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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 3

Byirfq cablegram;; received to-day we: leatnjthajb Dr Benson* Archbishop of Ganterpury js. suffering from, fistula, • .and. has to undergo ; .an^operation .for its rembval, The severe thunderstorm passed oyer Sydney last night; It is expected; there will ; be^Sstartfers fortheCaulfieldCup, <uf i PAA IRThe Manawatu; river was. m high. flood to»day, it being found, impossible to cross the coaches. The mails and passengers we're temsferred, by, means ,of. the boat which was v/ery skilfully managed; by Messrs Falloon and Harvey, the current being tremendous. . v The wind -was so strong m the Gorge on; Thursday J that^Omeimen travelling on - foot said that several*/ times' /theyj had to hang against the bank to 'prevent them* selves being, blown ■•/dyer.. Huge trees, were being blown down m all" 1 directions around the township of 'Wobdville;. _"■■■} The. Napier lunatic asylum appears to be] overcrowded. At; the* present* time there are no less than twelve • females, and eighteen Cvmales confined . there. . . A t the same; time there is only sleeping.acoommodat'on for nineteen persons.*' . : ar j V ' I• 1 ... ... " ... „>.-., ; j The extrftnely . boisterous ..wreathe; <we h/aVe been subject to for the past fortnight, will, rwe fear, prove disastrous to the fruit 0 crdi> 'this.. Season. "W| notice that m most gardens dn the) district, the fruitutrees are, almost entirely bereft of thpir, foliage, to "say nothing of the'blossoms/and youngfruit. "" T /.' In;* recent article on' 'the distribution •fjihe £6,000 -grant to- Libraries, J we commfiited an error m the date 6n r which 1 sucSKiwill take. place. It should have, readiias follow?;— "The. distribution wjlh take.placejm the 31st January, 1884, and no' claim >will be considered thatrshall not, have b^efen. sent'in m due form' and recejVed f; by the' Secretiiry "for Education, Weilitigtonr before the 22nd i January; 1884Lftui .x><,jx<wi vtry.h &:Ui 0.,.= Mr Nelson ' of ' Aihurat ; dwlrei •us to ■ statpithftt tieisJn do' way connected with K the .gentleman of -that j name who r lately, fig'uredfin the it. M.' Courtior^attempted