The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 10. 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1654, 10 March 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 10. 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Beckett Hommond arid Dick will, sell at Cherry Ban lrFarni adjoining Marton, on Saturday next* unfordestraiht for 'rent, milking cows, bull, milk cart,' trap horse, cliaff cutter &c. •. , " Mr J.G; Thompson and family re-turned-to ; Feilding on -. Saturday night ) after a lengthened visit' to Auckland. •, In connection with^the, ceremqny 3 of consecration at the Feilding Roman. Catholic Church to take place on ; Sunday next we are "requested to- intimate i that members of other sects and de- ) nominations are cordially invited to be f present. At the Turakina "Races there were two big dividends during the day, Lady Artist paying out £31 10s, m the Turakina Handicap, and Revoke £43 m the half-mile Hack Race. A meeting of the committee of the Manchester Horticultural Society was held on Saturday evening last, when a statement was read showing that after paying all prizes and accounts the Society had a credit balance. A number of important alterations have been made m the advertisement re land offered for gale by the E; and C. A. Corporation, Feilding. They will be found .., m our columns. : One of the best-known -jnen on the West Coast, Mr Wilmot Pbwell of Waaganui, died of cancer yesterday. Bjlr Powell was a captain Jof tha Militia during the.Maori,.wa*ri-'and;.- :^aß..'One~''of the-heroß of ttafc" We&roa redout»t^ """'' : People m this district will be glad to learn that the Welling'ton-Manawatu Railway wjll; be op.ensd f rom Longhurn to Otak~i about .the Ist of June and from Wellington to .Paikakariki ; before that date. The line will probably be opened right through by Christmas.— Marton paper. We are mistaken if the date of opening to Otaki will not be sooner than Ist of June. Mr J. G. Wilson will address the electors at the Public Hall, Foxton, on Monday, 15th March, at 9 p.m. Messro J. Nathan and Co., of Wellington, have received a consignment of a new sort of manifpld writers which is a decided improvement on that now commonly m use, TJje writing: is done on a lithographic fltbne; and is transferred to a prepared sheet. The stone car be inked as often as , necessary, so that every copy may be as plear as the , first. ! There is a good little story of "Bdxand Cox" and th.c Queen. Victoria was yery fond of the farce, but when slie first saw it she was betrayed, m. the pre T sence of a crowded house, m a most undignified screan) , of , laughter. Buckstone was the Box, and part of his some? i original ?' business " was, after getting his fingers smeared with the chop left by Oox on the fire, to wipe his hand on the back of his trousers. This unexpected method of purification was new to, the queen and provoked from her an explosion, whiph was echoed tumultuoijisly by ttye audience, which became ahso the laugh of Lpndon at phe time, and which aU B,vjckstqne's self-control and respect fqr h,is sovereign did nojb prevent him from sharing.