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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1637, 17 February 1886, Page 2

A< French -officer of infantry has invented a repeating rifle, whidh is believed to excel-every thing qf the kind hitherto, 4«yi»e4f ?i}S weap'qn' can be loaded with. its seven cartridges m ten seconds arid completely discharged m fgur. A ertat merit of the arm is that it' pan be fired until the magazine is exhausted, without being removed from the shoulder. „ Here is a good election story from the East' End :— Colonel ; Cowan (of the Volunteers) was reminding the^independent electors of ;Mile" End that he had '^dpnethe E|tate some sgryige." Tljen, with virtuous pride, the gallant 'alderman put the question to himself, " What have I given you ?" T before he could reply, * voice from the distance shouted, "You guy me three months, Mr Halderman." The Wellington Evening Prksti learns from a private cable message received by a gentleman of Wellington, that the action which the Hon. John Bryce has proceeded to England to carry through against Mr John Riisden /or libelling him, will come on before the end of the' present mopth. It is therefore probable that. Mr Bryce' will be on his return to New Zealand shortly. ' The foundation stone of the. Christchurch Magdalen Asylum was to be laid to4*y by Cardinal Mbran. ; , At a b^nd dinner at Mr Mq,jojj proposed ". the bandmaster,!? arjd sbqfce m culpgistio terms of the improvement visible siuce Mr Harbolt's arriyal. He believed that with practice they would be one of the best bands on the coast. Mr Harbott, m reply, said that although he had not been there long he|kad done his best for the band, and would continue to do soj He hoped that if he was strict m the band room no ill-feeling would be engendered.