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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1635, 15 February 1886, Page 2

As the electoral rolls are to be revised! it behoves everyone . qualified to see hia n.a.ine. is placed on the list' for the distrioi where he is entitled to vote. Heartburning on election day is poor consolation for having neglected a duty at the proper time. If the Government can secure a dissolution before Parliament meets, they will gladly avail themselves of the opportunity, partly id the hope that their opponents-may he oaught uapping—Exchange. ;■ . t -f. How the present Ministry is making the money fly may be inferred from tin! fact that the travelling expenses ffir \ themselves and attendants during tha first six months of 1885 amounted to ! £2096, a sum which has never been ap« proached by any other Government jin fact, for 1879 the (Jrey Government,proAj hahly the most extravagant we have ever had, only totalled £3630 for the year. Stout, Yogel, and Co., it is evident, do not believe iv the depression; at any' rate, it must not concern them personally. — Napier Telegraph. The visit of Te Kooti to the Taurahga; natives at Karikari, Maungatawa (say* the Bay of Plenty Time*) for the purpoga of performing the ceremony o/ opening * large building—Tamapohori— which they have recently erected to be used Jwholdw ing meetings m, $o«i has proved son** what disappointinsf. It seems, he was anxious to. return to his '<awn fireside,** and. did not at all like the idea of spending much time at Karikari. Just as ha arrived a most opoortune thunderstorm -> oameon, which he at once declared to hay« been especially sent to relieve him of that**-' sponsibility of performing the ceremony* and that any korero after this manifest**tion would be out ot place, and might ba' ' the means of averting a propitious omen. The natives who had assembled and mad* gigantic preparations m the way of'fooa^ &c., were not a little disappointed al bfting thus deprived of an opportunity of airing their grievances by a good "Sttaut*" A clever capture of four suspected characters was made at West Maitland, N.S.W., on the 22nd nit, A constable who knew that the men were hanging about tiie prinoipa) hotel m the plaet feigned drunkenness and lay down m tlia backyard. Whilst the constable shammeii insensibility they searched hia trousera pockets and then attempted to steal hia watch. Upon this the constable awpjcff ; from his apparent sleep and collared Wa ringleader. A sharp scuffle onsued^and • tlie robber esoaped. The officer nursuea and recaptured his man, and the other two were arrested by a dete<s • tivo afterwards, and another acoamplfoa* has since been captured. All four are m custody on various charges.