The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 11, 11 December 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our subscribers resident m Aahurst, (which liat now includes almost every bouse m the district)£are reminded the collector for the Oroua County Council will attend at the Corporation office tomorrow from 10 a.m.* to 3 p.m., to receive rates. The settlers should avail them* ■elves of this opportunity afforded them to pay their rates with extra trouble or expense to themselves. On Saturday evening lust, m Timaru. the effigy of a baker — who haß made himself obnoxiong to the other members of his craft by withdrawing from, a compact entered into' by them to raise the pr|c<» of bread — was paraded through the town accompanied by a 'band' playing 'The Dead March,' and finally disposed of m the sea, south of the breakwater. Many people wish that baker woulSd come to Palmerstou. A rumour was current m Melbourne that the NeiAcomen, which i sailed for India with a valuable shipment of horses belonging to Mr E. Weeks, has encountered very bad weather, and that Transferred, The Ghost, Mistaken, Bed Kover, and about ninety others, have been lost. Ab the animals were only insured against a total loss, the disaster, if true* -will fall heavily on Mr Week", who, it is estimated, will loae about £5000 on ibe shipment, An ' inventive' saddler of Bftllarttt has struck upon an idea, and iv a circular

headed '1000 to I 1 cilia owners' and tfalnefc' attention to the fact that they dan purchase 21b and 4lb traiaing saddles, weighing from 2st to 4?t weight. ' Thes*- 1 siddles,' says the marke-, ' should be kept a secret, as they will defy the whole touting fraternity, and beat the very devil himself.' A NewCaledoniaconvict named Adeline has received so many cumulative sentences that, according to the Noumea correspondent of the Sydney Morning HaraltJ, his time for Hb9iatioti daes not arrive till the year 2036. after which he is , condemned to 105 years, police surveil liuice. In all he bus received condemnations amounting to 153 y«ai-s 1 hard labour. Our telegrams convey the sad intelli* gence of the death of Mr Dawson, the manager of the B.ink of Australasia m Feilding, who was vrelUknown m Palmers* ton By our cable and commercial Jreports it will be s^en that money is hardening and that the uibrket rate of discount has advanced i per cent witbin the last few days. A Secretary is required for the Manawatu Cheese, Butter, and Bacon Manufacturing Company, Limited' The London correspondent of the Mel* bourne Argus writes :— ' While disposed to view the frozen meat trade favorably, the most experienced salesman discountenances the idea that an unlimited market can be found for Australian and N«w Zealand mutton. They consider that, for some time bo come 2000 sheep a week could be absorbed all the year round at prices which, though much below those obtained for English and {jcotch mutton, would [ prove remunerative. If large supplies are | sent, they may be disposed of, but the price will suffer.'