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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 89, 18 March 1885, Page 4

A new terror lias come upon overpopuhned England, says a London coiyespondcnt. The old (head of a foodrfjiinine has ; passed away, and will never he recalled.; indeed ajjvi- • culture- iy ; now s uttering because the world cah-pm:lucc move: wheat than the world can eat. But the new terror is a loci-er.-faxn inc. The exceed-; ingjstriangp.cliunght.iist'll. continues. For weeks p<*s£ Mandhe'ster hak been ; 'within scTen or 'eight days !of a water-fainine, '■'no^yitlj^taricii.iig the mains are, only filled 1% hours out 6F the 24 ; BratliorU has^only one diy^js ■supply of water m hand ; m Notlingham,tl|e water is only turned on for one hour a day; and so on 1 with many other densely populated towns m the midland and northern counties. Our -rainfall is limited;, bur population tends to be unlimited. We can import co/m to feed our toilih<?' ipiJ]io.ns, but'thcW-.v-/ 1 they re- ■ quire: must be prod oced ,afcf home., For the first time this long contiuu-. ,'cd drought suggts,is l a ; new national .difficulty, if a, W'iite'r-riaminjb is: .so' | near now, what will be tjic condition oi-things a cciHury hc'iicu'? ' „„..