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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1594, 29 December 1885, Page 4

Tommy Corxigah must have landed ; a nice little bit on Sheet; Anchor's victory, as he gave £500 away m presents to ;the employes of the Dowling Forest stable ; the boy who looked after the horse coming m for a douceur of £800, three others j-50 each, and every female about the ■ place a silk dress ! The stable will pray for another Sheet Anchor cowp, I should imagine 1— " Flaneur " m the "Wanganui Herald. " Two new ! French 'newspapers have taken the plap.3 of the defunct Bosphorp Egyptim at Cairo. One," the Progress 1 Egyptim,\& printed at the printing office of the JBoxpJiore, ; the, other, the Independance Egyptian, is printed by a ""Maltese and edited by a Belgian. Both are doing the Bosphore Egyptien'B work, . and .publish violent articles against the English and the English officials m „ Egypt. ; A curious circumstance has happened here at the building of the Puniu rail- .: wayjbridge. Between the piers and the superstructure: are placed . iron boxes some 3 feet x 1 foot 6 inches m size, and .these have all been taken possession of '■,•■> hy-i swarms of bees, which find an en- '■ trance at the bolt holes. The new tenants are somewhat o p; a nuisance to the workmen, but it is difficult to dislodge jheiri. ' 'An application was made to the "Wel- . lingtori Land Board last week for about "'"■' 1500 acres of land m the Waitanu block, under the homestead system. The applicants, who, are, all men with families, asked for the land under the Act of last session, which enables the Board to give the land on condition that it is occupied. The Board decided to inform the appli- ■ cants that the land m question is not for selection. ' Edith O'Grormaii Auffrav, otherwise known as " The Escaped Nun," is to lecture oh Her experiences m a convent m Wanganui this evening. ' An Adelaide telegram m the Age 1 ' says :—" Nearly the whole of a family named Mann were poisoned, but not fatally, at Tanunda,- through eating / tinned, fish. k; The of this ' %od, wnich was labelled ' Maconachie's Fresh Herrings,' was followed an hour afterwards by violent; convulsions, pains, and vomiting m five members of the family, fangine from five to twenty-four years of age. Two doctors were immediately m attendance, and they succeeded m saving the live 3of the sufferers. At one time all hope of doing so was despaired of." One of the sufferers has since died. A correspondent, who has evidently given serious.- study to the character and thought of Cardinal Newman, says: — •' If I were aslced what strikes me most forcibly about Cardinal Newman, what is his leading characteristic, I should be inclined to answer, not the depth and ■ earnestness of his J religious convictions, nor the subtlety of his intellect, nor the ; profundity of his learning, nor his maryellows, dialectical skill, nor his incomparable mastery of the English tongue, (but the breadth of his sympathies."