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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1466, 28 September 1885, Page 3

We learn the late owner of Diomedes parted with him for the sum of £300. There roust have been between three and four hundred spectators witnessing the parade of stallions pn Saturday last, held by Messrs Qpelson and Co. A letter from Mr W.J. Brerinan will .appear m our next issu,e. '„ The cirpus from San Francisco is still detained m Auckland. There ia, apparently no chance of liberation. In the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Saturday the perjury case, against S. Waters was dismissed. To-morrow being the Feast of St. Michael and the Angels, there will be divine service at All Saints' Church at 11 aan.and 7 p in;, also celebration of the i Holy. Eucharist at 8 a.m. At All Saints' Church last evening, the i Bey. H. E. Copinser preached an able sermon on the "■ Holy Angels." The description given by the ray. gentleman of the spiritual work of angels and their continual presence amongst us, was beautifully portrayed and listened to with devout attention by the congregation. ■ ' A Dnnedin tailor advertises a new system of life insurance. He says he will pay £50 to the next of kin of any person who is killed m a railway accident, provided the deceased is found wearing one of the advertiser's 70s suits at the time of the catastrophe. Some men (says the Napier Telegraph) must have a quarter of a column to express a well defined idea when writing to a newspaper, but it is astonishing how concise they can runke an advertisement that has to be paid for by the Jine. A Benefit Building Society on a newplan is about to be started m Wellington. It is termed the United Mutual Benefit Building Society, and is to consist of 1000 shares with a woekly subscription of 2s Oil pcl 1 sharo. The funds are lent to members on Jiplan which differs altogether from ihit generally adopted by such societies, l> it the system, although new m this colony, is said to have worked admirably m the* old country and m Australia.—Post.

j An Order m Council passed by her j Majesty at Windsor on 24th June, renj dering the Colonial Attorneys Relief Act j i».n:l it-8-aniendinents applicablo to New Zealand is gazetted . Tins will unable New Zealand solicitors to obtain admis •! <•" as solicilors and attornsvs m the United .Kingdom. The Minister of Lamb (Hon. J. Ballance) has undertaken the organisation of the Agricultural and Forest Department under the Forest Conservation Act, passed during the recent session. The Wellington detective police have taken proceedings against a woman named Margaret Ramsay, whom they charge with having committed a breach of the Cemeteries Act, 1882, m having in 'erred the body of a female infant upon land other than a cemetery or burial ground. The body of the child referred to was recently found at Pipitea Point, close to the sea, .and is staged to be the offspring of a. wpumn' of evil repute, for whom the \vqinah Rainsav was doing work. The case will be heard at the Magistrate's Court-- on Tuesday next.-— Post. . , .-. -■-.■■ • Last Friday's Exwinyicr ' saj's •.:— An incident worth noting m connection .with tha new stamp fees has just come under our notice.-; A- 'Woodville gentleman," whoTwrs having a property transferred had intended going -before," a postniaster to- have the i: agreement signeH but:decidcrl to leave it till next morning, when he found that he had to pay £9 15smore m duty under the new regulations than he would have, had to pay under the old had hV-s ; igned it the previous day. ' 5 t Fiirther additions are made to the" catalogue of Messrs Stevens and Gorton's '. stock sale' , at Feilding, to talce ; ; pliice" to-inorriQWi :.::■ >•■■ ■''■'■ ."■ /j/OnncxtSnniday.jsyduih^Mrs.'-E.'li^oprpJ'-'" the talented deftiiress, -will deliver .ait address at tht» Ly-eeu-in,. of -.which the-•su';j..-t-t^vi|l4)i'^^efu'^-irftitt^ the Dear : •■W t J|iV e W V.a'fe^laTge-'f afielHHljhice; , at tlio -IPJWfift™ i)fl«i^»iTii%;'flie. :s(i(ij%^t^pf idi*.^t>oing' V Ihrdllect;^; -, jDevt lop- : • : u:ei*S." :^ :^''i;;; .;, ; V^', .;♦ .^ ' H ■.-■.. ■ •', ' ; :V 4l'^r8 r SnelßOii •'s>nth.c(L t i)'s'i ! H?li'orbertSu : e^.Si6d<rSnleiwilt^tiil^ M l ilac : c next Sa.tuiH}ay.:at ; .l2r.pot|snn^^-y " '• "- ,':--Writt^an_tiris;:'ptcp^iajgr,.tQ ;-'4sive ; His -Rxcdlen^y the'Govi.'j:uor a right- royal recepiibi'). ' Waniraniii. has 'iiot : ; bei-n visited by a real live Governor since Sir Jame3 Ferguson went there- -'about 12 years ago. ' " ,•