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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1576, 8 December 1885, Page 4

Mr F. It. Jackf on will h M a very extensive sale of sock -iL t. c St. Hill-street Sale Yards Wangaaui, to-morrow. A number of -entries came to hand to-ilay ton late for insertion m the advertisement. The total catalogue comprises 640 he\d ot cattle, 1050 sheep, and 32 pigs. The entries for cattle are the largest that have been "catalogued for a long lime. A Press telegram trom Wellington states that tlie tender of the Bruiiner Coal Company for the supply of coal for the Wan»anui section of railways for lftSG lias, been accepted, the price being £1 0s Gd per ton. Mr Bryant was busy to-day distributing- his 1886 Almanacs, The pictures are unusually good, and will be greatly admired by the receivers. One especially, a large size painting of a lady affectionately stroking her pet horse's head, and m the back ground sliovntiK Windsor Castle, is remarkably artistic, nnd would make a pleasing wall decoration tor any house. The other pictures are called '• Gathering of the Clans," " Homo Ruler " and " Gipsy Queen." Mr Boucicault visitod Sir George Grey at Kawau. He leaves for Kan Francisco to-day. Messrs Bassett, Beaven, and otherp had all tho mortars procurable m town going yesterday, pounding stone brought m from the Pohangina. What the result of the crushing- was wo have not ascertained. — Chronicle.