Our Saturday Supplement.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1573, 4 December 1885, Page 4

Our Saturday Supplement.

This week's issue of our Saturday Supplement contaius tho concluding' portion of the ntory " His Royal High ucps'h Love Affair," from Harper's Magazine. There is »Iro a pretty afbry : «;iitillf<J " A Channel) Bowl." besides "Two Anecdotes of the French Revolution." The miscellaneous extracts are well compiled, and full' of interest. Tho Farmers' Column contaiiiH a varhstj of useful information, and the "Skfet'ehei* contair.s an extract from Chambers' Journal on " North Atlantic • Icebergs." The portions under the several headings of Nature and Science, are very Tendable, and m the L.idies' Column will , be found •• Home Cookery," by Miss A Griggs, teacher at the Edinburgh School of Domestic Economy, also '• House Knowledgc|for Boys/ domestic recipes, etc, etc. In the Poet's Corner will be found versos " The Dying Actor," >l A Lover's Tiff," and "Tho Djiuns," by Victor Huao. We are still m receipt of expressions of satisfaction with the matter, general arrangement, and sustained interest of the various portions of our Saturday Supplement, further improvements m which it is probable will lie carried out : beforc long. W« hope shortly to announce the commencement of si new a-rial tale, aud the publishers inform us that they are sparing no pains to again hif the popular taste as success fully as m ihe Blory completed last Saturday. We continue to receive from many sources, congratulations on tho position the Standard holds as the only newspaper m the district, or on thn \V*st Coant, which issues weekly gratuitidisty to subscribers a fourtaen-columti supplemont. It is very satisfactory to ourselves to learn the favour m which both the paper itself and the Supplement, are held by all classes of readers. ■