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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1658, 15 March 1886, Page 4

A cable message was received at Wellington on Friday, stating that the S.S. and A. Company's stoainer lonic arrived at Hobart at 6 a.m. on Friday^ 40 days out from Plymouth, and was too. have left for Auckland — her first port of call m this colony — the 'same evening. ' : Captain Edwin telegraphed at 2 p.m. yesterday as follows. :^~£ Bad weather .approaching after ten hours from now between north eastand north and west, and glass further fall. ' A notice f rom the Equitable Life Assurance So'ciety of the" X[i|)t»d States for mutual life assurance appears elsewhere, to which special attention is directed. The Wanganui Agent; ;Mr A. H. Synions, is now visiting Palmerston, where he will remain for a week. He can be found at the Royal Hotel ■ , ; Settlers of Wangnnui wjll be pleased to learn that Mr Cummins, on behalf of the Auckland Freezing Company, has lesumed the purchasi) of ; butter 4on an extensiveacale. „ $ ;1 > } Mr Stout would probably arrive m : Wellington from Christchurch yesterday., Mr Tole is expected ■. from, Auckland in'a few days. As soon as be : get» back, aCabiuetvConacil will be held. A few persons are anxious to have St Patricks Day which i&next Wednesday, /proc|a(n:edr a' holiday ; but the general feeling seems to be that it follows too closely on the last holiday, the day of the race meeting,- only a fort; night ago. . The forms for the censire, to be taken fcr the night of Snriday, tUe 28th inst., - are. being diatributed. They are m the usual form. Mr T. S. Hoe' was engaged to-day m distributing the census papers to all dwellings within the Borouph. Young Lawenson, the telegraph : mesaonger, has been off duty for some days through illness, but will be m har- ' ness again to-morrow. Sir William Fox has written to the New Zealand Times admitting that he ; was m error m making the statement : about the charaoter of a local publican and the manner m which the house was conducted. The house indicated was plainly the Pier Hotel, the proprietor of which hns placed the matter m his solicitors' hands. ■ A rather curious case, of some interest to auctionsers was heard before Mr Wray, the Resident Magistrate at Patea, last week. Mr Cowern, the wellknown, auctioneer, not feeling very well at one of his sales, instructed his clerk to mount the rostrum, B''iiUiims'elf acted as clerk. The upsbot was that tbe clerk, Mr Kearney, was proceeded against for selling goods by, auction without having a license. The -police evidently thought they had a elear^case but Uiey were never theless worsted. The defeuce set up was that Mr Kearney did not sell the goods, but merely acted as the mouthpiece of Mr Cowern, and the Magistrate held that the auctioneer had as good a right, to use his clerk to speak for him as he would have to use a speaking trumpet to make himself heard. There were as many as six " hold to bail " warrants m existence recently for persons whose passa, «i had' been ■ecu ed by the Tongariro for London, and the baliifs had a~ busy tune of it hunting their men down. They were successful m five cases out of six. One persou, an ex-publican, who gently and unoslentiously removed his amiable presence from this,act,ivo scene, found himself compelled to leave £130 behind him, while another .individual was reluctantly forced , v to postpone for the present his intended departure for th» Old Country, the inexorable limb of the law holding him security «• to bail."-*-*-Wellin?tou Evening Press. Rapid pi ogress is being made m . the construction of the Wellington Manawatu railway, and it is confidently anticipated that the line will be completed m the course of the ensuing eight months. The engines, are now runmriV within a mile of Paikakariki on this aide.