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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1641, 22 February 1886, Page 2

For the benefit of the matrimonajally dispose^ we give tbe. following from the Vost gratmfowshinsertiijrj. : — Matrimony. — A^ lady of good education and appearance, aged -,.4o, pqaiessing ihcome derived from business of per annum, would, be glad to" meet with a gentleman of - means', whose inclinations tend towards matrimony.' The* advertiser has nb ob- . iection to relinquish present business and reside- in the country, m -which case sheJ , would be able ,to , superintend a home- I stead, haying a thorough knowledge of .dairying m all, its branches. IJayixjrliOj incumbrance, and being fond or children, ' a widower with fanajily would 4 not be considered ineligible. Address X.Y.Z., Post Office, Wellington. ' ['', ! i , Says the Napier Herald of February 16 :— According to a stateinant nit^de at the County Council meeting yesterday by Captain Russell, explanatory . of a difficulty in' procuring a plan fro.in Wellington, there are no less than 65,000 plans of roads, etc., stored m the offices' Of the Public Works department at Wellingtohi ;> How many of these would ve^ present useless expenditure, undertaken to gratify log-rollirig ' -politicians," whose ideas of statesmanship are summed up m the word "grab ?" ' '■ ■■■ At a meeting, of the Wangantii Acoljmatisation Society, it was decided to'expend £20 for, hawks 1 heads ,at 3d per hea3, and £10 for wekas' heads at id per ! head, during the year. The shpoting.hfis been fixed to coniioenee on the Ist March' for native game, and on the 15th April for' imported game, both to close on the 3lßt Jrily, and other societies are to be asked tp adcjßt the same date^- '; Mr Macarthur addressed the ejectors at Ashurst oh Thursday night, j There was a gopd attendance. Mr ,- t Williams oooupied the okW: M% e conclusion ot \ Mr Maoarthur's speech, a vote, qf thanks and confidence was passed. The meeting woundiup^itb;, 11 Three pbeers fpr our member," which were most enthusiastically given. ;; !,; i '. -jit was rumored m Feilding, on that Mr A Thomson, Clerk to the; Court, ia ijj'ot likely; to return^ to, ;Feilding, as another appointment had been conferred upon him. — -Star. <' ' \ ', The Hobart M etcury says :-^-^ecently j some hundreds 'of American trout fry were deposited m a pond on the Refl^ lands estate, and on the inst!, a small . whito-bretited ' cdr4)oi:anti most ' inveterate of poachers, was shot while hovering ever the sheet- of water. , On b(-ing opened it was found to' ! contain no less than 42 American trout fry some of which 'the' voracious bird had scarcely swallowed. :