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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 156, 30 May 1884, Page 3

A paragraph m yesterday's issue should have read Dr Dowd instead of Dr Fraude. Mr Snelson's fruit tree sale yesterday was a thorough success. Bidding was brisk and good prices realized. The next sale of the kind will be on Saturday, June 14tb. Programme of the winning numbers m the Pnoenix Co.'s consultation on the Christchurcb Steeplechase, which came off on the 26th, can be had at this office. MrC. R. Seymour, contractor, Ohau, is advertising for tenders for splitting wharc posts,f ull particulars m advertisement. Mr Podevin is advertising for a steady man. The Ashburton correspondent of the Lytlelton Times, speaking on the question of County Councils and lioad Boards, says : — lf a plebiscite of the ratepayers were taken on the question tomorrow, I am satisfied that an overhelming majority would vote m favour of the Board's retention and County Council's death. But what may take the Councils place m another matter ; at present most people seem to favour the establishment of a sort of Central Committee made up of the several Road Chairmen. The lost brooch advertised for m yesterday's Standard has been returned. Another proof of the efficacy of advertising judiciously. Mr Walton will deliver his second lecture on Spiritualism m the Town Hall on Monday evening next. A couple of racers were taken to Foxton to-day by the midday traiu m charge of Messrs Btown and Burr. At the conclusion of the Wesleyan concert last night, the conductor, Mr S. C ; Hartley, was presented by Mr Grace, on behalf of the Choir, with a handsomely bound photo Album. An Adelaide telegram m a Sydney contemporary says : — " King Tawhiao, who was a passenger by the steamship Sorata, came into the city for a short time. He contented himself with examining a few shops, and then returned to the vessel. The objected to the crowd which his presence attracted." A man of the name of Gill, who had been sentenced to seven days imprisonment with hard labour at Waipawa, was put to work on Tuesday to clear up the premises around the Court House. Choosing an auspicious moment he dropped his broom, and went off as fast as his legs could carry him. He only had a start of a yard or two of the constable, but gradually increased his distance, till he run out of sight. We (Telegraph) have not heard of his re-capture. A Queensland correspondent of Vanity Fair says that when the Duke of Manchester was m Australia a few years ago, His G ranee had the utmost difficulty m persauading the benighted people that he was not actually a member of the Royal Family by virtue of his dukedom. Last year the Victorian railway yielded 4| per cent, on their cent, on their cost and the New South Wales railways 5| per cent. Our lines, according to the present tariff, will not return more than 3 per cent.

Genevieve Ward and other thcaticals at present m Melbourne lose heavily by the failure of the Oriental Bank. A New York correspondent states that (he convict whose sufferings wore so graphically described m Dickons's " American Notes" was recently released. The unhappy man, failing to find a refuge elsewhere, begged to be allowed to return to his old cell, and he has died there. A corner has recently been sold m Melbourne for L 50,001,' while the man who fenced it m for an accomodation paddock for his working bullocks is an inmate of the Beechwood hospital. A rural friend wants to know what is the best thing to feed hogs on. He might feed them on the ground, or, if he wishes m a trough. We never did approve of fixing np mahogany tables with marble tops for legs.