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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1695, 29 April 1886, Page 4

Wo have been requested' to state that the American Order of Oddfellows will meet on Friday the 30th at 7.30 p.m. business general. The meeting: was postponed on. nccount of last Friday bting Good Friday. Our issue of Tuesday, containing 1 the account of the trip to Ohau, was quite unequal to the. demand for copies, requests for which (till reach ns by every mail. W« regret to sty. not one is , l*ft.: -.^ 7 . ,„./ ' ; -Z^.' .::' ', I Wo hear of the scandalous behaviour lof a party of volunteers m Wanganui, ' by Violently maltreating a contingent of ; the .Salvation Army, and taking possession- of the barracks. The whole proceed m an were moot indecorous and discreditable. ; . Five years ago the Borough ot PaN merston hod a population of 1366. It is now 2593, or nearly double what it was 5 years ago. This may be considered very satisfactory progress. At the m»eHng of householders held last evening 75 persons voted, and as each one is entitled to seven votes this gives a total of 525 votes recorded, one paper received was informal, thus leaving the not total of comet votes at 518. The. highest polled wps A. Stewart 83 and the lowest L. G. West 6 ; the lowest of those who were returned was 35 given to G. Woodroffe ; we believe all who were present at the time of voting recorded their support. . Mr E. Johnston formerly of Hie N. Z. Clothing Factory is nt present m PalYnerston and will shortly start business hers on his own account. His many friends here will doubtless accord him a' liberal share of support. ■'■■' ■ • ; !v " } . The diotheria epidemic now ragfng at Brills, and with fatal results, romind us of the wonderful success which has attended Pastor Ganstad's treatment by homeopathy of that terrible scourgq. Pastor Gonstad can say what we suppose no other practitioner m the world can, that of the hundreds of cases of diptheria treated by him m Queensland And this Colony, he never lost one. He had some exceedingly bad cases that w« know of m this district but all recovered.