To New Subscribers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 June 1885, Page 3

To New Subscribers.

. J .A number -of how subscribers whose names have come to hand from various •agents to-day, enquire if thej' will receive a supplement with their paper on Saturday. We regret to say that our present supply is quite inadequate to existing requirements, and until the additional number ordered comes to hand we must distribute them as fairly as possible, of course giving precedence to old subscribers. Subscribers new or old must not m any sense regard the supplying of a supplement every Saturday as part of our contract, with them. They subscribe to the paper itself, from which the supplement is entirely separate, although no charge is made for it. K&. scon as our order for an additional supply can be fulfilled all regular subscriber* will be supplied, though we cannot m all cases undertake to supply country agents with supplements. The Wairarapa papers charge subscribers 6s 6d m advance and 7s 6d at end of quarter, while the Standard is only 5s m advance and 6s 6d at end of quartor and gives a fourteencolnmn supplement every Saturday into the bargain.

j Tho st(;:iiitt*r Siirling C istlc, engaged | l iy the British (iovi-nimeut an a \v:tr I riiiiscr, is now iindcri;oiii£ neceifdiirv j iiltci'-ttiiiiis ;it Malu. When completed it is probable thai she will be despatched tv Aii*iruli:i. Tin- Wellington Racing Club d-cidod ti> lid!. l itH M"i'|.»li'cliaßH meeting (»n tho 18th -I'ilv, whfii hluki-s amounting to £415 will bi- distributed. ll.istiuijs is going to borrow J-20, ! -00 t.»r dhihmgr, and lrvy a Is rate to pay the interest. Several Wellington publicans liave failed to d. -posit tbo necessary fees with their applications for a renewal of their licenses, nnd it is said that their houses will have to bo closed for twelve months m consequeuce. The following resolution has been passed by the Auckland City Council :— " That all persons m arrears for rates be proceeded against m batches of sixty persons, ten to be taken from each ward at a titno, at intervals of fourteen days, that they b<: taken m alphabetical order, commencing with the letter A." Special Attention is directed to Messrs Bontley Bros.' altered advertisement appearing before the leadei, further paticulars will be given m a future issue, A portion of tho report of the proceedings of last night's Borough Councsl is unavoidably held over, also some comments m reference thereto. A resident of the country w«8 greatly surprised at a visit he paid to Messrs Welch and Cos. stationery establishment a few days ago. One paticular article of daily use which he purchased, and for which he was charged 2d, he informed th'! proprietors he had always had to pay one shilling for before Fie thinks that he has been slightly overcharged, and does not hesitate to say so, nnd expn sses his opinion pretty plainly on tho subject. Complaints are made of the official rei»iissiK>Bs of the bailiff m th«^ discharge of his dutiee, dilatoriuess m the service of summonses having become almost'proverbical. The poll for the Longburn Road was taken at the house of Mr Scales, Longburn Road, to-day, and for No. 4 Lin*', Kairangi, at the house of Mr Rowe, Longburn. to-morrow.