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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1671, 30 March 1886, Page 4

; Among the special entries JF6r Messrs -; F. R. Jackson arid Go's , Saturday sale, at: ; St Hill-street Ykrds on Saturday,- are 100 sacks of good ry a grass seed from old pastures! ' \ I Tbtiders are invited .by • the Ready; ; Money Store for priviledge.to put? fire- : wood oh certain sections^ "- ' " ' ; i Mr, J. H. Hankina, solicitor, advertises half-acre sections m good positions for! i sale cheap. ■ ' '; A capital illustration of the force of I \^as alluded to m a tectiu-e* the: other day. The. lecturer, wishing to; inculcate the ■''merit of . persistency; qtidted a speech of Str C. Napier's under fire. A galloper arrived breathless with; \ the u'ews, 'We have captured a standard! sir." The General took no notice at; firHt ; but whan the yonngßter reiterated his important intelligence, he observed! gruffly, , ?; Hang it, sir ; , ■■. go \ and take! another. 1 Disquieting rumorus were currentyegterdayi ip v ,Ayauganui, anent -tliec«lsdaeni departure of a couple of gentlemen] whoae free rind easy manners : amfc i ex-i tremely liberal, dispasitions . made . Uieiri sqcie'ty? courted by^ahd - theins'elVes . en-i deared tp f/ their friends and; assqciates: -To-avdrtflie pain 'of a sudden sKdcfe, :it| is boliered that ©dt. -of p.ure. kindliness of feeling they have purposely {omitted to say go»d-bye ; but the ! excutfe ; or apol ' ogy;tbus ;o.ffered for iheir Jremisinels Sis not accepted by thflir friends, who re- ! gret.the loss of the dear departed, and? refuse to bo comforted; — /Wftpgaaui 'paper. ! • . ''- .i-'---i-' ! -X> .:•:•■.> ' The London Era said. th,»fr pur Bel^innj { neighbours have invented an ingeniousinstrument for emitting "the . dismal hies, ;souud v of public scorn.'! It is ji tiny bellows, with a whistle for a mouth-: /piece}' Which the .spectator : placetl uiSaer ■hrtlfoot?, ana/can thus defy- Uh© most lynx-eyed policeman. In rthe Ghent' Theatre w6Wre ! the innovation is on trial, the results are highly satisfactory, uninterrupted disorder prevailing' during; -each performance. The oxpHlaibnevery night of several innocent * persons*'Jiimtaken for the delinquents, heightens the! enjoyment of the eutertftiuinent. . ! An exchange has tile fpUoiring;,— The person who was sentenced to one month's hard labor recently for a very grave offence, has, we "believe, experienced many ups and downs. He was at: one time a clerk m one? of the large banlcs m London, where he held^ a 'gdod'pofiitibiß. He>ave way \o arink,; and as is always the case, ijt brought him down to the depths of degradation, ) Some time ago the Government held out inducements to. saw-millers m Manawatu to cut rata and niaire sleepers.; The saw-millers made eonsidsrahle preparations for tutting large quantities of , those "leepers, and now the indi|cements : have been withdrawn. A petition has b«en drawn up tor presentation . to the! Minister of Public Works, arid signed by th* saw-millers concerned, pqititiug out that a good deal of expense has been incurred hy them m making preparations to cut large quantities of rnta and mairei sleepers, nn4 requesting the Government to re-consider the question. The petition mto be.forwnrded by Mr Macarthur, M.H.R. for Manawat«.~- : Martou paper, > ;