The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1665, 23 March 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

;Mr Albert Barns, will, hold; his next stock sale at the Canibelltowu Sale Yards, Wanganui,: to-morrow. :" ; j There are at present eight fever cases m the Napier Hospital. !: | The Tauranga; Cheese Eactqjy is ih ■ course of liquidation. . . ; A " Cheap John " was carrying-on- a Dutch auction m Rangitikei-streef, . last evening. HeTwas" scarcely as proficient m eloquence as some of his knights of the hammer m r.- the olci couutry. He appeared to ; do.;» fair trade notwithstanding, ii ; ( Messrs Beckett, Hammond & Dicky annual horse fair will be held at York Farm on the i 9th of April, Already 100 entries have been received... This fair! one of the" big events?' of the district i and we have no doubt that it t • wjjl ? a!s i usual be very successful. Particulars are published m our advertising columns. ) It is stated that thn schnapper, which asa rule, is .exceedingly plentiful m Auckland waiters, is now getting scared. We (Herald) are pleased to ) be' able to state that the child Ford has now at-, most recovered from its dose iot. rough' on rats, and is not likely to suffer' froth any ill effects. . . \ A gentleman who has lataly travelled overlnnd from Wellington, informs uY (Herald) that by the Ist. of April, the train will bo running as far as Paikakafiki, the line being connected there with the exception of tho tunnel., Brom thje Palmerston side the line will be opened to Otaki m June, and to Waikanae la month later. ThM^iil reduce the coaching toa.very few^p«rßVa"n ; d^>eh'der far lees tedious and woarisame than is now the case. It will also have the offact of largely incmasing tlie number of Ti'sitob td"thiß coast, who do not carffor our local Bteaiuerß, and even less for Cobib aad Co. ; ( The Warren^ate School Coiimittea have decided to vote for Messrs Carson, Ross, and Fry at the forthcoming" •lection of the .Education Board, ; A patient named Gottlieb Grimwold, of Carnarvon, died at the Wapgauui Hospital yesterday afternoon,' He was only admitted on the 19th. .The cause j-.of death was an obscure inward complaint of cancer. This was the man Dr Earle dFore up to the Hospital from the railway station on Friday night on seeing him m a very bad state, and no one there to look after him. ; : ' The Wan gah fai Herald has ; the .following : — Banks have been so pestered with orders drawn on demand for small sums, and so evidently made debt? .collectors for small trado accounts, that to-day they gave notice that a charge of 2s 6d would be made on each order so drawn. Some of the customers were not very well pleased, but this order on demand nuisance was prbwihfc out of all bounds, . and had to b© restricted by jrtipoging a charge like the one above raeutioned. The March numberof Messrs T. Kennedy Mac Donald and Co's Wsollin^tpn landed Property Guide ia to hand, and has, as usual, a quantity of valuable information on land matters and Sports from all districts, of the Colony. The Guido thjls month contains the details of a very large nuinbor of|.cify, siiburban, and country properties for sale by;th« publishers, some of which should meet the requirements of the most exacting purchaser. .