The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 74, 26 August 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West CCoat.s t. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26, 1885 . LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page to-day will be found, The Soudan, (which includes an important statement by an eye-witness, with reference to the tall of Khartoum, and the death of Gor!on), Cable News, and Russia and England. Subscribers who have not paid for their paper up to June 30th are notified that unless an immediate settlement is made, . the paper will be stopped and amounts placed m our solicitor's hands for collection. We have been compelled to take thisjextreme course on account of the advantage taken by certain subscribers, who receive their paper on credit, and who evidently imagine that it is a matter of little importance whether they pay or not. We hope, sincerly, that this hint will be sufficient, and relieve us of the unpleasant necessity of taking legal action. Says an American paper : — A. balloon m a circus at Charleston, West Virginia, while being" held awaiting ascent, swayed agaj.ust a furnace generating the gas, and' caught fire. This frightened .the men holding the ropes They permitted the the balloon to escape with Mr Clarence Williams, aeronaut, m the car. The balloon ascended rapidly, and collapsed at 1000 ft. elevation. Mr Williams fell to the earth; his body turning over several times during the fall. His arms, legs, and b^rfiwere broken, and his body cm hed to a shapeless mass, •London it is pointed out, will have the benefit of the labours of three total abstaining bishops, Dr Temple, Dr How, and Dr Thorold. In Paris it has been carefully determined that the cost of gas lighting as compared with that of lighting- by means of electricity is as 431 to 344. A New York diamond importer has just received from South Africa two stones which weigh m the rough 273| and 174£ | carats respectively. A few days ago (says Truth) the wife of a convict who is m penal servitude at Portsmouth appeared at the prison to see her husband, it being the day appointed for him to receive a visitor. She saw him for half-an-hour, and subsequently it transpired that being without means, ,she had walked all the way from Birmingham expressely for this interview, and had conveyed her child (a cripple of eleven) m a perambulator. The journey had occupied 21 days. In New Zealand there were at the date of the last return, forty boiling down and meat preserving works, distributed as follows J-^Anckland, 4 ; Taranaki, .3 ; Wellington, 9 ; Hawke's Bay, 5 ; Marlborough, 9 ; Canterbury, 7 ; and Otago, 3. Of preserved meats, Auckland turned out 50,000tbs ; Wellington 179,200fts ; and Canterbury 613,f>911bs ; making a total of 842,0001d5, while Otago produced 201,204 tins. The total quantity of tallow was 3291 tons and 892 casks. The number of sheep preserved is not stated, but 41,000 were boiled down. Four hundred and eighty six hands were employed, including three females. A specimen of the Judas tree, one of the only two tress of the kind m, England, is said to be m bloom m Dulwich. The name of ihe tree, we are told, is derived from the legend that Judas lacariot hanged himself on a tree of this sort. Among the professiors at German university there are no fewer than 157 who are between the ages of 70 and 90, of whom 122 still deliver lectures ; sewn of these being between 85 and 89 years of age, The oldest is Von lianke, now irt his 90th year. It it said that m some parts of Turkey, whenever a shopkeeper ia convicted of telling a falsenood, his home is at once painted black, and remains so for one month. If there was such a law m force m this country what a sable and gloomy appearance the houses would present. A number of persons wore present at a Woolham wedding recently, and partook of a cake made by th« brido, who could speak several languages, and was otherwise accomplished. Two days later the leading chemist m the neighbourhood sold all the " dyspepsia cure " he had m the shop. At the Inventions Exhibition m London oue million visitors had entered the exhibition within 45 days of its opening making a daily average of 22,222. Last year one million visitors were recorded after the Health Exhibition had been open tor 51 days, making a daily average of 25,053. While the Marquis of Salisbury has been climbing to the highest position m the State, his second son hns been elected President of the Oxford ' Varsity Union. He bears the name of Lord Robert Cecil. This was the name of the Tory Premier when he was writing fierce onslaughts on all things democrative m the columns of the Saturday Review. " -Early m the morning of Wednesday, June 17, a fire of alarming proportions b.toko out m one of the shops owned by William Whiteley, the " Universal Provider," at Bayswater, London. This was the fourth fire at Whitley'a premises within the last tluve years. In April lant year a loss of £200,000 was caused by fire, and the-Jafest calamity is supposed to have caused damage to the extent of £100,000. .Great interest has been caused m Folkestone (England) and the neighbourhood by the ; disoovery m the parish church of what are believed to be the remains of St. Eanswith, the patron saint of the church and the daughter of Eadbale, one of the Saxon kings of Kent. St. Eanswith lived early m the seventh century, and was interred, according to historians, m the church on the cliff, where she had founded a priory. An American contemporary, m referring to ihoso " subscribers " who do not care to pay their dues, discnurses thus : — " A resident of Muekoka was out hunting recently, and, a storm coming up, he crept into a hollow log for shelter. After the storm abated he endeavoured to crnwl out, but found that the log had swelled so that it wns impossible to make exit. He endeavoured to compress him.self as much us possible, but with indifferent success. He thought of all the mmi) things that he had ever done, until finally his mind reverted to th« fact that he had not paid the ftubsrriptinn for his paper, and thus defracded the 'printer* On this, he says, he fait so "small that ho slipped out of the log without an effort." A full-grown man's heart, according to Prof«-89or Huxley, should heit sevcu-ty-fi>o times, and his lungs inhale fifteen times a minute. His skin should throw off eighteen ounces of water, thme hundred grains of solid matter, and four hundred grains of carbonic acid every twenly-four hours, and hid weight Hlicmlif tw one liUHqrtd ftnd fif.ty.four pounds,

The north-west gale that was experienced m Wellington on Saturday eveuiug was the heaviest tli.it has bot-n felt m that city for some times past. Tho Yen. Archdeacon Stock delivered a lecture on Monday morning m Wellington, the subject being tho approaching solar eclipse Tho case of Haiues v. the Accident Indemnity Company of Victoria, m which the plaiuliil: sought to rucover the sum of £800, came off at the Supreme Court on Monday, and resulted m a verdict being returned for the full amouut It is stuted that the Napier team of footballers about to visit Wellington is a very light one. It has been decided to travel the thorough bred entire Traitor m the Manawatu and Rangitikei Districts during the ensuing season. Tt is stated that at the present time there are over 100 houses to let m the suburbs of Auckland. High rent is the cause attributed. It is intended to start a new weekly newspaper m Auckland entitled the { Banner of Freedom. Tho author of " The Mysteries of Paris," Eugene Sue, says a London journal, threw down his pencil to take up his pan — at least, so it appears from a little study, that the late Paul Lacroix has bequeathed to his native town, Montpelier. Tho pointing bears Eugene S'le's signature, and is dated. Two other facts not widely known are that both Victor Hugo and TheophiU" Gautier began life as workers on the palette, but quickly laid it aside for tho pen. A bagful of historical documents, relating to the proceedings 'which led to ihe siege or Carlisle by the Scots, after the battle of M. irstoti Moor, has been found under a beam m the triforimn of Carlisle cathedral by some workmen who were doing repairs. Tho documents bear thy dates 1642 and 1643, and they must have been hidden under. the beam , 240 years auo. They have been taken possess on of by the Dean and Chapter, who intend to have tiein examined by exports. I The following very pretty anecdote is ) told of William Cullen Bryant, the poet, i by a i : orint;r associate m his newspaper office, which illustrates the good man's simplicity of heart. Says the narrator : " One morning many years ago, after reaching his office and trying m vain to begin work, he turned to me and remarked : 'I cannot get along at all this iru r-iiiiff. 1 ' Why not ?' |I ua'^-d. • Oh' he ivplied, ' I have d«ue wrong. When on my way here a little boy (lying a kite passed me. The string of the kite hay.ing rubbed against my facu I seized it and broke it' The boy lost his kite, but [ did not pay him for it. I did wrong, I ought to have paid him." This tender-. ul-ss of conscience went far towards making the poet the kindly, noble, honorable, and honored man that he was, whose death was felt as a loss throughout the land. Master Willie—*' I say gran'pa, while you are giving me a New Year's present please include next year's ; 'cause, you know, I heard you say tho oilier day that after that you might never see another New Yea I *." A decided novelty was displayed m the Limbton Quay shop of the Gi.ar Meat Co. on Saturday night last, consisting of a carcase of mutton frozen within a block of clear ice, through which the flesh was plainly seen as through glass. The time occupied m freezing the mass of ice around the body was five days, and the quantity of water consumed was 50 gallons. The effect of tho gas jets shining through the block of ice was exceedingly pretty, and the curiosity attracted considerable attention. — Post The last voyage Home from Lyttelton of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.'s steamer Arawa occupied 36 days 6 hours gross, or 35 days 3 hours 40 minutes actual steaming timo. Speaking at Birmingham on WhitSunday, at the annual conference of the National Secular Society Mr Brad- 1 laugh said : — " In New Zealand Robert Stout and John Ballance, men holding the views I hold, speaking as openly as 1 speak, hold office, one as f rime Minister the other as Cabinet Minister. (Loud cheers. J In New Zealand there is. perfect equality for all before the law, without mockery of oath to make shame or taunt of. There an affirmation Bill has given to every one the fullest right, without hindrance, without insult, wi:hout question. New Zealand gives us promise of what wo shall win ; win with your help, if you will give it ; win despite your hindering, if you will hinder ; win m any case for we will have it." (Loud cheers). The following amusing advertisement appears m the birth notice of the Lyttelton Times :— " Knight,— August 14, the wife of John Knight, milkman. New. Brighton, of a sou (her twenty-fourth child), all doiug well. All born m Canterbury." A private cablegram received iv Sydney states that Mr William N\»ble, the founder of the Blue Ribbon movement, l«ft on Saturday week last for Australia, via America and New Zealand, m the Cuuard s.s. Servia. The telephone has been put to a new use m Dunedin, where a shopkeeper, suspecting a cheque offered to him m payment for some goods was a forgery or otherwise worthless, rung up the 1 police station and told them t» send a " bobby " round. He then kept his man pleasantly amused by conversing to him until the man m blue turned up. The oth r party looked " blue ,, when he saw the policeman, who at once recognised him as a '* wanted " and escorted him to the lock-up on a charge of forgery and uttering. The story ot a miser who faced death by burning rather than tear himself from his hoardings comes from New York. A fire broke out recently m one of the streets of that city, and soon a whole block of buildings was burning. The lives of most of the inmates of the houses had been saved by the firemen, who, m the discharge of their duty, went up to the top floors ; and here it was that they encountered the unusual snectncle of a man m danger of a horrible death, who obstinately refused to escape from it. This singular person was Ja collector of curiosities, old books, and pamphlets, which, with the accumulated wealth of years, he hoarded up m his room. While the fire wasblazingfiercely around and below him he remained unmoved, and when a rescue was htterapted by a ladder raisod to tee window, the fireman who leaped into the chamber discovered him m the midst of smoke and flame, sitting on the floor, with his treasurer* around him. He positively refused to move. The late Mr Sheehan used to tell two capital stories of the unemployed. He said he was present at an Auckland nrifioting when the unemployed gathered m force, and he hoard their wrongs J dilated on at length by a clever speaker. jTo his own knowledge the spouting i gentleman had at the time £1200 out on I mortgage, as he (MrSheehan) had drawn th« doed. Down South at a similar gathering i»«ch man that addressed the audience told his troubles, but the palm was secured by a gentleman who said he bad worlsp'l three months for his bare tucker. This produced many cries of shams and a mild sensation, which was, however, considerably toned down when one of tho crowd who could not shine as n spanker ejaculated, -' hadn't you better tell how you \y«r« sgrying tho Queen on that occasion j " the bare tucker man bavin? been m Aldington gaol.

The painful and uneditying domestic revelations accorded the public m the ca.su of Adams v. ColerUgo hare now come to an end. It will be remembered(temarks a Home paper) that iv the former trial Mr Adams, who was engaged to MissUoli-ridi;", prosecuted her brother for libel. Mr Bernard Coleridge had written to his sister casting refl-ctions on 'Mr Adam's character iv vury iutempeiiUu huuiMge. Mi' Justico Matiisty, lioi'oru whom the case was tried, apparently lost his head. Instead of deciding the communication to be privileged, he scut the case to tho jury, and then refused to enter the verdict for the plaintiff. The case has not beea taken up and argued before tho Court of Appeal. Before judgment, however, was delivered, the parties wisely arranged a compromise. Mr Coleridge withdraws his aspersions ; Mr Adams allows that they were urged m perfect good faith ; ai:d tho Lord Chief Justice has arranged to settle £600 a year on his daughter. An almanac, 3000 years old, fouud m Egypt, is m the British Museum. It is supposed to be tho oldest m tho world. llt belonged to an Egyptian, who had doubtless regarded it with as much reverence as he did the Egyptian Bible— " The Book of tho Dead," iivieed, is o£ a strongly religious character. The days are written m red ink, and; under each is a fignre, followed by three characters signifying the probable state of the weather for that day. Like other Egyptian manuscripts it is written on papyrus. It is wntteu m columns. It is not m its entirety, but was evidently torn before its owner died. It clearly i establishes the date of the, reign of I liamesis the Great, but contains nothing | else of value. . , An interesting case will likely come I before the Titnaru Law Courts shortly, j It appears at a private coursing meeting the. other day two dogs were slipped to a strong hare, iv a paddock by perjiission, but they coursed into : another paddock belonging to Mr Hewson, where they were killed. Mr Hewson was m the paddock, armed with a gun, and wheri the dogs killed the hare, he called them to him and shot them. It is said that llewson was informed that tho meeting was to be held and that he told his informant he would destroy any dogs that came bu his land, as he had a lot of ewes m lamb and with lambs at foot running m the paddocks. The management, after a good deal of trouble, secured several of Huwson's paddocks, but moving further on to some others, the dogs were slipped before the paddocks wero secured. At the time the dogs were killed, the sheep Were not within many chains of them, nor were they disturbed m any way; : V A severe sentence, which should act as a deterrent, was passed by the Chief Justice m a case of arson heard at Brisbano oil July 22m1, when Joliff Rockley was sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years for having set firu to a house; his. property, with intent to defraud the National and Colonial Insurance Companies of New Zualatid. The house which was burnt down, was noticed to be ou fire m two places. " How are you, old boss ?" somewhat disrespectfully remarked a man to a grocer, as he entered the store. "Sir ? Ido not like to he classed among the quadrupeds/; "Olv! you don't;— eh ? ■W.Gil I called you old hoss 'cause I see by tho bill you sent me yesterday that ygu was a pretty : good charger."