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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1575, 7 December 1885, Page 4

An additional entry of 12 4-year-old bullocks (good), has been made to the catalogue of Messrs Snelson and Co.'s Kareie stock sale. Mr Haultain informs us that the reason Anderson could not attend the meeting on Saturday was because hud he left ftelf would have been unable to go on by himself. He will probably, however, be down this week. St John's hew Presbyterian Church, Wellington, was formerly opened yesterday, by Revs. Elmslie and Tread well. Total collections amounted to £165. "We learn that our paragraph re Manawatu Council dispute with Mr Spackman, of Otaki, was wrong. The matter haa been referred to arbitration, Mr Jno. McLennan, of Oroua Downs, for the Coiypty Council, and Mr Sirncox for Mr Spackman. The Liberal majority over the Conservatives m the Home elections till latest dates is 67. fhe natives of Upper Egypt are likely to become troublesome. They have already destroyed a mile of railway near the second cataract on the Nile. The Road Board is inviting tenders for various works m Kairauga and elsewhere. A telegram states that the Kawhia country is thrown open for gold prospecting. There was some very successful submarine torpedo practice m Wellington on Saturday. A notice m reference to a missing shawl will be found elsewhere. The tender of Smith & Marsh lias been accopt^d for erection of Mr James Bell's residence m Kairanga. At midnight on Saturday a lire broke out at Mackie's coacn factory, Auckland, doing? damage to the extent of £1,200. Mackie was uninsured. The Wanganui Herald has the following" :An advertisement appears m the Manawatu Standard, which shows that the Bassett-Sharpe Goldmining Company have abundant hopes. They have chosen as the name for their company the Mount Morgan Goldmining Company, evidently with the idea that the richness of the original Mount Morgan m Queensland, is to be expected at the Pohangina. The extent of Laid applied for is 3.3 "acres, the amount of capital is £10,000, the proposed mode of working the land, mining, crushing and smelting, and the term fot which the lease is required 15 years. ' .