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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1738, 19 June 1886, Page 3

Several new *^^t^ r w(k^M^^Wnntil our neit ittue. * ?'"-4.ji 1: >;• ';**'«■ r The weather to'iday wai bleak and wintry, W J& -.• f WT MwUpa^^^proachiiig .heavy When tbe, Employme.it of Females and O'tJonnor 3rew the ttteßtWofthe Houeff to £? .*!?* Uptl"*,. %*^W «mploy«4 .m the Boiiie:frbin^a.iitV>to f mianigat. i*viA\vk-<--It i&%eii tntt-fhr*. sbotfs oj^rthqaake w^fettf Sheffield, Canterbuiy.-.^ Wedtei. sei'^Bic' e^ v^V eqDJsfaer^io.u r - ' •to Palmerst^li^Wy.^^f'rßraaey has i»ot been iv P ; aliner^a^for ai number :'of.yean, and says that the platflhJU adyancad. iiily , lince liMt'he sawrtti .^ \ Thsr^pert brSfie Waimw Plaini railway states ttrat tkfe pr6«tt for the yew ending March was J288P4, m against £4Q the previous year.. The direct, steamer Coptic arrived at^ Pl)- --! moath.on.t^eHrieiaay evening. The cargo of ■ froieu.tifeat it,repiaTtedto be m good condition. Heavy nine continue to ]be 'experienced m Sydney and the country districts. : ' Sir John| Robertson bas resigned his«seat m tbe New South Wales Legislative Assembly; It is: understood that he will retire into pr'iVLttlife* .*'" ";'-■.' '''■'•;,., ..^ . -*$ ' :

The position of «ifairs with regard to the NewiHebrides is this :— The French flag hut been ,h listed; and i request has been forwarded by tilt British Gurerument to Franca asking* that the Mew Hebrides should be evacuated by its troops as soon as the fear* of outrages on French subjects hare been removed,The debata on the Land For Settlemtut Bill stands adjourned till next weak. Messrs Ivest, Joyce, Duucan, wdJ(oM Bppporte4^ BiU, but Mr Auckland condemned it, , f. Not long ago; an .tiaclisQ sensibly told his htarers whohad travelled ioine distance to cb'ureh oti a wet, slushy dayj that it .would, be /better i for . theiri to go home and change their .boots than iifin a^oTffchiMinfr weVlfeet id the detriment of their constitutions. The rev. gentleman may have saved his parishonsrs from severe colds, bat he has since caught one himself and— died. ' I The Government bare decided to have i a survey made of th» road from Botorua \via Whaknrewnrewa to Botorua "and i Galatea, and the Maori sufferer* by the i late eruptions are to be employed upon ■the construction of the road. >• To»day there was to be a raimio; enjgageinent m Wellington harbWr, m jorder to diaplay the possible utility of jthe harbor defence works?; There was; jto be shot aud ahelnpracti|e .froii Foirt 'Ballance. Afterwards the Hinemoa, or tome other vessel would steam down to the entrance of the Harbor, and, when returning would be fift3;upon frbnTFort; Ballance and Point Halhwell, with blauk cartridge; Atter passing these* forte, Fort Buckley, at Kaiwarra, would open fire, and the field pieces at Ngahauranga would also be fired. Torpedoes would be exploded, vand a submarine mine would lie fired. ' ''■■■-■ A curious ph«noinenon has been qoticod id connection with a well about 18 feet deep situated on the Puketapu road, almost on the 'boundary Hue dividing the Tar'adnle and Puketapu districts m Hawke'g Bay. On the day previous to the yolcabic^ truptibn at Ijarawura the water in the> well became quite worm, the temperature registering ipO degrees. This continued till the following day, after , which .tha t watcr. . got cooler, f ajad on! Saturday it was at •nearly its normal temperature, the wjater at the bottom «f the well registering 60 degrees, and at the top 57 digrees. ' ' 'j, CS ;.'•".. f