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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1631, 10 February 1886, Page 2

JMr $.;}£. 9injtb ; announces ; his jntenftion ot standing for Ijlew -|>lv,mouth consi ifcufe'rfdy' thus ':—^" The political barome-' t< r indicates an early! dissolution. . , Such b will deliver a political add ress at an early 'date.- 'As t 'have had tendered to me such a large amount of "8i l ipp9rJ£arjdj<|j<y $n»ny]' ele#qr§ fb§ving pjedged yea to, . support ,me and my advanced lioerar views sit the 1 forthcoming election, I;, in'return pledge myself tb'irtarfi for -New- Plymouth 1 against ajlicomer«jfv<<>-i «v.; !: .ha: A a ■> *0,-x j The following'exceeditigly tirudralise'-' marks are made by the Southland Times: — " In spitei olVth^i eqofmougu.Bdms of m oney that have beenjjgent on the Otago Harbour, .it ,seems to become bss and, less 'for' veils' oflarge tonnage. • It ■; Is 1 "freely l fuuipure'd' iliat tWreaau gbodcdeafc more touohmg l and biiinptag: than .then general ipublicf know; any.thing.about.i.sj;., ■,;; , ; !-,- fl . ,'■, .'■■. Ykk thief Tast 1 of tK6 Rangitikei County Council, during- the" readihg off the correspondence, two or three councillors indjilged (in' ponversafibii^when jCr Rexningtoh reniarkecll- 1 -"May I "draw your attention, Mr Chairman, to the fact that they are conducting it* business m a very lose way. Will you kindly call on councillors^tp ? .pay A at.tention ? to the cor-, .respoiid^Ac^bein^/riiad.'' % ] >• \\ J '^j ! |A Chinaman at Wakaka being of an industrious and frugal turn otmind (says the Mataura Eiigign)', saved over £100 inj notes and gold, and left it m his hut. He became demented; His madness took a peculiar turn — he was continually ravini: about his moaey^ant^ wheX n»[lef|; WaikakV aha went "to live with arelative at; Alexandra, the loss of itr continued to pr|ey on hig iu)inds .whertif m his* saner moments. • Ultimately, by request of John's friends, search was made of the ; 'hut m whidh, he had lived, and fragments of bank-notes were found m the ashes, together with a considerable amount of mfelted gold. . It i« believed ,that notes to thJß^aWd at s BO 'have 'been- destroyed; and that gold valued . at- £20 has been lo^t through the fire. r ' ;Tbe. following rather extraordinary incident is mentioned by Mr Kubelka, Winterniz m the - Wiener Land, wirtschaflliche Zeitung :— :!' In my. cowhouse tbe number of each, animal is hung up m front of them, so that it is oontinn»Uy seen by each cow. Some days ago bvip of them calved a red bull oalf with No 7 distinctly impresiod on th» forehead, bejag the same number that was hanging ,up; m front of the opw." , . i ; ; r