NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 38, 15 January 1885, Page 2

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

• -Very little js known abbiit the homiß' practised m the seyenty-m.Ue , Bush, (writes the Napier- 'Melfyrpuph)* . niore especially by the Scandinavian, women-folk. t The are adepts at cardim* and spinning wool, aricf^frofn tnV raw fle.ece ■will turn but ''excellent knitted socks, and other woollen garments. ! At .lace-tnalring, too, they are mjpst^industrious,- and; aome very beautiful specimens of this industry are manufactured m many .a busy , cottage. If, the ladies of tlni' district knew, how' much good ; "they c'oiild do by patrbnisin*' these locaLj industries we are 1 certain they'woul& do so; 'The bush people* are, very poor m money, and they are probably disposing of real lace at much under its wholesale market value. „

;;It /will be remembered that Mr W. Hiin'i, of Sampan lame, when m Wel-r-^ington 'm connection with his tjase 'against Sir : Arthur Gordon, endeavoured j tp'form a^cpinpany of adventurers, to;un- „ dert^ke' the salvage ,of a^Taluapjie cirgq, ipf j,6il> &c.,. said to'liavftbeen wredked •somewhere amongst the. Islands many i years ago. Subsequently, m Auckland,' ! it was 'stated 'that the vessel had be'en scuttled at Fprtuna-23 years -ago* and ; tha/t .the ;/ cargd had never bbejij'disturbed. Mr Hunt had got some Auckland gentled men to ga into the speculation with him They paid £148 fora diving dress and incurred other., expenses. A letter 'has now been received, ;from one pf ., the men who went down, on the expeaition atating that the oil had turned out a failure. The .vessel was burned until she sank, ■ "and that was 34 years Ago. There is not much: of her left "except the keiel ;and floor,^timbers. , ; The; .waiter, -stages, that . S°^ a ,^ ew pearl , They . were now bound do>vn. to Apim^na^ or the \ Solomons shelUng. ' ' ; f ! ' ..(...,

In his spdech at, t Tihiarin last ' week,MrTurnbulHtate'dtliat'it ■Was the'intention of'the Governmehtjtp throw all local government, with the. ..exception of patters relating to telegraphs, post office, justice, and a few , others of impjortinee on the people. !To enable :tne" local bodies tocariy out^wdrks, et6'.,-'the Govemmnnt proposed that they should be empowered.to levy, a small land Jtax. The administration of charitable, aid th,e management of hospitals was alsbio' b§ entrusted to the local bodies! '