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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 28 April 1884, Page 3

It is rumoured on good authority that tho report anent police iratters sent exofficially by a Palmerston resident contained some damaging allusions to the conduct of two hotels m thejSquare. On this point also we await more authentic information. • We remind our readers of Messrs Ste* yen? and Gorton's stock sale at the Den* high Sale Yards to*morrow, at 1 o'clock. Mr Snelson'd horse sale oa Saturday waa well attended, and on the whole was fairly successful. The following curious item appeared iv a recent issue of our toarton contemporary". — c For sale — a first class piano — the pro« perty of a lady about to travel with a rosewood case and carved legs.' The Rev. Mr Bunn preached at the Wesleyan Church yesterday evening. A sermon at once eloquent and simple was listened to 'vith devout attention by thoso present. At the English Church service held yes* terday at Ashurst the officiating minister had the pleasure of baptizing seven infants. A Harvest Thanksgiving service will be held m All Saints' Church on Thursday next. Decorations of flowers for the Church will be thankfully received by the minister. The Rev. Mr Copinger commenced holding divine service at Ashurst yesterday. The rev. gentleman started a Sunday School m the inoruinsr, lasting an hour, commencing church service at 11 30. A later service was hehl m tho afternoon at 3 o'clock, a large number attending. It is intended, we believe, to hold these serrices monthly. Mr McKenzie, manager of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Weilingto •, waa a visitor to Pfllmerstoii on Saturday. The Tui is detained till 11 a.m. tomorrow for Wellington. Some time ago, (ssya the Taieri Advoci»t«) when settlers were busy distributing poisoned grain for the email birds, tliere was an unpleasant incident occurred at West Taiori. One of the female domes tics at a farm house seeing a small quantity of wheat m an old bag threw the wheat into the pig's trough. The same day the farmer himself killed the pig taat the wheat had been thrown to. He shortly afterwards missed tho wheat and upon enquiry found out what had become of it, Judge of the horror of the: female domestic when she was informed that the wheat she had thrown to the pig was poisoned with strychnine and was the remainder of the supply that had been ob» tamed for destroying the bird?. We need scarcely add that the pig was not served up for culinary purposes. The Trades Union Congress, now siU ting at Melbourne, have resolved to send a working man as a delegate to the working men of England, and also to appear at the Bar of the House of Commons, to ap« peal for assistance to prevent the influx of French liecidivistes into the Australian Colonies. The Wangaehu "Road Board have hit upon a happy method of collecting their rates without incurring the suspicion of partiality m suing defaulters. • The Secretary has been instructed to place the names of all those whose rates are unpaid m a ballot box, and to summon the first ten drawn. He will proceed m this manner week by week until all the rates are collected. The usual monthly meeting of the Education Board will be held m the Board's offices tomorrow. Cure for Indigestion — Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills, used according to the direction", bare pro red a- certain and' speedy cure for indigestion, bilious and liver complaint 8 , wind m tbie stomach and bowels, nervous debility, &c Their object is the removal of debility and derangement by assisting nature, and. imparting tone and power to the system.— To be had of all chemists and storekeepers m boxes, Is l|d and 2s 9d each, or post free on receipt of 19 or 44 stain p3.—J. Baxter, Pharmaceutical Chemist, ; 21, Viccoria* qßreet, Christchurch. ,