The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1465, 26 September 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

...Onoi.r fourth pag« today will be found two columns of interesting reading matter. Our. leader and various other items are unavpidablyiiehl over or crowded out. More fun' at Palmereton North:. The Times has secured all the advertising from' the Friendly Societies and objects' to the STANDARD giving notices of the meetings. Nlr Smith has threatened to apply to the Supreme Court for an injunction restraining the Standard fnmi republisbing them. To this the Standard replies that ho can do his worst, ami they now await the survice of the threatened iiijiincttou. — Herald, It is stated that tho entire horse Di >• modes has been sold to a Feilding gen-' tlemau. ' The public are reminded of the meeting at the Lyceum to-morrow evening. The' subject of the discourse will be " Intellectual : . Development. Liberty of women and children." The Salvation Army will hold great valedictory meetings to-morrow at their barracks; • on the occasion of bidding farewell to Captain Lane and Lieutenant Aston, Large congregations are expected, Messrs Snelson & Co.'s sire parade and horse fair this .afternoon will prob ably : attract a very large attendance of buyers. It is rumoured that Mr M. Prendergast is "likely- to-take the place m the local Volunteer Company of Lieut. A. Ri F. Johnston, resigned. |