LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1627, 5 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I With this issue our readers, are pre-: | tented with, a 8(jle price list from, C. M. j Rob's and Co., the Bon Marche a perusal ] of which will do doubt lead to further ' results. . gir Juliiisf.Vogel is to deliver an address m Auckland m a fortnight's time. The barqun Wave Queen arrived m Wellington from London oil Wednesday. . . The genileihan who informed us of the election of Mr Atkinson to the position of first lieutenant of the Pahnerston Rifles, called on us this morning to apologise for his having inadvertently given us erroneous information. Ho says he himself was definitely informed thatihe election as stated had taken place, but it now appears the election has not yet been held. The bank rate of discount at Home is now 3 per cent., and the market rate If. Latest commercial cablegrams state (hat flour maintains previous quotations, Ixit wheat shows a decline of Is. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is quoted 36& ; New Zealand wheat, ex store, 28s to 34s according to grado. .; ; .»• We again remind our readers of Messrs Suelson and Go's important land sale to take place to-morrow at 2 p.m. As there still seems to b» some mis conception as tp; the hour at which Messrs Steven&""& Gorton will begin their annual ram and sheep fair at Bulls, on the]9th jnßt., we have been requested to' state again that the sal« will start at 11 30 a.m. sharp, instead of at 1 p.m. as at first advertised. By latest cable news, tallow is steady at last quotations. The stock of tallow m London is 20, 000 casks. At last we are to have the sign of the ' three balls " over a place of business m Palmerston. An application was made to-day at the R.M. Court for a pawnbroker's license, which was granted. The pleasing reflection that Palmewton. bad as times were, did not number among its local institutions a pawnbroker's establishment, can now no longer be indulged m. We can but regret t.at prominent among the business signs m the town, is to be tho *' three balls " usually indicative of the tact that' hard times, poverty, and destitution are not unknown m the community. So far as we are aware Palmerston is the only town between Wellington and Auckland which can boast (?) of , a pawnbroker's establishment among its other business undertakings. We lcain that Mr Akers is sending over a number of his pnre-bred rants toBulls for private sale. They will be on view at the yards of the Criterion Hotel., on Monday and Tuesday, where intending purchasers can examine tho stock for themselves and make their selections. Mr Akers' rains have always been m favour with breeders, and no doubt a. number of them will find purchasers among the residents of the Rangitikei district.