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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1584, 17 December 1885, Page 4

We understand that Mr C. H. Borlase, of Wanganui. has expressed hia willingness to stand aa a candidate for one of the vacancies on the Education Board. • We remind those interested that a general meeting of the Palmerston North Bowing Club will be held at the Club Hotel at 8 o'clock this evening. Business ; To elect committee for ensuing season and general. Messrs Snelson and Co.'s next horse sale will take .place at Tattersall's Stables oh Thursday the 24th inst. An effort is to be made to rescind the by-law lately passed by the Napier City Council re the suppression of processions, principally aimed at the Salvation Army. The Road Board are inviting tenders forj the supply of dog oollars and for farming the dog tax. Tenders for the erection of Mr A. H. Walker's residence m Fitzherbert close at Mr West's office this evening. The it subject for the prayer meeting at St. Peter's School Room this evening will be " Jeius, my Kins'." The Rev. Mr Copinger earnestly invites all to attend. Mission hymns will be used. ItissDeeialIy notified that no collection will be made. . The Advocate circulates a rumour to the effect that Mr Russell, of the Foxton paper, is about to start a paper at Marton m the political interests of Mr John Ste - yens.' The Advocate appears m a regular state of panic over the bare possibility of this occurring. Our worthy town clerk, who hag been m poor health for gome .days past through hig constitutional'complaint, asthma, was unable to attend office yesterday. We hope to hear of his early restoration to better health. A capital story has just been raked up eoneerning the late Mr Justice Maule, and those. who are now agitating About children and oath-taking m courts of justice shouM study its wisdom. At a trial over which Mr Justice Maule-pre-sider], great doubt was expressed as to whether a little girl who had been called as a witness knew the nature of an oath. To silence controversy the judge asked the child if she knew wh«re she would go to if she told a lie. The witness meekly replied, ' No, sir.' To which the judge added, ' A very sensible answer. Neither do I know where you will go to. You may swear the witness.' — Whitehall Review. A' lost letter has been recovered under angular circumstances. Last February, during a snowstorm, a London firm mailed, with other letters, one to a Glasgo.w firm, coataining a cheque for nearly £1000. The cheque failed to reach its destination, and m due ceursa payment on the bank was stopped. Three months . after the chaque was brought to the firm who had drawn it, together with the letter, by a police inspector, who had found the letter adhering to a block of ice floating m the Thames. The supposition is that the letter fell m the street* and was carried off m the snow to the Thames, where it got affixed m the ice. It is expected (says the "Post) that the Manawatu Railway will be completed for through tramc m something under fifteen months from the present time The difference which this will- make to business m Wellington will be.something enormous. [We believe our contemporary is quite correct m its anticipation and many persons predict that a reverse will take place m Palmerston through the same instrumentality, or m other words, that the opening of the railway from Palmerston to Wellington will not be ' productive of any material or enduring benefit to the former town, but altogether the contrary. — Ed. M. S.]