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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1453, 12 September 1885, Page 3

To-morrow at the Lyceum, Mr. Wai-;, ton will deliver an-address'6ri the fdljowr ing subject: —"lf man v is, immortal,; slioulti lie not know -4^'' '■ ;Adinissl6n ;is , f i?eev '•'-The* hdnir Vf-op'enirig is =7 p.mi Mr Haultain, the Secretary of the -Prospecting Association* will le^yelyjlonidayi.! morning's traini^witli'six bags containing tj^mia«tK^weighmgsß^tr v2qr'sY^slMV which it has been decided to forward through the Bank of rAus^ratasia at? Wanganui, to their branch In" Melbourne : for the purpose of being tested. JLL has ' been jdecided^to .fo^\jfav|l. £be fliwr^i to ; Melb'|u|n| i£|hisav|y,i*s %i ffanl ot i Austrjilasig, hal % piivtaie oei^dati Sa^heir premises; and, therefore, the test would 'be more reliable than pending it Jo the;: ;Thames; or 'arty -bf the otherpCiUlic" bat', teries. The re'sult-'Shbuld be harein;ahbut :five.weeks-from n0w..,.,. ,; , ?:'■•■ &IS-ri^-Messrs Mitchell and Stutter have been for some months past 'advising 'young A, couples not to demur their happiness to seal, and have pointed out the indiscrer; tion of waiting till, they are. better, off lest gray hairs may on them steal.-.This sound advice has not been without due effect, and we hear that next' week one happy couple are to pledge their troth at the altar, wilh others to follow suit between this and Christmas. Yesterday was the anniversary of'the collision of the Avalanche m the English Channel, when a numbar of 'Wanganni residents lost their lives through :the foundering of the ill-fated vessel. According to the Chronicle the StoutYogel Ministry is without doubt the most mean:sph'ited Government that ever administered the affairs of a colony blessed with representative institutions. Fever is decemating the inhabitants of Fiji. The Rev. W.Rosewarne, Wesleyan minister, foamerly of New Zealand, fell a victim to it. The death rate from several places is reported to be doubling the birth rate. The first section (1G miles) of the Wei lington-Manawatu Railway is to be oipened for traffic on Monday week. Mr II on ore, the new master appointed to the H-ilcombe Public*. School, entered upon his duties on Thursday last. Some of the ratepayers are inclined to think that Sir Julius Yogel might be induced, with the promise of a liberal commission, to float the Borough Loan on the London market. W«* f«tar it would tie too small a job for him to undertake unless the inducement offered was of too liberal a character for the place to ariVrd. or even to think of entertaming. We still hope that the negotiations of the Union Bank may ultimately be attended with success. Messrs Mitchell and Richards' Wanganui Meat Preserving Works, a des cription of which recently appeared m the Standard, are shortly to be handed over to a Joint Stock Company. Mr D. Murray is now removing the machinery of Roots' Mill, at Makinn, to Tahoraite for Messrs Richtor Naunestad and Co. A man rode m to-day a distance of 15 miles to inspect specifications of Pohangina Roads Contract No. 1, advertised to be on view at Borough Council Office, but found they were not there. This is really too bad on behalf of the Department. Some years ago (says the Napier Telegraph) a summons was issued acninst a town councillor m the borough of Kumnra, under section 61 of the Municipal Corporations Act, for having sold over the counter a few shillings' worth of goods to a Corporation employe and receiving payment for the same while sit- . ting as a Councillor, The unfortunate delinquent was fined £100, but after delivering judgment, the Resident Magistrate said, " execution to be stayed for the present.". And execution was accordingly never made. The informor was sold.