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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1629, 8 February 1886, Page 2

.Some startling disclosures hay© just ,j?een made public regarding the dastardly apd cowardly work carried on by O'Doni>Van Boasa and the Fenian Brotherhood •m America. At a secret convention held lately, it is, stated that there were 270 delegates present, and 700 letters had been received regretting the writers' in- ' . kbility to attend. The chief of executive UVE. Bos'sa, reported that he had paid 100 dollars to the destroyer of the Andre monument. The auditor of the accounts disallowed this item, on the ground that it was a breach of that clause of the constitution of the brotherhood which forbids any active operations being carried out on American soil. The convention, however, by a majority of 17 9 to 6, exonerated the executive from blame, and also rejected a proposal to omit the clause m question from the constitution. It was ; resolved to continue the use of dynamite against England ; and J. E. Rossa was re-elected the executive officer. *'* Paper slippers are; theV. latest forjn y in which paper is itftroduced;in ['-nevf inven.tions. An Englishman, li^s patented a fi'ystem of manufacturing slippers, sandals,'and other qov|srings forefeet! ob t of paper. Paper" pulp, or papier mache, is employed c fpr jthe; URpdr, iwhich; i§ mouldr ; ed to the desired form and size, and a sole is provided made of paper or paste-; .board, leatberboard, or other suitable itiaterialj ;which is united' to the tipper by > inea'ns of cemet. glue, or -other: adhesive material. The upper is creased;; em-, /tossed,* or perforated at the instep and . sides, ;which renders them -somewhat pliable,* and' prevents them cracking while m use. • . Some staWmerit 1 having been . made that Mr Gladstone ans Mr^righJ; had pension's, an Aqcriagton correspondent, wrote to. Mr'.BrigHt, j'and received the following reply, elated 9fcH '^ovemWr :— «* I haye no pension. ,Mr drlads^one has up pension. When m office he received .the,, salary, \ paid for ( the office. Lb.rd Beaconsfield had a pension after, leaving office, and ; a salary ;, when m pMce. Liberals . have not invented pensions ;, they have reduced them m number and amount." . A woman m the' northern part of Vermont is telling of the' way she fooled 1 the inspecting Dr Kay of' Newport, ,on jone of the recent Montreal trains. 'She Had determined not to be vaccinated on 'the train, and so : se wed a button under the sieevei of the dress bear where the arm is usually scraped./ 7 The Inspector came along and ordered her to bare her arm. "But it isn't necessary, sir: you can feel the soab, H 'she sttid. He plaoed his hand on' the button, the woman gave a stream -of pretended paia, : and Dr K«y moved along. [ At the last meeting of the Wanganui f Borough Council, a letter wagr^ad trom i Mr r J. P. .\^att, sta^rng that he did not cohsided that he, as a" brewer, was entitled to pay the, council for a wholesale iiceuse,-^Mr Behnie said that brewers, m Oamani, Timaru, and Wellington only paid a £1 fee, but as theft- splicitorb advised they were m the right m demanding a wholesale license fee «f £2,0, of course they*must do it.— Re-' fefred to,th« . sbjieitors\ with pbwer to sue if they consider such a 'course dewiM aJble. ...■*'■- • ', ' ;'•'"' ' '