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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1648, 2 March 1886, Page 4

.;.. An old colonist writes , to the Argus to „ call attention to the fact that m 1853 the Jate Mr W. J. T. Clarke paid £4000 .for a. quarter of an arre near the Old Pier Hot"), Sandridge, being at the rate '-of £i6,;oooan acre. At the Wesleyan Conference at • Syduey a series of resolutions was ad- - opted urging upon all the members and adherents of tlio Church the necessity of resisting every effort made to open "public libraries and museums on Sunday. • Writes the Master ton correspondent of ittte Agricultural Gazette :—Municipal matters are quiet just now. The gas works construction is proceeding I believe tavorably, and we hope to have our darkness lightened a little more brilliantly ere long. The Taranaki Herald relates that at an inquest held the other day at York inroad, the police had to search the district for two hours before they could find a biblo on which to swear the juryman and the witness. A rumour is current that Bishop Pearson, of Newcastle, is likely to succeed: Bishop Moorhousa m the see of Melbourne. '