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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1697, 1 May 1886, Page 4

Service will be conducted at the. Lutheran Church, Palmerston, to-morrow at 11 a.m. by Rev. 0. tiuuatad. The Native Minister is expected to reach Paltnersion to-day, en route for. Napier. Mr W. Akers has .not come forward for nomination m No 5 Ward m the Road Board District this time. Mr H. T. Alters, formerly of the Club Hotel, wag iv Palraerston yesterday, looking up some of his old friend?. Mr Akers ia now proprietor of the Criterion Hotel, Bulls, r The Blue Ribbon organization meet* ing had to be postponed last' night, as the inclement weather limited the attendance to a very few persons. The weather last night Wai some-, thing to be remembered, rain, wind, thunder and lightning. This forenoon there weire some very heavy showers, and altogether it seems as.if wiujier 'had set m '-prematurely.* Such an exce^ = tional rainfall as, was* "experienced thisforenoon is qiiite phenomenal. , „ An advertiser requires a pjace ja : 4hje Country, with a strict master, for a lad eleven years of age. . ■ Captain -Edwin teleeraphed ns fol lows at 3.57 p.m. yesterday :— Bad weather approaching between north md west and west and south. Glass rise after ten hours, and weather much colder. At 2 p.m. to-day he wired Indications for bad weather, same as wired yesterday. Glaps rise soon and weather very cold. An owner is wanted tor a carriage whip which has been found. The following additional entries to .Messrs Stevens and Gorton's catalogue for Thursday's sale at the Borough Yards came to hand too late for insertion m the uaual columns :— viz., 70 fat sheep, 70 dry ewes, 6 good porkers, and one ton first-class Derwent potatoes. Mr Q. Hawkins, son of (*. F. Hawkins, is now on a brief visit to Palmerston from Sydney, m which city he is m business as a chemist and druggist. A hotolkeeper at Kaikoura was; charged with allowing a game of. chess ': to. be played m bin house on* Sunday,] but the Justices who sat on the ■ Bench' decided that chess was not contemplated among the "other games" J mentioned m the Licensing Act as for- i bidden. , . ' A tailor m Boston has just completed an exceedingly expensive overcoat for a j gentleman of that city. The value of the coat is said to be 4000dol, though it is declared that the garment could not be duplicated f6r a much larger simi. It contains 69 Russian sable skins of t\vo finest qnality. . In giving a few of the census returns . available a Press association telegram says :— Both WangQimi ■ and Thames show a considerable decrease on the registrar's estimate. Mr Brown's estimate for tho whole colony, based on the increase of births over deaths, and shipping returns, is. 585,000, but the disturbing influence isi the impossibility of ascertaining the number of people who get iway without hooking passages. The returns for the larg* towns are not yet m, and are not likely to be available for same time, owing to a large quantity of forms which have, to b> handled and carefully checked. The Sydney correspondent of the Australasian says :— A N*V Zealand friend told me not long ago that there was nothing left to tax m his country (alwi»Vß, of course, excepting the goods and chattels of the working man), absolutely nothing but Maori*, oqffhis, flies, and a few unproductive things that are not worth talking about." A Wellington paper has the following:— A man well known to the police, named Frederick W. Carroll, alias Michael Carroll, alias Cecil Stanley, alias Smith, alias Condon, alias Pearc<», alias Livingstone, was brought up on remand at the Resident Magistrate's Court before Messrs T. W. Young and A. L Levy, J. P.'s charged wjth having* stolen a spectacle case, the property, of Dr Cahill. Mr E. Shaw appeared for the defendant. Dr Cahill identified the article, stating that its intrinsic value was small,. but it could not' be replaced m ; .th« Colony. Robf rt Hay wood, general daaler, stated that 'he purchased the.,articl» for Is from the accused, who' stated it was his own property. After hearing- the evidence of a yoilth mDr GabtllV. employ, Detective CampbcH;Sergpant Black, and Warder .^Conyers, the accused was committed for trial.