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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1623, 1 February 1886, Page 4

The Federal Council will probably, conclude on Friday, and a g«od, job' too. There are no tidiDgs of thft missing man Kjug, resident of Greymputb. The Sydney Jockey Turf Club, has issued a programme of a consultation on the Melbourne Champion ." Race. We should strongly advise- our j readersr to hafo 1 nothing "whatever to do' with' this consultation, nor to invest a penny m it. A notification of interest, to shareholders, hi (the i Miinawat" Steam Shipping Company, Limited, will "be found elsewhere. ■ ■■•■■■.,'■ The , Palmerston North Rifles will parade for inspection on Thursday, 18th inst, at 7.30 p.m. ; Through an unforeseen contingency it will not he possible to issue the Standard Sheet Almanac this evaning, as was contemplated. It will probably be ready to distribute to-morrow. Mr Edward Wakefield, M.H.R., arrived m Wanganui on Saturday. Two of the Sydney ihagsmen were arrested m Wellington on Saturday, one of them, Allan Cockburn, on a charge of vagrancy, and the other, Andrew Black for Stealing a coat at Greytown. The remainder of the gang are still* at Gi-eyr; town. v .The direct steamer Tongariro arrived; at Wellington yesterday. She brings 40 .first,, 59 second, and 99 third-class passengers. - :.:•>:. Henry Batty, of Coal Creek, opposite Greymouth,' has' bean missing since, Saturday week. Evidence leads to the belief that on going home that night after: the circus, and with some groceries, he <fell from the Cobden bridge, then m an unfinished state, into the river. His hat has been found, but no other cine' to his fate. He possessed cattle and land and v f was comfortably off. His life was insured for . £400. William King, a fisherman of Greymouth, went out fishjng lon Friday night, not having been meeri since, is supposed fo have drifted 'over the bar. Botli sculls have since been found. ' The Despatch, steamer, went out to search for him on Saturn day jafternoon, but has not come back vat. The weather is; fine, and sea. smooth. The New Zealand Loan agents m London,, have published a notice m the London , Gazette to pay toff the 5£ per .cent: 5-30's, nearly three millions, on the Ist of August. Hold ers are to • have the .option of receiving a hundred and one of 4 per cents., instead of cash for each hundred. A shipment -of over .200, 000. salmon" eva has been^ sent .out by the, Jonic for thisicolbny.'-' ,"' ;' " *' UJ ir > The lad Press, of Wellington, who was* injured by the wheel of a cart passing over him, is dead. >■• , : • „ The man who fell from the Wellington Masterton train on Anniversary Day, has died from the effects of the ao-, cident. ? ; A young man named James John Me-, Kenzie, aged 24, occupied as a drover/ andengaged driving sheep on the Mas-teaton-Napier road was taken ill a few days ago, conveyed to the Eketahuna Hotel on Saturday .morning, and died after an illness of 30 hours at 7 a.m. on Sunday. Dr, Beard, who was. called to see deceased onSaturday, pronounced the. cause of death to be ulceratioh and per- 1 foration of the bowels, caused, probably by drinking unwholesome water. '■■ A letter was lately received at the Wellington Post-ofHce' directed "To an Honest Man." The "Ybstmaster sent; it to the dead -let+er department, with triecandid ••'•Not known m ■ Wellington."

Therewill be a special gathering at the Lycenm this evening, of which particulars ara given m our advertising columns: -- t ;..<..-■ . : •; Grazing fees for horses running m the Standard paddocks must henceforth be paid weekly, for the reasofc that recently several horses have buen- removed with- \ out payment. „ A notice to that effect will be found elsewhere. , '• „ v v $ V^" .. , Mr James Miller makes a special intimation to which he wishes us to direct prominent attention. A preliminary notice of Messrs Siiel- 1 son and Co's ram fair appears elsewhere."