Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1506, 14 November 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

► ' ■ ■ -A letter published m a London piper 4 from El Pasco (Texas) skys thiV the lands m Mexico under which ' A - thd-Mor? "■ noon leaders hare decided to settle their procelytes and new recruits from Europe ~are situate iid the inortherti paft^of the V, State of Chihuahua, within fifty mi\ek of the Arizona and New Mexican bounj , A portion of tho land is id Sonora, and "the New. Canaan "is a /magnificent grazing ' country, fw|elj ' j^ratered, and susceptible of a high state of cultivation. The iqil ,is ; virgin, and " the Mormon section is said to comprise ..about a million acres, which they have! ; contracted to, purchase -at , a ,. yery . low! V.' r'ftte. ; ;No tnoney has; passed as yet, ior . .' .the titles are being , examined , : : and the' Mormon insists upon the legality of; the; title being confirmed before they make; X*oy payment; ! Arrangements |m „ <p'rogreßS,i however, for the immediate! settlement of the lands, and the van-! guard of the Mormon army .will arrive! o^arly m December from Utah, firtgham ■nYodng, i juo, who oamei 'to .inspect? toe lands a short time ago, said that he had; been offered millions of acres of good! {land at= a cheap price, and that ' ; the. I Mexicans Were doing all they' could Wj "secure the Mormon Colony, iustead / of, j as reported, assuming a hostile attitude; towards it. '"' 7. ■'■' An ' Exchange says --—Hi) V very ;■ un - if or.tunatiQ these colonies '^re m their inoHe of impressing distinguished visitors. Mr Trollop© saw nothing m Australia i but " blow." Mr Froude Went so far as to think little even of Australian Agents General, who are generally the flowers S possibly a little faded) of used up pub- i c men. 'Even the great astroribmer.Mr; B. A. Proctor, after his tour through the j colonies, still cherished, a conviction < 'thattthere are other worlds than ' outs^- { souie.pt them desirable for residence "or j business,, Lastly, the matter of a! din- j her given to him m Melbourne sticks m j Mr Sala's' throat, or rather does. r not please him and this way color the whole I of his reflections a deep Vl i^ro'pshun " blue. Some visitors liave been' fed too much, others not enough. : In the «bseacOiOf .«ayi system ,of aasisted immigration,,means should ; be taken to securely^ nobble all visitors who have . the ear of the British "public. The means Employed are; of course, to ibe banquets jnterperted with niore lightsotne orgies, where, the victim* guest, teeing all thiifgs through a vinous sort of ; mist Would take away pleasant recollections of the land; we live m. , ,The time bas come when this should be 1 , the .business, of a department of State. / . . K \ -.. '•The .Arab paper Aehbar, m. a lettejr f rojh ; Suakim, gives the following paticulars ; as to ' -; the Mahdi's -. '^eatli. Mahomed Achmit,' fell ill oh Friday, June 19th at 2 ; p.ih., add by biW own desire was at once conveyed to a ten! ontside the camp. No doctor* being' at handj two of the captive i missionaries, were summoned to, the sick bed: They, immediately said that the , patient .was, ill of the'Binall-pox.and iaterin the day, feting that the disease ' was assuming the 'most virulent form, they told, the 1 patfeitt to- prepare for the worst. The Mahdi thereupon called^ his nephew,; 4 bdullah, TiameaMuiri hi* jsucceuor, and gave liirn his sword. The next evening the patient was m a condition past hope^ He then bide a solemn farewell to! hiV family, and adjured his successor to continue the war against the Christians. He expired at 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 2 1 si, and Was buried at sunset m a t?ra,ve within hii tent, wr- : ; ' ! ; f