MANAWATU NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 55, 6 March 1891, Page 3

MANAWATU NEWS.

I El TfcLKORAI'H.I fVur Oyon Correspondent .) I'AMfEHSTOIf Koß'f JI, T}ilB DaJ. At Stevens and Gorton's stook sale yesterday, 17,000 she»p wero yarded, 15,000 being quitted at an average of 10s per head. At a meeting hold laat evening for the purpose of arranging 1 , tlio form of celebration on the occasion of the opening of the Qor#e Kail way, it was deoided to entnrtain the Railway Commisuionera, | Ministers, and the members for tbia and the ! adjoining districts, at luncheon j also that a ball should be hold in the eveuing. The Mayor and Councillors will meet the guests at the railway station, and oscort thum to the luncheon room.

, iIT 'X'jlLKUttAfU. I [xjnited fress association. Dunedin, This Day. The Poultry and Dog Club muko the following suggested alterations in the quarantino regulations :— 'J hat the Government be asked to rerapyo the present quarantine stations to a more central position bq that owners pan visit their dogs. That private quarantine should be allowod, to bo approved by an inspector. That the time of quarantine should bo fix months. sta-ting from the last port outßido Australasia, the penalties to bo tUo Binie as at present. The 00-opera» of similar organisations Is invited.