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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1611, 18 January 1886, Page 2

• >sFhe poverty Bay; iTertjW: gives an acoount of the visit pajcl j;o .that district Vy" Te Kooti, and of the speeches made on tljat 'occasion. Te Kooti was the last to speak ;he cameto the front- of the- whare and his people formed ..round liim m a group as if to protect - him.; ,, He- is an undersized, man* about 50 years of ape, no tattooing on the face, but. scanty .ajreyfueard and moustache. He appearedin a good suit of clothes, havine a straw, hat with puggaree on hie head, and wearing ]a heavy gold watch guard. His countenance exhibits much decision and, intelligence, but. of:the low cunning kind, with a somewhat cruel and cymbal look abovit it at times 5 He is a' forcible 1 speaker. In his speech he alluded to some of the chief m his career, from the landing at Whakaongaonga; . and| said that, the evil deeds .committed by him had been done jn retaliation for following him up and attacking him. He had' not committed murders. Those' :thirigs were bygone. He would for ever discard' work of that kind, r and keep the peace m the future. The Bemld adds : — For every good mason, say! we, seeing that he was .hunted ;by the | Government forces from " pillar to post," and only escaped capture by.V thr, skin of his teeth," but all his orotestatioris will not blot out the memory of the women and children dragged from their and ruthlessly destroyed, the record of 'whi,cb xa^wjritten m blood and tears.; ; The Hjsn. -Johnvßryce' may v condpne such crimes,, bu t. the settlers of rtlie East CoastK'can neither forgive thorn; and though as law-abiding citizens they 'iare boun^ by the action pf ; the" authorities,^ fiKey' carinbt' ~regawliiwith equanimity the : triumphant visit.. of the ruffianly perpetrator of iuch atrooities to their district • ■.<• : -,--,* .-. ; AnotHet extraordinary invention* 4 has' been made m .the domain ot electricity. This consists «o|Vn%ljinV^ | Efe v than the transmission or handwriting. The method of transmission -is something like the following f:~" On. a, strip of foil the. writing is traced with, any ink' to i which an acid hasbeen added. The acid bites into^ the foil, which is then, aftjer beiiig drl^d pu^ oh a driimi ; and' an electric needle made: tb : -wovk:' rapidly acfoss every ! i>art of the foil; At the . .other end - ot . the wire a . sipoilar , needle ; anii: drum are placed m circuits,/; and the result is the vera effigies of the^ '^writings. T^e process has Jheen worked well, ? up to! a distance 6^-130 toilesirf'Axriericaj? and it^ is believed, that a like success iwould, .be, obtained overf any. distance. > ( Its ; uses are not, it can be understood rest^oted to] caligraphy. ' The electfic needles will reproduce all lines engraven. on the foil, so; tliat designs and draWinga i: wiH be telegraphed. The inventor-- claims for i thjis method of telegraphy an important economic ya&ej as ; the direct tranamissipn of the., handwriting of^ the senders of messages will be effected "with no ;inte>yention of the human' intelligence to interpret' tne wfitten;language by means af arbitrary telegraph signals. 7 " ,;, • ,He is aged 20, arid' just gazetted ' to a cavalry regiment m India, and went to • bid a laat-farewell' to his faithfiU old nurse, who, with tears m her eyes, said to hiin l ,^\6od,blesß.7e, ,my plarling, donjt "marry a black woman, or yell h'aye^me^ bald bairns." . \ "^*s ! - | During the,so years since the first train ran m Belguim, the. railway companies claim that only 2,1 jbrayellers have been j killed through any error 6i^ disaster m the railway service itself; "although 7^250.000 passengers have been carried over the lines'. ) j ;/, ; ; i '.-■'■ " f j TP those who are tired of speculating m Woodville town /sections we must commend to favorable notice the new town of Bhamp, .situated m Burmah, ijrhich/is.expec'te'di^) beicome the "greatest inland eihp"oriumin v Asia,"'rivalling Bombay itself as a receiving warehouse for the trade of two great peoples. i Colonel Rawlins recently wrote to the Morning Fost advocating a return to Protection, and instanced the number of bootfe that' were imported fronJ/'Atrierioa.l Referring' to tmV letter* Mr 'WsdkW, 6f * tha firm of Walker & Abbot, of Northamptonshire,: iwmtes ■ td^sa^"that jr Tory recently showed him m Swaqsea a pair ot sea-boots bearing the name of a firm m Philadelphia. Mr Walker smiled, for the boots had been made by his firm r m. NortbauiDtorishira. ' : [ :