LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1577, 9 December 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English letters per direct mail will arrive m Palmerston to-night. Mr James Thurston, of Marfcon, a very old settler of the "Wanganui district, died yesterday morning of dropay. Thfc Wellington Secular Society intend giving the Lyceum children a treat at Island Bay on Sunday next. An owner is wanted for a chestnut colt found straying on Mr Aldrieh's property, Bunnythorpe. The cremony of installing the officers of the Manawatu Kilwinning Lodgo, 5.0., will take plaro m the Freemasons' Hall this evening at half-past (seven o'clock. There was i misprint m a paragraph m yesterday's issue, re date of notnina tion's for handicaps for Feilding Sports. The proper date is the 12th inst., next Saturday. The property tax is coming m very well. A great deal more has been paid at the Wellington Post Office than dur- j ing any previous year. Thursday is the j latest time for receiving the tax. After that date, 10 per cent, will have to be added. Taxpayers need not take the trouble to go to the Government Buildings, unles« they live at the Thorndon end. It seems as if the "VVanetanui Heads Railway ware not going to turn out a very grand speculation, By the Chronicle we Bee that the mornine: bathing train to the Heads is to be abandoned, owing to insufficient support havinar been promised to warrant the directors of the company m continuing it. The directors will be willing at any time to resume running the train m question should they receive a guarantee sufficient to cover actual expenses.