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

■ " In our Wednesday Supplement pub.jlished to-day will be found an article 'from the Statist, on the Cblonial" Treasurer, particulars of . the Stead prosecution at Home m connection with the ab■duction.case, details of the charge against ■Sir- Charleis *Dilke, -an account of an interesting relic of old- New Zealand, a ;dtpry. from the Freemason, Detroit,, en-. Ititled "Why he* stopped Drinlnn"g^' 1 "a J •column of . miscellaneous items, and ■several specially compiled extract arjtidle's, all of .which- will be' read with' "inj iterest. /, ' ' ,-• '■ / '■•." • ■';< •■.,;• V i: '■■' ''• ■■_'. ;'. ■ ' "' ■■ ' ' .■' •'. ■ i Anxiety is beginning to be*, felt re-'*-gafding Mr Archibald McDonnell, the? prospector for the Wanganui (told. Mining Prrspeptiug Company, whp; left/ here some time, ago to . prospect the. Tuhtia. About a fortnight ago word was received from his mates, the two Doridys, to the effect that he hrid left' Kihikihi for Wangauui on urgent private business which necessitated his attendance here. , He has sent no word of his intention to do this, nor has he since communicated with the company m auy way whatever. The other two men are still m the neighbourhood of Kihikihi, but no information has been received' from them which would tend to explain the peculiar silence between McDonald;, and the company. — Herald. Messrs J. Bain and W. G. Basßett of Wanganui, have decided to visit the I Pohangina Reefs m company with a practical . miner. They, were to leave yesterday aftornoQn. . We learn that our paragraph published last evening to the effect that the result of the trial crushing at Ballarat had been received m. Wanganui, was premature. It is a pity these reports rire put in -circulation, even by way of a jfcke. Our informant was, we aro cer? tnin, convinced m his own mind of the correctness of; what; he had been led , to infer, and gnve;us the. information, m absolute good faith. Be had, however, either 'purppaely ' or : unintentionally, been misled. ''The news ought to be received within theuext'few days. ! Several residents of Wanganui were m Palmerston tc-doy, bound for the Pohangina,