Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1683, 13 April 1886, Page 4

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of Court Manawatu A.O.P. will be held m the Court-room this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr Cary, of Karere, advertises for tenders for digging ten acres of potatoes. Mr J. D. Fraser requires a boy to drive a cart. At ttie gold mining meeting at Ashurst on Saturday uvening the report of the canvassers wns received, and was pronounced to be satisfactory m all ruspeets. We hear thpt the O'Uonnor-Flyger lawsuit is likely to h« settled. In the interests of both parties, .it is to be hoped tj»e report is correct. ,7' ; ~ , ; It is stated, though we have rioti the rumour confirmed, that Captain Iseherwood, well known m Wellington is about to become, mine- hostj &t .the f Club Hxitel; " ; ./■-■..•vvs/-' Reuter's cables this niter troroti state thnt the threatened re-construction ;of the South Australian Ministry has been averted. , A cablegram informs us that an emigration bureau has now been established at Home to . supply reliablo information to intending omigrants. \ By cable to-day we learn that the New South Wales new import duties, are generally condemned m that colony by the mercantile community. The voluble and irrjjprewible bookfioud is going his rounds to-duy, and forcing his unwelcome presence on not a few victims who would greatly prefer his room to his company. But who can rub out the hook-fiend, or dare ask him tn^suspund his eloquence? Mr. E. VV. Perkins was- a visitor to Palmorston to-day, and was congratulated by'Juß friends on his apparent good health and lively spirits. Mr ; Perkins is now located m Sydney, where he is practising his profession, and with which city he is very much pleased. He spoakes in terms of p raise of the climate, the people, the'' tone of business aud every other surrounding. Mr Greenwood will pay his next professional visit to Palmerston on Thursday. Several new advertisements from Wanganui and othor places are unavoid • •bjy held over. To make room for full, and detailed accounts '-of , the Taiarqa disaster, now of. engrossing and mt'lanclioly interest to all ra.iders; several items of telegraphic intelligence have to he held over, also' local anil general news, including weights for the Easter Monday races, the report of the Caledonian Society's meeting last night, and various other paragraphs. Under the circumstances there was no other alternative. ... ■■•: .- We have had a number of cbmjjlaihts from subscribers, both m tpvyn and country of not Having 'received a catalogue for the Hnzeldene^^^ with Saturdays paper. The fault; w^s not ours. The number sent for distribution was over two hundred short of the required number, and one was folded m each paper but all were used. We had also several applications at the office to-day for copies but could not of course supply any. We have been requested to state that the entertainment to have been given tombrrow evening m aid of the blind man Wilson, is unavoidably postponed till next- week.