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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1623, 1 February 1886, Page 2

a small trade is- said -to have jßjjjjjn carriedjQn Jg .Inyerca^jjil], by drayman carti'nJß' wat'eir to householders. ¥he Southland Times states that ii/' one or two instances, building operations are retarded beca'ufl'e th» nicedsary 'watfclr 1 for mixing concrete; &c, cannot be pro 1 ; geared, aMI operations at several sawmills ha|;|>been.,br j o,iight altogether .to, &> ? stand|tiinof 4^k of ,tbe sljeara giving fr»^r r ;" " I'Q'-u^'iit Hii Honor Judge,;,- Ward and Mrs Ward conducted-' services i??tf "fiffiftjcargill Baptist 'Churchon'Sunday tidt. • ''■ •; A religious 'weekly says V{ The man who whistles hardly ever swears V "It is different with the man, who hears him. The. latter • hardly ever does anything else at such times. .:-a . ? . •■•■.•-.<.;■; From the JeiMjng paper we le«rn. thaTLVrd Dklh«e will be a visitor Mh this locj»lity.,in]a ( w, days. .The pripcipal estate of this nobleman lies m the parish of^ Cq(?kpen l( m „It has belonged "to* his, family '''for many centuries, 'and the" 'well -known Scotch •ong"The Laird o'Gockpen '■'' was : do* doubt writren about one t>f his ances tors». ! - \ ' . Vi \ , .-■..,.., ..;< l*he direct steamer Tongariro arrived at| Port iChalm.ers. Heads qn Saturday. > mortiTng, all well. The tug 'wept out.but owing to a^ fresh north-east * wincL and heavy sea it was not deemod prudant to tranship the mails and passengers, and the vessel left for Wellington. ' -■ Nothing was ro* noticeable (says the Napier j Telegraph) at the meeting of Dohcy-holders,on Friday night as the expression of wa'nt- pft confidence m- Sir, Julius Voeel. Everyone of the speakers' seemedj to be animated by the same idea. And this feeling is not by any means jconfined to Napier. Mr Goodall mentioned that on. histway fi f om Timaruby^train^&navby steAmbo'ai, and' putting up at hotels, he found that m every discussion on Mr Driver's ap. pointrafent the same feeling prevailed. Some even went so far as to say that t^etjQ-pyerntnent Life Insurance Association' suffered by the mere fact of Sir Julius yogerstpresence on the. Bo&r&foi Manag^ro'ehtrr* » :J Xi '"■ Li ■' *■ f * 7- '' J A's r Bhowine the nnevenness q/ the rainfalf m Australia,-* w"e iria'y^notioe^hat^ during the present drought the rainfall m some. ( loealitj.e8 f fw 1 a8 l /af} f( . ! niuch > asr a, -whole year;.;s qijantity m oae day.. , Neafl Wilcanhia, where $he ayerage f fell ia. 10 inches, 11 inches fell m onei storm. Fal}W? 8O f feWlnW^*-dPßS..Jt.Jbeatß-thß, ground; ddwrf into a jsolid mass, go that I scarcely a drop is 1 "absorbed, and then runs off to the creeks, from them to the rivers, and,pn;tp,the sea, without doing the country any good beyond filling, up [dffms; and waterholes. The areas of jraiaTall .were, so defined .that wtyhijn ,a few railesitrri'ade all thedifference whether \i6ti£ was healthy and 'vigorous or m a statejolf decrepitude. ForttinMely our. i droughts m this country are^neither so .frefljient, so severe, nor go long continued las those iti New South Wales, and although the present is serious enough it bears ho comparison with those on the other side. '