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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 140, 21 May 1883, Page 2

At'the very urgent request of our subscribers on both sides of the Foxtoo Line, .daily delivery on horseback has been resumed. By this means readers m that district ; wilL be .enable to have the' Standard each evening on their teatables. We were the more induced to incur this extra expense and trouble from the fact that several settlers had' given up tpking other local papers m order to subscribe to the Standard, the latter being admitted to be by far the best; newspaper published m Manawatu. We trust no complaints of 'irregular delivery will be necessary after this date. v A Wanganui paper has been shown by Mr Filmer, who is the sole agent for its sale, a remarkably goi)dsamp,le_.of local starch. In appearance and praoticalutility (which has been tested m domestic life) this starch is fully equal to Ooleman's or any other imported article, and we are glad to hear that the manufacturer will shortly be m a position to turn out over half-a»ton a week. So important and valuable a local industry deserves every encouragement...,...-.:. .„...• -*„=.■ -. .-*.«■. It is said that before long Parliament will be asked for a'grant for Prince Albert Victor. ' This young prince is now m his eighteenth year, and being heir presumpa ttve to the Crown of England is already a personage of some importance. He is expected shortly to asbume a title and take his seat m the House of Lords. Speaking of the recent trial of the electric light m liytteiton harbour, the Press says ; — '* The liijht, as a light, was afailure. Several of the lamps very early m the trial gave out altogether, and were seen no more, and some of the others behaved m a very eopen trio manner, fluctuating' from dull' red to the best light they could give. Where the lights collapsed, or the carbons jerked now and then m and out of place, it "was a mere matter of want o£ care m their adjust" ment. Those faults will disappear, but the light as now supplied and distributed cannot be accepted as ~ sufficient to so effectually light' the wharves as <tq justify the abandoning of the gas lamps." ' I The Derbyshire Times, of the 10th March, publishes about three'fourths of a column of sensational*" rie'ws" regarding the reported drowning of Mr and Mrs Ark wright and Miss Arkwright, whilst " yachting or boating m New Zoaland." The parties mentioned were, meanwhile, enjoying lite m their new home m Rangitikei. The paper gave biographical sketches of Mr and Mrs v Arkwright, as of persons who had passed into the! other world. The worst feature m this catchpenny sensation (says an exchange) 'was that the business was wound up by a statement that the editor had ascertained that all thiit ha had previously stated, aa to d; owning, was untrue. The hoax was a Very crueljdne, and was utterly unjustifiable. V The destruction of the arch which supported the atrocious statue of the Duke of Wellington, opposite Apsley House; m London, revealed the fact that the gate.keeper, his wife and family, half a dozen policemen, and a medical student resided | within the pedestal under the hoofs of the famous charger Copenhagen. : The practicability of a ship canal be* tween Dublin and Gal way is suggested by the Freeman's Journal. The distance, it says, is about 100 miles. It would shorten the passage to America by a day, and would reclaim at least a million of acres. The land reclaimed recently from the Zuy» der Zee is worth £70 per acre. The cost of the Irish canal the Freeman estimates at £5,000,000,? The surplus labor of the country might thus be employed profitably for years, and subsequently planted on the reclaimed land. The effectr on Ireland, politically, socially, and commercially, would be incalculable*