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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1637, 17 February 1886, Page 2

A person formerly weti-fcnown la Wanganui and on the West Coast. GB. Worgan, has been sentend at Gisboni* to two, months' hard labour for larceny as a bailee. The following notice appears m tha Marton paper :— The public are cautioned not to take more than the weight* allowed by law over the Qneptjhi • an* Turakina Bridges, as they are unsa&ifqr heavy traffic. * • V" • £r $ommeryjlle> the re^yalist, who yisited Wanganiu some years back, bai been chosen Moderator of th§ ' Frta Church of Scotland tor the year. & On Mr Gladstone's 76th birthday he and Mrs Gladstone •• led off" at the; ierVi vants' ball at Hawarden, Mrs Gladstone with the butler, and the Premier with ih« b PHS^wpeFf ••■••■■',--■ ; At Mr Giqver's Temperance Mfcetintf m Wellington, on Sunday, Sir Williani Fox, m statins: the lecturer of that afternoon had been engaged.by the ISTew £#*. land Alliance for three years, said ith* responnibility of paying Mr Glove* rested upon the people to 4 great extent. He said he did not think this was suoh * great responsibility to bear when it waM considered that the amount spent annually by the Colony m drink exceeded by one.fourth the amount anhnalh paid' to the public creditor. Then, aniin. both at the Hutt Eace Meeting and tl» Island Bay Race Meeting, £13,000 went through the totalisators ;. aad if they? reckoned up the money given m ttakei and spent m training, they would find that a very large sum wag spentin thaV %m*>ims sport. . . ;-i-.<. Mr pharles pallis, having failed, to attract a Wellington audience lo h%S his lecture on ". ExhibitiorisL?'- went to Napier and advertised its delivery thert^ but again failed to induce the public to attend. The public of New Zealand seem to have had quite enough et Mr Charles Calhs m connection with exhibitions. The Very Rev Father Macnamlra tiiinounced at the Roman Catholic Cathedral ac Wellington, on Sunday uight that he had ■ received a telegram from Bishop Redwood, who is at present m the South, requesting on behalf of iCardinal Moran, that .the banquet which -'it was proposed to hold- at St Patrick?! College on Monday 'evening heit^m honor of Cardinal Mor,an, ihould not come off. The Cardinal will arrira m Wellington on Friday next, and wilßli* ) accorded a fitting reception. The"'B«* ception Committee have, m detarenetido his Eminence's wish, abandone4 tht plan of giving a banquet. ""*