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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1649, 4 March 1886, Page 2

According to the Auckland BelHtttO' nqmers have decided ,that the man m tbemoon is a Scotchman. ■„,/. "<r The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton or on , F.riday , at 10 p.m. And the Tui on Satnrday, at 10 "p.m." - Ihe Auckland Evening _Bell says :— - Butter is getting somewhat scarceTn town, and what is more ' the inferior at the present time to what it was two^ months agoi. can scarcely use the butter sold to them and much inconvenience' ls^thuslcaxis^. The article.now sells at a considerable advance on former prices. "From some few parts of Ihe country, good batter ii obtained', and the' grocers make it a point to secure as much of it as they can. T_he supply is not,.however equal to the demand. r * ' " •* A military balloon servieelias been organised m the Russian Arrajj, and the first experiment was made recently m a trip from St Pytersburg%o^ Novogorod by two jieutenonta of sappers, accompanied by a professional aarbuant. The jou rney_pf 106 jnjles wjis^ successfully accomplished m five tioursT* The sub-committee appointed by the Ralmerstpn School Coinmittee-to, enquire , itftb'the alleged illti-eatmehto^tW^bay Hill,, consisted of . Messrs- Leary,, \?*!ght Stewart and Woodroore* "After' inquiry info; »ther found as follows, first/'tKat the boy' Tiad played truant on Iheafternqon of 16th , of February. J 2nd, trial- ilr J Watson chastised him, butr not excessively^ 3rd, that Mr Watson is exonerated from all blame.— Signed, " JL' M." Wri^t, Secretary. ; .;...-.-..