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

On dit that the trje cause of Mr Gladstone's fall wan his desire to do sometiling big for the Crown, after the styl« of Lord Beaconsfield's Indian feat. The Queen wai to be crowned O'Guelpb, Queen of Erin and Empress of Tipperary ; Wut she declined to add this to Jitr* Royal autograph unless Parliament would give her £30,000 more a year for ink. Of course the matter was dropped* and Mr Gladstone with it. * "■" On Thursday a mob of cattle for th» Wellington Meat Preserving Company were taken over the river. They wer* niainlv from the Oroua Down* Station, and are to form the Christmas beef for the Company's snops. It is said' by competent judges that the bullocks w»r» as five a sample as ever were put over the rirerv > At Poverty Bay, a bill of costs by Mn Brassey against Katfcrina Kahutia, w«i-redu.-ed from £276 19s 5d to £63 10s by the Registrar. • :? A. The meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association to be held at Wanganui will, if possible, take place about tner same time as the Wanganui Baees, m.: March next. : Karl — v Mamma mayn't Igo out into thescreet a bit? The boys say there's a comet to be seen." Mamma— « Wwl, ! yes ; but don't go top near." The New Zealand Industrial Exhibi. tion ot 1885 will soon be a thing, of tht past. The buitding._vrill be sold by public auction on Thursday. Cooke the tragedian, was fa the habit of giving passes to a widow lady, who, upon one occasion, occupied a prominent seat m the: pit, with her little girl, when her friena, the performer, was about to meet an untimely end by a stage-rival. As the villanous looking assassin 1 , armed with a deadly weapon, stealthily drew near to accomplish his wicked purpose, the maiden, roused by the supposed imminence of his danger, started up anxiously exclaiming : "Oh pray, don't kill him ! don't kill him ! For if you do, he won't give us any more orders for the pit."