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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 3

j ; In an elab^rMs^Mjfc^ .^h&qi&n}* trade of Australia, Consul Griffin of ■tnonttuing for the slieep farmers of yic(dMAod BtmWep m UeW fcealana: The! *$> pastoral ,lanrf», of; v .gp|pn^ geniality % bfjthe'vc]irt|.n][e i v*^bgethpr"'with i . tne'cqual distnfi'ntjon "of ' wnrnith atild itfoitftiire s tli rou glfUlff ?very pa?t;. of tlie tforth; anH.So^ili^andy^aYe^dto tfie 'product ion' cif dj»tihct 1 1 ypes : 0f ... sheep/; the wool olFwhjcWis""^ its fineneKS, Jdensity^ lustre/ and great lengthof staple^ 1 ; ' - ( ;-: : ."j ■' <,;: . Some statist lins been 'collating the figures of the dead-meat trade of Lota-, don, .with the following result :— The lotai vfejijht of d«l?venes last year- was 23G.873 tons of 2;24()1b each. Of this ithe United Kingdom furnished 179,000, . J9nj;; i .Ain^rica.i i ;iptjudjng. 2 .Ganada^'2'2, ; 071 tons,; and; Australia and New:; Zealand , 11,12 if? tons, s The item of interest m this to t|»e American trade (Hays '. ah Anierican:wnt«f)"iß'to know that while . its coiisiirnhients show hut a very slight gain oytr'the prevums yearj thttweiglits ; of AuHtralia and New- Zealand meats show aii increase of 1334- per cent, ovor that of 1883. .: ' Mr v Avpentlej; r,ct»ifned to Palmerston 1 last eveuinjf, haritig made ar remarkably fast trip to VVellington. Mr Bentley ;leftVpHlftlnrßt6Yi''^'bit'''\Tlleßday;VeT«)ibj^ l ; hiMJ a whole/ dhj 1 ;'ih Wellington; 1 aiid arrived back m ; Foxton ow Thursday indruiiig/ '\" , : , - A recent «xp<>rhnfent give* a fine illustration t of the porousness of Wid, ; and by inforonce of all bodies. : T7ater, was ehclo.Mtl m a hollow sphf-rii otgold, and' a vi<)l«nt'preßsure 'being applied the liquid-was driven through th« sphere appearing on the. outside. Tlje'porfs could not ; h.ave been 'more than two millionth of an inch m diftmttur. , : The. follpvving long word may bo found agreealile to compositors :—-LlarifairpwllgwyngyllgertrobWllgerchwyrn - byligOßerbwliyanttvsnipgogogbch. . It consists of 71 letters and 22 syllables, is ttie nnme'of a vjllage m Wales, and moans . :— " Sr. Mary's ; whita/hazel . pool, near, the turnings pw\( near the wlurlpoolj.vory n<ar - tlie f pool by Llankilio, fronting the red rocky islet of Gogo." Th»'piace ; haß the reputation not only of bearing th« longest name m her Majesty's.; doniinions, bqt enjoyes the unique position of baring the longest name m the world. "It will be learned with surprise," say r the St. /' Stephen's Review, '"that the Government of Mr Gladstone has 'deliberately suppressed a despatch" enntaiNiug the most heartrending details of Gordon's end. For more thf.n a month past the fact 'that the hero's head was /brutally cut off has been known to the. Cabinet; VTho terrible scene of his .body : having been stripped and kicked naked ihroiigh the streets of Khartoiim has Keen portrayed by a trimtworthy cwrrespohdent; and yet because, for* ' eboth, it was felt that such information cpuld . be distasteful to the JSntfiinh people and pi:oV»ftbly imperil the poßiljon of \\\m thirteen ■ persons yt\i<i away the destinies of t^is : qquntry, .ttye st;bry lub bee^rt'igidly cbtiqeifled. ' ■■ An regards time, ,tj(»e average passage tor the lapt 12 jrionths, from the t^rongh iportt tp.tpndon, yia'fSan Bp.diays^SO hours, ( the direct passage . ' from the last pb^'in New Zealand td .Plymouth was 89. days, 6 hours, whilst.on I the voyage out . the times wero: San 38 days, 18 hours ; direct steamer, 42 days, 18 hours, As. regards expense, the netit cost ,to the colony for the San Francißco Service, for the year ending 81st March, was only £3,300* whilst for the last three, months not only .has there been no loss to the country, but the sum of £705 has been placed to our' credit. On oth«r the hand, tor five months' service, the direct line has been paid £2,619 ; with such facts as those a comparison cannot be instituted.^-: Watchman.

An inquest on the Town Hall lire wuh beld at the Court boose to-day before U. M. Snetfion, Ksq.', CoroinT. A repori of Hie fno<:ui<lutg3 will uppeur m to morrow's issue.