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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1618, 26 January 1886, Page 2

.' A Dunedin paper states that a well known firm of Otago runholders who • are m the habit of sending to one sale about 500 sheep per week are likely to be serious sufferers by the lengthy.; drought. They have laid .down .3000 acres of turnips for winter feed, but owing, .to.; the unusual dryness, of the season, the seed has shown no' signs of germinating. ... ; The proposed woollen factory at Mataura is likely to -float without any difficulty. Six -thousand shares have! been taken up m and about Matauraj and this Without by any means an exhaustive canvass. A Taieri farmer says that he is of opinion that- the drought, of which so many complaints are heard, is the very thing .that . is going to put New Zealand farmers square again. He' thinks tblat increased price fer stock m the. winter and a rise m grain will much more than compensate for. the dry season. We hope his deductions are sound. .The temperance returns laid before ihe Ifresbyterian Synod show that all! the ministers of the Church, except five, are pledged abstainers. Ot these five, two declare themselves boldly not to be abstainers; ; one calls himself an abstainer with a conscience clause ; another says that he is "ordinarily 'Van abstainer; and the last that he is an 'abstainer, .but not pledged. The four missionaries who send returns 'are all pledged abstainers. " ; : Another batch of immigrants is expected. The London Standard of Dec. 3rd .says: Three hundred stoats and weasels have been sent this week from Lincolnshire, consigned to New Zealand, where rabbits continue, to be a pest ,to i This is the sixth large i consignment sent during the last twtf yaars. Four thbusatid'liye:' pigeons will be shipped to feed the animals during ; the voyage. O'-."i.'" The Wellington correspondetit of the Auckland Herald write*. :-2— lt appears to be now generally understood that there is a debided[differeuce between the .borrowing policy of Sir Julius Yogel and several ; important . members rof . ; the Cabinet. £he Premier, the Hbh Mr Larnach, the Hon Mr Tole, and; the Hon Mr Ballance are said to favour a modified plan, limited as to amounts f by the nece§Bity for completing, unfinished public works, the sum required foreach work to be specified and the loan Jtstdf •'ear marked "so fan asi to , prevent any portion of it being' applied to . " general purposes.'' :■-..■; : ;, „ ' [ So far, the Hawe'rt committee V siib* • script ion list shows that about £250 has j been subscribed iv the , district, which j includes Manaia and Opunake, and that! £100 has bean reeeired froth Wellington, and £31 from Bulls.. This morning a cheque fot £10, together witli'"a sympatb etic letter, was received from his Excellency the Governor. : :: ' It is rumorad this morning (says the Wellington correspondent m the Auckland Star of Wednesday) that His Excellency the Governor has expressed his, opinion privately against a dissolution of Parliament. This must be taken cum . granq, sails, however, as His Excellency is not hkely to express such au opinion, unless asked for a dissolution and that has. not been decided on by the Cabinet yet. Victoria appears to be enjoying a period of prosperity whioh tae : other colonies might Well eovy, >. From " Melj bourne Gosßin' 11 m. the Sidney' Jfaiß we 'father. that daring the 'holidays there was such a : run upon the Melbourne tradesmen that they were positively unable to meet' l the demands made upon them. Some, of the Hotels were eaten out, and were unable i& place food before their customers. The receipts at the theatres on Boxiug night average^ about £50 m excess of what . w,as ever taken before. The Theatre Royajl took^4oß. -...-' ■; ' '