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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1641, 22 February 1886, Page 2

': The' Auckland Bill reports that the prevailing drought-is- seriously, affecting beehives, everywhere, . and cpi^equetUily--■jthere. jwUi:b«-a considerable 'diminution of honey 'this 'year. Last year, from the summer. Jbeirig comparatively moist,; the hiveiß^rbdueed,: remarkably well, : and honey: was, plentiful. In,, the Wajkato district there was a plethora of honey, and one settler was able to export no less than ten tons of that commodity . The yPaikato Ueekeepers manage their hives" qri the modern American prin- j ciples.' ;;i ' ■■w> ■> .It jis said that the locomotives which ar^'being made m Christchurch Will eaoh 1 cost?f^4oo more than they could be imj ported for. If everything we can make ! here is to; be, protected to the same tune, . ..New Zealand will (pertinently observes a contemporary)! ' jsoon I be 'a b weet place to Jive ' m I' lt' l^s difficult tb;see how., we shall ever "become a rich and great nation ' by . taxing ourselyes so generously for the sake of a few manuf ac- ; .tjarerers,. ; „• • ...r. .■ «■.••/- aresembianceihere is between y.ou^andVyoar. husband, Mrs Smith !" aaid» a. friend of the family. v Did'ahyOhe ever call' your ' attention to it before ?"■ •* Oh, yes," broke m; Fendei-son ; ' ♦' they were walking out together, and* I heard a man remark, • how rriuch- the woman looks j like her son V. . No, no, that wasn't it,") lidded , "Fenderson^ • .seeing the cloud on Mrs Smith's face ; " what be said was* 'how much that old fellow looks like his motlieg!". .•••,.■ ' A Masterton paper says that the late' Thomas Donnelly's; life was insured m -tW sum/of. 4^200^5 t%tJ2th pi March last, with Mr Jamts 'Sinclair,' the agent fop the. (Joyerpment Life fnsutance, buf Donelly neglected td make the declaration required before a J.p., at the tune, respecting - hi» age. This, therefore, will necessitate proof of his age being oht^ined'frqmsthe ohi-country, : and the Rev. A Fkthef Treacy \tw undertaken to obtain that. In the meantime' the ywdftW^ and orphans .wijliirequire assistance to enable them to live until the hoped-for relief arrives, which may be six months. / At; the last meeting of the |jeek Board of Guardiauß, out of thirteen candidates for theregiatrarahip of births-asd deaths -ran appointment wohh £70 per an.nttin — Miss Eljzabeth Rider was elected to the vacancy, It was stated that there were only two cases m the United Kingdom m which the office is filled by women. Messrs Pollard and Simes, of Wanganui. haye added to the list of agencies they . now hold by accepting {that for ! Hatch's Polonial JSheep pip. This is an article well spoken of jn ' the Soujtb, it being m demand amongst, large wool-growers there; and at Napier' and other places the Bale has been' equally good. With enterprising agents here the Colonial Dip should a good ' sale. ..-.- - ; ;.■ : " „■ ■:-. •■■