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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 231, 27 August 1884, Page 3

We understand the section adjoining Mr Linton's office, 33ft frontage, has changed hands for the sum of £400. A building will be erected theron shortly. As an example of the, benefit derived by insurers with the Australian Mutual Society we give the following; : — " On th»29th December last Mr C. S. Gatton of this town insured m the Company for £200 payipgjf a premium of £3 3s *Bd. On 31st of the same month, or two days , later, a bonus of £2 8s was assessed' to him an official notice of which he received to-day. • ' The Swiss settlers at Helvetia, Auckland district, special settlement, purpose establishing a condensed milk industry. Mr Vereker-Bindon commences his. annual examination of the schooTa next week, and mil ba engaged m the^wo^k, without 'intef mission, every dajTup to Christmas. : -' The friends of Mr Thomas W. Bell, eldest son of Mr Peter Bell of. WangSnui, received the gr^tily^qg; ii^jligeVceMyy the English mail received yesterday, that Mr T. W. Bell had satisfactorily passed his final examinations for the medical profession at the /Edinburgh University. Mr Bell is now fully qualified to practice his profession. The advertisement . referring to the thoroughbred horse Morpheus will appear m to morrow's issue. The conductor of the Lutheran concert misinformed r us yesterday as to* the-; probable vre'sujtjifjlie ejitertajntnerit. Wd. understand,' tH? nett proceeds will be comparatively small. An advertisement appears m this issue notifying the annual election of councillors; for the 4 wards of the Borough of Palmerßton. It will be seen the nominations for each., ward.->.will be taken on separate d^ays; sXhis is- we -believe to preclude the expense of appointing returning officers for each ward. It will be seen by a_ telegram from Waipawa the result of "closing necessary public houses m country districts. The; nominations of candidates from Ashurst to represent-No.' 6;Ward;ra /tho Manchester Road 'Board were those or Mr T. Nelson, and Mr Grammar. Mr Nelson has withdrawn -m favor of the Mr J. Sheerin senior of the Rangitikei Line passed aw^y yesterday m his 74th year. Mr Sheerin \v as* one of the 'did settlers having come to New Zealand m the early days of colonization. The deceased: was for a long time a resident of the Hiitt, Wellington, where he was universally respected by^all.who knew x hira.