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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1645, 26 February 1886, Page 2

A single advertisement iv our wanted column for an active man brought into our office between thirty and forty applicants, j »The advertiser has .engaged? two, and the advertisement is ' with-* drawn. It is a great pity in* a country, like this that so many able-bodied men, witling and anxious to work, should be wandering about almost destitute, and unable to earn their living. There must be something rotten m the state of New Zealand, and our representatives should look to it, and provide the remedy.— Napier News. ;A Distinction and a Difference. — Sandy: "I want a cake o' soap, Mr M'lntosh,"— Chemist : " I canna let ye 1 hae a cake o' soap on the Sawbath day, .Sandy.— Sandy : "But ye sel'd that ' lassie peppermint drops."— Chemist : " Ay, ye cau suck peppimints m the kirk— but ye canna wash yersel' there." The Government sale of small grazing runs m the Wangahi up-river district comprising some 84,000 acres, which tpok place af the Masonic IJaIJ on Wed^ negday must be prppounped a/ failure". Mr Marchantjthe Commissioner of Crown |^aMs7calSe up from Wellington to pon.duct the sale, but all the. response he could get from the persons m" attendance at the pale was two bidß-=-dne for a seption of 214 acres: m tfce farapara blppk, an. d the plh.er for a POQ apfe sepiion id the Tokooiarn.-- Both were taken at the iips<>t price of sixpence per. acre. — Chronicle. The Hawke's Bay U&eald asserts that Sir Donald Currie, of the Liverpool (( Castle" line of steamers, contemplates placing some pf his boats on this coast, The newspaper business is tf good deal like that of raining; as, much as been lost m it as hns been made. Yet there is no enterprise into which men will' more heedlessly rush. The wrecks are strewn along every Bhore. Almost every man thinks he knowß how a newspaper should be managed, and advice to the editor is everywhere ready for him, without money and without pripe. The ideal— the perfect newspaper ia the one that discusses all. current topics with fairness and ability— : that publishes all the news from all quarters of the world — that every man : or woman who reads at all can find m it what he or she, wants to' read— that is adapted to the parlor just as well as the counting-room— in shorr^it should uiirror the events and thoughts of the day, bo that the reader could see them all and yet' Je t! the ' shadb\V 'fal^ 1 "off- the Jiorrjble. Toward that ideal the'press is slowly struggling, and if the leaders m society will giye'it proper encouragraent they can hasten tlfat; tlrogpeßS ' be- 1 yond their expectations.— Ctiicago Inter Ocean. Mark Twain's theory that French duelling is only dangerous to onlookers proved true the other day. Two boulevardiers, M.M. Chaßneau and Chambigneiillej were settling a quarrel with swbfds when an 'excited gtrapger rushed between them, crying ; 4| For heaven's sake, stop this murderous work !" He explained that his father, an emotional octogenarian, had seen the duel from a dhitahcp, abd bad such a Bhock that he had burst a blood-vessel. Fot wishing , to; kill' the old r rnanj the adversaries tossed their swords aside and shook , hands, when the stranger rushed back, exclaiming j '.' Continno, gentlemoD, my father is better!" They' declined,