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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1584, 17 December 1885, Page 2

The young Earl of Dudley is about to visit Australia and New Zealand. Bis newly fitted steam yacht Murchesa l«ft Southampton the other daT- for Bio, where Lord Dudley andjiis ' uncln, Mr Moncricffe, will join her, thence proceed* ing to a New Zealand-port via the strait* of Magellan. The ybaiJ^.EsVl .inherits to the full his mothe/f'spleindld; beauty and his father's firie" physique. He will be one of the handsomest as well as one of the richest peers m England when he comes of age, 18 months hence; and, heedless to say, a great " matrimonial catch." Colonial beauties are, howover, warned that at present his Lordship is very carefully " shepherded M by fait uncle and a governor or tutor. Poultry far mine ought to pay itt Wanganui, judging by the prices all kinds of turkeys, geese, ducks, and<fpwls bring at auction every/Saturday. Mr Jackson at his last Saturday's sale sold a v«ry large number at good rates and th* demand was not half satisfied, wheir the last lot was knocked down to the highest bidder. ' An old custom received a check m th» Wanganui R.M. Court r*e»htly at thr hands of Mr Ward, B.M. For sora« reason or other it has hitherto been deemed necessary to unglove the hand, m which the BiWle is to be held, while taking an oath m a Conrtof Justice. Oo the occasion referred to a lady ' witness was told to do; the sain»j but ,fli.s ,Wor~ ship*intervened, saytug it was rather an old fashion, but he did not think it really mattered, and the witness was sworn with her glove 00. ■.._... A notice appears elsewhere to th« effect that m terms of the Land Act, 1885, leases of runs on the Karawarewa, Paratieke. and Head Blbcics will be put up by auction at the Land Oflßce, Masonic Hall, Wanganui, on Tuesday, 12th January. This land is distant from Wanganui from 18 to 25 miles by Field* and Hales* tracks. The leases to be for 21 years, renewable at the end of that period, for another 21 years m torms of section 209 of " The Land Act. 1885." No person can take up more than on» run, and no person who owns -freehold land, or land under lease, or_ licena* from the Crown which m all would exceed 6,000 acres, or who is. Incapable of making the declaration prescribed by section 200 of "The Land Act, 1885" can become a lessee. On Monday the temperature varied 70 at Wanganui to 54 at lialclutha,