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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 9, 9 June 1885, Page 3

A London cablegram states that the crop of beetroot for this season is estimated at 2,170,000 tons. Mr 1/cKeown, ot Park Road.,- to day shewed us a giant tuber, weighing no less than 51bs sozs. He thinks and we think that this big potatoe will take some beating, It is auother proof of the superlative qualities of the soil iiroand Palmerston, especially that on the north bank oi tlio river an 1 just beneath the terrace on which the Square is situated. Till now all theodolites requiring repairs had to be sent out of the district, but we learn thai this special branch of business is ua loi-takou by Mr Littlejo'm which will prove a great convenience and saving of expense to all engaged in the surveying profession. Special attention is directed to a notification from Messrs Whibley Bros., of Ashurst, appearing elsewhere. A summoned meeting of the Court Manawatu A.O.F. will be held this evening. By wire to-day we learn that there his been the heaviest flood in Blenheim t since 1877. The greater part of the" town is under water. There is no loss ot life as yet. The Chronicle has the following re the TiitmiH-Spiii'dlt! cas- :— The information supplied to our Wellington contemporary is somewhat inaccurate!. It is true 'that a t-dtnpromisi: lihs Ih;imi effected in the case, the d-'fumlaut. preferring to pay a portion of the fin", together with his own costs, rather than be put to the f rouble and bother of furiher legal proceedings. It appears that a£t«r tlie judgment h»ri boon -given in tlw K.M, Court, and pending tlie result o f tiie appeal against the magistrate's decision, \lr Spurdlc and two of Ins friends entered into a hood to guarantee payment of the money in c«se of the appeal being distuis.socl. The remission «'" I. lie fitiu by the; Government, rrfi-nvd to some time bach, did not ofconrsu cancfl the bond, and further Inual" proccediims .were tbrc.atuni d. Mr Spurdie, therefore, in order to save his friends from any possible annoyance and inconvenience and to put a atop to further litigation, ■i greed to compromise the matter as we have stated nbovp.