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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1614, 21 January 1886, Page 2

A Dunedin painter named Parker fell 14 if et through a skylight to the pavement, but btoko no buni*s, and is not thought to be seriously hurt. A Christctiurch telegram states 'that some quartz showing gold freely has 7 been brought to towu from the Wilberforce Re«fß. It was obtaineil 60 feet below the outcrop. A reef lias been struck on the Moa Creek claim. It is about 3 feet thick." The stone looks promising, but has not yet been tested, Phillip Yatep, an old man, has been committed for* trial at Blenheim for attempted rape on a girl three years ©Id. Bail was ;i Mowed , The New, Squth Wales Government are m receipt of a despatch from Colonel Stanley, Se/Tefary of State for the 1 Colonies, offering Norfolk • Island to the Colony of- New South Wales. -A iej>ly has been sent accepting the offer, subject to the approval of the Colonial Parliament. ... "Oh" exclaimed Miss Daubwell, " what a clever man , that Mr Fogg is! He is really quite a physiognomist, I was telling him last night that I had become quite proficient m painting*, and he said, "I am sure of it madam': your face shows it." ; Chorus : " indeed.'l In the seventeen principal boroughs of the colony about £4,870 is spent m the m linteuance of fire brigades. In Auekl «nd the annual cost ; of the briga !e is £800 : m Dunedin. £780 ; m Wellington £750 ; m Christchurch and Sytlenham, £800 ; and m the smaller cities the outlay ranges from £370 : to £40.- The New Zealand Insurance. Journal, to which we are indebted for this information, Bftya that, the average annu >1 number of fires m these cities during the last, thren years was 327, but no estimate is given of the losb sustained. The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, m the extremely guarded, manner which Wellington correspondents not unusually affect, hints that "there is |noreih,an a possibility " of an important chtfng" m.i n.. the personnel of the Cabinet taking place before next sessioVi— hi fact, to use., tho vtrords of his i»tor"marit, there will be something '* to astonish the Natives." A telegram from Greymouth, dated January 14th, says:— A largely attended meeting Was held last .night to consider the question of the unemployed m this locality. Several resolutions were passed i to the effect that work should be provided for tho. unemployed m toivn: that the Harbour Board and other local' bodies. should be requested to undertake work to absorb the unemployed labour, and that, failing their doing so. application be made to the Government. Mr C. H. A. Mariboe, photographer; Waipukurau, has taken out letters of naturalisation. Sir William Fox stated .m his lecture m Wellington that the Pall Mall Gazette had, m his opinion, done a wo ld of good since the editorial control had got into Mr Stead's hands, m the way that it had unearthed and exposed many of the social blots of the community. < A meeting of the stewards of the Feildiug Jockey Club was held at Has tie's Hotel on Saturday evening'; when a capital programme was drawn up for the Easter Monday meeting. 'Upwards of £260 are to be run for. :At Rakino Island m the Auckland, district, fish-curing has been established on a large scale. The proprietor is able to supply , salted schnapper, cured and dried similar to Newfoundland cod, at the rate of three large fish for a shil-. ling, and a very extensive demand for it has grown up m the Auoklaud market. Two rival belles, at an evening party, were seated m the conservatory with their respect ives, enjoying their supper. Tho gas was turned down, somewhat, as it should be m. a conservatory at an evening party, il My. dear Julia," said one of the fascinating creatures, "how beautiful your complexion is — in' this dim light!" "Oh, thank you," responded her rival, " and how lovely you Jook m the dark!" Sir William Gully, the Queen's physician; stated before a Royal Commission that when he had a sinking sensatioq m the stomach he used raisins as a "pick-me-up." So Sir William Fox told a Wellington-audience. In his address to the jury m the Napier libel action, Mr Larcelies, counsel for the plaintiff, said there were not one-tenth of the libel actions m Wellington that there were m Napier, and , not one-fiftieth the number of applications to solicitors for libel actions. Mr Shaw raised a nice point at the second meeting of his creditors m Wellington. He objected *to Mr Lichtschiendl appointing Messrs Jeilico and Menteath as his proxies on the/gronnd that the appointment of two or more persons was an informality. Mr Menteath pointed out that at the previous, meeting the proof had been admitted by the Official Assignee. ;