Untitled

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 39, 9 January 1880, Page 3

Ites New Britain Mission. — News •to October 30th front New Britain states that riokoess prevails in the mission families. The youngest child of theßev. G-. Brown is dead. Mn» Bands has been very near death with fever and ague, and the same disedse so prostrated her husband, the only European missionary in charge, that he was utterly tinabj© to render as«atance, A iight was threatened between two" villages, bat through the mediation of the mission, order was refttoreA^f ter some trouble. WaoHTg.— A Bill has passed reading in the N.m.W. Assembly weights for grains sold by The schedule was agreed to ac JPPRbws : — Standard weights of a bushel of .. maize, wheat, barley, oats, rye, peas, and bears — Maize, S6lbs to the bushel ; wheat, 60lbs to the bushel ; barley, (Cape) 6Tlbs, (English) 521 bis to the bushel; oats, 401bs to the bushel 5 rye, 60|bs to the bushel ; peas, 601bs to the bushel; beans, COlbs to the bushel. ; . , "Whom can w# is the black type inquiry of an exchange. It is of no consequence. " Whom can we induce to tiust iis?" is the soul agonieer. — Mew Haven Eegis^ ter.