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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1665, 23 March 1886, Page 4

Lord Byron gives this: account of a , party with Sheridan :— lt wag first silent, then talky, then .argumentative, thlen disputatious,' then unintelligible; .then altogether}', then inarticulately, then | drunk. • • ' '■ :■ • ' : The'late Duke of Abercorn's sons preisent a sight.nevflr known; before r in the ; House of Ccftnriiphs, four brothers sitting |as members!" " ' ' • '"' ' -' ;jl ' - : - 1 -■-' Sir Gfeorge Grey m g^ing Sputh last . week, made exceedingly'/gppd time. He: , left Onehunga on .Sunday pvemng;, .and at Wellington caught the steaniet which. was waiting for the southern .portion of the 'Frisc* mail. Arrived at tlliristchnrch ; he found, that, a special /train was about to start with the mail', 'and travelling .'by it he reached Dunedin m time to catbh the south express on Wedriesday.^-Thfee days one hour from Auckland to .lii^«r--cargill. ... , ...,.',. ■•/ '.'"'. .

The Wellington iCorrespondent of the Auckland Herald- writes : — There are three South ••Australian' atatesmea < m the colony,] ust now, whey-succeeded m retrenching . -the- expenditure of iSqWlh Australia to the extent of £120j000. Speaking of the alleged depression .: m the colony, one of these gentlemen is reported to have said : (l People m South 'Australia, although they have-not too much confidence m each other, have more than you have m New Zealand, if we may be pardoned ; for saying: so.:^Relerrin'g to New Zealand, all the' people seem to be singing the- same wretched old Bong of depression.: One cannot? go into a barber's. or tobacconist's shop, or a tramcar, or converse with a soul, without hearing this. It seems a very unwise. thing if the, case is so. ;! It. is bad enough to know you are badly off, without publishing it. ? ; .■:■ ~: A Wanganui paper has (be following —It is curious how r quick 'deaf people are to hear anything disagreeable that is said about them. ,, On Saturday 1 a "wellknown gentleman m town, who occupies a number of important; public positions, .wajj endeavouring; to communicate 1 by telepUone^ with a-* public .official, but tho,ugk;;he .repeatedly until -his^ patience tras 'exhausted, he -could get_n(L .mw» satisfactpry repty than "Can't hear you." Utterly di>gusted, he allowed some short, sharp, ' biif, exceedingly MncpmpHmentary; episthets towards the official m question' tOje^scape his lipe, .when, to his .amuse-' : merit, an indignant "Thank you catne ! over the telephone m double quick time. Mutual explanations and apolo gi>B followed when the parties met, but ■the : story was the. talk of the ( town.; all Saturday. v '

• The Southland farmers are still havingbad tiraesj The boisterous and unseasonable weather of the past few days (says the Western Star) is retarding harvest operations greatly and damaging a large quantity of grain m stack. With the exception of Monday, rain has fallen nirice Friday lrtst. ; Ah, a consequence the rivers are very high, and many of the flats on the banks are flooded, and sheaves of grain ar« seen floating down the ■ „8t Jacob's RiVer. On the New ' Riye^ Fkte stocks may be seen half coverea with, water. Many of our farthers will be heavy loser's through the fickle, weather of the. pl|(?.t t season- „At oho time, the, crops are withered up, for the want of moi>Vtfre . anon they are nearly shaken out of the groilndhyhriJlT wipdSj and now at this critical tftne of ;ye«r their oemplet* vhjd is threatened by ;'flopdi, )r ; ,