Events Worth Noting.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 3

Events Worth Noting.

wf^.l^ to Abraham and Williams' Pahiatua sale.

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Mrs Martin, Campbell-street, advertises to-let a small cottage. Carpenter and painter wanted by Mr Cobb, builder, Church street.

Mr T. Henry, liangitikei-street, adver tises for four good wood cutters.

Kinematograph and Vaudeville Co. in theatre Loyal on Thursday night. , Literary and Debating Society meets in Lire Brigade Hall this evening. onS' and f & asli Sht disP'ay of Japanese goods at Harry Palmer's Auction Mart this evening.

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. make additions to their Fcilding stock sale.

Tenders close at 7 o'clock to-night for the pin-chase of £300 in the Starrßowkett Building Society.

The art union for an oil painting will bo drawn at Mr Tumor's shop? the bquare, at 8 o'clock this evening. In our advertising columns Mr Revans ' grocer, illustrates what may be purchased shiir I " commonly called a

The attention of our readers is directed to a replace advertisement from Messrs -It. Hannah & Co., bootmakers, which appears on our first page to-day. A special attraction at the U.F.C A on Thursday next will be some astonishing bargains in Blouse Silks and Ladies' Iv.d Gloves. Don't miss this chance.

Messrs Abraham & Williams will hold an unreserved clearing sale of draught horses, on account of Mangatoro Estate at their Dannevirke saleyards at 1 p.m to-morrow.

Mr J. R. Montague announces the amyal of another large shipment of linoleums, carpets, blankets, sheetings cretones, tapestrys, and upholsterers' requistes, etc., at the Hall of Commerce

tickets to be transferrHW^^^^^^^M „ charge will be imposed. Tll^^^^^H portant departure, and it inayfl^RMl^M be found that some improvements in th^| details pf the method adopted can bej made. The ordinary season ticket] rates will" also be materially reduced. I have also decided to reduce the fares/ #or ordinary passengers throughout the . colony to Id per mile. The fares for first class passengers will^bsat 50 per cent advance on second"class rates, which is a very large reduction from the present existing scale. Return tickets, which in the past have .. been found to be very troublesome in consequence of the time restrictions, will be completely changed utsder the system I have decided to adopt. Eeturn tickets though available if the public desire to use them will to all intents and purposes be unnecessary, as r* turn fares ■will be the rates of two single fares to any station in the colony. For many years there has been a great deal of agitation for improvement in the facilities for travelling between the principal towns and their seaports. I have directed the issue of cheap pet^ws day tickets which will be—Between" Auckland and Onehunga return, Ist class is 6d, second class Is; Lower Hutfc and Wellington, Is 6d and Is; Christ; _ church and Lyfctelton, Is 6d and Is'; Dunedin and Port Chalmers, Is 64 and Is; Invercargill and Bluff, 23 6d and Is 6d. Apart altogether.from the concessions which 1 have'Vtold you will be made upon ordinary travelling tickets, there will be specially reduced holiday; excursion tickets issued from time to time as circumstances require throughout the colony. I think it is desirable to remove tbe restrictions which have hitherto existed and which have been found to. be very troublesome to those whose holidays are limited to a few weeks, and who have been called on to pay aa additional fee for an oxension for a couple of weeks. I have decided to abolish this extension fee altogether. For the future holiday excursion tickets in connection with the Prince of Wale^ Birthday, Xmas, New Year, Easter tJM Queen's Birthday holidays will be tended and be available for return untH the full term has expired .without the extra charge. Hitherto it has been the custom to issue " Tourists' Tickets " from the Ist November to 31st March, both for the whole of New Zealand and for each Island respectively. These have proved of very little use to people who cannot obtain leave from their evocations during the period to which thesß tickets wore restricted. In order *;o remove this disability and for all classes to have an opportunity of visiting the various att^^ tive portions of the colony, I havfl^H cided to remove the restrictions eH together so far as any particular peridj i 3 concerned, and to make these tickets available at any time intending travellers apply for them during the year. With a view to fostering the breeding of horses, a concession will be granted in the case of racehorses returning from race meetings and hunting horses and polo ponies returning from matches and meetings, in the shape of carrying the animals back free of charge, subject to reasonable conditions Ordinary season tickets, single journey tickets and return tickets are to be issued to the Press at quarter rates, and annual tickets, available over the Government lines for the whole colony, shall be issued at .210 per annum. The time has arrived whan tho eff rts should be made to keep better time on our passenger trains and in order to attain this object it has been determined to limit the work on a number of trains so that they may keep better time and, as far as noasibje.^h^'Wft^- ££ ed *° Va™s~&g&sgeiT business. Jhroughou^-^ colony all su b ur ban jE^S^arrivias at centres between the ■'"ziours of 7.30 a.m. and 9 30 p.m., those returning from the centres between the hours of 4 p.m and 5.30 p.m., and those leaving the centras between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturdays, will be made purely passenger trains, and also the mail trains between Te Aro and Napier, and the mail trains between New Plymouth and Palmerston North. The second class accommodation throughout the colony will be generally improvc-d, and I have determined to provide second as well as first class lavatory accommodation on all trains outside the suburban area.

An annovraccment of interest to buyers of Flannelettes, Flannels and Blankets appears in this issue from Messrs C. M. Boss and Co., of The Bon Marche. Buyers of these goods will do well to visit this establishment.—Advt. The doctor may scoff, and likewise may sneer, When to his advice you lend him no ear. But tell him his fee is a little too dear, For the good that ho docs when you feel a.,feit queer. He from yotfUffe secret niay try to allure The cujcg'for all coughs so cheap and so jS sure, .^HJJtTspense you'll not l^him then to long endure. But explain that it's Wood's Great Peppermint Cure.

older ment orLac^J^l^a^E^^ro^corn^J "missioned officer in the 2nd Battalion I Gordon Highlanders.