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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1630, 9 February 1886, Page 2

.The Ijtank^upt. estates • of , the cplony •'; haWpa^d the lawyers,' by ' authority 'of the official assignees! since the coming into , operation of the, present Bank ruptcf 'Acti'a total sum mi nf !l £4967 i The 1 i assignees themselves* • have' received .£6006. [ • "The present? se&s&rr bag been- onegjf l\ the hottest and driest peason^exueriencad on Naseby (Otatro) goldfield for the' past ' eighteen 1 years. -Everything is said to be parched^ up. ' if W^ter 'raße^ wjiuJh nave not been known' 'to fail for' twenty 'years have ct^sed to ran, and l the 'drops 'are' almost entirely a failure. "^TNapier paperibifothel following '&a) Sis years ago— or, to speak accurately, m P«cl^. 18,8p--a / a. 6ven|iCT against 'at debtor. . [To-day' plaintiff goti ; an' order 1 defendant i which it ' the- 'latter fails' to coniply Svith will lead to iniprisbnrnent ' i <-i \yn Writes 'tail spokiug coniVibutorof ' an exchange' j'—Tniit the commission 1o th« totajisator will have to be .reduced' some day is very evident, as it is a constant source of complaint on the part of the public that' th'o commission snotild be so high as ten per cent, odd money also making a fine percentage.. Qoe of the Wellington clubs en tared into a yery sitisf actory., contract ,with , the, owner of the totajjs^ttmiriachines thbrjii— ( i'dut3f ithe ten per cent,, the club receives nine, ! 5 ,■■■■• i i - | Ther^ has been a suicide in' a Village near Mt nchester, which seems to fulfil ;*)!;jthe conditions of melodrama.- Ie seems a most to have been borrowed from th) btaitf of himzwhoi describes; Reuben, Hareakle's murcler m ''*BarnaDy J^u'dge.i" The church bell was heard to toll three times jiulh«iej*%!&oiSijpff.;| and on the sexton's wife going to ascertain its cause, she ,fpund her husband Paging by;; Wb'tieU ropo-deaal ! He! bad toll sd his owu knell. . , We n ideratand, says the Wairarapa Spp of jWedi^sßday t that, aom© of tbe^ 'policy holders belonging to the Governmeut Life Insurance 4*sociJUion m Mastertpn intend conyoning a meeting to protest against the expenditure that is going on m new buildings apd ap-. pbmtinontß. ; - The ! Carterton Obieiyer gtates that' an > old 1 settjer there, who is a small farmer, complains that during the past fort- , pi^ht. s^me 15 of hia Umba have : uiys : tenouß]y disappeared out of a well feuoe'd paddock,, :; : , : , „ ; „,■,