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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1485, 20 October 1885, Page 4

Writes the Woodville correspondent of the Napier Telegraph, " The Dairy Facliary'is again m full operation, and as Jtlie concern is likely to become a complete.success, tliere is every probability that m the near future the cheese and bacon industry will form the principal staple of produce m the, bush districts, while there can be no doubt as to the immense benefit these factories are to the .Struggling settlers-" The Contract for the construction of the formation of the railway line-on the Wellington and Manawatu Kailway. between ;Wakanae and Ofcaki, known as No. 17, "has been let to Messrs Wilkie and Wilson for £11,049. The only other tender received, and which has been declined, was that of Messrs Campbell & : Co.; their, price being; -£14,314. The ; cbntract is' to be completed within 12 months.. No. 18 contract, which is that ■ portion of the formation between Paika- : kariki and Waikanae.has been let to Alexander* & M'Farlane^ for £22;942. ; The; following tenders were declined : — Messrs j fiDfGonnot.ißindiScally; £23,848, ; and Mr; M; Danaher, £26,299. The, time allowed [ for the completion of No. 18 contract is* 14 mouths; -.,- - •- /-■_■ , | If a child is so unfortunate as to chop! loffioneof his fingers it does not follow that he is ; to> remain .mutilated for life. iD^ .Dave, of Finisterre, was called to one; ' "whose firsl finger 'was hanging by' a smalls piece of skin. Not being willing to do! , Burgical work at night, he put the finger; m place, and braced it with a couple of] „cprset bones. Next day; the finger was r ' doing sd well that be did not disturb it.; In four dayS ]khere?was.evidence of union,' tiristen days the .child' could move, the; . ,and m a month he was completely cured. No stitches wei-e used. Dr Davej thinks, that there is too much hasty sur-; gery, and the editor" of the Journal de Medicine, m agreement with him, says -7with. r moa*«rn surgical dressings -fingers . jnay ■-. ssi ten > be saved, ; eveiv when cona-* pletely severed. | However remote it may be, the timd must come (says the Spectator) when will lose her place m the v Tan tof, progress and civilisation, when ■i her /population will dwindle and her -:. cities, decay. ,The fate^that. has overtaken .other realuis" will overtake her. _ "Assyria; 'JRome, Greece where are f ' they?" And some day England's name ■ will stand m the same category. If nothing else happens, when her coal' .mmeß>are exhausted, an enormous dim r inution m the number of her inhabit}.,'ant)B,mußtr ensue, ( accpmpanied r by, the ; shrinking,' if not the total disappearance of inauy towns and cities that now exist in, virtue of their manufactures alone/ '''■■•■■ ■■'■'' ■ ".'■;'. ■ jn ; hiß'y6nhger days General Grant sold firewood from door to door m St. Louis, and afterwards became a leatber- '. seller m the obscure little town of Galena. From these beginnings to a double tenuie of the presidential office is another /r illustration of the spirit displayed .by * a Wuch earlier president, who, when .asked what he would like as a coat of arms replied, " A pair of tiicked-up shirt-Bieeves." •■'■• On Thursday, 281 2 passengers were -carried on the Weilington-Manawatu RailXvay. and 150 had tickets refused to them. In addition to the trains which were advertised, an additional one was: .. despatched at mid-day, which started on the return journey from Plirnrner.fon . ; about an hour afterwards. Mr Gould, ,: tli© Wellington station-master, took J6157 5s lOd during the day from excnrßionists. If £25 be added for the Paremata and Johnsonville stations, it,. ! .will give -a handsome return for the day's work. Th« ordinary traffic re- ".' turns are not included m the amount stated. The Company's officers Jisid a b«»y time of it, but they worked' well, and everything passed off smoothly...