The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1886

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1633, 12 February 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1886

Sufferers from dihceirea and dysentry who may have hitherto been, unable .to obtain relief should visit Mr Williams! without delay, and procure a dose of his own preparation which has lately acted m more than one case with 'comcoin pie success. - . Freeman R. Jackson and Co. elsewhere announce tlie catalogue' for their next stock Bale at St Hill Street Sale Yards on Wednesday next. ; m ... :„■ The direct steamer Kaikoura, was to have left Wellington for London last evening. Among the passengers were the Earl and Countess Dalhousie', Dr Buller, Mrs and Miss Pharazyu, Captain and Mrs Fortescue, Captain Shuttleworth, Mr VVhibley, Major Eccles, and a large number of others. She took a large cargo. of produce, including about " 8000 carcases frozen meat shipped at Wellington. The New Zealand Customs returns for January are now complete. The total amount of customs due collected^ at;: the various ports of ihe Colonyr-durfugfthe month whs £118,963 as against £126, 362 collected m January, 1 N 88"5. " tt I It is rumoured (says the Post) the Insurance Companies contemplate making the late displays of inefficiency on the part of the Municipal Fire r ßrigade an excuse for raising the rateß m regard to all oilier city risks. ! : . I The Anglo New-ZcaUiridcr siys 'thai ; Mr W.E. .Gladstone celebrated his 76ih birthday oh 29th December. Amongst hundreds of birthday greetings trout all parts of. the world was a cable message from Wellington, New Zealand, containing the words *• Respectful congratuia tions. Mr Glover, the temperance lecturer, will arrive m Wellington by the Tarawnra on Sunday from Auckland, and will be the guest of Mr James Smith during his stay m Wellington. He will address two temperance gatherings m the Theatre .Royal. Fir William Fox will take the chair «t one meeting, and Mr G. V. Shannon at the other. * Next Monday and. Wednesday out-door demonstrations will probably _be held, on the reclaimed land and Basin Reserve. On each occasion MttGlover will deliver his celodVatedJecture "Good wages,?and how ? 'o keep them.*" *' s '"• r \.The"Tiraaru Herald, noticing the announcement that Mr Callis was to lecture en exhibitions from the very earliest periods, expresses its conviction that "he will examine for a long time 1 the records, from the days of King Ahasuerus downwards, before ha finds { any 'exhibition whose nff -irs were so di •p'ora'ily n is nanaged m some raspectn as that held m the capital o£ Now Zealand, m the year of grace one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five." Th* sa me journal exposes most scandaloi s mismanagement m regard to. the > return of exhibits, and we know that Timaru exhibitors are not aloae m having grounds p£ complaint on this score. With a view of protecting the trades* people, an association has been formed at Auckland under the style of the New Zealand Mutual Creditors' Association. ' Its objeot is set forth m th;e prdspectus as follows ; the society has been formed for the purpose of protecting all mercantile and trading interests; against fraud and dishonesty, aud to afford to sub scribers the advantage of selling goods at cheap rates— being relieved from the necessity of reserving a margin of profit to cover bad 'debts : r and, as ihe credit system, unfortunately now m vogue m the colony, has caused: the .downfall or retirement of many an exoellent business rriahi it is hoped the Society will receive the support and co. operation qt all business classes to reduce the possibility of dishonest and fraudulent persons obtaining credit." , , An accident of an unprecedented: character took place on Sunday week on the Brancepelh-road, about .a , mile and, a qunrter from the Tauerii. A huge tree- (says, the Wairarapa $t(ir) came rolling down hill troiii a steep siding on the Waipaw'a section, and, alighting on a 72 feetn truss' bridge, struck it heavily m the centre and knocked it into the gully benoath.j where it lies smashed m pieces. The bridge has only been eructed within the last tew years «t a considerable outlay.