The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1734, 15 June 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY. ) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders are invited for cutting rashes, and ploughing about 200 acres near Feilding. Application to be made to Mr i). L. Smith Rangitikei Line. An' order-ln-Council appears m the 'M*. Gazette, making a deduction at the rate of five pounds per centum from the rates on insurances effected with the Government Insurance Denartrucnt, by ministers of religion.] - : . lv connection with the terrible Volcanic eruption which has taken place m the North, we mar remind our readers' of the prophecy made by the Mi o*U last year. The old natives affirmed that we should have a dry . summeryand that the bills wonld emit fire. Truly, this prophecy ins been Tended m a manner few expected. — Evening Pres9. Ab exchange is of opinion that, possibly to many people the volcanic region round abont Rotorua may now bare an additional charm as news has been received that five, tourists ■ have already reached Rolorua. Espiritu Santo, the largest of the New Hebrides, is 66 miles m length, and about half that m bieadth. The numerous islands clustered rouud its shuns givs it the appearance of an archipelago rather than . a single island. It contains many good harbours, and is thickly populated. Ti>e productions of the 'island are nearly the same as those of the rust of the-J group,, but thep % orl oyster is rcrj abundant. Not far from Chpe Cumberland, a l * the northern end, are to be seen remans of singular buildings of gr°at size; pillars of regular shape, composed of targe stones, detached portion* of walls, • and fragments of srmmted masonry are gcaitered over a piajn about thiee miles m ex'ent. In -a settlemefrt* north-east of Cape Cumberland, and about five iinllis distant, are remains of "anpfher.- simiJiSr edifice. The natives are quite ignorant of. the nature of these ruins, and, merely state- thai they are " Tripn." , ..,..> First missionary's daughter: "And your father died at the. foreign mission you sayf? '• I am sincerely sorry to learn it. Did hfs deaths result from natural causes P" Second' missionary's daughter : " Yes, they ate father on September 4.": \ . -. "A good story is told of a bootblack whose energies were taxed by the huge shoes of a private just returned from the war. The little fellow, kneeling down, looked over his shoulder to a comrade and exclaimed, 'Lend me a spit, Jim, I have got an army cantmct,' A bachelor returning from a ball, m a crowded ccch, declared with a groan, that he had not the slightest objection to ' rings on his fii gerV but he bad a most une<ju4yocaj ivcn

Visitor : "So yon're learning arithmetic, are you Freddy ? Now suppose I were to lend your father oue hundred pound % and he promised to pay back tsn pound* every month, how much would he owe at the end of seven months ?" Enfant terrible " One hundred jiounds." Visitor : " I'm afraid you dou't know arithmetic very well." Enfant terrible : " I may nut know my arithmetic very veil, but, (emphatically) [ know my father." A number of people intent to leave Intercargill for Kiinberley shortly. Pie party of nix istatiug wagt>ons t horses, aud iwo tons of provisions. They have a capital of a £1000. Shotri4 suffici nt inducement offer, a steamer will Md at the Bluff for Derbj early m July. Twijuly years ago a man with £10,000 a year was regarded as a prodigy of wealth. Now he is considered well-to-do and do more, and one isay walk through streets and squares for hours m London, eacirthouse of which repre•entt^probably a minimum income of not lest than £8,000 a year. In the lait twenty, yean the wealth of the United Kingdom hauiucreaaed by £6.00,000,000. A writer m the Glasgow Evening News relatesihe following :— As an indication of the extreme sufferings of some .of the shipyard workers, I relate the following which has just reached me. A laborer, who had been reduced to utter itarvation, through long illness, obtained employment m one of the local shipyards. He hndjoury been engaged at work far a few hour* when he became ill and was uiken home, where he djed within a short time afterwards. The poof fellow's dinner, which he took to his work upan being opened, was found to contain two slices of raw turnip. Doubt has been thrown upon the statement thut a pnir of rabbits will, iv a twelve-month, mnltiply ranuy thousand times. But this doubt should be removed by the . statements published m recent reports issued by the chief inspectors of rabbits m Victoria and New South LVRalesn. ■'.- The Vintorion Inspector states that tw6rabl)ii»w 11, nnder favourable circumstances^ iii three years multiply id 4,000;O00. The chief inspector on New South Wales goes far beyond this calculation, aud estimates the increase from a pair for three years at 13,000,000. " And what did the preacher flay to day Hiram ?" said Mrs Sparkes to her husbani as he came home from the service. "He said every man should lovo his neighbor—-" '.' Love his neighbor !" shrieked the wife. " That's what [said, Jane, and it's what he said." •' You cau't get me to believe * word of that, Hiram Sparks. The preacher never said any such thing, for he knows al well as I do that our neighbor, is a grass widow, and he knows me well enough to know that yon wouldn't be able to get to church fora month after trying on that little game while I'm around. A nice man he is, I must,confess, to be giving such advice- as that to an old codger like you.'