LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1626, 4 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is intimated- -«elsew'bere thai the Bon Marche will be closed to-morrow,^ Friday, forthe purpose of We-riiatkirtg^ stock for important sale commencing oil' Saturday. Puffin the Wellington Press says: — "No more late meetings of Public Works Committee now 1 ?" "How's that sonny?" "Oh, the Mayor tumbled to the weakness of the talkative old flippers ! Tells them if they will get through the business quick they may go up to his rooraj" "And what does that mean, sonny ?" " Why, biscuits aud Colonial wine, oi course; with a wee drappee whusky ! That's ever so much belter than "thirty four speeches!" "Bully for the mayor! It'll save an awful lot of the ratepayers' money for gas!" The magsmen who were mentioned as haying-gone to Greytown to attend the races are reported by the Daily as bay. ing. arrived then* on Thursday, and after vain endeavours to get located at the public houses and other plac«s m Greytown, went out to the race-course . aud set up their tent ; but Constable. Eccleton made them remove it, and gave them a few hours to leave Greytown which we believo they did. x An Australian pioneer died at Hnbart on the 9th uist., m the person of Mrs Mary Ann Burgess. She arrived m New South Wales with her father, who was sergeant m a line regiment, m 1802. . . In the Auckland. Synod a motion was made for the modification of the burial service m certain cases. A longthy and able discussion took' place, and the motion was lost on a division. The Bishop of Wellington's Bill to provide for the spiritual charge of schools aud other institutions is being opposed on the ground that it is an infringtnent of the right of the parochial clergy. In Cwighs and o ldß,,Baxter's Lung Preserro uiirlTallad.