The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 104, 7 April 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• The ninth annual meeting of the Mahawatu Permanent Equitable Building and Irivcalincnt Society will be h'ald m the Town Hall, Palmerston North, on Friday April 17 at 2 p;m. Besides receiving the annual report and balancesheet, the meeting will also have to elect four directors. Messrs Waldegxave and McNeil retire but are eligible tor reelection. Messrs James Linton and J. ft. Blair intend offering themselves for election as directors. Two auditors will have to be elected besides the usual formal business of the annual meeting. Dr Schwarzbach, the eminent specialist m all diseases of the eye, ear, and s throat, -notifies by advertisement over the leader that he will according to promise revisit 1 Wanganui and may be consulted at the Rutland Hotel from April 10 until April 24, hours 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. Persons m these districts desirous of consulting the doctor should not miss the opportunity thus offered. , Messrs Beckett, Hammond, and Dick, of Marton, announce that the terms of their groat-land sale to take place on Saturday the 25th inst., . will be one, third cash, balance on mortgage at 5, 7, or 10 years, interest at' 7 per cent. In Adelaide persons. convicted. of destroying books m public libraries have been fined as high. as £20 with alternative of corresponding terms of imprisonment. :• A match is spoken of as likely to take place between Hearn and Beach. If arrauged it will probably be rowed m New Zealand waters. Our collector will pay his nsual periodical visit to Ashurst on Wednesday the 22nd inst., when a settlement of all accounts due is requested. The PaJmevston North School Committe will hold its mouthly meeting tomorrow evening, m ' the school, at 7.30 p.m. No less than seventy-two tradesmen from various gold field .districts appeared before the Clyde Resident Magistrate's Court one day lately on. charges of having short weights m their possession. They were all fined but one. A tourist from England has died at Lake Wakatipu from concussion of the brain, the result of a fall while ascending Ben Lomond. _ . ; Dore's-:Waimea Hotel, at Lumsden, near Invercargill was totally destroyed by fire early on Frjdfly, mornings The family were with difficulty rescued. There had been & dance m the towtiahip, at which Dore's servant and daughter were present. They returned home about 2 a.m., and it is supposed that the candle which was left by them on the toilet table caused the fire. They and the boarders lost all their belongings. No furniture was saved as far as known. The total value of the buildings and contents destroyed is estimated at £3000. : From a Syduey paper we learn that Sergeant A. Dransfield, of the Sydney contingent, sou of Mr J. Dransfield of Wellington, broke his ankle during the voyage of the s.s. Iberia to Aden. The Woodville Examiner is turning round upon its patron, Mr W. C. Smith M.H.B , m the matter of no new Justices having been appointed for the Woodville district. It says : — " Mr Smith, M.H.R., is responsible for the neglect which the district has sustained m the matter, for he has either never represented the matter m his capacity as member, or he has no influence with tho Government. Which is it ?" What will Mr Smith say to this we wonder ! The Woodville correspondent of the Napier Telegraph writes as follows : — (t Tenders are invited m the Wellington papers for the formation and permanent way of the Tamaki contract, thirteen and a half miles m length. These contracts are for the extension of the Hawk's Bay railway from Tahoraite. I understand that the contract for the extension falls short of Woodville by three miles, as it is not yet quite certain where the station will be fixed at the latter place. The site at present supposed to be the station site is not only inconveniently situated, but is liable to be Hooded and it is said that to fill it m will cost fully £4000." We are sorry to hear there is a probability of our present very courteous etationtnaster, Mr Bass, beinsj removed tg another locality. Mr Bass has become very popular m his official capacity bj' his uniform civility, by which ho was' so distinguished from his predecessor, Personally speaking, we shall he exceedingly sorry to lose Mr Bass, and we cordially wish Mill prosperity wherever he goes We think when we were favoured with a decent stalioninnstor, the aiitlmiilics [ might have left him herc,iiiorc especially lus we (In not belitvo he himself desires J lo bo removed.