The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1883.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 16, 17 December 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1883.

LOGAi-. ANiJ GENERAIu. -+ The Uet Borough Stock Sale held by Messrs Stevens and Gorton^ which m a certain quarter waa so disparaged, realised a 4 to(»: of £797 3s 3d. According to recent accounts the Quakers Have jUBt repealed the prohibl. tion of tbe marriage of _>rat cousin?, which has been m force for nearly 200 years. It is believed that this will have a moat beneficial result, and that m another generation the Societv will have more than doubled its members. The eucalyptus (blue gum) leaves have developed yet another property. Ie is now fouud that they are a preventive of •team boiler incrustation. A Oalifornian has disco? erad this, and after extensive

experiments he olfllfea tfae mouti Satisfactory reaulfcs: Partita have been secured m the tfaited States and other countries. Yellow fever id taging iv Mexido; At Gruayraaa, out of an opera •oinpany numbering thirty -one members Beventeen died — including the Prima Donna P<.ralta — m less than three weeks. At the end of the following two weeka only live of the orignal troupe were left living. The medical men were all sick and two of them died. The victims were buried haatily and uncoffiued, three hours being tha usual interval betwoen dfiath and burial. The disease is sweeping the interior towns like wildfire. The courts are all closed, the judges having fled. The civilisation of the Maori can at last be said to be satisfactorily accomplished. He aoon succeeded m mastering ail the minor Europeau vicas, but now h> hits shown himself m adept iv the art of not paying his debts — -the cardinal failing of his pale brother. Sea what he said at a recent meeting of a County Council : - Amongst the* correspondence received were several letters from Maoris, who claimed to be exempt from county rates, and their right of exemption was unchallenged. Ono of the dusky chiefs, m his letter, advised the Council to stop send* ing him papers demanding the payment of rates, as he never had paid and never would pay taxes. A converted carpenter at Bullarat is said to have given his "experiencb" m this wise:— "l lent my tools to my neighbors, and when 1 received back a chisel with a lump chipped out I cursed, and when I observed a saw neatly toothless I swore. I could not keep from, swearing and cursing. But I went to the Salvation Army, and the second night a plane earn; borne. I looked at it, and did I swear ? I'm d dif 1 did. Bless the Lord ! , I <r«nl to the grindstone and ground if. Hallelujah! . Here is good news for the bachelors of the district— (says a West Coast paper; provided the information is correct, aud as it comes from a lady we are not un* gallant enough to question it.-^-Two vessels are now on their way out with six hundred single girls on boord— and their destination is Westport. I?ow our advice to bachelors if, don't get excitd, but keep your hair dyed, and wait patiently the arrival of the interesting creatures. "When it hails m the Transvaal, it does it with some force. A late paper from Natal says that recently, m the busb, a party who had outspanned their waggons m a sprint had to climb into trees to find safety, A farmer lost. 1800 out of 2000 sheep. The horses and cattle were covered with hail ap to their very ears, and were found standing dead m the hail. The waggons were covered with hail up to a few inch es of the top parts of the hind wheels,and had to be dug out next morn* ing. Pour daya after this event, hail was fouud to the depth of lift m some parts of Boekenhoutklooi, and it is believed it will not have melted m a month's time. In consequent of a statement that some children named Neilsen had been returned to their parents at Masterton from the Burnham Industrial School, m a filthy condition, a reporter of the Chrituhurch Prges paid a surprise visit to the school. He states that m every case the boys looked neat, healthy, ■ and clean. There was no appearance whatever of disease amongst them, and though m wording clothe?, they were yet far from being ragged, Tve girls were next visited, and here perhaps more than m connection with the boys cleanliness and neatness was observable. They all lookad happy and rosy, the cleanliness of their attire leflect* ing every credit on the careful supervision of Mrs Carson. As with the boys, there was not the. slightest appearance of disease of any kind, and though only m ordinary workday costume, and engaged m the usual routine of the institution, they showed plainly that so far from neglect every care was taken that is possible to inculcate habits of cleanliness and neatness m dress. Sir Charles Dilke is quite confident that the colonies need vet fear foreign occupation of N«w Guinea, or an influx of French colonists into the Pacific. The colonists wish they could think bo.