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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1497, 3 November 1885, Page 4

Divers .hare brought to the surface from the wreck of the steamship sAtlantic,which was lost near Morris Rock m .1873, a bar of ; iron with seventy ' sovereigns attached, which must have been affixed by some chemical action, j A specimen of the kind of food upon which some of the '? dairy-fed- pork " is fattened, was referred to iri the Welj--1 ington Magistrate's Court recently. The cook of the Occidental Hotel } stated m his evidence, m a case which was being heard against a person . for removing 1 offensive matter from the hotel without being duly authorised, that he never put refuse food into, the rubbish bins; yput invariably threw it into* the 4 'pijg'i swill-tub. What," exclaimed Mr EJ Shaw, " dovdti tell the that you throw stinking fish into, the tub,?''; "Yes,'^ ' replied the genial cook;, " And stale meat and rotten onions ?" "Yes," said: the' man, and every other blessed: thing,! tooi" This' injurious admissioii apparently took those apdi created anything but an increased , desire to partake of porcine flesh, aYauy rate ibr: a time to come.-r— Post. - .. i Unsound systems of taxation are among: the greatest evils with which industrial ,development-rthat is to sayj, the growth of wealth and the prosperity of. the working classes— -have to contend, .and the country which possesses • a perfect system has. not yet bsen discovered'; but our system, though one of the best, still leaves; much to be , desired, while the systems, of Franpe, Austria, and the United States are simply barbarous.— Spectator. ! ' ' -' '" v, ; On the Ist of July ,, it. is, said .that every iron and steel mill Pitfeburgh, TJ . S;,' and vicinity, with one exceptioiij was using natural gas as a fuel. This will reduce the consumption of coal '38, 250,008 bushels per annm,or one-seventh of the yearly output of the: region tributory to Pitsbnrgh, and will throw out of 'employment thousands of*.firemetf, coal-heavers, and ash-haulers, employed iff th#raillß— truly an important revolution for which nature, rather than art or invention, is responsible. One morning recently, while two lads were waiting m JTort street, Auckland, to get into their master's premises, they spied a cashbox^ planted "m -Halliday's timber yard. On bei.ig examined, it contained jsorae bills,/ but, no cash. It - was stolen with its contents from the residence of Sir Frederick Whitaker m January last, and no trace of it was obtained -till now. "■ . Influenza is the prevailing epidemic m Napier, whites the .Telegraph; and numbers of people are^ down " with it m both town and, country--, It ...has , at- 1 tacked* so 'many m some of the" country districts' as to have seriously, interfered with shearing. We have received a brief aacount of the career of Mr and Mrs J. C. Williamson, the latter- best known as Miss> Maggie" Moore ;. ithe;* little 1 wojk <is^ byf Garnet Waicli, a well-known Australian writen 7 ;: : '' '