LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 4 January 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The additions to the Bank of New Zealand will include a Btrong room, the door of which will weigh considerably over a ton. Additional entries are elsewhere made to Mr Snelson's Fhzberbert sale on Saturday next. The Palmers ton Bprough Council will hold its next meeting on Wednesday ,the 10th instant. An official notice m reference to Pro* jperty.TftX appear? tlttwkwp, i

I The altered froiu llio B-V.X Ma'-clsc and Messrs Oravc3 and Fleming will bo found worth perusal. Captain Edwiu'a predicted bad weather appears to have passed awny, though probably experienced elsewhere. Dr Curl will pay his usual professional visit to Palmerston to-morrow, and cau be consulted at Remington's Medical Hall, An Invercargill telegram states that three trains of enormous length, having ' nearlyJSO carriages m each, left for the Bl»ff Regatta. It is estimated that at least 4000 people went to the Bljff by rail. The Customs revenue collected at Wellington last month showed a decrease 6i £1650, and for the last quarter also showed a falling off from the corresponding quarter of £1600. A lad named Thompson, m attempting to jump on to the steamer Beaumont m the Clutha River yesterday, after it had put off, missed his footing, fell into the river, and was drowned. A meeting of creditors m the estate of E. Belvee, held yesterday, declined to assent to the proposed deed of assign* meat. Ihecaae is one of puculiar hardship to which : we may perhaps refer m detail subsequently. The Manawatu Racing Club Com* mittee held a meeting last night, at which all claims m connection with the Club were duly examined and passed for pays ment. A balance sheet will be prepared m the course of a day or two, but it may be estimated roughly that a credit balance of L 215 is now its financial position. The Borough Council is inviting tenders for work on two short streets m the Borough. Inquiry is being made when there is to be a meeting of the committee of the Horticultural Society, to examine and pass for payment claims m connection with the late show. Mr Stratford is advertising for a strong respectable lad as apprentice. The fac« tory is now so full of work, and journeymen are so scarce, that getting through work m hand is very difficult. An inquiry into the fire at Foxton ia to take place to-morrow. The decision m the protest m the Dv trict Race remains m abeyance at Mr Akers' request for the space of two weeks to enable him to make certain inquiries.