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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1729, 9 June 1886, Page 2

The Jane Douglas was to leave Foxton for Wellington to day at 2 p.m., and the Tui on Friday, at 3 p.m. < The Presbyterian Church recently erected at Awahuri will be opened next Sunday. The Rev , James Patterson will conduot the service, which will begin at 3 o'clock m the afternoon. A social gathering will be held m the Awahuri Bchooiroom on next Tuesday. Tea will be on the tables at 6 p.m. Addresses will be delivered by the Rev Mr Patterson and other members of the Presbytery. Thn programme will be agree-' ably diversified by music supplied by the choir. According to Dr Dawson Burns, the drink bill of Great Britian was less last year than it has been since 1872, with the exception 'of 1880; when it stood- at. as * against £123,268,760 m 1885. The maximum was reached m 1 1876, when it touched £147,288,759, ! A writer m a ; French; astronomical ! paper proposes' a. "rearraqgeinent of the calendar, wlnojb, would, save all the trouble and expense oaused by the necessity' at present ot produoting a fresh [ calendar fdr 4 every, year; He to start JanuWry witH/iJO'dtfys, Fetiraary with 81, andiso onjthe Jaonths alternately containing 80 and 31 days, Decemher, however, containing 81 only, m leap yeas, 30>very otb>r y^ir: - #|vi last day ot .an ordinary year is not to" be : counted as belonging- to apy/week, -ft/is ! tobe a namelesss holiday; ,' In leap year the last/ two days are to be; nameless hojiduys, tbe year is to. start opa Sunday. • 'Thus ©very year will start on a 'Sanday^ and^the isame day of a month wilt* always be^^^^^daysoitAev week.i . If< Sep^ .: iteinoer'B, for example, is a Tuesday one ; year it will always be a' Tuesday. The Melbourne \ Argua says :-*' It cannot be denied ;that Mr Stout Kas a. tine turn for English composition, and , he is m some respects the victim to this ' daugerous gift. It constrains .< him to ; breakout into essays at the wrong plaes, and the resalt is sometimes very grotesque."