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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1626, 4 February 1886, Page 2

. . A correspondent of -the. New Zealand. flem/fZlatKihikihi .Ny/ites.JrT-rpn .Friday, , ' 'nightie Wanganuiprq^peptor^ returned, to'Kihikihi'disapfjoint^d and dq\ynQast v ( For thte last 'six months' they \ have had afree and uninterrupted' riiiy oVer ; . the i .whole area of the "'king country, - fi and> ' they have not found gold.- These prospectors certainly , had advantages and: opportunities which were denied to the general public. „ JWhile using his jpow^er.;; j ful influence m deterring others prospect ing, the, Native Ministjeivhas done hisjut- • : mostto render sucdessful- ttie efforts' of* > the favoured "Wanganui explorers-, and ie is sad .to think that " All the King's horses and all the King's men " have resulted m a failure. ' ' The theatre which Mr Bickerton is building at Woodville is an immense affair and strikes one at ifirst .sight as being almost as' large as the Tlieafre Bpyal m Napier. The front will be occupied by shops and the appearance . V>f the streot will be much enhanced. . Th;e theatre is likety to be m constant . [ilse^ as the Woodville people .' are always holding meetings &c;, nnd travelling companies continually pass through ■tfie fown and cannot play? for* want of proper accommodation .— Waipawa Mail, A passenger oy .traiu informs -us | (V^aipWa Mail) that: hnmenss progress ' hksbeen made m the railway contract between Tahoraite and. Woodrill», and thet the works will be completed long before contract time if the. same satisfactory speed is continued. Messrs .Mullinger and .Brett have placed men all along the line and the earth- works are being* carried out, .simultaneously, and to all appearance, m a creditable mariner, i ' ■ 1 'Professor '"Sydney Galyayhe; a cele- ; : brated ' JAujtoaJjajg,, horse tamer, accomplished a Mat recently at Newcastle, which has never before; been pfcrfornied, Kizi, 1 itlirowing two'horses ait once,, single, r-handed, and m almost a moment,- neither, -animal being ablev to rise"^ "in^ breaking. in, riding, and dnyinff a colt, -in" 1 less than sixty minutes, the owner's man : ;ridingviji home ardistance ,of> twelve miles" > as tractable andobedienit to the b'ic' as l any f ' iold.horse. „. - „ r *„..;.-,; . -. T. !'■ i • 1 •"•••• -■ ; t x-i A.: }-j-> . *-' j ---^i • > From the annual report of the Okoia (Wangariui) DaJfry-Fattoiyi'-we'iriake the s , extracts :;-j-Your directors have \ 'now, much- pleasure m sfcatihg'th^ the ; present seasbn^ operations' are succeed-. 1 ; ing beyond thei^md'st'saneruine expecti- ! tions'. All' th'e ! cheese, ni&uV,' and 'to- be' i made.this Season, isaireacly'sbld at prices ' i yarying.ffofii s^d'to 6d-^thelast'"ofder of' ''12tqns lieing7'afi 'the- Ifitter 'Mte-^iind itns; without dbubt that a sub l ' Btantial profit will be realifeedi .Ji . The Feilding gaper deplores the growing evil of iarrikinis.m m .that tpwn, and. makes: the fojlQwing 'suggestion '.r-r" Let, pur-public inenV with! the pfl[icers .and' members of , the Mancljester Rifles, but ; join together^ tp;w6i;k m., raising funds ifpr the. erection. ,6f a t biuila- r ' ing Whiclr cijul^, be 'utili?eid, as a '.-^rj jl: ; shedj gymnasium j <&c M with . ! rooms suitable for a ; and: reading room, and ! a revoiiitidnj' woiil^ .be affected which would dq'anamQUflt'of;good|ainic)st incalculable,' while tlie cost m proportion • would be infinitesimal." „ ... ■ , In a reoent;. number of 'the Home ■News mention is made of afresh rumour coii Gemini the. probable .engagement: of : Miss Wilson (daughter, of Sir Samuel J Wilson) and the young nobleman (Lord Garmoyle) whose previous,; love affair ••: was broken off at a cost of £10,000 m hard cash, and 10,000 paragraphs m '■ the public prints ot: the Englieh-speak- ( ing wjorld. . - .. * < T ( A telegram from In vercargiU states ] that the extraordinary • spell of ' 'fine ( weather still continues .m that district. { The domestic water suppiiea from tanks and T wefls' \s,\ generally, iexhausted iv ', town/ .Farmers are complaining serious- t lyof the ishonqess. and. lightness of I crops. With. .these prospects stocks of . oats orojbeing firmly held. ■ ; I The engine for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, which ] came put in' the ship Huranu'i, was landed on Tuesday, and taken m sec- t tiona to the Cnmpahy's works at Pipitea, f Some pt the sections were of ,vbry large ■' size, and frequently gqtjout of place on f the trolly drawn by "six horses," which c conveyed them through the . town,,; M<^n s were,'liowever, always at Hand "with ! t screw jacks to put them into their right I L po&ition, and the machinery safely' ar- I rived at its destination. ' "' '"■'■ a