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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1657, 13 March 1886, Page 4

A special notice to defaulting ratepayers to the Borough will be found els&r where, and should be; given due .atten-: . tion by those to whom it refers. ; It is now definitely stated Parliament will meet about the first or second week ( m May. " ''" ; '. '' : /'.' " '' ■'; / !;■;• Messrs Atkins and Clere, the Wangaun; architects have opened an office "m Wellington; ;,■ The New Zealand Stud Company have just pnrchased for 4,000 sovereigns fa very powerful and syin,metrieal horse [ named .Dan Godfrey. He stands'- sixteen hands and one inch higli,' and is a son of Musket. • ;. ■ • • : 'The Tarauaki News states ; that the : 'health of Titokowaru,. the great. Maori chief, is fast breaking up. He. was ill atWaitani, and when' he .passed through New Plymouth he was completely knocked up. It is probable that the re cent lrnirch to AVaitara, at the head of ' ! his people, will be the last' for him. There are many inquiries as to when ! the; "Official Record "of the lndustrial Exhibition will be read}' for publication. So far as w,e can gather, it m unlikely thaf; the " Official Record "will be clear of the printers' and bookbinders' hands .for at 'least three months. The balancesheet may bo issued before then. ' I)uring a strike m Lancashtre,; the mob was threatening and increasing, and the local volunteers were called but, At ;a crisis m the affair one, of the citizens soldiers levelled 'his, musket aa/at /a prominent opponent, — when the man. next to him struck up -.the 'gun, exclaimjnffi " Don't shoot that man— his life's insured m our office !". :■•... The Messrs Hogan received a "pound* from the magsmeri now on -a visit to' Waneanui, Which did. not. saisfy. the requirements of the W.J.G.,. who ask. that a"p6urid : 'slVa(l ; be paid' for each "game" played-on-thfl. ground,-- They • had -gone to ask for the money, but received only .abuse and blows, and came out of ft rather knocked about.— Eera74. An exchange says :— South Australia is making valuable - silver discoveries that rival those of Silvepton. At Cal lington, at the Boi}th : east:of the-colony, a^id, within half a mile of railway-sta-tion, ore giving 6 ( oozs of silver and 50 per cent of- silver-lead to the ton 1 -has * ■ been discovered m considerable quantity. ; j;,: ;,' ■■ ,■' f : -;-_i •-'.''■:■ The fatality of thirteen at lablo has bfeh forcibly illustrated by -the death of :: King Aiplionso of Spain,. so,say;6uper- ■ stituoos Spaniards. J When the King visjted Arnnjuez last einnmor to see the - clioleraj patients, he- Junched : at; the ; palace' and thirteen persons sat down to the jineai. -Noticing the 1 number, the King gayly referred to the tradition, and made his equerry give him; a list of the guests that he might see whether ftnyono died within the year. Don Alplion^o hinigolf was the first of the thirteen to pasfl away. ..