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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1709, 15 May 1886, Page 4

The lecture to be delivered by Mr T. R. Walton to-morrow evening, is entitled " Orthodoxy dying of softening of thft brain, and ossification of the h«art." A large attendance is expected. We would also notify the fact that a full attendance of members is requested to take into consideration > the necessary preliminaries m connection with the first anniversary, to be held on Sunday, May 30th. We learn that the celebra tion will assume the form of a genuine ■social gathering — tea meeting m the afternoon ; and a variorl intellectual and musical programme m the evening. Messrs Snelson and (Vs next stock sal- at the Fitssherbert street sole yards, ■will take place on Thursday al 1 o'clock. Messrs Stevens and Gorton's next stock sale at the Awahuri yards will take place on Tuesday, at 1 o'clock. An altered advertisement from the Central Ready Money Stare appears elsewhere, which will be found well worth perusal. ' The Palmerston North Rifle Volunteers will parade for inspection on Friday, 21st May, at 730 p.m. The Ashburtpn Cheeie and Butier Factory has come to grief and is to be wound up; bacon curing last year showed a lo«s of ,£538, while the cheese only made a profit of £76. The Financial Statement will, we (New Zealand Times) understand, be brought down this year at a very eariy period of the session, a3 was done last year. During the past year, accoiding to a return laid on- the table of the House yesterday, 325 new patents were applied for m New Zealand. The next outward San Francisco mail ■will close at Wellington on the 22nd of this month. The address of Dr Speer, of Auckland, ha 3 been altered, as will be seen by reference to advertisement. The "Wellington Freofchonght Association has given the use of their Lyceum on Sundays to a congwaatipn of Freabyterian* 'foring *& WH"» *' *