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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1452, 11 September 1885, Page 3

With reference totho.Pohanginaireefswe (Wariganni siera?rf) wi-re" Bliown a -letter which' stated 'tliiat this prospects are improving r lhe stone now obtained seems to,be impregnated with silver as well as gold, the latter it is said is (plainly visible. Attention is directed to r a, .-notice* appearing elsewhere from Mr Si. J. Gaia. man, of the Buunythoipe Sawmills, which ave uow in full swing, and prepared to supply timber in any quantity. Mr I l '. Palmer is about taking in hand a number of 2 year old Morpheus colts -and fillies, and other youngsters, some of which are very promising. He hopes to have these finished before training operations cojnineuce, at which: perio'i Mr Palme/ will have his hands. full, his. care and skill having becoino proverbial. : :.r .Speaking at a Salvation Army meeting the other night in 'Auckland, Mar v shall Booth humorously described an Auckland lady Who drove .in . her carriage to a certain street, to see a poor woniau. On going down the lane, and having the humble house pointed out to her by a neighbour, the lady remarkedthat she could not go in there, but that f if the poor people wanted anything to send her word. This sort of '" kid glove religion," he said, would not do. If ladies wanted to do any' good, they must visit the poor, see th*m in their homes, and sympathise with them in their trouble." < At the marriage of Mr Fletcher; Harrison, of W'ant;anni, to Miss Fancourt, of Wellington, Sir James Prendergast's nephew acted as groomsman . Messrs Hell and Howei Johnson's sureties, ' are (o proceed with ihe Poi'owa contract at once, and 150 men are to be put on without delay. '■- Mr F. A. Krull, of Wellington, is about to take up his residance permanently in "Wanganui. '■ : V .The divorce case.Chaldicottv. Chaldicott will come on for hearing' at the Wanganui Supreme Court on the 19th . instant; ; The outward 'Frisco Mail closes at Palmerston this evening. The message announcing the Derby •winner, was transmitted from London to New York direct through United States Cable Company to the Association Press in three seconds, about the quickest time yet made between the two cities. The Liverpool Courier states that a remarkable fatality to; a child ;One year arid nine mouths old has just been investigated at Little Hempston. It seems that the child had pulled the tail of a game cock, which had immediately turned upon iti knocked it down, struck it savagely three or four times in succession with his spurs. The post-mortem examination showed that the spur of the ±owl, which was two inches in length, had penetrated the child's skull behind the i left /ear, and all efforts to save its life were.unayailing. Sir Peter Lumsden brought with him to Enelahd, for the London Zoological gardens, a very rare animal, the snow leopard or ounce, one of the most interesting of quadrupeds. Quite recently —by Mi Temmick, for instance— its existence was denied, and other naturalists of the same date have called the beautiful beast a myth. Nor were they without a certain amount of justification ;.for it is one of the most curious facts in Eastern sport that hunters, though they met with the tracks of the ounce in abundance, and had it reported to them day after day, could never see one. The animal has a lovely fur, primrose- white paling into pure white, rosotfced, with black rings, the hair an inch and a-half long. " There can be no doubt that the Salvation Army aredoing a great deal of good in Auckland amongst the slums of the northern capital; Some of the scenes depicted by Mrs Hutchison of the Female Refuge are. inqst pitiful. Speaking of a child rescued from its drunken parents by this lady, the- Auckland Star says :— It only remains to add to this narrative that our* reporter was shown the two-year-old child which Mrs Hutchison has taken into her care. A -more piteous sight he has never beheld. The infant, is a puny little weakling, emaciated beyond conception, and covered with sores. It little legs are wasted to the bone, and the skin hanks ia flaccid folds. The arms arc also torrihly gaunt— miserably thin: Each of the little- checks is pulled out with a "Browing anh painful abcesa, t\w upper lip is read with an itch, tlie palm of one band contains a suppurating sore and another sore has swollen up one of the feet. Such sights we have read of but never before have witnessed.

I By cable this afternoon we learn that Milne Smith, accused of robbery from tho Horsham Bank, in March, 188i, lias been tried and acquitted. Mr Neill requests us to draw attention to the fact that the sale of boots and shoes will close to-morrow, Saturday. All the stock in the premises (adjoining Messrs Welch & Co.), will be clearej out at sacrificing price so as to obviate the trouble of packing up. We learn by wiro that the Wanganri gold prospectors in Tuliua, have been stopped by Wilkinson, a Native agent, who h.is persuade.! the Natives to go with the Tliaiin-8 men. The matter has been represented to the Gpvernment. The residences of C Laing, Hastings, and John Sweeny, Pnkihn, both in Hawke's Bay, have been destroyed by fire. In the former ease the occupants barely escaped in their night clothes. Cfiise.. supposed to he defective chimney. A dog-cart built by Mr R. Parr of Feilding, and exhibited at the Feilding bliow, ou Wednesday, took first pnz», and was greatly admired.