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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1493, 29 October 1885, Page 4

, "7 -r; . f An epidemic of suicide wfcs literally raging m St. Peteraburgh towards thY end oftb« mouth ot June la»t. It w^a most?: rife amongst yonng people, students, young girls, shppboy*, aif d others, who killed themselves with |a .quite unnecessary, amount of pain .. and . even' torture. w This* life* wtariheas^ was confined to no one clasß of society, nor to persons of any' particular epoch of life. It was common alike tp^reJigioUs believers aB to atheists, -to. materialists and idealists. Nor did it admit a ration • J al explanation. It seemed as if. self* destrnction was*" in the am" •..'■■ i. . j Mr Walter Ajfreil White, settler, ' Huhpa, has discovered a process of removing stumps from the ground, which 1 he claims will effect an immense saving to settlers and the colony at large. |It is effected (says the Auckland Star) by a method of applyinjr fire to tree stumps so that the whole of the^log and roots are reduced 1 to 'ashes, and the ground made' f i ploughable. The economy of labour is such that a saving of *4 an acr6 m the clearing Jof land will be effected by • its adoption.'.; Mr White hat no desire to shut but the public from the benefit of his discovery, and is prepared to demonstrate its efficacy, free of charge, probably ;;at ihe.[ Agricultural Society's gathering j at Eilerslie m November next, H the, procees effects what is claimed for; it,' H^r>Wightw\,H prove a publiq benefactor,' ; The r^venueat present from. beer, and spiritß m England amounts t«) J oboutjllfl 8d -per, , head of the, population, |In Scotland IBs' ldd, ( and In' Ireland 'l3e • XOd, . ■ ' •'■:..-.■

" A Laudable Ambition — <l Bobby," said the miaister at the dinner-table '•i what do you expect to do when you dtow up ?*! . ''I'll be a minister, I -tfiiuk.^ "That's a laudable ambition, indeed Bobby. Dp you think you will like to be a minister?" "Oh, yes," relied. "Pa says you've got ?the softeSC U ' - 1 i From Spires comes the almost incredible story that nine pupils of the High School haa>c6iisp'ired to murder ati '.mi|-{ d|er-n>aßter whom they disliked, j3|yery^ thing was arrauge,^ and two daggers apd a loaded revolver, were" in%adineas' for the execution, wheiF^i? yb'niig^dn-:: fljrirator repented and confe'ssea'/V-'All trie pupils concerned, wore expelled j-, j The Wellington correa'pontoeWoS-'-the Auckland! rMmdd 7 ..- writes > -thiafc. 'the <Jolpn,ialHS,epcefary ,has \ resolved rnpon taking vigorous measures to exte rmiu ate scab m shesp. Several nocks m the Mafroorougfidi&rioVaire to be destroyed. One of these flocks, I ah) informed, cpntaius between i 40,000 anO,. 50,000 sheep. A moderate com,peni-,atjqn is to be gi.venitp owners. It is said that it ' lias' been'found 1 impossible to clean Hhe flocks thus condemned.' l - I1 '' ' '. . t A prominent physician [■ of ' / x Atliens says that he has frequently' of late ■ been (jailed m to see young boys on ffering with decoMsed thrpats,;, aDd jey.env , case can be traqed.tp cigarette .smoking, ilany of .youths ate m.a condjiion, as; tKef are 5 ' pptsoHea %Uh arsenic contained m the wrappeis. • • a'^isl'/o. 1 from.:.- ; A letter written by— Mr W^ E. Gladstone, has been pi(blijshed,>in! whio.D/fthe; writer, de;ciarAa his belief that the Bui I ;arian revolutiou will result m an; tin- | iueasurable calamity involving th« whole ! pf^utopeTßnmmmfp^^ limited to the country directly iotertstI Messrs Stevens* an^NQprton's next jstock sale at^Awab^ti held on jNoveraber 3Wf* The entries at present jreceivedJaVe jpublished tin x>urf SdvMiSr {ing columns. They include fat cows, jand heifers, store cows, roixod yeariiings, rtwo-year-old-steers, two-ye»rtold-IhafeVsr^tee^Wtfel s'^5 '^ 7! ™| The public. at home are, begitin^gr^o. think that there has been quite. enthusiasm m, Australia, ; qv£r me" New' |Sbdth T V^le.J^BoV^ftkerit!,- tafa* { lMe> I cynics are speakiffj^'rath^r sardonically on that point. I« political circles,'however^ it js 1 reqognised that. Mi^DaUey ; hTas woiked a rich v^jd^ery cleye^ly^apd he;, is acknowledge^ to dejßerye .credit Ipr hi« political. sagacity aSjWeH as, for' Kis patriotism. 1 "' '' !; •- ' l ' l/! - ] - « . Miss Eloise Juno is again m New ■Zealand. "It is over twenty years since* ; we saw Miss Juno. u^the,*' Bonnie Fish- | wife." We-are?told«heJ : 'still looks as f youthfoLa* thenv\ ."- * .-«». j The<; g?sat (diamond shipped, ; from ' South Africa is expected to prove the i most marvellous stone ever .known, in ! s^c^^^^d^allyl^-w^ i w^igfy/Vif; arop risliape, ! it i; i^/eßsin»ated about! 220 karatg ; or 300 in feenge'slinpß brioletti. The Koh-vnobi? weighs l4 o6 ka'ratsVthe (Regent of jFrance 136 , kar&ts, and the Orlpff, which w.aß, cut for ; weight, 19^k«aj»; '^r 7; , :t) : ,,/>.,".Vr. ) j ( . : :, ■{•'•"