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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1629, 8 February 1886, Page 4

'lELEGKAPHIC. (united press association.! Wellington, Monday. The Governor returned from West Coast last night. . . Blenheim, Monday. Patrick O'Sullivan, landlord of Springlanrt.R Hotel, was charged at the lI.M. Court with stabbing John O'Sullivan, landlord of the South Star Hotel. He was remanded, the wounded man being ; too ill to appear. SPORTING ~~NEWB. : — ♦ ■ --■ WELLINGTON EACES. '' " ' ; SECOND DAY. (united press association) ; Wellington, Saturday. WELLINGTON RACING.. CLUB HANDICAP. Pasha ... ... — 1 Waitiri... ... ... . -... ...... .;;*. Salvage 3 CAVALBY RACE. Woolman ... - *..■ ...•••' ••• * I The Selling Race was won by Bepnta-. | tion (late Orphan Boy), -who beat three -.others...... -.;....■■. . / .- ;•■,', CONSOLATION HANDIOAP. Salvage ... '........• 1 Rumour ...'.; ... •••< •••• " A'tholDaisy, ... . j...- ...» .3--The amount of money put through the machines, was £6822, making a total, of £13,767 for the : two days. Lecture. Miss Chapman's lecture on "The Popes of Rome " delivered at the Lyceum last evening was well attended. The f air lecturess met with another good re.ception, and gave a soul-stirring and truly historical account of the lives of the Popes from Gregory down to the present day. Her address was listened to with the marked attention it deserved, and the lady : was repeatedly applauded during its delivery. Next Sunday the platform of the Lyceum will be once mor.e occupied by Miss Chapman, when she! will lecture on the "Immaculate Lily ot Israel." The subject of , discourse at the Lyceum next Suaday will be "The Virgiu Mary, or The Immaculate Eily of Israel *' To-night at Mr Ferguson's invitation, the Fire Brigade will be present at a friendjy gathering iv the. Commercial ■HoJbli-.'«-.>vv.\vv. v v.. » ..-■■•. ■ ; /,' ■ There are now eight eon patients m the Waipawa Hospital. The Wo|)dviire: Church of ErtgUnd /building contract was taken by Mr Burbush, of Bulls, at £120 lower than the next tenderer. Teftrtpei'ance lecturing must p'ay well. Drj Richardson, wants J!lO,500 tor one hundred lectures in 'the colonies, Half to be laid down before he starts. : I ,r .:■-..,. •: : - „• . •■.-. : --. The Feilding'Star advises Mr Wakefield M.B.Ri to try the Foxton elec'trbate if he is lookiug for a new seat, as the Wellington 'votes ■• always decide that election. .■•.,. i ■ ":' The £306 dividend m the Fire Brigade Handicap at the Napier Races went to 4 individuals who had a difficulty m scraping together Jthe requisite fivje shillings to go shares fn. a ticket. At tha Wellington races four or five of the " speelers " playing the three card trick, &c, were arrested and sent into town/ It is said that before the police arrived on the course .they had fleeced the public of about £150; ' . Refftrring to the Irish difficulty, Mr Gladstone, m his address to the ejectors of Midi athian; states thVt her ' Majesty's Government hope to introduce some B-heme which shall promise more stability than is secured by the present law for the. represßioti pB/qfiiTJe! He adds that while deeply conscious of the responsibility resting npou them, tliey are comforted .by { tlie belief that they ,aro engaged jri a 'work :qf peace. ' i "| R A temperance demonstration was held m Auckland on Saturday m view of the nppnoacliing licensing elections.. The procession was half a mile long. A mass meeting of over 3000 was held m the grounds at the r<-ar of : the- Government House, and was addressed by Mr Glover. In the evening he addressed a -mass meeting of working: men m the Theatre Royal on " Good wages, and how to keep thorn." Messrs Donald Ferguson, Thomns Flower, A. E. Remington, John Stevens 'and John Stevenson have been elected a licensing committee tor. the Rangitnto. (Bulls) district. : — . The .proprietors of the, Auckland Jierdld have chartered'- 'the' steamer G-leaelg for £40 to proceed to the scene of tht> reported wreck at the North Cape, and have Bent 'two members of the^r staff with instructions to telegraph from oue of the Northern telegraph stations. ; . In niaking' bis Financial Statement, the New South Wales Colonial Treasurer (Mr Bdrnsf, announced that If was 4 th# intention ot the New South Wales Government to place a new loan on the London, market; ia May or June next.) " Tne Wellington Post says that m view of the great probability of an early dissolution, and a consequent general electioo Within' the' next few irioriths; ; it is extremely desirable that the electoral Rollß Bhoqld be revised, and that e.yeryone who is entitled ' to tha f rancchise should see that he is ; properly enrolled. ••''- ' 'J-*--1 A Tnmperance conference is to be held m Wellington on the Ist March at which Mr Glover, Sir W. Fox, and others will speak. Beport:s from Cilesia, Rhineland, Westphalia,. and other mining centres confirm the reports of depression m the coal and iron industries, which depres-i sibD, it is expected, wJ4 beiome morei { acute. i ; The Tuapeka Times has been reliably., informed that a petition will shortly bo ! prepared^and circulated m tj)e district praying Ihejapy^rwfljent jto^si^m.^ossessipn. of pertain ja/ge l* n(^®4 e . B^ ti3 , 8 adjacent to-tlie' Tuapeka district* -with & view ot the same being subdivided into conveniently-sized, sections .and thrown ODen tor selection by farmers of small ■ means. ' ' ' To cure a cold, pour about half a pint of boiling hot water, over about a drachm of pulverised camphor, , and inhale the vapours arising therefrom, for 10 or 20 minutes. Great relief is at once experienced, and after two or three repetitions the discomfort is said to disappear entirely, ' . . According to an Auckland paper thera is a Very general outcry about the m crease m the recent assessments of property under the Property Tax Assessment Act* • A ijunjber of appeals and re- f monstrances have been received at the ' City Council offices. On tne motion of Bishop Selwyn, tlje Synod have accept the racommendation of tha Bench of Bishops that a history of the Church m JJew Zealand b/s written and compiled. Ths Very Rev, the D&an of Christchurch (Dean Jacobs) w&s $ppointca editor. It is impossible to remain long 1 sick or out of healtli where American Co,' Hop Bitters Are used, gee another,