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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1663, 20 March 1886, Page 2

Mr T. Watttrworfh, of Napier, has (says the Telegraph) imported a new beer engine from London en the latest principle. Thegreatest^novelty m connection with it is,; that the air is filtered and purified before entering the casks, and pumping is done away with, the, beet 1 ' being fprg#4 through a silver 5 standard on to the coun'%, yttych thus ! leaves the beer* uodißtqrbe < 'di and it consequently is as clear as crystal ' jibe worm through which the beer travels is m an ice-chest or water-box, and as the beer travolß through 30 feet ot piping:, all tinned and silvered, ther.e is no chance of corrosion. ; £ { ,V. It is rumored that certain full explattions are shortly to be- forthcoming relative' to the Government Insurance ABBOcia}jon,aud : the recent appointments aVJ purchasesi which it is. alleged, will completely satisfy the pablic and- the. policyholders.— Star, -*• ■■•• ■ -•' \ She did not meat it, bat h« tpokfjtj as a hiut. It was getting Very late; ' aad suddenly the gas brightened up very much. "Why r what caused that?" be asked. "'Everybody in the neighbour--hood is going to bed," she answered. The fifth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the WellingtonManawatu Gompany U convened for Wednesday, 31 at Marob, at noon 1 . ' ' Harry Worman, a bright boy m Fostoria, Ohioj 'showed so much interest m electrical experiments that he became a privileged character at the electric; light works, no other outsider being perhiitted near the dynamos. One day he wanted to receive a ♦• good shock*!' and so got a pail of water, and, touctting the positive pole of the dynamo with a rod m one hand, put : the other hand m the water and fell back dekd. The other day her Majesty's buckbounds had a great run of two and a half hours, and the deer found refugo at last ip J^ove lane, Windsor, The hunta- , men, gorgeous m scajlet aud gold, toiling far behind, met a younj; lady m a pony-cart, and asked if she hai} seen the 1 hounds— to which she reDli'ed sweetly, " Yes, I passed three couple and a half very tired arid running after a poor little donkey!" — Excliangei