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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 84, 12 March 1885, Page 3

Messrs Barns and HiggieV nexf stoick, sale at the Ben Nevis Sale Yards, Turjakina, will ' take place oh' Tuesday the 24th instant. : ■ <■'■'■ Additions are made to Messrs Stevens and' Gorton's • catalogue of their nejxt stock sale at Bulls, which takes' place pa' Thursday, the 19th instant. „ .■ \ -«■ The Mar ton school committee have decided to vote for Messrs Sanson, 1 Baker/ and Taplin.* ... ; . • ■ . „,, , | :y\ ■ We remind our readersof the. adjourn-;; , ( ed meeting of .shareholders of the Dairy , Factory Company, to take place to-tnor-row, at 1 p.m. at' MY Lintdn's room, and theSoap Factory meeting will take place the same afternoon at 3 p.m. at the sainb plttOe. ' ■'■ !• '.•.':■<-.;'• ;.•' , ■ ; ■ ' Mr R. Bruce Wallace has entered into partnership with his father Mr J.jPL- ; . Wallace m Hunter-street,, Wellington,, and personally conducts the.auctipnejering department of tlie. concern, Since his advent into the firm the" bnsiness has : rapidly increased,' anctjion sales being held, daily at the i-ootns, Hunters-street; and good sales being; ef/ elected.- .;. "•' '.•: ■'■•.<.■ n,:l; ■;■; ■■; ! ' "] ' Messrs Wjonan^ha-veih hand ''The- i : England' of the • OPacific," a. new -i -work ; about New: Zealand, by-'Arjihur; Clayd'en. : 'Of the Military Settleiment; Scheme, • the ' : Dunedin -Star . says :— '.' JWe.-i shall await the details of .Mr Ballt^nce's 'iSQheme with interest. .As the principle, it 18, beyond doubt, eritirely in 1 tho right direction." .' : P; » .- i ■;•■. .>/ ; ;v ri . . . .: j ._ . A notice m reference to the bankruptcy I lof Mr fT. M. Broughton, appears elsewhere.' ■'■'■ ' •' ' " ■• ■ i , We take tl>o following 'from a Marlsorongh papeV'bf Saturday :-^'' Miiior. ?'•■ Pollard : and *• Stnfl-Captain V, Barrott, of thb Salvation Army, arrived hero yesterday. They were received by the local Cinta.irfre.Bß, and .. Lieutenant ess, ; and .^driven m ?, buggy to the barracks. TJheir' .'arrival m the Square, was made knoivfr! 'by the disuordarit "strain's 1 : which were wheezed out of a ' seedy '•'■ cornet aaid a concprtiiiaj which carefully kept never leas than a bar or two belunrf or ahead of one* another. "Major" Pollard m 4ini£onn'haß a juvenile, if not imposing ' appfi'arance, and the brilliancy of mih rc.:ception \v«B m ho wise detrauted from by the imbecility of his musical accompaniment. To-night great tjmes are on, and great service will bo done to the oauso Uy an occpntric procession of ; nipnntobanks, vrho aro under the pleasing delusion that their' eciuiitricities will do good to their £eUo\r-men. (

Besides Volllir.icii!.':; Company thorn are reported to bo several Australian tobacco buyers m the field. All purchases are to be for cash. , , * The Jane Douglas leaves Wollinglon to-morrow aftrnioon and Foxton en j' Saturday^ 6.30 pm. \ ; - \ \ We clip the following from a Wellington paper otjS&tjmlay last ;r-^-" An old lioar hare, or a hare, that is hour, is very goud me.it m Lent," ih Manawatii at any, rate, as Dptfiftive Chrystul, who justly priUea Ininsolf on his keen scent, especially after game, has discovered. ; Yesterday afternoon^. Ayhilst leisurely giving t)ie girls' »i treat on the Queen's wbarf, lie .suddenly sniffod afar off, the odour of "hare. ' Having pointed tfie" game, he> began .: to retrieve, , and soon locating it on the person of a miiA'ri-oift Maiiawatuv m the guise bf a .' couple of hares. With his customary promptitude the' detoctiv.e. grabbed the; inmn, (/ anil the hares .too, . ami r straight\voy conveyed ;hnn aud^hem to lieadquar t ters.| . IJnhappily,," however,',' ho leavhea a^ttle latar tliat though it i& the close season foV hares m the Wellington district; '^it is not so m the <ManaWatu, and this morning he was obliged to i'ejfcu m; fche spoil to the triumphant sportsThere, will be hare soup somewhere ; tp-morro\y.