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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1589, 23 December 1885, Page 4

° o °The Standard will not be published on Christmas or Boxing Dar. , The Christmas excursion steamer to Nelson leaves Wanganui to-morrow evening after the arrival of the train from Palmerston. The return fare is only 30s and the steamer returns early on Monday morning. We remind our readers of Messrs Snelspn and Co.'s sale at Tattersall's fcjtables to-morrow afternoon at 1.30 p.m. The post and telegraph offices will be closed on Christmas Day. On Boxing Day the hours of attendance will be from 9 to 10 a.m. The committee appointed at yesterday's meeting of the Education Board to investigate the Poxton School affairs have .determined to visit Foxton and give Mr Thynne and his committee the opportunity of an interview. " His Lordship Bishop Redwood, accompanied by the Rev. Father Sazeau, arrived m Wanganui from Wellington by the late, train last night. Tbe Rev. Father Kirk and other clerical genflemen of the Roman Catholic Church, were present at the station to receive him. The Bishop proceeds at one© to Jerusalem to cele- I brate the opening of .the new Mission I Church at that place on Christmas Day. The Bunnythorpe school treat will takfl place on Monday next, and it is expected will ba a very pleasurable gathering. From the Chronicle we learn that the draught of the new steamer, the Tuhua, launched at Wanganui to-dayfor the upriver trade, with all machinery, stores, .and 30 tons of cargo, is 21in, and with the machinery employed it is confideptly expected that a speed of 12 miles will be attained. The contractor, Mr D. Murray, expects to have the steamer complete in} the first week m January, when the company will probably start weekly trips to Athens. At the launch of the steamer Tuhua at Wanganui to-day one of the directors stated that the Government had been induced to throw open three large blocks of land on the Wanganui River which would have been inaccessible but for the steamer. .