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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4

In reviewing the recent speech of Hie colonial treasurer, our well-edited ■ Aucklaud contemporory, the Evening Bell, says, that it is not the theoretical question orVthe, miliioris'yet unborrij tat the more practical one ot tho millions yet unborrowed, that will 1 shortly come before the ejectors for their decision. It endorses the views of Sir Julius Voge),' as to the necessity of pushing' on to . completion' our public works system as soon as possible. ' '' At the Wellington Police Court, Kobert Tait was fined £2 and 13s costs for allowing a bull Xo be. ; at larger Mr Wardell iuformed the defendatit that he was liable to a penalty of £20 for \ks offence. ' .;, „.- ;. , „,'■_ , _ „, ./.'..., I At the revival : Preadlieri-"Yoang men Bhould ; 'hever go to a place wliere they w'outd not take their sistersV- Isthere" a ! Gliristain young man m the audience l who thinks he may safely break thiß wise Tule?" Young man under the gallery standing up. Preacher — " And what is^the place, my yoang friend, which 'you 1 think yourself justified m visiting, and yet to which you would riot think of taking your sister ?" Young man~" The barber'pshop, sir." -.-.•:;• ■.•;■... : It will be reme/mbeted (say* the Haurera Slai*) that it the Egmont race meeting .two hofsea i ran a , deid ,heat m a Bcurry, On, ; one there were a large number of iuvestorß on' tl»fe tbtalftator; .on the other there were only.' iwo. The ' stewards decided that ,the, dead heat should be .run/off, and' that tlie tptalir . sator dividend should follow 1 the stakes.) This resulted m the horse ou which there were but two investors losing, and the investors of course dropped their money. It is nowunderst^dtliatone of the two investors Referred to, fueling aggrieved at the action of thjf' stewards, lias instructed a solicitor to sue the club m connection with, the affair. ; > Lieutenant Ross, the carbine „-pliamp-.-.ionjleft by coach for Napier this ,mojh-> ing, and will be; accorded a reception on : his arrival. n - ■:.> '■ i; ; Pelayed telegrams are how put into the P.O. boxes or : posted immediately on their receipt it the telegraph office to which they are addressed j instead of being 1 delayed until next' morning. Thhv -should bring, thorn into much more general use than hitherto. In "spite ot -the-?fdepreßsion" thrifty men can still make good money, and { still believe m the future of the colopv . To-day the Immigration officer,. Mr Fox,' received two large sums of money; to defray the cost of the passages of itwo ;whple ;faniiljett »from England^ to jjoia their sons m this district. —Napier < Tehgrcfoh: < > \ •; i ,j a * The following appears m the Majrton perßon v takipg , bouquftts, ; flbwefa,fmit,vogelabl& i etb.,tilie fprt>pert;y.."otthe Martoh Horticultural Soipiety, will ,bp b'afldedoyer to 'ConsUble.G6y|e, (! w;ho ' wJM\be.in A attend^p.ceV'v6^'brdQr*o!C: the ' Committee, . „ c.;,,*;' J