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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1472, 5 October 1885, Page 4

■ The friendly societies' demonstration ' at Wellington on th« 15th is likely' to be " a very sucsessful affair. The day is to» be observed as a general holiday m Wellington, and "several hundreds of.^ delegates are expected from the South' Island alone. i - Mrs Edith O'Grorman .Auffray. Jjetter known as " The Escape Nuli*^ with ' her husband, ProfessbY Ari'ffray,"were -. passengers by the Rotqmaji&na to Wellington from the South on Friday. This, lady has completed'a lengthy lecturing tour m England, Scotland, and America «nd comes to New Zealand, f fpr the avowed purpose of lecturing ; on --what ! sh« terms the errors of Romanism. Mrs O'Gorman Auffray was met this morning < by a deputation of Orarigiern'en. After visiting Auckland she wiil commence lecturing m this city m about, a^month's time. From New Zealand the lecturess proceeds to Australia.— Post. _ . c It is officially; notified that thej2lst . day of October next is the tune' and tlie Commissioner's Office, .(ibverninent Buildings, Wellington, is J the place, at which all persons m the colony are required to furnish statements of all real and personal property belonging to them m accordance with the Property Assessment Act, 1879, and its amendments. of statement i yr\}\ be ? d^Kyered byfassessors as fair as practicable; But, as the djfty of procuring. such forms is cast upon the public, no Tjersbn' is excused froni?%eglecting to provide himself therewith. Forms may be obtained from any" postmaster, or frony the local assessor^ With reference to a paragraph which appeared a few evenings ago rc)at?njr to a couple of informations laid at Halcombe, we have to make a'cV/rrpctiqn. The hotel-keeper Larsen was fined -£1, with 128 costs and ss.witness'f expenses for allowing a raffle, and CliildsY.iho man who raffled the concortina, was mulcted m a similar amount^ hot 5s only as stated by us. :