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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1627, 5 February 1886, Page 2

This a sample of the New Zealand Circumlocution Office. The corporation of Napier sent, int-a : little bill for water rates, to the ;<3,hief;of ,a ;Gqvernment tdepartment, who sent it to Wellington .with 'voucher y from Wellington it was sent to Wangauui, the head office of the district engineer, .from whence it was forwarded to Woodville, the office of the assistant engineer, who m due course' sent a cheque for the amount. We shall leave our readers to guess how long it took hefqre the bill was paid.— NapierV Telegrqsfy. j An English paper, tells an amusing i story of Lady Randolph Churchill and tlsV Westminster election. Her Ladyship met an elector at dinner, and asked him how he was going to vote, and he replied that his mind was not made up. " Oh, then you must vote for Mr Bourdett Coutts," she said. '! Well," said he," I can't promise ; but if I were treated as voters used to be treated by lady canvassers m old days m Westminster, I should very probably, give in.'' "On, thank yeu so much ; I will let the Baroness know at once," replied Lady Randolph, as the ladies rose from the table. The elector, no doubt, expected to be kissed in.return for his vote, but not by that ancient - dowager the Baroness Bourdett-Coutts. A Perth (Western Australia) cablegra:h states tint the German barque Mire Flore,soo tors, from London to Premantle, struck on a re«f to the northward of Rottenest Islaud, iand has become f a total wrecki ;■ According to letters received lately: from Home, Mr J. Bryce anticipates being out m the colony by March, or April. He fully intends contesting | Wnitotara. ... Bishop Luck, Catholic Bishop of Auckland, arrived at New Plymouth by the- Hawera yesterday morning. He was to leave for Wanganut and the Soiithjiext day. Many New Zealand colonists will learn with much regret that Bishop Jenner. the first Bishop of Dunedin, met with a serious accident recently while taking exercise on a tricycle on a road m Kent. The tricycle was . overturned and the Bishop .was thrown heavily to the ground, breaking his left ami, and. subtaining other. injuries.. Bishop Jenner, ia his yo»th, was a noted athlete and famous cricketer, a member both of the Kent County and Cambridge University Elevens. By latest accounts the tone of the wool market remains quiet, but steady, His Excellency the Governor, accoinpaniod by Major Jervois and MrJ. D. Lance, M.H.R., arrived at Hokitika by coach from Christchurch on Tqesday evening. He was met twenty miles off by the members for the district and the Weßtland County Council, and at the town boundary by the Mayor, borough councillors and a number of townspeople. He was sooorded an enthusiastic welcome at the Town Hall. The town was brilliantly illuminated m his honor. According to an English paper one of the greatest medical discoveries of modern times, a cure for dipsomania, has been made by physicians. It says : ■'The alkaloid cocaine, which is* still the subject of numerous experiments has been found to be a cure for dipso. mania. It has been known for ages that chewers of cocoa-leaf do not resort to spirits as a stimulant, they do not experience that craving for drink which is so common with men and women of the same social rank with us, and, indeed,in higher spheres also. Some physicians declare most etnphaticallytbat it is a remedy for alcoholism. 1 '