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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1608, 14 January 1886, Page 4

A story of Lord Houghton is told >by MrJohn BUelowin the October number of Harper. A thief who had robbed his Lordship whs arrested, and his Lord ship went to see him m gaol. He questioned him as to his motives, and the map replied that he was known as a thief to the police, and that they, prevented vhim. getting a living. Lord .Houghton asked him if he. thought ho cbuldlivo honestly.. The man replied that if he' could get to Australia he was sure he could do so, and Lord Honghton took him at his word. H« gave the man a cheque for £100, and went to the trouble of seeiag him on board ship to th« antipodes. Several years • afterwards the man wrote to thank his beneaaetor, and to tell him how he had kept his, word. When last heard, of this man was holding an important local office m Australia, to which he had been elected 1 by the'juff rages of his fellow citizens; The New Zealand landed estate is thuß summed' up : The total area of New is upwards of 66,000,000 acres, thts 18,000,000 hava been, sold .and disposed of-iu education and other public reiervesj 14,000008 belong totheabqr-. iginals," or to European's who have purchased from them; and 34,000,000 acres still remain for disposal. Of the latter 15,000,000 are open grass or fern country, 10,000.000 forest, and 9.000.0U0 are barren mountain topß, lakes, aud worthless country. ' „,. It has Jaceiy o'een rumourea (says th« ! New Zealand Times) that Sir William Fox has been requested to stand for the Hutt constituency, but we are informed, on good authority that such is not" the case. He is not very anxious to pnter political life, and if. he does to it will be more on account of social than political considerations. < We extract the following from the WanganuiJJera/rf :-rOn Saturday Professor Kirk arrived m Wanganui m connection with his department of for estry. Yesterday he visited Turakina and Warrengate, and- shortly he proceeds to New Plymouth."' We believe •thai oc_ his return trip he will iv accordance with a promise made' to Mr Drew deliver a -lecture under the auspices of the progress and Industrial Association. The title of the lecture will be " Diseases ,pf Fruit , Trees. Any speciments of diseased trees, or insect pests, left with Mr Drew before the lecture will be examined by Professor Kirk and reported on at the lecture. Processor Kirk is anxious while here to receive communications relative to the - insect pests and diseases found troublesome by fruit growers, and all information on these subjects will be welcomed j by him. j The following rather suggestive para.-' graph appears m the Taranaki Herald.: l—rlt is not. often , that missionaries are subject to ill-treatment m Taranaki, , but a most flagrant case occurred recently at oue of the settlements along the railway line to Hawera. A. missionary thsro was most fervent m his exhortations tb the people who. gathered .to htar him. His method was certainly, peculiar. He had a handkerchief, which, when placed at the nostrls of tie devout, wnssuppoaed to fill them with the third person m the Trinity. One young woman was overcome in -this way. The circumstances which followed her being: filled of the Spirit, so infuriated the settlers that they ckassd the mission er three miles through the bush, and have »• discouraged him m his good work that it is^ very likely he will abstain from further attempts at their regeneration.