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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 63, 13 August 1885, Page 3

In the Legislative Council yesterday, the Napier Harbour Bill and Sydenham Public Works Loan Bill were read a third time and passed. .\ - . ■ An impounding notice appears m another column. ■" ./ ' It will be seen by advertisement that the Borough Council meets m Mr Linton's Buildings, and the office of the Registrar of Births, Marriages, and Deaths is also held there, and that the Public Rsftding Bx>oni will be m Jorgensan's Building, the Square. . Building operations at ' Parihaka arc* at present being carried on on a very large scale, and fully forty new wharo* ape m hand. Most of the building »■ b.eipjf done on tne sonth Ride of the ■ yjver, where n large nnmber of wharei wftre pulled down at the time of the dispersion by the Armed Const abulHrly. A gontleinon informs iiß.(Tarj»n*ki ■ JferalfT) that he b>l ieye^ th at hy flhriiitjnas Pahhalca will b» larger than' er*r )t was. "Hke building: iii extending to new ground, where the Maoris have to plear logs, rocks, etc. The method of removing the rocks is very primitive. A large firn w made about the . obfitfuc- ' tion, and then when it has been brought to an intense heat water^ it poMre«l on, and the' stone shivers as if y It had;; been blasted.. ; '. •'-.:• ; ... - : ■'■•■■:• "£% ; ; : v Mr W. H. Pasco«» was last evpniijl^ t«^— 4waniiHO»»ly >hM;ted a ijri^mhor^ of i|t^ f Dramatic Club Committee in' -.the "pljibiij 1 -of Mr" Jacohpoii, Tesipncd. The CninV inittee expressed their sincere. regret m loosing- the sorvitvK of the latter genfl«man both as a .: ijoninuttee-inan and work?n!» nif>iiibpr< A ni^ii^ber of the CnmißiltfM ,wr(ttevftfol<»KiMihjr for bis ftVa- ii««f, nnii sjalml h't hopfd no nntice wimilil l»o tnkon by thf cluiiof tho vi'ry iiiHifft'ifi'ant letter whirh appeared ip UK; Times concerning ; their actions.