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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1586, 19 December 1885, Page 2

His Eminence Cardinal Moran will visit Wellington on his way to Dunedin to consecrate St. Joseph's Cathedral there. He will probably arrive some time m the second week of February. While here he will perform the formal opening ceremony of St. Patrick's College. Referring to Dr Anna Pot m, who did such a large practicein the Wellington District a year or so ago, the Brisbane Courier states : — News has been received m Bri- bane by private letter that "the Dr Anna M. L. Potts," whose lectures for ladies were delivered with such financial success m this Colony over 12 niontha ago, has been arrested at a fashionable hotel m London for. being a man m disguise. 'Dr Potts,' it appears WiS m the habit of leaving the hotel s- 1 me times m male and sometimes m female attire, and it was owing to this circumstance that suspicion was aroused." ' The Gazette contains a proclamation by the Governor of Queensland, forbidding the importation of sheep into that Colony from New Zealand or Western Australia. The San Francisco mail steamer Alaraeda has given a notable specimen of her quality on the run across for Auckland to Sydney. According to a telegram received last night she ran the distance, 1280 miles, m 3£ days, inaintaintaining an average speed of 15 knots per hour. This, we believe, is the fastest time yet made between Auckland and Sydney. Some of the farmers along the Wel-lington-Manawatu Railway are very apprehensive of fires, as no spark-catchers are attached to the engines. One settler informs us that the grass was set omfire m three or four places during the last ten days. The old settlers have cause: to be apprehensive of fires, as on one occasion the country between Porirua and Wadestown was devastated by a bush fire. For ten or twelve days the settlers were scarcely able to get even a. little sleep, and many had their. homes burnt down. It is to be hoped that, the 6^n«ral Manager (Mr Wallace w.ill order spark-catchers to be attached to the engines immediately, as the country is now m a very dry state. — Wellington paper. ■ The largest single contribution made ! Inst year to the missionary work of the | Protestant Episcopal Church was from a Chinaman. Charles Ping Lee, of Shanghai, -who gave £1000 to St Luke's Hospital m that oity. The unemployed agitation m Auckland does not, it would appear, arise from the scarcity ofjwork. The Minister of Public Works offered employment to & larce number of the " unemployed " at 4s 6d and 53 a day, but up to Wednesday night only one man had put m an application. By the Oreti and Penguin on Monday 40,0001bs of butter were exported, which at the price paid the farmers means (the Taranaki Herald calculates) introduction of £1,500 of outside money into the \ place. The other day a bankrupt applied to Judge Noel, m Melbourne, for hig digohartre, It appeared from the insolvent's evidence that it was 27 years since he, filed his schedule. The judge told him that he would have to make a statement of his receipts since the date of his filing before the discharge could be granted. The Waimate railway, which is now the property of fhe colony, is probably the sleepiest railway line m the world. During the period it was owned by the Waimate Railway Company, (says a contemporary) two trains a week rattled over its rusty railways, and during the last sixteen weeks of the Company's regime the gross earnings were £110, and the working expenses £126* h