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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1451, 10 September 1885, Page 3

Tiie captain of- the barque Edwin Basset, lias had Iris certificate suspended for 3 months, and ordered !o pay costs of inquiry. He admitted having"- hugged the shore too closely but.said that, foejing unwell he had been' keeping m the voulc of -'.steamers with a'view to get a passage back., - ..;■•■■••' . ■ ; A 'petty 'sc.indal having' beei; si afloat eoeerriiiig-linn, the ' pristbr of an African Methodist Church i.i Des Moini's, lowa, entered -upon an cxplarraiion of Ins connection with the affair to hits congregation, oil i a recent Sunday, from his pulpit.' Ho was great ly exeftcd, and m the course of "his, remarks dropped dead. - ■ ■ • , , ' '■ ; 'Things are evidently "yery .quiot . iii Auckland: Fifty VfienlplcVji d '.. i'rjj'dW ..men have taken 'iheirp'aMsiige to iSyVfiiVy . by;the ; a.s. • YVaihbr^ 'The 1 -tJiiWii ; Com^ paiiy.are taki jig, them' at ! £& ■ lOs per head..... ,'; .;>:, ,,;:,. „ •'■; j,-: ?k ■m:^-. ;,..: We understand. that -procee'drifgß ' are .to, be taken. ;iij l ;.tlio^lSimr«-iii6 : .;'e«urt t<i quash* the caiicpJlatitui (it Hie. JiWisc • of ! tlie Re<i Lion"li(»tel ljyV,ihtf M-..kinkiri Licensing Bench y*B[xn\i\y : .^jC/a-Miifi.le From the annual repoJ'to^tjVe Rtigis trar of Friendly Soi-ioties, we^liiaru that during thc.yt.ar 1884 the totaHiWintier of registrations , of; Friendly and branches was. 40. Tlie statistical -tab>B- fur 1883 deal with 243- societies.The unmix r of "members of (In-se lodges was 18,843, and the total finds amounted 1 to £232,3-21, of- which £205,350 belongs, to the sirk antj \Fiirjiral Fund. Thisgives au average of £12 Gs 7d.p*-r .member m respect of tlie total funds, and £10 17s m respect of -the Sick and Funeral Fund, aiid shows, as cbuipan-d with the: previous year, an -increntsb m the tpriner of 4s 6d, and m tilts latter of 4s 9d. The average number of members m a lodge was 77.5. At the (Mansion Homsg Banquet, od the 19th July, a full jiuportof which will appear to-morrow, Lord Salisbury said he hoped at next year's bauqin t to be able to say that Russia and England, and their allies, were marching side by side, leading each other to peace with mutual respect. The following patents have been applied for :— D. Thomas, C. BadJel), and C. Ray, of Ashburtwn, for invention for street watering and fire extinguishing ; J. 11. Dalton, of Auckland, for invention for" Nurse's Friend ;" C. Walkd-n, of' Christchurch, for a subaqueous excavator ■; A Jl Williamson, of Dillmanstawn, for patent medicine called "coughkiller ;" W. Fawkes, of Auckland, for an invention for building purposes called " Patent Volcanic Trass." Mr Donald Reid (im-mbcr for Bruce) said the other ui«ht that the police m his district had nothing to do beyond collecting the dog tax and supervising Licensing Committee meetings. The policeman's lot m that district would appear to be an exceptionally happy one. The Gvernor has accepted the services of the under mentioned cadet corps: - Cromwell School Rifle Cadot Volunteers, Timaru High School Rifle Cadet Volunteers. Thi» 'Governor has accented the services of the Inangahua Rifle Volunteers as an honorary corps. Tokio, Japan, is undergoing an epidemic of measles. Two thousand cases have been reported m one day.. >ii; "