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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 3

The Friendly Societies' Pete Committee will meet this evening, at the Oddfellows Hall, at eight o'clock to adopt the programme of sports, &c. T?he attention of our readers is directed to an anhouncpraent elsewhere m references to a special' supplement w?iich we will issue shortly to V.I regular subscribers with each Saturday's issue of th« StanDiBJD. The supplement m question is the 'best that could be procured. We wi!l also issue a special illustrated p.ift supplement about Christmas, which' will be found first- class m efery respect, and most interesting^ ; * ■SirAbralitm Woodiwisg. . one of the butph of new British kni^htp, commenced lite at Derby as a labouring stonemason, ' and hi 9 wife, now Lidy W r odiwiss, rose from an equally humble social position,

The usual formnl notification of the election nf Mr ii. M. Snelson as mayor is duly announced. We are glad to see Mr Keeling: ae»in about, and to I-arn that he is considerably better. ll> i* still i\ long w»y from beitiy; m his usual physic vl i»o .llli. At the meeting of the Education Board ye&terday, .Mr WapstaiY was appointed auditor of school committee*' accounts, at a salary of £40 includinij travelling expenses. We are sorry to hear of the somewhat serious illness of Mr James L'nton, whose state ia ciusing his friends considerable anxiety. We trust t > hear that an improvement will have taken place before lornr, |