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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1628, 6 February 1886, Page 4

. The Tongarira, sailed from Auckland yesterday fb** London via Wellington. Among the passengers are Earl Dalhousie, and Countess Dalhousie. She shipped gold valued at £2560. Mr Gl over, the Temperance lecturer, received a public reception at the Auckland Theatre Royal.. Mr J. Newman presided, and stated that Sir William F<>x had forwarded £50; to him towards Mr Glover's passage to the colony. i Messrs Snelson and Co's land sale is taking place" as we ga to press. _A., ,re : : port of, the/sale will appear m our next issue. We again remind our readers of Messrs Bethune and Go's important land sale to ti\ke place at their mart, Feather-s'ton-street, Wellington, on Monday next at 2 p'm. Among the properties itp be offered are valuable investments m Palraerstpn, Feilfiing, Foxton, and Carnarvon, for nearly all of which there should be keen competition . . The quarterly general meeting of the Manawatn plitb will be held m the Club rooms" on'^Puesday next. i vt- ■■ :■ :.. ■ "Why' don't you trade with me?" Raid a clpse : n*sted wareheufetnan to an acquaintance the other day. " Because '* was the characteristic reply, "you liave I never asVed me, I have looked all through the newspaper for an invitation ' m the shape of an advertisement, but m vain. I never go where lam not wan*- ' ted." . Wanganpi is m luck's way again. According to vthe Chronicle a sister of the. flight Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, the leader of the Home Radicals, : is at present on a visit to that town. We hnve received two letters dealing with the granting of a pawnbroker's 1 license,' they came to hand too late for insertion m our present issue; , Attention is directed to Dr Gilbert's announcement appearing elsewhere. Dr Gilbert's lectures are ,ypry well spoken of by the Press of the Colony. An " urgent " telegram, containing the news of the result of the Wellington Cup, camo to hand so'*ne time after wo had gone to press last evening. The results were as. follows, Nelson I, Waitiri 2, Pasha 3. The telegram was immediately posted m the windows of our publication office, where it was perused by : 'a large number of persons during the '■< evening. The sporting writer of theN.* Z. Times placed Ihe horses exactly as they came m. Nelson's win will be a universally popular one. j At Thursday 's meeting of the Mnnawatu County Council^ it, was propose^ by Cr Mcl&nzie; secdhdod Gr, Davies — " That the , Chairman be • requested to fuj'nish a monthly return of the 'receipts and expenditure of the Foxton-Sandon Tramway." Carried. Proposed by JDr/ Davies, seconded by Cr Sanson— -".Th'at a return, showing cost of repairing en- j gines from Wallabi's arrival, also cost of oil and waste used for engines, to be laid on table by next meeting. 1 ' Carried.