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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1663, 20 March 1886, Page 4

The Frisco mail will close at Palmerßton on next Friday, the 26th instant, at 7,45 p.m. . . . ■ . A horse attached to ad ray 'bolted near the station this forenoon*, hot. was caught opposite the Commercial Hotel, without any damage having . been caused. About thirty of the Palmerston North Bifle Volunteer Corps, under the cornmai.d of Captain Carroll and Lieutenant Johnston, left by train this morning;, en route for Marton, for inspection by Colonel Whitinore. : We understand that the Salvation Army has considerately given the use of its barracks for the public tea meeting m connection with All Sftiut'j Church,to take place on Thursday next at 6 o'clock. We hear that Mr Thomas King haß received a lucrative appointment nt Messrs Stevens) iui.l Gorton's office, Bulls arid will shortly leave. Pulmerstou to ent'-r ot> his new duties. We wish htm every success. Services will be condncted to-morrow as follows :—AH Saints Church, Holy Eucharist. a.m., • = Matins, 11 a.m., evening,? p.m.' Ashurst, Service 3' p.m. Lay Reader. Taoniii, children 2.30., service, 3 p.m., Lay Reader;, Stoney Creek, children, 2.30. service, 3 cm. Lay Reader. Jackeytovyn; children 2.30., service, 3 p.m. The -hanger on at racecourses, who was safely piloted througVi the meshes of the law by Mr Hutchison m the Wanganui Police Courtj.eame to grief at Pa tea, where he has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment. —Chronicle. Who was responsible, we (Chronicle) do not know, but it looked rather heartless at the railway station last night to see a sick and helpless man m the guard's van, without any hotly present to receive him. Fortunately Dr Earle happened to be on the platform, and seeing the plight the unfortunate follow was m. procured a cab at his own expense and sent him tothu Hospital. Thu man, who seemed very ill, came m from Pahnerstou North, but no intimation »p pears to hive been forwarded of his expected arrival. The smart young man at Otaki, who succeeded m doing a roaring , trade by selling Revving machines for half-a--crown, and' then palming oft." machine needles as the machines he had m his eye, lias been sentenced to a month's enforced retirement from the pursuit/of trade. In the meantime he may be. able to discover where the joke comes m. ; The collection of arrears ot snbs'crlptions due to the Standard will be continued next week, when prompt s«ttlements m all cases will be esteemed a favor-;. ':'•-■ • The weather to-day was again intensely hot, and there is little sign of the " bad weather approaching " and cold frosty nights, a few dayß ago predicted by Captain Edwin. - -Tenders are invited for log-fencing at Taonui. . Mr Woodham, of Wanganui, has been appointed by the Education Board executive to the head-mastership at Foxton School. : Messrs Cummins. Sharpe and Co., have a special intimation elsewhere to which attention is directed. : By cable as we go to prose we learn that the ship Paul Jones, from Melbourne to Calcutta, has been burnt at sea. The crew were picked' up * By/a^ passing vessel- : :"..-.- * i f \