Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1563, 23 November 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

lit rum<sred aifew. days ago that auriferouS £[narts^|iad x be^i found m the Forty-Mile Bush some few miles above ■•Bkßtehimajjin-. the direction of JSawjif a,, and a statemetit'w'as 1 cur i-qntrthat a .spieci^ ' i men containirigpone spec of the precious nieial had , been exhibitecHn Woodville. A c|oUpie T of 'Masterton (prospectors visited? .the spot- last week tound,,\fch9' sup^ pos^df-qaarfcZi^ef.to.'be. a vein.of crystal jse,d4uiyftston£.. ' .•'■„ ( ,^ s] ' '. ' ; ■ .'<• A<i th^ Jfistf meeting i of the Dane.v*i'ke Pr ispectin^. :. Association' the prospectors. — MBSsfsVStewar,c and,, Tilson— gave" in,-, jtlieliv report. which was of, a djscpu facing! character. Iji ,was. deci(|ed to'pend' •them up 'ike Tarbala Cr^elk : to ekplore •tins si'^e of '^be" range!, 'They starte'd ; on Wednesday inofti n& '';•• "' ' ! > : • The ' follo'wW 'figures '|n connection •with' the wdrkfrig 6V khe'Employhienfc of Fjinales Act will prove of interest : — In. Diinedin there are i 153 factories, employing 1320 females over eighteenyears of iageand 624 boys^and; gir4.sjetw£e,a', fourteen and eighlteen.., Jn,the §üburbai^. 'b^orqughs tKere, are $9 fawcbnesj'iempliiy- ' ihg ifo'feuiales 1 over 'eighteen^' and 157' boys, 'arid girls' hetweeh' fourteen ''and eighteen. ' Th6 Cf; returny 'do -not ■ include t •persons employed 'tot- serveihin. shbpg or ; , messengers,' ;but / only, those- employed atj some handicraft.— riStor,, '; , . >„,,.,-, . v , r '. , ,7 , ■ JM!essrs'P6llard and Simesof Wangahuii ■have been appointed agents for .Anise*! ■ brook and Company, of the Christohurch Steam -Biscuit Manufactory;! and, FJqup Mills. The, , local agents, .aye cn i erge ! t|c ( and enterprising busiriesa" men, who are not likely to leave any stone unturned m, 1 promoting their own and their principals' business.' ' '" ' ' ' ' '' ' „.,,.

: At the Wellington Baby Show a gentleman who; was present suggested that the. Government might offer a. prize of £100 for the best all-round babyt the prize to 'be competed for by , colonially-bbrn 'children m January, 188fT. ' The'; citizen Jrefered to stated that he would' give a pianof "as a second prize if the Government would adopt his suggestion.