The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY. OCTOBER. 1, 1885.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1469, 1 October 1885, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY .) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. THURSDAY. OCTOBER. 1, 1885.

The Taranaki farmers are putting m very little wheat this season, but are generally increasing their acreage m oats. Strawberries are now being sold m all the fruiterers shops m Auckland. TlNjre are no shops m any Aygsinian town. All the trade is done within the trader's home or compounded over a glass of the beer of the country. > In 'one year the London Standard newspaper consumes 4,277 tons of paper. . This may give some idea of a daily newspaper's bill for paper. ' The Maoris m the North Island (says .an exchange) are prophesying 1 that we shall have a very hit summer ; thhy also foretell several earthquakes. The reason they give for their prognostications is that they have seen something m the flax flowers this spring which has not been observed for years past, and m past times. this was a sure sign of a very hot summer and earthquakes. The small bird have increased so* much lately m the Kiwitea that they are becoming quite a nuisance. We are informed that on some sections where the grass seed was lately sown,- the birds have caused great havoc by" eating oil. the shoots just when they have sprouted. We hear that the settlers are inking the matter up, and are goins: to hold- a meeting at the hall m KiruDolton>roa'd, to consider what steps can be taken to abate the nuisance. No action is being- taken by the Colonial Secretary with a view to the landing of the circus horses now quarantined at Auckland. It is not thought necessary to communicate with the other colonies on the subject, and it is held to be undesirable under any circumstances, considering the large exportation of horses from this colony to New South Wales, to permit the circus stock to be landed. This consists of nine ponies, one goat, and two dogs, and the animals will therefore have to remain m quarantine till they can be sent back to America. We (Chronicle) must congratulate our enterprising townsman Mr James Duigan upon the success his flour hhs gaitied at the Exhibition. The first three prizes for flour are as follows : — Ist prize, Ailan and Co., -Timarn, Golden Gem brand ; 2nd, James Duignn, Snow-flake brand ; and 3rd, Bruce and (Jo., Timarn, Silver Dust brand. The exhibitors included all the leading millers of the South, and indeed of the. whole colony, and the position Attained by our local brand is highly satisfactory. Wo trust m future to see much less of the Southern flour m Una market, as Mr Duigan has shown that his brand can hold its own against the majority of- the Imst brands froiii Oamarii and Timarn. Mr James Baker, of Fordell; has, we are'ajfw very glad to'learn, received a.n*-'ShonoUr-able "mention for his oatmeal;' .'■'■., A curious incident ocourredin o&nhec tion with the funeral ofAhelatft ~iM-r"J- E. Bannister, who recently died tit Johnsbnville near Wellington. The distance from the Hollies) the late residence of thn deceased, to the cemetery, by the road is about three miles, but by going through some private property belonging to Mr Bould, a well-known resident, it could have been shortened to about a mil«. On being applied to for tha requisite permission, Mr Bould, notwithstanding that he was an intimate friend of the deceased, declined fo grant it, assigning as .his reason an old-established belief m England, that the fact of a dead body being carried over private land gave a public right to a thoroughfare over the same land ever after. Wo (Post) believe such a belief was very common some years ago m the old country, but this is the' Brut time we have ever heard of it being revived m this colony. 1 Folding paper drnws attention to the want of proper provision for the conveyance of injured men travelling by the railway to the Wang'uiui Hospital. It appears thnt nh unfortunate man, named Carl Dew, who had been kicknd m tho stomach by a horso at F«'ildiosr, about the end of last week. waR sent m by train to tho Wanganui Hospital. The poorfejjowlfiv writhing m agony on the bare boards of the sent of a second dugcarriage throughout the wholn fifty^nmilea bptwoea Feilding and W»ng»nuJ,

The New York World has just erected its sixth Webb machine. It not only J ."•ut-i and folds the papers, but pastes he sheets together, completing 24,000 Worlds per hour. It is said that the consumption of champagne m the United Kingdom amounts to about 500,000 bottles every week, and that there is always several years' su ply m the wine merchants' cellars. Her Bandmann. the actor, has written a book called ".Seventy. -Thousand Milas -with 'Shakespeare,'' and this is what ho; : isayß ; of Wanganui :— " The psople m Wanganui are tho worst m the country. The church and drink are their only means ot passing their leisure, and they alternate between these ; if. anything, the latter is most m favour with thorn.. But fortunately for the colony, most of thoun are going mad. Out of every hundred mad men m Taranaki State asylums, 75 are from Wanganui." ' They have an origiaal way m Vienna of protesting against a bad tenor. A gentleman m the parterre of the Teatro Malibran rece ltly opened his umbrella and held it toward the stage, evidently to keep off the sh nver ot fals3 notes. The auditorium at once became a forest ■of umbrellas. The tenor iled, the curtain fell, and art was avenged. ■ Mastei Willie Turner, aged nineteen months, lias departed this life m a manner which is most probably unprecedented. He was put to bed by his mother m the ordinary fashion, a chair and pillow being placed alongside for protection. But Willie was missed from his proper place when his mother went to look after him, and to her .horror -she found him strangled. Having crept out of. bed, he had wriggled his head through the rails at the back of the chair, and then, falling, was hanged; was the end of little restless Willie. And fatalists no doubt would say that he was to die, for the very means intended tc protect him proved his doom.—Exchange. On our fourth page will bo fonn«3 several columns oE interesting reading matter, latest news, shippirig intelligence, miscellaneous items, etc., etc. Now ; Plymouth is to have a hnttei factory. The .•machinery has be*?ii bought for £5.00. The idea is to exporl the imtt<jr to ilio do Janeiro, Syduey, aud Fiji. Wq (Woodville Examiner) saw an lllusf ration of" kindness m trouble '' on Saturday night. O;ns of our settlers bar been to PalmerH.toti procuring sundry go *ds suiih as'flouiy clwifl:, sugar, etc Nearing his house m Waodville* there is I a deop gravel-pit close by trie road, and which at present is full ot water. Oui friend immediately thought his horse wanted ,a drink and turning aside the horse, was quickly m the hole up to his knees, drinking now. In turning round to get. the horse out again, the trap got jut.o the^hole, and it being very steep 'the trap" tried to'take a trip as a boat across the lake, making use of tho Korsti as a rudder. It. was rather awkward and our friend had to jump out and let go tlie steering gear m order to save himself from being drowned. After getting a couple of stout draugh thoracs chained on to the refractory vessel our friend had the satisfaction of regaining his lost trap and treasures which I were certainly a littl« damp, although I not inucti Ida worse for the bath. B irri ing a broken lamp, all was saved, and our friend loft a sadder but a wetter man, with tho conviction that kin lness is not always returned by good fortune, A private letter received m Wanr ganui from the Tnhua prospectors says th.Ht tho party have seen any quantity of likely-looking country, but at the dale of writing, hid not found any payable gold field. They .expected to be back m about a fortnight. A dissolving apparatus for use m connection with magic lanterns, has been inveuted by Mr Shatter of tlii.st.own, and will.be ns.-d at the entertainment tomorrow evening held by the Presbyterian Church. \V\» umleistand Mr Shatter m!- -! tends to. apply for a patient for bis invention which' is a great improvement on tho style at present m use. Palmerston North has already two evening papers, and it is rumoured that a new morning paper is about to be stirtei. This will make the sixth paper published between Wellington and Wiinsrnnni. — Post [Plenty of room. A good field opnn. Not a hetter. oprning m the North Island. Brine plenty of cisli. Ooniß on. Come on.. The more the' merrier. Ed. M.S. J Mails for the Australian colonies, tho United Kingdom, and the conttunnt of E iron-, via Melbourne, close at the HI tiff, at noon, on R-itnvdav, October 3rd; .due m London on November 17. A Wauganni paper learns from Mr John Stevens that he has fully determined' to content the. Rangitikoi seat at the noxt jrencrnl 'lection. Mr Stevens lias imnv snpnort a rs m this district who wonlil bo srlnd to see him back m the lions' 1 apain. Mr Ivess is the first member to call his conßtjti.ients'togt->ther after the ses BJori. He is to address the electors of ! Wakanni'in a few days. [ . R«gret . *yrill hf» widely felt at the news of -The death, nt Gisborne, on Snndav event ne, of Mr William Staples, 1 forui'M-ly of Wellington. Till lately he was a partner m the firm of Messrs J. and W. Staples, of the . Tliorndon Rrewory, but some months a<jo rp-tir^d from business, and wont to' live m Gißborne on account of bis -health. He leaves a wife and several voting children. Tho Armr»d nonstnliu'arlv T>nrce is. to be reduced ( by 50 man, and tii« services o? C >ptiin« For^escne an'l O^p^l are. to be diappiiafd with, as the two iunior officers of the Force. By roferfin^e to a map of European, Tnrkoy, it will be s".en that the' Drin.' near whirh a battle is reported to have taken pla.^e between the Turks and Albanians, is a river m the northern part of the province of Albania. Tfa oonrse is erenerallv westward, and it flffws into the Gnif of Drin, m tbo Adriatic, near the southern frontier of Montenegro. ; From tb« NT. Z Times we learn that the Wellington- Manawatn Railway Company have acquired a loaae of 700 acres of land from the Natives near Porirwa Harbor. Part of the land will be cut up and sold as sites for villa residences, and the remainder will be sub-divided into small farms. It is exp»cted that a large increase m the tariff will result from this step, "which, appears to be a vnry business-like transaction. The tenets of tlia Mabdi's religion are very strict. If a married man is ptiilty of immorality, he is put to hfs waist m sand and stoned to death. If lie steals hishand is cut off. Singing and lascivious dancing, such as used to be m Khartoum, are put a stop to. Every man must pray five* times a day.