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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1647, 1 March 1886, Page 2

Attention's directed tb*the*important alterations made^ in/ Messrs*, ]Beckett» Hammond, and Dfck's advertisement re ■'the'* Stratbebdrie;" sale. . , ; J: Tf ; a •; (I Q The Dunedin Stan jhaßif alien into a singular mistake by siting that . the recent-assault on an editor was ted iu Wellington.;; It. was ; the editor of a Poverty Bay paper/ who ; was struck, and. the was committed at „Gisborne. The same error becurrediu ] both the Wanganui papers'; probably through an oversight by the Press Association. A "man named Samuel ! 6aiinV' an^ engineer has been' sentenced to a terra of hard labour in Auckland on a charge q£ stealing a coat frcra an : invalid mac whom ; he was attending, vvho' had ajso missed a (i gold medal arid other articles of valueV The medal' 'hV^found all pounded- up. It came out in. evidence that the accused had represented' that'he was a single man, 'and "on one occasion brought a young woman, who. he^said was : bis .intended. Information , Jiad been by the wife on 1 account b'f/ • quarrel between „the m v #C^P. n * denied the cliarge^afid saiMhe prosecutor gave him the coat. • The Bench did .not \*~ iieve '" the' story, and : gave bira^ three months. . . ; /u-J-\ A writer in the Southland Weekly Tt»i«s«ays :— ll I got a .wrinkle ithe\)ther day from an Old_Wentitv who is deeply interested in the welfare ol the colony. He torarm^tliat he hli*cle*rl^ foregeen the begiuning of the present dull times but that he did; not sojoliarjy foresee the end of thein.| Hot months and months j he\had been peering' into the future, st raining, so to "spe.akj his prophetic eye, but DpthmfiT can he perceive save one limitless expanse. of depression. He-has no .great -faitli. in a ten million loan, or a prohibitive tariff. Men only sink the deeper when they begin to borrow to save themselves, -iand what does Pfdtfectibri c mefin 'ifut^living on our own fat, , which is._a.. pretty, sure way to grow lean . Wliat ' then ' would •you have people do, I asked. .Well, I.'ll tell you, he answered ; otter the publio creditor 9d in the. pound (the average yield of 'New Zeßlaiid 1 batakruptiestatei) and suspend your Parliamentry Government J^or. at leas^ tea.yparsi, If J: . that does not answer" you may 'then 8/nk'the colony under water,. ; And so saying he turned on His heels and walked off with the air of a Si«- Oraote."