LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1709, 15 May 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks, & Co will hold their next stock Bale at the Opunake sale yards, on Tuesday, at 1 p.m. . Messrs Freeman R. Jackson & Co will hold their next stock sale at Waverley on Friday, at 1.35 p.m. Messrs Barns & Biggie's next stock sale at the Catnpbelltown Yards, Wauganui, will take place on Wednesday next, at 12.30 o'clock. Messrs Pollard, Siraes & Co. announce their first auction sale for Wednesday next, at 2 pin. All goods will be sold wiUiuut reserve. The ' firm's auction rooms are m Victoria Avenue. Every Gazette now contains the nameß of a number of Justices of the Peace who have resigned their appointments. The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton for Wellington, ou Monday at 7 p.m. Sergeant Donnelly, tormerly of-Pal-merston North, has been transferred from Auckland to Wellington. On the eve of his departure Irom- Auckland Sergeant Donnelly was presented by his brother officers with a valuable diamond ring, as a token of their personal regard. Captain Edwin wired yesterday afternoon -•'—Bad weather approaching between uorth-west and west and south. Glass further rise, and weather cold. . The Frisco mail will close at the Palmers ton post-office on the 2Lst instant,at 7.45 p .m. An election of two auditors for the Borough will be held on Tuesday}; June Ist. Nominations will b« received till next Tnesday. Tickets for the English Church concert to be held at Ashurst on Wednesday next can be procured from Messrs Welch and Co., booksellers and stationers. On Sunday evening at the Lyceum, a lecture will be delivered on "Orthodoxy dying from softening of the brain, &c." by Mr Thos. R. Walton; for further particulars see advertisement. The foreman of works has "just replaced a very insufficient culvert m Cuba Street by one of some; capacity. The substitution was very much needed. .A case of some interest is how proceeding m the Supr^ema Court, Sydney. Mr T. Dwan, of _ Wellington, acting as trustee in' the bankrupt estate of E. B. Gurdon, who died Jately m Sydney, and whose life was insured for JIOOO, is bringing an' action for recovery of the money for the benefit of the New Zealand creditors, of whom Messrs Dwan & do. are the largest. It will be remembered that Mr Gordon,- a Wairarapa sheep farmer, cleared out, taking with him £2077, and l«ft his debts unpaid. He was adjudicated a bankrupt, and the trustee, Mr Dwan, followed him to Sydney, but failed to catch bin, and since then no tidings of him could be; found,, until the Sydney papers disclosed his death. — Wellington paper. Itmaynot.be gerwrally known that holding communication with sworn witnesses while m the witness-box constitutes contempt of Court. Mr Joseph Saunders was observed to whisper something to Mr A. G. Johnson when that. gentleman was about to give evidence m the Magistrate's Court this morning-. Mr Saunders was at once admonished by the Bench as to the gravity of -the offence, and informed' that he had rendered himself liable to a severe penalty. — Wellington paper. At Chartars Towers (Queensland) on April 14lJi, a woman was attempting to cross a street after a smait shower, when she was washed down tlie thoroughfare and drowned. The body was picked up at Casey's sawmills, half a mile away. It has not been identified. The Hawke'g Bay Herald is now published man enlarged fom. We congratulate our contemporary on the success and popularity which hag rendered such an enlargement necessary. From the Waipawa Mail we learn that Mr Sinclaire, who has for some time past conducted the business of the Bank of New Zealand at Woodville, has been promoted to the Wellington office. Mr Siaclaire was a good officer, and a popular member of society m Woodville. W« wish him prosperity m hia new position. The Christchurch City Council are exercising themselves about tlie tenders which are beiug called for the right of advertising on telegraph poles. They havo written to various councils asking their co-operation, and some have agreed to act with them. At last night's meeting their circular oame before the Wanganm Borough Council, who decided it was not worth their while to interfore. Some Crs. considered that a few lively posters would improve the look of the- unsightly poles which line our streets.-— Herald. The directors of the Midland railway ia England propose to substitute steel sleepers for wooden ones, by which it ib. expected they will divert £250,000 now paid to Russia and Norway into Engliiti trade channels.