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

Celonel Roberts has again bean rery ill, but is now better. It is proposed to erect a statue m Dunedin to the poet Burns. According to a Wellington paper it is is highly probable that legal proceedings will be taken shortly against the gentle - men who made certain charges at a recent public meeting at the Lower Hutt aeainst a local schoolmaster. The matter has attracted considerable atfcen- ■ tion m town, while at the Hutt it is the one absorbing topic. It is quite certain that the affair will not rest where it is. It is currently reported that the Waitara Meat Preserving Works propose to cease operations for a month m about four weeks' time. The Directors of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have received advices from Botbkautuka that the bore, on Friday last, was down 430 feet,< and that the drill was 258 feet m advance of i the pipes, with a fair show of oil. The. quantity of gas m the bore is sufficient to support a continuous flame when ignited. The Kimberley goldfields m Western Australia are attracting: considerable attentiou from all parts of the colony just now. Some old miners engaged on Mr S. Brown's contract at Paikakariki left their employment last week, with the intention of going thither. There were certain irregularities at the Sydenham election. The returning officer has explained that the barrier put across the hall was pushed down at 4.30 p.m., and a number of electors tad crowded about him and in-jß-fered with ni» work. He had told *be electors that those who were at the