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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1493, 29 October 1885, Page 4

The qaefction whether m employer] of females and "young persons' 1 cam • allow his. employes to take the statutory naif-holiday on another day than Saturday cropped tip at the Resident Mkgis-i trate's Court at Wellington on Tuesday. -i: An •mployer. who .was, charged, wishj keeping yonng girls employed on a; Saturday afternoon pleaded that he had. given them at their, own request, a a holiday on the Thursday instead of otf , this Saturday. His Worship, Mr Warded ; e'xpreasMl an opinion that there' was nd reason why the day on which the hoik • day was to be taken should not be option*; ' la with the employes. However,|he had. no alternative, as the law stood, bat to ; : lnfliot;^penalty^ ■ -•- V-: : : '^'- •■■'■■- •'-.{ AaEngliah paper tells the following little story :— At the^ -Wimbledon -rifle meeting is a bookstall; which is opened '■•jrfryyear.fortbe sale ,pf ; , papers and jaeifiodicajui, bo that dwellers m camp ' InV otiain at the e^tt tfos*ib> moment a oopy'df their favourite journal. On the opening day of the camp a tall, brawny Scotchman turned up and asked - -i ffiti a paper. : H« was served;/ and, then producing acoin from his pockat, •■id r : « Look here, young man, ye gie me a bad penny last year, and I hae saved it for ye." The penny, by the' way, was a French copper, which would not pass '''mbster jm : So^and. '{ \\\ / "/''\ ii; .;, \ For disturbing Salvatipn . aer- .' vices m Wellington the accused were fined respectively 10s and 43s 6d costs, and 80s^nd«s-6d costs: ! ] '■''^^eorgefVA. "Brighton,- of Feildmg, atorekeeper, has been adjudicated jn b*nkrupt. v ; ;. __ ,:i,- u .i.M' " The liquidator of the Manawatp Batter Company notifies a first and final : dividend of 3s per share to f be paid on November sth at Mr T. B. Walton!t office, Edinburgh House, the Square. \ Nelt Suiiday being ' the festival of v All Saints," full choral s»rrice« will be conducted at the Anglican Church. An anthem specially prepared for the occassion will be rendered by the choir at the evening service besides a new " Magnificat" and " Nunc Diraittia." Ai tne offertipres will be entirely devoted to the choir fund it is i» be hoped large congregations will attend, • and give liberally towards this special object. ' ; Messrs Welch and Co. have on sale some good water-color paintings of Mpunt Egmont and Milford Sound. The. pictnres have been greatly admired by v visitors td ; the popular stationery depot, r and a groat number disposed of si njse they were placed m- the show-windows. We believe the "Oil Panting "■ Alrt Unjon shortly to take place here has been largely patronised by residents of Palmeratpn. ; - v Mr Brady's picture's hay e been inspected ! and highly spoken of by compotout judges who have visited Mesira ' MitbhW and' Stutter's warehouse, < where the 'paintings are , displayed to advantajre. , ." , '.'."' ■"''' j :: . In the bushf ailing case Swallow v. , Siddle y, Claosen and Neilson heard at the sitcina: of the District Court yesterday before a jury of four, the following verdict was given after a retirement by the jury of about fifteen minutes. Judgment for plaintiff's for full arnouut claimed, £140 9s Id and costs £17 9s 6d. The jury consisted of Messrs Milvertpn, /Foreman) Oakley { Parker, and |A. Mitehellj and gave judgment m , direct opposition to the summing up of the Judge. It is propable a new trial will be appealed for. W.e, remind oun readers that the circus will open m Palraerston on Satur/ day night. The performance seems to* „ have scoured public favour m every district where the circus has shown. Mr '%. Wright, of Wanganni, notifies that he nas for sale bone meal and bone dust, also good coals, firewood and chaff. The Wanganui Chronicle says that the continuous fine weather with high winds along the coast is telling greatly against ihe growth of the grass, and settlers are beginning to fear that there will be great scarcity ot feed this season. Tne Rev. Mr Bunn, of Palmerston l^orfch, t(\£tetjier witl» the reverend gen-' tleman who is snpplyine: at Martoxi during tbeHlhess)of the: .Rev. Mr Worker, \ arrived m town by last night's tr^in. They go on to-day by the northern train to attend the Wesleyan district meeting jat New Plymouth.— Chronicle. '. „.