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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1602, 7 January 1886, Page 4

/ ; Serious .fires have . occu rred m the Carterton bush. . ■ „ The open couqtry m Hawke's Bay presents a withered appearance from the long drought! Th'e' grass over ttie; runs seem quite dead, and stock must be suffering considerably. In the Wair'au Valley, Marl borough, the drous;ht has also been very severe. ; It is understood that Mr Arthur Clayden has entered into ' a> twelve months' engagement with the Government to proceed to. England with the i. view of promoting the emigratioa of small capitalists to New Zealand. , Over £35,000 passed through the total ißator at the Auckland Summer 'Meeting, or £10,428 more than. at,. the previous Summer Meeting. ; ■ i , ... j ...... j An Auckland telegram states that the R.M.S. Alameda took J?69,0^2 worth, of gold, shipped by the Ba^k'df New*Ze"aliind. All members of the new Ministry m New South Wales have been re-elected. The Treasurer is to bring down a scheme for the adjustment of financial difficulties on established free trade principles: ■ The Right Hon W.E. Forster'g health is improving.^' . ' , A fatal boat accident has occurred at D'Urville's' Island, m. the French Pass. i-Two natives who were m the boat lost^ their ( lives through its swamping, and the other occupant, a girl,idrifted about for eighteen hours until rescued. She also lashed the body pf one of, the men to the boat, hav T irig sprang m after him when he jumped •into 1 the "water. It appears thai onV , native succumbed to the exposure, m the -submerged boat, and the othor expressed Jus wish not to survive his friend. ; 'ThY girl was about 14 years of' 1 age, and app6arstohave acted m the emergency; most, heroically. j A settler m - the • Hawera district nearly had. his house burned; down, through he reflection of the sun ou the weather boarding from the tops of his millcpanß put out to dry after washing. When the cause of the smell of burning wood was discovered, the, boards were quite charred, and 'black. '