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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1691, 22 April 1886, Page 4

There will be service to-morrow at the Lutheran Chui eh at 1 1 a.m. - : Mr Batchelar has some good w»aner : pigs for sale. Two official notifications from thi Road Board will be found elsewhere. Mr Macalißter, Government Auditor, is at present m Wanganui. Mr Bryce will soon be m Wanganui again, and will be given a public demonstration there. ' [.] The ill-fated Taiaroa is said,, to Imj faßt breaking up, A .new ironmongery firm is abaut to start business m Wanganui: The concert on the Wellington wharf last night m connection with the Taiaroa fund was a marvellous success. 1 About 5000 people were present. The unemployed difficulty m Auckland is assuming a very serious aspect. What a contrast from a few brief months ago! Mr Jolly, who recently met with a trap accident, is now able to get about, and though at times suffering pain, lie feels better moving about than laying "P. .- The celebrated Strasburg . clock will be on ' exhibition at the Theatre. Rdyal from the 24tli till 28th April. It is w«H worth seeing; 7 Th« annual meetings of householders; to elect school committees will be held: throughout the district on Wednesday 28th mat. Onr readers are rominded of- Messrs Srielson & Co's special Bale of clothr ing, &c, on Saturday at 2 p.ra. , • The Palmerston contingent for th© Eanter encampment at Wanganui left to-day by train at 11.15. A number of the Wellington ...Navals where . also, on j board. The Her«taunga Light Horse failed to reach Foxton m time to catch i the train, and :will probably be s^nt.'dn 'fey special train leaving about 3 o'clock. | We learu the \ troop ; will'-bV about 50 strong, and their horses will all be brpughtlthrough by? the same train. The probability is they did not make allowance for the long beach and the weary sandhills between Paikakariki and Foxton. ... ; - : ; ; j The wax illuminators used at last night's meeting of the School Committee went suddenly out, and the members: were left for a time discassintj the quality of the moon's rays as they fell across the told and cheerless school room, until the return of the secretary^ theRev A. M. Wright, with fresh dips' when tho business proceeded.- , The Wansranui police have been m- j formed that a man's bpdy^was seen ' ; flouting out of the river soawai'd on Sat-: , urday. • The body is said to have been; clothed, but whether it was the body of a native or of a white man could not be discovered. No one is known to the missing. ' ' : : ; < Tht coach from Foxton on Saturday had an nnugiially heavy load of passengers, therq being no fewer than twenty. On arrival at Paikakariki the officials of the.Wellington^and Manawata R7ilway Company kindly offered to convey all ! who wished the whole waytovtown, Ajy! railway. The weather was threatening so the ladieß stayed m tho coach, but! all the malo passengers were stowedin a K truck whjcii was provided with seats for their 'accommodation. The journey was pleasantly made, the only break ! being the plnce. where two tunnels: j are still incomplete.' There the passen- i gers had to do a little climbing, and at the top of the hill another engine and ■ trucks took them on.' AH were greatly pleased at the ch ange -f roni the coach , ; and at the' comfort with whio'h the latter part of their day's journey was done. — Wellington paper. , ' '