PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5357, 29 May 1878, Page 3

PALMERSTON NORTH.

taiOM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ; V' . May 27.

Tho daily mail service from Wellington to Foxtcm can hardly be considered a success at present. The letters certainly were in time to catch the train at Fox ton on Saturday, but on Thursday they missed it by some .twenty minutes or so, and on . Friday they not only missed the evening train they 'should have come by, but were not oven sent on; by the early train next day. , ■ : ! Land has been changing hands a good deal last week. Mr. ■R. Linton, -of Feilding, has bought Mr, Manson’s farm .(about 500 acres) at £9 an acre, including improvements ; Mr. Collins, of Napier, has bought out Mu McNeil (about 530 acres) at about the same figure ; and Mr. J. Barton has disposed ; of his newlybuilt house' and about 60 acres of. laud at Fitzherberton to Mr. P, E. Warburton, of Palmerston, The price of this last has not transpired. I see that your Halcorabe correspondent states that a banquet is to be given to-day at that place in celebration of the opening of the railway ■ through to Wanganui, and that the learned professions and gentlemen representing the banking, commercial, and agricultural in--, terests of- Palmerston, &c., have been invited. Although to-day is the day uamed, and I have made numerous inquiries on the subject, X can hear of no one in this town having been asked, and nothing has been heard here of the banquet in question.' ■ Tho Manawatu Acclimatisation Society held a general meeting here on Saturday last, when the rules committee brought up the rules they had prepared, which were duly accepted by the meeting, and 250 copies were ordered to be printed. Tho usual routine work was then gone into. There are numerous - complaints, “ not loud, but deep,” amongst the post office and railway officials about the hours they are now expected to work, and they appear to have reason on their'side at all events. From 5 a.m. to 11 p;fn. for six days in the week is rather more than one would care about from choice.