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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1469, 1 October 1885, Page 3

The iniq'ritons " pension " system pre vails m this colon y m a moderate Hepre^, but. m England it ia rampant. Rend th« following :—"Th(» d^ath of Mr R. B. Mndge is announced. 'Tina" gentloman hns Vena pmsio'irr on th»- nation for forfy-two ypnrß. Fie vp>«'ii clerk m the Office of Wools and Forestfl, for only three years, n't the Tarsre ftalarv of £550. He was thon pensioned on* m ronsfl.vience of " ill-li^altli," nv\ for the last forty-^o. years' lir.s b?en m tlie receipt of £330 pot annum, the total nmount received him up. to the time of his 'death, being somewhat m excess -< £U,OOO. *■ In the Edinburgh Scotsman of Ist August His stnted that while a trial wai- being made of the new electric tramway at Bessbrook on the prpecedin? Saturday, a horse stumbled and fell on" the wires, and was instantaneously killed by the elfiptric current, and the driver was slightly injured. There is just cause for.Jntense dissatisfaction at th* slowness with which thfl Central Railway is being carried on at this end. A largv number of m»n have been waiting m Martori forf weeks 'and. weeks, expecting that they would get employment. Th'eyiiave now given the thine up as a bad -job and determined to seek fresh fields. About 50 of them have signed a requisition to the Union Company requesting the company to convey them to Sydney at reduced rates. This is Rurely a pitinhle Tesult of the management of the Ministry who bray bo loudly and so continuously, about bning friends of the working man. — Advocate. The New Zealand Times says that po far as its ■ reporter has been able to ascertain by private inquiriep, most of the exhibitors appear averse to leaving their goods at the Exhibition for a longer term than waR orieinnlly stipulated for, i . c., till the end of October.