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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1661, 18 March 1886, Page 4

{ We he..r that the nun Smith, wlioac proceedings on the Wanganui racecourse were pronounced not to be illegal, was , yesterday arrested at Wuverley on a charge of infringing the Garniug Act. The immigration and emigration returns for the colony for February are published m the Gazette at March 11. The number of persons who arrived wait 1,512, and of those who left 1340. From the United Kingdom 580 persons arrived, from New South Wales 342, and from Victoria 318. For the United Kingdom 168 persons sailed, for New South Wales 423, and for Victoria 557. On Monday afternoon when McKenzie's combined thrashing machine was being taken from the farm of Mr. Simpson to that of Mr Henson, on Lee's Line, on arriving at the entrance to the latter, on turning m at the gate, the machine capsized and killed one of the horses by breaking its back, the machine was not injured m any way, neither were any of the meu hurt.^— Stor. The Premier who presided at a meeting at Wellington last week, was handed a piece of paper on which was written -* lt Where would the revenue come from if drinking were abolished ?" The lion, gentlemen, m replying, saidjthat the money spent m drink was not reproductive, bHt wasted. If it was not no spent it would be available for taxation m another way, and the Colonial Treasurer, whoever he might be, would riot b& a very able man if he could not devise a means of getting it out of the pockets *f the people. The irrepressible " Puff." m the Press imortalises Professor Moore by the following few lines :— I see a chemist haa been fined for prescribing? Why; I always thought t.ey all did it, only I hey don't charge any thing for doing it! So they do, sonny, and some of /em know what's good for you better than the doctors I* Well, How about this case ? Oh, I expect he's been going beyond simply^ .prescribing,_or. elae he's -b««n badly treated ! . ■, ■ ■ The Agent General far the colony in' London, offers passages at £10 per adult and £5 per child to families of the farming class who can show that th^y possess capital amounting to £100 for each adult and £50 for every child. The following- advertisement appears m the Tost : — Futurity, new Bciyr.ee. Stale sex, complexion, date of birth, ..with stamped addressed envelope and 14 penny stamps, . to Mrs Eva Langholme, Woodvilie, Hftwko's Bay. We should not imagiri&tnariy would be greeu enough to send I4d on such a diploma. . The Hutt road is now unusually lively owing to the large number of vehicles employed m conveying the machinery for "the Wellington Woollen Company, now being landed from the Mataura arid the Shakespeare, to the Petone works. It is rather a singular commentary on onr system of railway management that it should pay to cart all this material to Petone m preference to sending it by rail. — Yost.