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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1712, 19 May 1886, Page 2

Several new advestisstnents are still unavoidably held over. A grand bhzaar will be held m tha Feilding Town Hall to*inorro«r and following days. A notification re annual meeting of policy-holders and election of direutora m the N. Z. Government Life Insurance Association appears elsewhere. . ..•'.. Wa direct apeoial attentien to the prospectus of the Tetoue and Hutt Building Society, m which we learn ah ares ara being yeryjapidly applied for. The coroner's inquest en the Dunedin fatality, resulting from _ the blasting operations, has been adjourned until Thursday. Mrs Finoh's brother-in-law deposed to finding ibe room a maw of dust and dirt, and his wife and Mrs Finch on the floor, the one dead, the other terribly injured. Tha A wahuri Bridge is now declared open for light traffic. The Rev Father Kirk, of Wahganui, was a visitor to Palmerston to-day. During the suspension of comuiunication ut the Lower Gorge Ferryj yesterday, one or two persons anxious to get through, took the route: via Fitzh'erbert, ' and succeeded m getting through safely, though we expect the (rftycJUng wai pretty rough. ;_;." One of the Ors was indiscreet and diicourteous enough to single out names of ratepayers, at the last meeting and inquire were their rates paid.- Among others thus referred to was Mr Batt. It is only fair to state;tKat Mr ? Batt paid his rates last September. We wonder had the anxious Or paid histio long aero. There was a rumor abroad last night add today of some dead human body' havinv been mysteriously found, but neither the police nor the coroner have heard anything of any casualty having occurred. It is singular now such a strange rumour got abroad. Several inquiries wero made of the police to day on "the sabject. -^ ■ . '