived her husband and daughter only a few weeks. The sale of tho Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company, held yesterday, was not successful, #287 being received for town sections, only thirteen of which were sold,"and five sub-divisipn sections ' realised .£1,752,;' ; ' *' : Sandon is about inaugurating a Small Farm Association. .-.-', We learn that there is a probability of re-arranging the status of the civil police force, m the direction of separating it from the defence force, by with- ; drawing it from the jurisdiction of the Minister of Defence and placing it under the car* of the Minister of Justice. Captain Edwin telegraphed at 8.51 p.m. yesterday : — lndications of strong winds between east and north and north west, after twelve hours from now. Glass, further fall, and the .weather is changing. Salvation and Kingask have been scratched for all their turf engagements, at Dunedin. : , As exercusion trains have proved such success on other lines, we should suggest to the Secretary of the Paltnerston Jockey Club that he endeavour to make arrange- ; ments with Mr Rotheran, the District ; Manager, to run excursion trains from Wanganui and Foxton simultaneously for the benefit of those persons desirous of attending the Easter Monday Baces. The Feilding paper says : — There is a good opening for a steady man m Feildi injr to start business as a barber. j A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at Messrs Halcombo & SherwilTs i office for the pnrpose of taking steps to form an Acclamatisation Society for the Manchester and Kiwitea districts. We (Star) understand that the boundaries were defined, bye-laws adopted, and prepared for the Colonial Secretary, to whom they will be forwarded to be gazetted. Messrs Eeid & Gray's twine binder beat the field at the great contest which came off on the 11th inst., at Oamaru. Among those who competed were McCoinnck's, Woods' Samuelson's, Deering's, Osborne (2), Howard's, Johnston's champion. Reid & Gray's proved its superiority over them all, and thus added another victory to its name. ■ Four acres of heavy laid crop were finished m two hours and eleven minutes. Out of the 11 machines which competed only 6 finished. It is pleasing (says the Feilding Star) to hear visitors remark upon the neatness, cleanliness, and general order observed at our Public Library and Reading Room, and the ample and various bill of fare to be found upon the table of the latter.