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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 279, 22 October 1884, Page 2

Our local confectioners (saya the Patea Mail) will no doubt be glad to learn that two wedding cakes which were being imported for a " coming event" of great interest to some residents not a hundred miles from Mokoia, were run over by a railway truck this inorniug. The effect on the cakes, as well as the parties interested, will be easier imagined than described. Ensign Reynolds, of the Greely relief party, is called to mind as the hero of the rescue of the men of the Austrian barque Olivo in mid-ocean in November, 1879. He was then attached to the sloop-ol'-war Constellation. He stood in the life-boat all day in a blinding storm, rescued tw*elve men, and swam from his boat to the Olivo after dark, aurl set her on fire. His bravery was acknowledged in a gold medal voted him by the Austrian Government. Philip Chetham, the oldest Freemason in England, and it is supposed in the world, died at Southport recently- He was in his 97th year, and was initiated a Freemason in 1811. Ho has benn pastmaster of Lodge No, 322 since 1841 . In 1802 he volunteered on board his Majesty's guardship Phoebe, and was at Trafalgar, though not in action. Since his initiation, Mr Chetham has been an euthusiastic Freemason. A human relic of Pompeii has been discovered among the ruins in an exceptionally well-preserved state. It is the | full-length fossil of a man who was struck while in flight at the time of the destruction qf the city, upwards of eightteen centuries since. The features are well-defined, the mouth being slightly open, showing the teeth in either jaw ; the hands are perfect, and one is supposed to have held two keys, which were found close to it, while the legs arc spread out and slightly raised ; the left member had, however, been broken, as the bone protruded.