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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1639, 19 February 1886, Page 2

The entire adult population of St. Marthe village, Cttn., on November 21, \ voluntarily assembled m churoh,* and pledged themselves td abstain- from al-i cqholic ibeverages -for the space of one; year. The village has a population of; 2000; persons. r , ; .: ■;.>■, ■.. ■ j * , Writes the Dunedin Star :— The total' cost of the Dunedin water supply, has been over £200,008 ; money has literally I 'been poured out like water ; and yet the' first exceptionally dry season proves the system "utterly defective. The water has never been satisfactory; as to quality,;' owing to the pollution of the reservoirs and open" conduit ditches, and the want pf filter bgdsjftqw-lljere' is such a scari city, that a water famine is. imminent,' unless: there should he a heavy rainfalj soon. ; ' '•■ — • < : - ■•■ ./ ' . ■•,-■* ■>, i Sir Launcelot, irk the Sefarre, says' ir-i ""V^hen Mr Evett first entered' qn the duties of a handicapper m the North Isi land I thought we" had at last found' a New ' Zealand Acliniral Rous, -and amid good and evil report I have; spoken m Bis favor many a time, = but candour now forces the. confusion that his later handicaps have not been' lip if^g standard of his former efforts."" " • In England there are now upward of 30,000' blind persons. The proportion of blind people to the population of a]l European nations bears r yery nearly the same ratio— l m 1,000. - ' , r Five years ago Messrs Birch Bros turned out a number of young trout m the tributary streams of the Rangitikei riVer on their run Erewhoh, Inlanll The other day Captain Birch took his rod for the purpose of ascertaininsr whether the fish had thriven, using a spinning -minnow as bait. He was .rewarded by catching several well grown fialj, the largest weighing 2|lbs, and measuring 17^ "inches lpngj and IQ| inches m girth. . St. Valentine, like Griy Fawkesi is dying out m the colonies. There are less demands tor valentines year. by year, ailthough m design, execution, and good taste they are vastly superior to the vul- . gar daubs of the past. Some of these yrfetched prints still make their appearance, but as the same pictures a?e/ekhibited season, after season:;' it' is presumable that the people will-by At the pdst-6fl6ce at Napier St. Valentif&r made no appreciable difference m- th'e mail deliveries.-— Telegraph.'.:.. j Hawke's Bay County povr ppisesses 4l bridges of a total length of one a>d a quarter miles. In theifuiqre th^is|w;ill represent a large sum of money; [for maintenance. : '. ■ .; , ; \ t ,