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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 74, 17 May 1881, Page 3

Op*K „;■_,: ,t 4-> .\tl^y the. society- .tormjudyfcycommbroifi exploration in In wheat,' oate, alld bat-Joy', tW-iHW-ince; <«f Qtago yields the highest ,b, ?^ coiony, and-ifq!(;i''liv.^ufl;ini ; vir.!:.j; > :V gives '10, l>ar;ey.,Vyj «>B;^lpO.bußlK : !' v'te Tore. ; ' . *•■ " • ■"■"■" - >.' • At tV=9 Sydney International Exhibition -".are. v-&s sbnvrn.a. . )> "»se r r\- • LructwV'exolusiveiy' 'of ; 'p'ajfc.r/ siuff ittfnoled uhroaghout with articles jnanut'nci r. ' :•■" the same material! ; -,':'■■ The^^elaide Advertiße,r.,says t!.e proscu ; .a tie worst in Adelaide" fur •-«<•' >' ears/ Ttib total yJel'd'ia' eUiinaWl ;v -i< million bushels, leaving -five .rulliwisv&ilable lot export; : i< ':!:i; •_■•,. The Melb^rne^ teetotallers, foyp. a >v uew, irii^k called #,is,q9ne r iiF in ahnmpagrie bottles, gold-topped; etc.-, and, when opened, has a head and sparkle T/hat?' cannot be distinguished from the fashionably wide". ' " One farm was shown tp the Gtago Central Railway Commissioners whicn'had been cropped for fourteen consecutive years, and the laud so' cropped is now nearly as' feHilo a^ when the first plough was put iv the grownxU , ... '- < «■■< .;;; .■::'■■• •'■'■-■: f I lla Dorsey, the affiancod \vifc of Conrad Seito, of Jlonroe (Alaska), when notified of his death, sent back this telegram : — " Delay fatteial twd days. I will be §u| burial with him, "/ She was> :. she commitifcd Dincide immediately afterwards. 'A he Empress of Austria gives liord Combermere £,W0 as the rent of his house and stables iv Cheshire, for six weeks from the middle of .^February. She undertakes all expenses— fahiflh- will probably be large— in the way of laying on hot ! water appara-' tu3, putting in double M'indows, , doors, && ; so that Lord .Combcrmcre ivill really receive, mijch more benefit than tHo ,mere money payment.' The Empress brings a very large suite, both of' indoor and outdoor servants,; and about forty horses! A very cheap weather glass is describecf by en old sportsman tnat^surpasses the most delicate barometers. ; In : fe'ebrner oi a room in his house he has carefully prot.:tsd a spider's web. When the insect rrl::-rtens the thread w.hich suspends the 7/ob, rain ...:X wind may .be expected ; if reefs be let out fine weather ia certain. If the spider remains inert raiu mAy be expected. The spider uiakes up its house every twenty-four hours ; if this opei'atibn takes placa in the evening .a line night jan^ r. beautixl mcrrow r.iay bcpioghosticatpil ' Jlr Jtcies liackay, i,i'~Zon ■•% mi':G f?.m3, ■wa3auiinerafthe : Dni»' < j*a ! -. r.sh, p.'v ; left Xew Zealand for San Francicso v\ lZ r A. Now he lives in ,iVio, and rroirrr in an income of several thouaauas a W3f' From luitbliell ?.nd Co's'NeYrspapei'Pr 1 :*'" Directory jtjst issued, it npi>eaVa thafc t.' i are now in Eugland 1460 uewapapers ; Wales, 66; Scotland, 181; belaud, 154; and the British Isles, $0 ; making a total of 1986. The magazines, including the Huarterly reviews, number 1097.' Dunedin v manufacturing more gas than she can use, and is prepared to supply it to the suburban municipalities. One, the North East Valley has accepted the terms offeifea. ' ' ""-■ ■•■' It is expected that the Cathedral at Christchurch will be opened for service, for |^£ret time, on August 10 next. Tin unusually heavy amount of work was done by the dredge in Port Lyttelton last month. The. spoil lifted amounted to 42,000 tona. which made 168 barge loads. . "Vyqoden blocks are to be used in paving the streets of Sydney. L Viotorian farmers are rather discouraged by the, low prices ruling for grain. Several Melbourne speculators and capitalists have arrived. at Temora. ■An Illinois paper brags that in the West 100,0()0 women are working agriculturally in the fields. Mrs Jane Van Gelder, of Calcutta, is about to propound a theory as to the object for which the Pyramids of Egypt were built. ' Mrs Garfield, the wife of the Presidentelect of the United States, has refused to let hep photograph be sold or her likeness engraved. The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory Company are about to erect large premises for the manufacture of clothing. They will employ no less than 400 operatives. A great deal of interest was shown in theeleotionof Mayor for Warwick, N.S.W., and two of the ex-mayors had a pugilistic encounter in the street on the subject. According .to the Clutha (Otago) Leader, Mr- Thomas Mackenzie, of the firm of Messrs Mackenzie, Thomson, and Co., has sent a trial shipment of cheese to the Cape. < Daring 1879 no less than 128,000,000108 of wool was ' imported into the United States from foreign countries. At four pounds to the fleece, this represents 32,000,000 shearing sheep. In future all magazines,: pamphlets, &c. , received at the Dead-letter Office of the United, {i States, instead of .being sold pa waste paperi* are t6 be distributed aniong charitable and reformatory institutions in and around Washington. The Viotorian railway authorities appear to. have been unable to cope with the grain trine tius seasoo. We read of 15,000, bags being pilaoy up at one station waiting' for transit* atrl exposed to the risk, of weK Consid'^able excitement ihas been ! r oc- ( ca^ioaed at Caversham lately (says the Otago Uaily Times) by the continual reports of a " gbeat " having been Been ;, arid onejevtoinf no fewer thab about 50 persons went out for the purpose of getting a sight of the, mysterious .visitor; •:•■•. ' -'. It is stated that a Chicago house seriously contemplates establishing a branch in Australia, with a view of extensively exporting meat, the project being to ship the more valuable portions of the carcases of beef in a frozen state,' add to tin the coarse parts under the compressed system! <