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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1632, 11 February 1886, Page 2

*"The Home correspondent of a southern journal states. ;— Mr Bryce writes from Bailey's Hotel as follows, with regard to' his hbeK i&ctiph against Eusden : — j" Curiously, enough, ;-X am m the sanae state of uncertainty as fto^when my action is to be tried that I have been m for the last twjo ;or three years, jit, may be tried* tb-niorrow; but if ami' I s don't expect it ? Ib cannot come on till atter, thePhristmas 1 vacation.* However^ ' xt is now quite., at the head „of the, l.isji... >My council are' Sir Farrer Herschell, Mr JVfuisphy, and Mr Paine.:" Eusden has the and Mr Edwin Jonefi.'f trhatthe action will go Bryce "is fehe opinion of every ; larwyer to whom I have mentioned ;the. c/fse. Moreover, it ; Will coat him a. pot Old Eusr den would never have engaged such . expensive; cpunsel .if, his ia\yyersihad ,npt. hssured him of winning the action. .; „

, A ! Waifarapa paper: writing of the' Eimn'taka railway, says :^- <4 There is no doubt that 'the": present line is- a 'dan-' geious one-^-and' a very expensive; one' tbo. ; We hear thatj the large, engines m" use- at' the present tima, owing to the' ex - v cessi ve' ' wear and ; tear m crossing • the Rirautaka, have seen their best days, and will- shortly be replaced by new ones which' have been ordered from England: Infaist, th,e Qoyernn^ent aßpe^r ' to Ijaye pome to |h,e qonclusiqn tqat a better route than ■ the present one can be obtained, and Mr Climie has been engaged m the double work of laying off sections and surveying off a fresh line. From what we can learn the proposal : is to strike off to the '' left at the. Pakeratahi and bring the new line out through Stonestead as' far as Woodside." On a recent afternoon a very degrading spectacle was witnessed m Auckland. A woiiiari 'was so helplessly drunk 1 that the constable oh the beat could do nothing.with her. Another constab'lft weriV lo the police station for the stretcher, and, strapped down upon' it' with leather buckles, she was so taken amid a crowd of two or thiee hundred people to the lock 'up. A Maori, who was riding past, turned round m bis saddle: andsaid m good English,- 11 Well, that is a sight!" : .The record of celebrated escapes, from prison wan added to by a coup'le'of prisoners m ihe tyon Qountfy, (Nev,), gaol.' Their o^ly tools were 'several' iron spikes and an old spoon handle, yet . with these they made their way ihrough two stoiie' walls and au ion door. This beats the "famous prison exploit m " Huckleberry Finn." •