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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1486, 21 October 1885, Page 4

The Directors, ox tne 'WellingtonManawalu Railway Company intend to: erect a station and refreshment room at! • Plimmerton without delay. It ?is said! that a large hotel will also be built at; this pleasant seaside resort m the course of a*few months. ; \ A dairy factory, on the American principle, was started last week m Opunake, and' the residents celebrated the opening by a ball. Mr Breach, Chairman of^the Directors,, stated m reply to some of the objections urged by croakers, that if it became necessary to close the v factory, farmers might as well .cease operations. All that «ras required . to make the factory a success waß for the farmers to milk their cows, and _nqt the factorx t _Jthe JtevTirYoung, lately of Greytown, who is now stationed at Opanake, said that farmers m some places thought the manager of the factory could make cbeese out of water. He .-hoped they. would hear -nothing of such mean trickery' at Opunake. . The factory is said to be the first started on the American principle between the Waikato and Wellington . . ... . According to a Canadian paper, the jMornions of Salt Lake City arebecoming troublesome. . General Howard says there is a great apprehension there over the bad feeling existing between the Gentiles "and the Mormons'. The situation*has assumed grave proportions and hits been greatly intensified by the insult offered by Mormons to the United States flag.. The bitterness of feeling is much greater than the publicis aware of. In anticipation of an outbreak occurring any day the' war department has made preparations for it. . . *\ ' Lbve'r '(passionately)—" )iy sweet ! My darling! I love you wite all my heart !, Be mine !" Fair maiden—"; Oh; George, this is so sudden ; I must hav.e time — " " Lover— ", No, no! I musl have an answer'now, for I have my eye on another girl. n -—TheJßamb2er. . The^rorst cutrup man;ofthe that Western, reporter who, m describing the appearance of the. belle' of the town, at a local picnic, intended to say that she looked aufait, but' of course the types had to get it, "all feet.", Messrs T. K. Macdonald and Co'e "Landed Property Guide " for Octbbei has been issued. This is a most handj periodical, giving a record of sales and leases ot freehold property m all parte of the Colony. The information regarding town and country property .for sale and to let is of great service to investors, . Messrs Macdonald and Co. are to be congratrilated On the care and accuracy shown m the compilation of the^Guide.v ; ; •■■'■■ ;•••■-■• •■ <:l '-;-'^ : '' It is reported, on very excellent autorityh, that the Railway department on this coasthas already; issued upwards of a thousand excursion tickets to the Wellington Exhibition. If this be true — and we have no reason to doubt it— we may safely assume that each ticket, with collateral expenses, - would. cost the purdtia«er £10, bo that the very handsome sum of £10,000 has been put m circulation by this means. Whether anybody will be any the richer for this we do not know, but we have a gentle suspicion that the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, who have had to stay at home, won't get their accounts paid any the quicker by this expenditure. Nor will the Empire ' City be so much benefited by this illegitimate revenue as the wiseacres m that g&y city imagine.— Star. A curious physiological fact is noticed by a writer on the late Franco Chinese war — if war it may be called — m Tonqn'in, namely — that the bodies of the slain Chinese, unlike those of the French, " did not decompose, but merely became dipcolored and like mummies," while with the exception of the eyes, carrion birds left them untouched. It is suggested that opium smoking might have bsen the cause of the phenomenon. ''■ Shortly after crossing the bar on Satnr- . day last, the Jane Douglas' propeller came m contact with a snag, the result being that one of the bladei was so badly tent that the engines would not x< 'go astern " although it made no difference when they were going iiliefid. After the cargo was landed the .^essel was hadled into the bank at the- side of the wharf, when the injury to thi?' blade was repaired. ; ; ■*- [ - : /':'