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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1642, 23 February 1886, Page 2

Writes ,the Bulls correspondent of the Feilding Star ; — "I hear that seyeral of our old settlers contemplate Visiting the Old Country. Messrs James Bull and J. McKelvie leave early an May, arid Mr Gibbs and his family leave early next month, intending* to reside permanently in England." ; .. Ap. Leicester, fn .Christinas week 2,000 septuagenarians 'I met to. "' r§.qgiye a new half-crown eaohahd wwe and bispijifr from J. H. Cooper at Evington hall, Leicester, and the Frame Work Knitters company, London. A large number were over 80, and one old lady named Hingß, was reputed to be 100 years and 10 months old. ' • The hardness of the soil through which the artesian well is being sunk 'in the Wbiterqad, Napier,*, may .be inferred from the fact that at times five hundred blows have to be struck to gain an inch in depth.— Telegraph. ' ' ;, A resident of Kaupbkonui, in the Hawera district, obtained a ia[igsntic specimen of moth jbhe other day, out in the bush. It measures five inches from wing- to win*? ; and he intends to forward it to the Christchurch A small butcher in an up-country town, not a hundred miles from BaHarat, undertook' to supply a family with meat. He sent the following reply to a nqt«) i asking him to send some Dork, which was not strictly "in his line "':— " Madam, I have not heard of a good fat piar since I heard from you ; but you may be assured that when I hear of one, I' will remember vou. — Yours, etc."