LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1733, 14 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page will be found items by cable and miscellaneous paragraphs. We make room elsewhere for lengthly and very; graphic details, giving fuller particulars , the recent terrible Rotorua disaster, now of inch engrossing public interest. Owing to the bad weather at Wellington no steamers will leave Foxton to-day. Menus Stcytens and Gorton's stock; sale at Awahuri will take place to-morrow, at 1 p.m. ' Messrs F.R. Jackson and Co.'s nest stock sale at the Waverley Sale Yards, will take place on Friday next, at noon. - Messrs Nolan, Tonka, and Co. announce their next- sale at the Opuhake Sale Yards, for to-morrow, *t 1 p.m. Messrs Barns and Higgie announce their stock sale at the Campbelltown Sale Yards, Wariganui, for Wednesday next. Messrs Nolaut Touks, and C 0. ,: announce the* next stock sale at the Hawere Sale Yards to take place on Thursday, 17th instant, at 1 p..m» .' . An analyis of the voting for the school cowmittee on Friday evening showed, that plumpers were given as follows : — Walton 52, Snelson '32, lieary 31, Sinclair 30, Hirst 28, Linton 19, Hawkins 16, Rush 1 6, Stewart 18, Woodroofe :"W, West aa ;■ - ;-. ■■"•■■*■ \ ■ '■■■■ . Messrs Barns and \ Higgie tnuounce their .'next stock sale at the Campbelltown (Wanganui) Sale Yards, for Wednesday nest, at noon. The catalogue appears m our advertising .columns. . The election of divector m the Government Life; Insurance Association takes place to-day. .Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co., have scut us up our usual monthly parcel of Wellington landed Property Guides, for gratis distribution among- those of our readers who desire to receive a copy. They can be forwarded by tbe runners. in the town and country districts, but immediate application should be made aa we have only received a reinited number. . "Verbal or written -messages received by the^ runners will be attended to m the order m which they are received. The Guide of the issue to hand is an excellent andcomprehengive publication^full of useful information, and is really a most valuable. little compendium .'both; for buyers and sellers of landed property m town or country. :, ; ■'- ■> ; Mr.T.fi, Procter, the oculist And optician, will visit PalmerstoQ shortly, and will remain fora iewdays.As this will be Mr Procter's firit visit to this district, and he may not be here again for some .time, <those intending to consult him should make it a point to do so, as they may not have an : Opportunity again. A very valuable' treatise, on the optical diseases of the eye, the use of spectacles, ab'd their mode of .manufacture, also on the auatomy and phvsiulogy^of the eye, the cause of deafness, and other sirniliur subjects, which has b(ien publish; ed by Mr Procter, can' be. obtained -from Messrs -Welch and Co., or from the agents of the Daily Standard all ovef the district. The exact date of Mr Procters visit will : be duly announced m onr advertising columnsj ; The adjourned annual meeting of '-householders was held on Friday evening, ate the Tapnui School,; Rangitikei Live, when Messrs, E. Collins, Knight, Lovelock , Mitchell, Gilhrandt; .Uyj^sfib'; Dpnald, and Skennan, were elfecterj inerabeaß of the committee, and T. Skerman cbairtnan, for the ensuing year, v "■. '