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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1616, 23 January 1886, Page 2

} 'By reference toi our advertising columns it will be seen that a change has taken pliace m the well known* firm of Walker "arid Hatrick. Mr'VWalker, who has been iv indiffereut health for *Bojne time, 1 retires frdm the firm/ and' we understand proceeds shortly to the Hot Lakes, with a view, to. recuperating' his exhausted, energies. The business will m future, be carried on by Mr Hatrick. who^has .'n the past come most iri'copttfct with'the public,' and whose activity and promptitude m attendihgto the interests of those who favour him with orders, rfrfe )vell)lcriown'; throughout, the district, — Chronicle. jThe Union Bank, of Australia has declared a divideud for the' past half year at the rate of 16 per cent, per annumjand carries-forward 'and .places to the reserve.? unH\i!2s,ooQ.f r . kj \J i The market rate of discount at home isjiiow 2 per cent. : [ ,' Instructions have been issued by the l^avy Department for the immediate despatch of a United States man-of-war to Samoa. ? t •- , ; { , r . ■. A Christchurch telegram state's that Richard Harper, the fisherman who was slipposed -id 'have . been drowned at Suuiner laßt week, is said to have been seen m Lyttleton since his disappearance, from Stunner. It is conjectured he raaW have gone: grass-seeding to the Peninsula. '< A large straw\ stack, together , with . 130 sacks of chaff and a cHaff-cutter, was burnt at Morriiion's' farm, Manaia, i near Master ton, a few nights ago. The Whole of the property destroyed belonged to Tonks Bros. Incendiarism is suspected. •[ A meeting of policyholders : m the government Life lusurance Department {residing m Napier has been convened to consider "the' i appointment. ■bf Mr Driver- as Dunedin manager, with a jview to strengthen: , the; hands;. of the ■elected members of the Central Board.