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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 28 April 1886, Page 4

In the English House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain will move an am >mlment to 'Mr Gladstone's Irish Laud Purchase Bill. The nominations of members for the variouß wards m th» Manawatu Road District will be received up to 12 o'clock on Friday next, at the several places notified m advertisement. We regret to hear that Mr* Sneljfotf wasjakeu rather wbrse when she reached Auckland, and Vart unable to proceed on ? her journey to the Lakes. However, she has somewhat recovered, and m now on her way thither, and will probably have reached by this., time. The tender of a local firm of cabinet makers was accepted last, eyeniug for the manufacture of the fittings to be erected m Mr LearyV new. Sliop. Price £83. . Mr D. H. Macarthur was a passenger for Wellington yesterday afternoon by th> Tui from Foxton. :Dr and Mrs Fell of Wellington were on a visit to Palmerston to-day, having arrived here last evening they left by the Napier coach this afternoon. A telegram [from the United Press Association published elsewhere contains fuller details of the wreck of the Taupo, than .those convoyed by olir special telegram this forenoon. v : Immediately the sprcial telegram to the Standard containing , the news of the* wr"e<sk 'pf |he Taupo was received, * copy, of ft w&8 was posted m the window of tlie publishiqg office, where it was read by a great numbor of persons during tho afternoon. The intelligence appeared to cause considerable excitement. Mr John Winejaie, of Earere, is about starting m business as a butcher, m Palmers ton, his principle being to make a wide distinction between cash buyers and "long time" accounts. In carrying 1 out this principle he should soon create a very remunerative business and should secure the supobrt and . goodwill of all thrifty housekeepers and heads ot families who prefer cash payment to credit. At the conference on the question of joint Australian defences which has commenced its sittings the following are the representatives present :— Sir P. Jennings (Premier of New South Wales), Mr Gillies (Premier of Victoria), Mr Griffith (Premier of Queensland), and Admiral.Tryo^/(f&%.'th^'lb3p.erial Government). ' \>;- ■:■ -f- i: •: '•' ':' Tha. following is the business, to he transacted during the present sittijig of the District Court :— Public examination m bankruptcy, R. Webb, A. King, F. Peterkin ; probatp, will of John Baker ; letters of administration, Max Bufe 'and Augustus Damber.