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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1599, 4 January 1886, Page 4

The orsc, instalment of the Auckland O^ty loan was to- be placed m the London markei; to^-dayi • ■ * - ■■■'-,> >■'■> The new, Oriental Bank has declared a dividend 'of 5 per cent, " ' Geprjge Taylor, aged 75, died of apoplexy ma Grisbof He" ' hotel. He had been m thatidiateiet 45 years. : r One JBvening last week a boat containing two lads, named Gee arid, Taylor, was capsized m the t river ; Waiinalcaririj at Kaiapoi. Taylor was drowned, bat Gee scrambled out. He went home, and to bedi ( About, an hour: afterward his, father elicited from him that Taylor had fallen into the river. Search was made, and the body recovered. It is .expected that Inspector, Qoodall will be'nioVed. to his new districit—rbetween^ the Thames aWf, Opotikl— ab^ut tHe middle of January^ 1 i ■ "' Patea seems to have been as unfortunate as another town that we know of m the j matter of local industries. By the M ail we notice the following amongi the industries that have succumbed dtuv ing the past year , owing to one cause, and another :— " The Meat Preserving WorksJ have gone to — well have succumbed to the attack of that " devouring element," fire. The ' Oil and Fibre Company have been placed on the shelf, pending the result ot Mr Courtney's exertion's m the Old Country. The Woodware Manufacturing Compauy. which was started with such a flourish of trumpets, has been placod m liquidation. It would appear, therefore, that if Palmerston cahnot float butter, or beer, Pataa is not much better off m that respect, and h^s been compelled to admit the fact. vN£ver mind Patea, never say die. Ksep. your pecker up and try to float a big; loan, a local bank, or some other promising spec. Patea is worth dozen difunct townships yet, ,