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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1673, 1 April 1886, Page 2

Those who have not yet paid their Borough Council rates had better do so at once, as the financial year closes today, and defaulters will be sued forth* with. Those who do not pay up will also bo precluded from bavin? their names placad on th« burgess roll. Mr Avery, of Marton,aent sorae.valua 1 able bi r d skins to Wanganui sometime ago through the post, and the gentleman to whom they were sent did not receive the parcel until a considerable, time had elapsed, and then m a very delapidated condition. Mr Avery wrote to the head of the department about the, delay, aod received a reply to the effect that the parcel had been placad m one of the private boxes, and during the night a rat had got the parcel out of the box and had concealed it for some days. — Marton paper. . To know tricks m trade is considered a great help. This was noticeable today ac the Police Court. Two, drunks were fii.ed five shillings or twenty-four hours -imprisonment. After the. sentence i had been r given, those m the secret ' remarked .those ftllow» will get off cheap, as there being no delivery or drscliarge of prisoners on' Sundays, they will be turned out at 4 p.m. to-day-^-.thus the twenty- four hours will be ; r4duceS to about five i hours. ~ Napier Telegraph. .