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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1669, 27 March 1886, Page 2

i dSirlAleXandef .Stuart P-yisit|d (^ttawji^ for .tho purpose of negotiating with the: > Dbhuhion -Government grespectinj theT proposed cable to Australia. Sir jAl«r.-v: "ailder SVusrit is 1 expected- 'td arrive m London . early" m Ap»'ilj to_ fulfil his,. "dutiea at tUo ludiau a'bd Goloiiitl jExhii ■A , M.ferdintnd deLeaseps states that tie Panam* Canal will be, completed, in; •1889; „r^"i,^"%rj^^^; ;;;:! ".:""; We ! fcfe informed 1 : by : Messrs (Atkins : asd ipiere ; tKit ~thef tehderof -Mr^Giffia.r.d > has been ; accepted i for , tne r A erection of Messrs Freeniau R: ''Jackibnitiind Coils ssilerodinand yards at Obhhsonviile, and that tlrt i.work' is to ; \>f_ carried' put at ; j once., :The tenders varied from £795^6" oyer;£llW^^Ungt6)i^papen: | A\ Bydney;: paper,- ref ierring to the South ., i Australia^ iGoßnmercial; ] Bank affairs j r saysi.vfi"iT.he Bank was patronised by a'nutnborio^inyegtorsAnd shareholderß:on account of th», eminently, religious character ofv.^he,; .directorate aiiil' management ;io fact it was the, religious bank of excellence The Ghairmab' of ■ DirecJiOrsj (Mr \R^ A y Tajlton/M^LiG.)^iß an,ex- ( Baptißt minis^ter.! Mr ManTice'SalqmviM.fL.C;,, another director," was fone among, the ; .strongest opponents of the Abolition; of Oaths Bill' last HesHiony and: all the ; otiier ; luembers of the i di rectorate i are ; . regular^ churchgoers. Mr^A-lexander Crooks is a pro* minent ■ Westeyau,r occupying^ Jjifih position' m his Church :• -iwnilp! it lias&Mnequdnon;thßLtthe clerks and; other officials of the bank. should be^ members of the Young i Men's Christian Association." -. I