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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 6, 5 June 1885, Page 3

Messrs Wollerraan & Hutchison have been appointed agents m Palmerston for Mr Arthur Yates, seed merchant, Auckland. All their seeds are m sealed packets, bearing their name and address, and are grown specially for the Colonies. One special feature is that the vegetable seeds are sold at the uniform price of Cd and the flower seeds at 3d per packet, and m each is enough seed to make a good sowing. The public are requested to ask for Yates' seeds m these sealed packets, and to accept no other. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at the Borough Yards will take place on Tuesday. The catalogue is published elsewhere and further entries are solicited. The Mayor and Town Clerk leave tomorrow evening and catch the Jane Douglas at Foxton for Wellington arriving at the latter place on Monday morning. There was an exceptionally large attendance at the Bank Chambers Asseniblj' last evening. Mr Haultain has been compelled to have his knee splintered and does not expect to be quite recovered for a couple of weeks. ' Mr Shailer is turning out exceptionally good portrait photographs and is using the new gelatine surface which considerably adds to the artistic appearance of the picture. Anew and ingenious process of taking the sitter instantaneously by an india-rubber tube contrivance is being constructed by Mr Shailer himself and will be used m the course of a week I or two. j Mr Hampton's lecture on Thursday evening was a most successtui one there < being a very fair attendance, when he practically illustrated the construction of an alphabet and the proportion of each letter m a most able and painstaking way, subsequently showing how other alphabets could be formed on the same principles. The next lecture to be delivered the following Thursday will be I most important and entertaining.tho subject boing the proportions of villas and cottages, etc. _ The pig shooting case Anderson v. 'Shrumpka (2) was proceeded with yesterday when fresh evidence was heard on both sides. After considerable deliberation the Bench nonsuited the plaintiff making no order ior costs. Mr A. iS. j Baker for plaintiff and Mr G. P. Hawkins tor defendants. The Civil Service literary prize of £25 for the best essay on '" The land laws and their effect, social and economical, upon the condition of the people," has been awarded to Mr Edward Gordon Allardyct;, lately of the Electric Telegraph Department. A copy of the treaty between Great Britain and the R.-public of Uruguay for ibe extraditiou of fugitive criminals its gazetted. An Order m Council fixing the fees under the Resident Magistrate's Act appears m the Gazette. MrT.F. Rotlieram having handed over the charge of this section to his successors, will probably leave the district on Monday next. We do not think there will be any regrets on that account. Mr Bennett, of Awahuri, is having built there a handsome private residence with double front French and bow windows. Mr Larcomb is the architect. We learn that the tender of Mr R. Leary has been accepted for printing the Manawatu Electoral Roll. Mr D. Day, tailor of Wanganui, has a business notice elsn where. Town subscribers are reminded that on Monday next, Bth inst our collector will make his periodical call, when we trust all demands made by him will be promptly settled The Mnsonic Ruuuion is to be held on the 24th and will consist of a supper and ball. Mr T. King is the hon.sec. The Wairarnpa arrived at Melbourne to-day from Bluff. By cable we learn as we go to press that one of the Horsham (Victoria) bank robbers has turned Queen's evidence againttt the others.