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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1600, 5 January 1886, Page 2

A little three.year ; -old,.the young hopeful of anj estimable' lady on Piety Hill, m Salem, is jtist beginning to verge into the;' period of 'childish investigation, doubt, and enquiry. This little fellow had heard the words . "grass widow,'' and hastened to enquire their, meaning of his mother. By way of illustration she told him that if his father tliould run away and.- leave her alone without any cause then she would be a grass widow. The future Senator looked up m .his mother's face and said : " Then what'd I be ? Would I be a grasshopper ?"

In Chester "William Thompson, a tramp, from Carlisle, was sentenced to a month 'B iigprieoiiment, .with hard .labor, for having stolen a loaf of bread. ' It appeared '. that trie prisoner; 1 ' who had walked from. Carlisle to Chester, went into |a baker's shop tq bqv a loaf ; but: as. there; was no one m the sh.Qp, he stole a, JSaf ficun the ooiunter and m.ade off wjth it, Bfis defence was that at the tiqie h^e was starving.

If all that is anticipated of the new force, " Ether Vajjor," should be 'realised, the wonders of nineteenth century Science will be eclipsed, and even eleotrioity will have to hide its diminished head. The power of tbig force, though easily controllable, is said to be practically illimitable. A. tube, the opening of which is no larger than a pin's head, sulhces to furnish the necessary power' to run a one hundred horse-power engine. Aerial navigation will no longer be onjy a, dream. Steam will be suspended, electricity will b* regarded tquch as we now regard eras, and "the whole world will be revolutionised. The telephone, enabling us to talk from office*to office, will give place to a system by^wbicii, we s^al^talk across seas and continents with equal facility, and life will be reduced to an exact science.

A deputatiqn from, the Genera,! Gordon Small Parpj Association waited upon the Miniver of Lands last week m reference to the land offered to the'association for settlement. The deputation consisted of Messrs Howarth, Farrelly, Leahy and Better* Mr Howdrth pointed out that the land offered to the Association was very hilly, aad. was unsuitable for the purposes for which it had been granted, and they wished to know if the Minister could not give them some better block. Mr fiallance said there was .*p,ther land to choo.se from ; the Govern- 1 rqent did nqt contiqe them, to any particular b|ock, but left then^ to pick the bes? land ayailaWe m the colony. .Mr Howarth asked the Minister to, give tljem a portiqn pf the Kativs Beserve m the Mangatainoke Slock, but Mr' Ballance said this was nqt available. When j:he Government acqqir^d it th,e. Assopia-iipn-co^d appjy for it', 'phe G!o,Yernmpnt could no.fc select any Jand for^hem, : ar|d qpqld not i^ake any Rrpn^ise with regard to the natiye reserve. After soige disonssion tlie M^imster promised to' provide Mr Ho\yarth, wit^ ail ii^fo,rn^atjpn jrespeoting Jand '^Yfliij|BiWe for Bottlem^iqt, w<\ $• rjep^iqjj W^r«Wi