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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1622, 30 January 1886, Page 4

Professor Kirk, Conservator of Forests, is at present examining; the forests of the Mokau district, with the: view of selecting suitable portions for reserves. ; ){}^,/grfod /story 18^ gqiiig jtbje: founds of the Dorset Battatipn" of "V(slunjkeers. ( An officer^ m attendance' at a %"hobtin£ competition nbfic6d/two<bf the men firing (With;, anything but William-, Tell-like precision. : Approaching them" he angrily exclaimed : *' You fellows don't know the way to, shoot ; lend me >a rifle and let me'show -you."^ißarigV" and the target , was missed. A broad grin .overspread the faces of the , two ' privates, but the officer was equal to the occasion. Turning to the first with a ;fcowi) upon his countenance, .he,remarked, " That's the way you shoot, sir.!' A second attempt, with a similar, result. Tnfning to the other, he continued, " And that's the. way ..you. shoo,t, sir.'' A third shot, and an " inner*' was fluked. With pardonable pride the worthy, officer ire turned the rifle, triumphantly adding": "And that's the way I shoot!" i The men ever ' Since have entertained a very high opinion of him as a tnarksmanl The death was lately announced jfrom Paris of the retired actress known ,as Madame Nathalie, who m 183G ; had a )nftrrovy escape • of, ;beihgi burie.l alive. Whiie playinar Azuririe in' the ballet, '-La Pille d« 1' Air," she fell down m a swoon, was believed to be dead, and was placed m a coffin. j The firßt blow of the' undertaker's hammer aroused her, and m a few days she reap psared at the -Follies Drama tique's. This story, which is now going the rounds, may be true, but it is quite a new idea for undertakers to use hammers m screwing on coinin lies. A no'ed ftatistican, Upward Atkin son, insists -thui inert is an aluinilanre pfrbotri yetin tlijs, world. The 1,400, 000,000 persons supposed to be on the globe co ild all.tindiT^asy standing .room within the limits jot a field ten tune's square, and. by the aid of a telephone could be addressed' at one time by a single speaker:'; 'ln an eld 20 jniles square they could all be comfortably iseated. ■ ■■ - •.-.]- • ■.'..■::.• ' I. Mr.Carew. R.M., has ruled m connection with a charge of rescuing impounded cattle, bronght by the Taieri County Council, that for- some ..- extraordinary reason, which he could' iiot nscertaift, the County Council of any country m which tho Counties Act is m force had no power , to. impound, and therefore ;the seizure of defendant's cattle by the county ranger was not legal, and de fendant's rescue of the same was not unlawful. - ; j A correspondent wrote to a Canadian paper asking it to prescribe a cure for drunkenness. The paper replied' that the core was not to attempt to drink only m moderation, but to drink," notjat all." It further states :— it is told of Dr riimuel Johnson that at a .dinner party he waß asked by Hannah' More, then a. young lady and a great favorite j with the Doctor, to take a little wine!; and that he replied — " I can't take a little, child, and therefore, I never take any." "There was a whole Volume of philosophy' and ethics m that reply, and if our;. coj--i respondent is likeDr Johnson — con^cjoual from sad experience that he)" can't take a little" — let him follow the Dr's wfse. example and take none. It is the' fiYst' glass- wjiich cpals^j/Nobodyievor sljarted with the intention of being a drunkard, and no ione^is more disgusted and astomshfd than' the unfortunate; himself the first time hn finds himself " rather off his base." If A.B. heyer drinks he will never get drunk. If he tries to drink still '• m <a moderate way," the chances all are that hei stUl will. '■' ! Large quantities of ; Butcer have, we learn from the Tarauaki News, i been shipped from New 'Plymouth to Sydney. One dealer alone paid no jess that £1300 to t|ie settlers for butter m one month. 1 It seims, however, that the export is attended with tome risk as a large quantity was spoiled through bejng exposedi to *. great ; heat j/on ,the^Sydney wharf for four days. This 'must : have resulted f rbm mismanagement, and a .possibility o,f any repetition of, siieh a blunder might be c a B i]y guarded against, The last quotations from Sydney! were 9d. forfintercoloriial packed.' s ;'^ 'The Rejgi'na Leader • gWe a rery full : 'report of the death of Riel. -It dfoeV not'seem from ita account that f? Jildrc'y^ ' Jesus" were his last words, as' pre- ; vioußly stated. Reil repeated, the Lord's prayer and the priest told tne Deputy Sheriff to give the signal at the wordß, "Deliver us from evil." The con demned man evidently thought he was to be permitted to' finish the prayer. He had asked the Deputy Sheriff for 1 more time to pray and the Deputy answered,: ," Two minutes." As Reil said, "]Deliver us—," the fatal bolt frag . sprung and he was delivered from all further evil m tliis world, and_ let us hope, m the next. "