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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1593, 28 December 1885, Page 4

j A prolonged armistice between Bulgaria and Servia is officially announced. Prince Alexander attributes hit recent successes to the assistance of Russia. Mr Henry Harrison, of One Tree Hill, Warrengate, was a visitor to our race meeting on Saturday, and we exchanged a friendly salutation with him. Poor fellow, little he knew that his wife died from the effects of a fit about an hour after he left his home. He will have much sympathy m his sad bereavement. The Tost has the following :— " The Manawatu Standard might liar* paid us the courtesy of acknowledgement when transferring to its coluinrm our article giving the facts of the Severed Hand mystery." If the Post will looii back to its files it will find that the . portion of the extract we clipped was from the Canterbury papers, from which source it was by us duly acknowledged. [ At the last meeting of the Wellington College Governors, Mr Bunny moved, m pursuance of notice, " That the Governors apply for authority nnder the Land Act, 1885, to sell the Paraekaretn reserve and the sections m Palmerston North, and to lease the Mangaone reserves, belonging to the Girls' High School, upon the perpetual leasing system." Dr Newman moved as an amendment that all the College reserves he advertised for sale or lease by public auction ; the sub-division of the blocks to bo referred to a committee consisting of Messrs Bunny, Browa, and t£e mover, A seaman named Arthur Boyd, of the Orari, met his death at Lyttleton on Christmas Day while running through the electric machinery room. Joseph Alexander Foden, a seaman belonging to the ship Piako, now lying at Wellington, was drowned ou Christmas night. He was suffering from drink, and while going down the wharf walked overboard. Messrs Welch & Co. wern crowded out on Thursday evening, Xmas Eve. The stationery and fancy goods depot, we believe, did a most exceptionally brisk business, and unprecedented enthusiasm was displayed by purchasers when selecting from the wonderfully varied stock.

Messrs Snelson nhd Co.'s stock sale at the Fitzherbert-street Sale Yards will take place on Saturday at noon. Entries should be forwarded as early as possible.

A number of complaints have beeu j made as to the incorrect issue of tickets i by the totalizator on Saturday. We do not see that any good couM be attained by ventilating these grievances after the meeting is over. Perhaps the proprietors, Messrs James King and S. Abrahams, might be disposed to make good or compromise losses sustained if convinced that the mistake was not on the part of the investor, though he is the loser directly thereby. The weather was very auspicious tins afternoon for the school treat at Bunnythorpc. Oroua Lodge of Druids, Orient Lodge, and the Juvenile Court of Foresters all meet to-morrow evening. Gwendoline came m third m the Novel Hack Race on Saturday. Mr W. Spriggens, of Wanganui, announces a cash clearing out sale ot damaged boots and shoes for one month only. Offers are invited for cutting firewood m Standard bush paddock. Mr J. Miller has a notice elsewhere m reference to payment of accounts due to him. There is an announcement elsewhere m reference to a blue overcoat, which is lost, mislaid, stolen, or strayed. Thomas Free, a storekeeper at Richmond, Canterbury, got thrown from a trap on Saturday, and lies m a precarious state. A girl named Louisa Morrison, last evening got off the Christchurch tramcar while m motion and received injuries which are expected to prove fatal. Subpoenas were served on Thursday, requiring the presence of certain residents of Palmerston, m Wellington on Tuesday, the sth prox., m connection with criminal proceedings for misappropriation against a "Wellington solicitor, m which case a remand was granted a fortnight ago. Mr Waldegrare requires a good general servant and strong lad. A reward is offered for the recovery of a lost white wool shawl. The description of the body of a murdered raau found at Churchill, Waikato, tallies exactly with that of a man known as Jimmy Dumbar, who has been working for years on and off m Hamilton. Grand Duke won the Porirua Cup on Boxing Day. Mr John Douglas, formerly Premier of .Queensland, now Government Resi- | dent on Thursday Island, has been ap I pointed successor to Sir Peter Scratchley. I Messrs Stevens and Gorton we believe have get the example and will not open their premises *v Saturday next. We are informed thatNthe Mayor will proclaim the day a public holiday if requested to do so by the storekeepers. Messrs Bishop anil Elawkina have got up from Wellington a three horse power engine and six horse power boiler, intended for useintheiraoapmanufacturiug industry. , A man named Mitchell, a resident of Mr.utoa, above Foxton, was drowned whon bathing on Christmas Day. An inquest took place yesterday, and a verdict returned of accidentally drowned . A man named Finney, residing m Christchurch, cut his throat with fatal results. He was separated from his wife and family.