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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 163, 13 February 1884, Page 3

The Feilding Star omitted to publish a report of ihe Inspector of Nuisances, which was read at the Borough Council meeting, and gave as a reason that some of the report was unfit for publication, and consequently could not find a place m our contemporary's columns. Mr Bridge is one of the three gentle" men who have to retire this year from the Education Board, and are eligible for re-election, . Mr Bridge is again a candi* date* , . . MrM. W. Green, M.H.R., is stated to have accepted the position as canvasser for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, and is just now commencing a country tour, lecturing upon life insurance. With a free pass on all the rail" . way lines m the colony, he has the whip hand of ag-nts who have not the honor of . possessing a seat m .the House. As clergyman, politician, and insurance agent, this gentleman ought to make money. - '. The graves of the pilgrim fathers iwho went to America m the Mayflower, have been discovered at Plymouth, Mass. No such graves have ever been positively before, and memorial tablets are accordingly to be placed on the site. Evidently those tombs contain the remains of uettlers who died during the winter after their arrival. The Star is informed that the temper* ance bodies of -Fetid ing intend to use strenuous effotts to secure the return of . two f representative teetotallers at the forthcoming election of the Licensing Committee, and have formed {a united committee for the purpose of carrying out this object. The death of Professor Hollowly : recalls theancedote told us an illustration o the iwonderful curative powers- of his medicines. He once forwarded a consignment of pills and oinment to hie first agent m India. With it he sent several thousand bandhills, m which was set forth m the native and British languages a list of all the diseases the pills would cure. Accompanying . them was the following memo :— ' If there are any peculiar diseases incidental to your climate not included m these lists, please add them.' ■ The. Melbourne, correspondent of a contemporary says ', — - c We are not after • all to have a female medical practitioner m our midst. The profession has taken the alarm, and the application of Mrs Doctors Potts fdrher license to kill and cure has been refused by the Victorian Medical Board. The body have even gone a step further, and intimated to the enterprising American lady that if she does not at once drop the affix of M.D. to her name, she will be liable to a prosecution. Mr Clapperton, the new manager of the Union Bank is shortly expected from Oamaru,when Mr Macquarie will take his departure for England via Melbourne and Suez Canal. . : Orchard robbing is becoming a very common form of juvenile Ollences m Palnierston. , We are glad to see Mr Cuauiberlain, of Feilding, m Palmerston to-day, locking much better m health then, when last we saw him. M The Fire Brigade will bold its practice this evening, and its general meeting afterwards, t, There was a sitting of the Native Land Court to-day m Palmsrston to deal with titles. Mr Walton informs us that so soon as Mr A. Hitfgie intimates his willingness to act as handicapper, the Queen's Birth« day race programme will be published.