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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1659, 16 March 1886, Page 4

In these limes of depreciation of the value _oL .property , actual . 8"»les are difficult to effect, but a few days ago, Mr < :Walkley, of ,lhe . Commercial^ and, Gardner, of Wellington, effected an exchange, the former taking the latter's -property m Oollege : street and the latter taking some property owned by Mr : Walkley m Wellington. The sum of .£2OO changed hands from Mr Walkley . to Mr Gardner,' on the deal. The latter gentleman had expended some £1,500 on his property, for which he received about £1200. It is a very nice property, and Mr Walkley may congratulate himself on having rnad« : an excellent investment. It consists of 8£ acre orchard, 9 roomed dwelling, outhouses,. etc., m fact, one of ; the snuggest, and probably cheapest properties yetsold m Palmerston. ; ! The - Wair^rapa Star says:— The. charges preferred against J. M. Fraser, teacher of the Belvedere school, by Mr Burnett, a member of the School Committee, have been investigated by the Committee ; with the result that the accusations of gross immorality have been considered fully 'proved, and the teacher, en account of his wife and family, has been allowed the option of resigning m place of dismissal. The inquiry- was held with closed doors, are porter who formed the " stranger m the gallery " being required to withdraw; the Chairman stated that the charges were unfit for publication, but the result would be, wade knowm If the following Btory, which reaches us from the Upper Hutt should prove to be correct, it will show the necessity for such a society as the one formed m Wellington a year ago for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Two settlers residing at the Upper IJult are said to have struck rt jibbing horse on the head with the but end of a whip. That not proving effectual, the horse was then struck on the back with the back end of an axe. As the poor animal resented that treatment, a charge of powder and a few grains of shot was discharged at him. That cruel treatment di(jf not, however, suffice, and then some gprse was set on fire under the horse's belly. The matter has been reported to the police, and an information which had been laid-against $Ke parties will be heard. at the Hutt Resident Magistrate's Courton Wednesday, 24th' Jif!st.—Wellington paper. South America is more than double the size of the United States. The Empire of Brazil seems on the 'map quite as large as Australia, It is twenty- four times the size of England. The Argentine Republic is . nearly as large as Europe, taking Russia but. Bolivia and Venezuela are ench twice the size of England, New Granada and j Peru each as large as England and Sootland,^: Ecudaor something less, Paraguay fequal to Great Britain, Uruguay and Chili about jthe game, and the little known regious of Patagonia and! Terra del Fuego at least double the dimensions of Great Britain. British, French, and Dutch Guiana are nearly as large as Great Britaiu. During last weak there were rumors jn the city of a scandal m which a schoolmaster m a country-district near Wellington was the central figure. It is understood that the School.Coinraittee concerned is making inquiries into the matter.— Wellington paper, It is.expeoted that about two months ' hence an extension of the railway from Maste.rton Jo Maurio r oyiJ.la wiU p9 Pflfl" fay trains. The c,of#h travelling wJ|I !?v tliajb weanji be lesseoiftd by 10 jpjleß, wd ag U}Q M*wic«vill£ stfifcion will b« am^ jalQfifitflihjjfnafn r^d, thm will pro,.