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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1726, 5 June 1886, Page 3

Solarg» has bten th» number of »pplic»Uon« for berths on the Hero, which has been laid on for Kimberley, that the Union Company cannot accom modate them. It has therefore; been decided to withdraw the boat, and the Qnion Company are now arranging to pat on » larger vessel. Baya the Foiton paper :— A consider ible improvement has been tffected by the Railway department m having a footpath from the station to the wharf blinded with Palmerston gravel.-What i pity some use could not be found for the Foxton sand. The Wanganni Herald has the f ollowinff m reference to the action of the Palmfwton Library Committee with regard to the Rationalist, Liberator, &c. :— "Though the intention ol the opposition maybe very good m such cases they Sically do more to increase the c^ ffion of the papers they are fighhng. gainst, than if they qmetly a low all free. S g o the room, where only those interested m them would ever think of picking them up." tt A number of young men from Upper Rangitikei intend to leave for the Kimberley rush. Says the Hawke't Bay Heralds '• special" m a recent message :— I nnderßtand-Sir Robert Stout recommended three months ago that Major Atkinson should receive the order of Knighthood, but for some reason or jfcher the suggestion was not acted upon.

Mr Wilfred Jackson, tormery secretary of the Feildine Jockey CSdbl puaul, tbrongh Palmerßton last night. Be^is bound tor Kimberley m a fe« ' weeks. g He «yes a deplorable account of matters at SI Patete?e Special Settlement Block. "We learn on sood authority that it will be quite possible when the rail is open to Wellington to travel the distance m {hWe hour., and by special train »*ja. Telegrams often take far longer than that to come. In the cricket match Australians v. tlentlemen of England, which was begun S Lords' on Thursday, th* Home team were all put out for 99 runs and the Australians for 150. Spofforth unfortuiSdy ShlMd a ieriow injury while 515 n* having ft flogw MoCßted,