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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1630, 9 February 1886, Page 4

The quarterly general meeting of the Manawatu Club will be held m the Club rooms this evening, at 8 p.m. I The Drnids, L0.0.F.A.C., and Juvenile Foresters will hold their meetings this evening. ■ !', Mr Macarthur elsewhere announces places and" dates on which he will ad , dress his constituents. A reward is elsewhere offered for ihe ' conviction of persons trespassing m Standard paddocks and damaging the pumps. KHpeatedly of late the most wanton misuhief has been perpetrated. The plugs from the troughs have been 'drawn out, letting the water run away, the pumps screwed off, the valves taken away, the pipes rendered useless through sticks driven •down! them, .and. pthef similar; £ilf chief; done. * The poiicV will to-day be asked to further investigate the matter, and it is to be hoped detection and conviction will soon follow. ; SucU senseless,' downright mis-chief-is without excuse, even for . boys. One pump has been completely destroyed, and the other nearly so. Several owners of adjacent pud docks have had very similar cause! of complaint, and it is time a atop were put to the lamkinism referred to. r j . ■< , The Aramoho difficulty has, we ((Jhronicle) are'glad to learu, been over-, come, aud the Colonial Prize Firing will be held there after all. ' Mr Marris having moderated his demand, an agreement has been signed between him' and the committee, and everybody is. now said to -bi satisfied ; '„.; Sections m tha township of Feather--Bton,;Wairara9n,are at> a* terrible dis-'---count. Mr F. Hf "Vood sold one the other! day by auction and it only fetched £12. < The,Drice^aid for the same . section some ago - A discussion carried'ori m the American Bookmaker concerning superfluities m printing, points to economies m time that would be secured by dropping. the < article " the!" \t '.' has been estimAtecr that if all of the " the's" m one edition of th' 9 . * London Times ' . were placed together they would fill eight columns of that paper, an dthat months, possibly, of every- voluminous writer's life must be given to spelling out the definite article.— 'Philadelphia Ledger. 1 . The cost of maintaining the inmates of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum was £16 10s 6d per head last, year, an increase over previous years. ' The Borough of Napier 6 per cent, loan was quoted m London on December 18th at 119. The 5 per cent, harbor ioiin, at the same date, was quoted at 109. The high price of the latter was due to the fact that a half-year's iuterest was noarly due. I The policy-holders m the Government Life Insurance Association owe it probably; to the expression of their opinion m reference Jo M[r Driver's appointment,, that the Board of Management have^'ihandoiied the intention of appointing, ( a valuer for 'the 'whoU colony;' The' B6ard will certainly be a little more careful m the future now that it is seen the policy-holders will not quietly submit to the' Association being used for the promotion of Sir Julius VogelV friends. — Exchange. A Sydney firm of tailors, who, according to a contemporary, " having decided that nothing shall stand m the way of their monopolising the bulk of the trade m New South' Wales," offer eWry customer who^ orders .a .pair, of $rou*ers or /a> suit a magnificent block of land, 33ft x 132 ft, situated m Bateman's Bay; free of charge,, sthe5 the title being under theTorrens | Act. Tt is not even stipulated that the person ordering the goods , must pay i cash. < In addition to the lahfi, the tailors - notify that they give an extra pair of trousers with each suit without extra charge, and the fit is guaranteed.