LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 287, 7 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■•..%v ; i-> S A • ! >£%^ffi!u&tip n Rifles will parade at nexfc, at the drilU abed, when the band will be m attendance. The anniversary ball will take place m ;th<S Foresters' Jlall the same evening. ! -S-'The Criteridris'Hotel, •idrjWanjranui.Ss now ene of the moßt nopul»r hontelri^s m thattown, the host,-Mr Hugh Marrow, being most' aniions to retain the reputation of the house, and doing all In his power with that object m view. ! We remind,, thos.e, . interested of tne meeting of 'the Fire 'Brigade to4ake place this avening at 8 o'clock at the Commer"oial Hotel. j * I " Messrs Walker and Ha trick's business, -card will he found over the leader. This firm is doing a large* business m cutting chaff and crushing ? grain by steamipowerc ;,-. ;The Natite Minister returned to Wellington by Monday's train, having been "only one day at his home m Wanganui^ v. The opening notice of Mr D. M. George,' will be found 'on our thirds page; ds£e iig opening no an excellent assortment ef 'choice and seasonable goods. ■ Saturday next Mr James Linton will offer for^ale valuable Square property, lately belonging to Mr C* Jorgensen. , Also a number of sections m Linton, College/arid .Fergußon«streeti', the property bfAiTDundagi-Esct: •' [ -'■ —■ *?- jL j ~ Mrs J, J. Lawler has opened a sta« ; tionery and fancy gepds repository opposite tie' railway < station, Wanganni, and has^on hanil a very, .'extensive and excel-; lent assortment) of goods, i : Messrs Bently Bros., of Marlborough House, are offering .quite' impfeoedenttd bargains m certain lines, as set forth m advertisemeut over leader. ; The^great M'Gregor will, case was settled yesterday by a compromise between the litigants; : It is a noteworthy fact, that while a, New , Zealand . horse ? . Martjni « Henri pulled off the Melbourne 'Cup,' an Australian horse, Tasman, won the New . Zealand Cup at Wellington yesterday, ' Alt a meeting, of the members of the Oddfellows and Foresters Societies held yesterday it was apreed to hold snorts m Paimerston on the Prince of Wales birthday. ; Some of the Wanganni papers are discussing the meaning of the mysterious word " Podo — Euonymin " which has been advertised. It is the name of a, new quack medicine, for which are claimed some extraordinary quftUiies, at atone time attached to Parrs' "Life Pills, and other similar preparations. . •It is officially 'notified under the hand of the Ohairmon of the Oroua County CpSTWii,* that copies of the petition to his Fscellency the Governor for the suapene ■iori^ofv the CdiihtieV Act within ithe County of Oroua, have been left at th-

Council office, Gilding, Mr Tompkins' store, Halcorabe, Road Board office, Pal* merston North, Mr Marsh's Btore, Ash'irsr, and Cheltenham Hotel, Kiwitei. Ratepayers are further earnestly requested to sign the petition when m either of the above-mentioned township?, m order to save expense and delay m getting the , Counties Act suspended. \Accordin£r to the Wellington vjnl>rning paper the local City Council -, are getting as wearisome m their protracted Jtalk as the colonial Parliament. Besides the . regular f qyfnightly smeeting o f i th.e Counf ci), there-are meetings of stnndihgi coini. mittees, the most tedious of these being the Public Works Committee, to which the Press are unfortunately now admitted. IThis committee sat on Monday till nearly midnight, discussing small questions with^ large"^ amplftude'of verbiage, as tf ilme" were of no aocouur, and a Counoi'ta: opinion on a bye-law or a water-table were the bottled^up essence of municipal :. wisdom. This is scarcely^ompluiientary ' to the City Father?. Th<rn£tiveßiof $ aitanae meeting house opened on Saturday last By Wi Parata. There was a large gathering of natives present, many of whomc; came from Wangaaui and districts beyond that" place. There; were also a number ,of Kuropeans^at the festival, including f Mr J. E. Bfown, Bt'H. R. At ihe conclusion of the. ceremonial the .visitors were enter* J < tamed" at a feast. The building is one of the finest of the kind on the coast.