LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1740, 22 June 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

' Mwsrs Freeman F. Jaokion and Co.'j sale at tbe St Hill-street, yards, Wanganui. takes -place to-morrow at noon* ' • ' Messrs Nolan, Touks, and Co.'* next »toclt sal o at the Hawera Sale Yardr^ will take place on Thursday, 24th mit, at 1.30 p!in. The entries already recived appear elsewhere. The Jane Douglas will leave Foxfou for WeJh'ntgon, on Wednesday, at 2 p-m. The Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation (I/mil ed) notify that they moke advances on mortgage on rural lands within the Bangi•Jikei, Oreua, and Manawatu Counties, for from 3 to 5 years at the option of the borrower. Further particulars will be found m advertise, ment/orer the leader. : . Attention is directed to-' a' most important tale of 400 purebred cows, from tre well-known .herd of A. McHnrdy, Esq., Blackhead, Ntpier, which Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Oo.i will offer to buyers by aaetion, at St Hillstreet yards, on Tuesday, the 29th inst. At this special sale the auctioneers announce eir no other stock will be offered. .The cows are recommended as bein^ the best lot ever offered to breeders at one sale m New Zealand. Several additions are made to-day to Messrs Stevens and Gorton's Feilding sale which will take place on Thursday next. On Friday night Mr Mountfort and his staff of surveyors returned from the Feilding Small Farm Association's Block, having, completed their work. We are glad to know that Mr Marchant, the Commissioner of Crown Lftads, is well satisfied with the manner m which the several seotiont have been laid off. A number of intending settlers have recently visited their allotments with a view to making arrangements for building residences, clearing the land for cultivation, &c. There can be no doabt that this will soon be one of the most vigorous v and prosperous new settlements m the colony, inasmuch as it hss started with everything m its favor. — Feilding paper. ..A general meeting of the members of the Choral Society will be held iv B»nk Chambers on Tuesday, 29th inst, commencing at 7 p.m. The business is to receive report and balance sheet for past six.. month* and^ other general, business. *■.••. We have been asked-to state that the snhjec) ; of Miss Ada Campbell's lecture on next Sunday ; morning will b?;^ Truth versus Christianity." |; The afternoon lecture will be on ''Charles IBradlaugb, the man of the times'" Large ; audiences are look forward- to at each lecture. ; . Burglaries are alarmingly on the increase m Melbourne just now, several expert. gangs being at work every night. Fre*h cases m the city and suburbs are reported daily. Early on one morning recently the iToorak railway station was. entered, and the ftfe robbed of nearly. £100. The robbers most have used •duplicate key*, as the locks of the safe were intact. '. • . ; We kave heard of * number of other Rangitikei men who have nWe up their minds to clear out for the Kimberley goldfields.— Marton -paper. c Sir Jnlius Yogel, m his lsst Financial Statement, said, respecting wool, that a sharp rally ;of prices must inevitably ocenr. He nan not had to wait long for the fulfilment of his prediction. The rise, if only of an average of a [penny per lb, would mean an increase to the •sheep-owners of the colony of .£350,000 iSuph an addition to their income would be of jgi^t,bene'fit just now.— Herald. •....;.... I -The local Star is sorry t« leartf that |the larrikin element is springing up 5n Fahiatua, ; At Messrs J. H. Bothune and Co.'s jsafe at Wellington on Thursday twenty shares m the Wellington and Manawatu [Railway Company went for 17s 6d eachThere was a good attendance at the sale, and the bidding for the shares was spirited. ; The local, paper says that the sum of £2000 m hard* cash has already left Feildiog for Kimberley. ; The Feilding sale yards of Messrs F. R. Jackson & Co. are about ta be considerably enlarged. We have been favored with a view of the plans prepared by lVfr BrayjyjO.E., and notice that the additional provided for stock will consist of 10 cattle and 16 |heep pens. As iv the case of the Wanganui sale yards of the firm, the convenience of buyers will be largely Considered so that a thorough examination of the lots: may be made before and during, the progress of the sale. The work will be proceeded with at once. — jStor. '