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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1734, 15 June 1886, Page 4

Sir William and Lady Fox havejgone to Auckland where they will reside for their winter months. i ■ Mr Barnu, prior to commencing the sale ot stock at Twalrina on Friday, made some remarks m connection with the rise m the price of wool and tallow lately. Tallow, he'saitl, had men J8 and £4 -per ton according to the latest reports received from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company at Home. A bank manager waited on a gentleman recently, and informed him that he had overdrawn .his account lo the tune of a hundred j)onnds. "Well, I know that," replied the -veteran, "so what's the necessity of boring me alioutit? Why not trtat me as [ do you? I don't go to you when I have that amount m your institution and shout, 'Mr Manager, you held a hundred pounds of mine!' Such statements are superfluous either way. Good morning." Three English divers and Captain It. F. Stephens, Lloyd's surveyor, have returned to London from the island of Grand Canary, after raisiner a sum of no less than .£90,000. The amount was submerged 153 ft d*ep a mile from the southennost limit of the island of Grand Canary. The treasure went down about two years ago m a branilnew Spanish steamer periled The~ Alphdnso XI I. The steamer had on board .£IOO,OOO worth of Spanish dollar on their way to Cnfca* They were fm'-dollar gold ; ieces, and were specially coined for the trip, being the ouly five-dollar pieces bearing the year 1884. The insurance on the money was* effected at Lloyd's, and waR paid over to the insureis aftor the vessel foundered* Afte> a lapse of over a year Captain R. F. Stevens anrl throe Kn<?Hsh- divers •were sent ouf, and stcceeded m bringing up nine boxes oon tain ing. specie yE tho value of £10,000 each, but the ; tenth box could not be found, and the divers hud to come away without it. , The dangers and difficulties which were encountered and «-(* vei > come m the undertaking were of the mods extraordinary nature. ■,