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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1504, 12 November 1885, Page 4

The system of national education m New Zealand seems to have especially surprised Mr Sala, says one of hi? interviewers. '* It is far before that m any other country," he remarked. j"The edncation given m the common schools of America is nofc to be compared with it. The next generation wil 1 , of course, show the results. I asked Mr Stout, whom I found an exceedingly pleasant man, if you were not going too far m the matter, bnt he replied ' uot a bit too far.' Still Mr Stout is, as you know, an enthusiast m the matter of education." Lately the Pohangina reefs have been but little heard of, but we understand , that work is proceeding quietly on the ground. A letter was roceiyed iv toVn yesterday to this effect, and the writer , also stated that Mr Marchant, Chief Surveyor, had just left the rp.efs, though no opinion of his own on the place was expressed The lettor from Melbourne re the test arrived here a few days back, but it contained no paticulars as to the manner m which the test was made, merely stating the result to have been ' 6£ grains to the ton. We hear that one sample brought m by Mr Bikards shows not only gold, but antimony, and the latter m good quantity. Further particulars relating to the clearing out of the reef may be expected m a few days.— Herald. A meeting of Justices of the Peace was held at the Courthouse on Tuesday to make arrangements tor the rota m accordance with the Act passed last session. Out of eighty-nine Justices residing within three miles of the Courthouse, only twenty-four attended. What is law for a circus proprietor is ; not law, it seems, for the Governor. Everybody sympathised with the Yankee circus man who had his eight performing ponies " hulked " at Auckland , because it was illegal to land animals coming from either Europe or America. But the other day our cablegrams stated that Lord Carriugton was bringing out with him eight horses. How does he hope to land them ? Apiece of evidence m a Quebec breach of promise suit was a cuff with an offer of marriage written upon it. One night while the defendent was holding the plaintiff's hand and whispering fervid words, he popped the question m manuscript on the smooth liven at her wrist. She was sentimental! or shrewd enough to keep that article out of the wash aud now it is of practical value. " Why," says the agitator, " why should the rich be a wallerin 1 m their wealth' wlji le lam poor? Why shouldn't I take some of their riches for myself ? Voice from the crowd : — *' 'Cob they'd cancel ycr bloomin' ticket o'leave, guvnor." " When I married Georgina," said Frank, " my folks told me I was foolish to wed a girl who didn't know how to handle a rolling-pin. Gracious, how they misjudged her. Do you see that , lump on my head! Her day 8 have been numbered for Queen Victoria by an alleged oracle, who sets the date of her death for. September 10th, 1889. She is, this seer says, to die by or m consequence of fire. The Russian Czar has till 1900 to settle , his earthly affairs \ Bismarck till May 30th, 1890; and -the German Emperor the July following. '•'■■' People complain that the Americans invent everything, and there is some truth m the assertion, though not so much as is generally supposed. But the Americans are so very lucky. Here is t piece of shere luck mentioned by an , English paper. The owner of a stall at the Inventories, a Mr Downie, discovered by the purest accident that the~ juice of eucalyptus leaves removed the hardest boiler-scale without m any way injuring the metal. There was no invention about it. It was an accidental discovery, arid nothing more. He was able, nevertheless, to pntent it as an invention," and now lie. is m a fair way of making nti imm«itßfi fortune out of it, ! partly m this court ry and partly m America. As boiler-scale causes the loss of millions annually to employers of steam power, the money value of the h«ppy little accideut maybe imagined. -