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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1562, 21 November 1885, Page 4

The Manawatu Standard will publish for the year 1886, an illustrated almanac, a- fuller description of which will appear m a subsequent issue. Some spaces have been reserved for advertisements, for which early application should 'be made. Te Ngutu-o-te-Manw, after having served as a battle-field and burial ground years agoy and more recently as a coms'mon for all stray cattle and horses, is at last to be Jeased. Settlers around think it will soon 'be time to call tenders for planting the ground to be reserved for a domain, as it is slightly out of place to have a domain board and no domain. Market tickets to Feilding at Saturday I return fores from Palmerston and intervening stations will be issued by the ; first morning train next Thursday, and Jthe: isecond and last Thuffiday \n each .succeeding month. The official intimation wi^l appear m Monday's issue. The experts for the Lamonte smelting works at the Thames— a smelter and a refiner — arrived from California by the mail steamer at Auckland on Saturday last. A bill authorising the, raising of a loan for railways and public works has been introduced m the Victorian Legislative Assembly^ ■ By proclamation m the Gazette the census for. next year is appointed to be taken for the night pf Sunday. March 88*, ; ,

'Hie first shipment of fxhibits, consisting of fifty five packages, for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition wnt> des patched \>y the U.M.H. Aorungi for London on Thursday. The hulk of the shipment coinpriHed exlnbitß from the Industrial Exhibition. The eli-ctioii tor Mayor, if one will be required to tnk« place, which is doubtful, through Mr Wi-st'v? rumoured probable retirement, will take plticeon Wednesday the 25th inst, nt»l Friday the 27th itist as incorrectly stated yesterday. Two letters to the editor on the Mayoral contest nre held over. One will require a considerable modification of language before it can ap; ear. Of the £82,400 voted last session for opening: up roads, through Crown lands, £36,000 has been already expended. Tiic Hon. Mr Ballance, Minister, of Lands, v fully alive to the importance of making the Crown lauds of the Colony available for' settlement, and rightly considers that the making of rondo through them is highly esseutial During the present financial year Mime thousands of mil<>H of toads will be made. — Wellington paper. The Directors of tht Golden Crown Company, Terawhiti, have auccptod & tender for carliiu; 300 tons of quartz to the Albion Company's battery. Atender has also been accepted tor 100 cords of firewosd. The bevdans will be erected by day labor, and a competent man will be brought up from the West Coast to superintend the work. Tke subject of the Lyceum address to-morrow will be " Tb« Deluge iv the light of modern science." The captains of the steamers Mohaka and Waihi are to be prosecuted m connectioi) with the late collision : the one ' for" not having proper lights »nd the other for not sounding his whistle; . As we go to press we are informed that it is probable Mr West will withdraw from the Mayoral candidature^ 1 realizing the fact that he has placed himself m a false position by allowing him- , Self to be nominated.