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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 80, 7 March 1885, Page 3

Messra Stevens and Gorton's stock sale at the Borough Yards will take place on Tuesday commencing at 1 p.m. Tenders for sundry works on Mr Cobb's estate close at 10 a.ni. on Mo nday. A railway guard gave. a £10 note for a £1 at the totalisator at Wanganui yesterday, and is m sore tribulation m consequence. Tenders for alterations and additions to the Woodville Club Hotel close on the 10th instant. The totalisator dividend on the Wanganui Cup were £22 18s and £8 11s respectively. Messrs T. K. Macdonald and Co advertise money to lend, rate of interest from 7 per cent. An accident occurred yesterday morning to a man named Wiltshire, through falling from the roof of a house he was rrccting on the Foxton Line and broke four of his ribs: We learn to-day he is progressing favourably. A heavy thunderstorm passed over Bulls on Thursday night. Mr J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner Crown Lands came by coach from Wellington yesterday, and is proceeding with surveyors to the special settlement blocks. Mra Lyons returned m the Rimutaka on Sunday and came on to Pahnerston last evening by train. Mr Lyons brings several of the passengers with him and aMr Freeman and family go to Ash-, urst to settle near Whibley's. Mr Suelson had a capital sale this afternoon, there being a demand for more stock than were yarded. The nominations for the Manawatu Racing Club's Easter Monday "meeting close at 9 p.m. on Monday next. Negotiations of the greatest delicacy are now pending between Russia and England. The s.s. Manaia is Btranded at the Wai rau. The racer Coronet has seriously iniured his back. The "pickled baby" m Wanganui proves to have been the child of a Miss Itobertson, who m May 1880 gave it to Mr Wakefield, chemist, as he alleges " for dissection ou his own account." The police laid a charge against the latter of concealment of birth, m secretly disposing of the body, but the R.M. dismissed it., Mr Leary was elected chairman of the Licensing Committee yesterday. The police report was generally favourable. The Clerk was recommended to be voted a salary of The annual meeting ■will be held on the sth June. Early closing not dealt with.