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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1634, 13 February 1886, Page 2

The Eev. H. Vere White, writes fromi Mullirigar, Westmeath, Ireland, , under, date Nov. 17, 1885, to a gentleman! .io!. ; Grey town as follows concerning Irish? 'affairs: — >( I suppose Renter's telegrams jare as. usual re prepresenting this country ;as inra state of veiled *r ope£ rebellion. iDon't believe them. Times hayebeen-very-Jbad, and the farmers hare J made' nothing or next to nothing this year, and there will no doubt be great difficulty m the collection of rent, but the country m as free from crime as can be expectedcof any country containing between nyaH&nci six millions of people. Every office is magnified m the most absurd fashion." Wairarapa Standard. ■<■*'$&' It may be well to direct the attention of parents, and of all interested throughout the district, to amendments'-inade last session,., which provide that every child required by the Education Act of 1877 to attend a public scboof shall attend such school during 30 days m each quarterly school term, and on the hearing of any. informations of complaint under the Act for an order to send) a child to a ; public school, or, for- the recovjety^of/a penalty, the onus shall be on the parent or guardian of showpg that the child has or is attending schdol'in accordance with the requirements of the Act, or is exempt from attendance.- "- The Rev Mr Ogg, of Sfc Andrew's Church, Wellington, must have felt we-* ceedingly uncomfortable at the inoual meeting a few weeks ago. One of the congregation took the reverend gentle-. .s*sn to ask, and set forth what, m &§ opinion, the minuter ought, and ought not to do. This plain-spoken individual complained that the sermons were top long, that they were not sufficiently pointed m their application 1 * to| v&tfbg people,' and that the parson did uotlvfsiT -the people enough. Respecting the strmons, the complainant appeared to think 'that they were too good— a fault we should imagine, not often found with pulpit prelections m tins part of the colony. . As for the visiting, there ar« some .people who never think a parson, is doing his duty unless he is eyerlast-' iugly sipping what Rowland Hill calllld " scandal-broth "with all the male Jand. female old women m his pariah. The Clutha County Council, at itr meeting last Friday, passed a tesolution concurring m forwarded byi the Waikato County Council condemn* ing. -the Hospital and ;! Charitable Jtid Act sb of an immature and unworkable character, calculated to i foster ~Siutf ensuro the rapid growth of State pauper* ism m the Colony, without' -providing any efficient or adequate means of regulating and controlling the same. A jspecial order, that the lode may be carried on Coiiuty roads be restricted to 30cwt, on each two wheels not over four iuches m breadth was confirmed. ; Two hundred aud> fifty - .thousand [English cotton spinners are engaged'all the year round making cotton^goods for India. , It .India were suddenly lost, would not that mean 250,000 fpfrppl? fefct of work, or, m other words, onS'fmb oi Lancashire" exposed to starvation^ Again, to India, Newcastle and,' Cardiff send.; £100,000,000 sterhpg m Nopals ; Middleuborough Barrow,' Leeds* jVu'oV other towns, m raifway plant: Leeds, Manchester, and Glasgow nearly :£2;000,000 ; worth »f machinery j and Sheffield, Biuninghara, aWd bthtf places, £5 000,000 worth of metal acd metal goods. Everjr year we send to lodia £82,000,000 worth oi ;goods.i A : , A How tlie machine aids' racing may be seen by glancing at the result of a re* cent meeting. According to !? rf Hipp.o * owners themselves provided four fifths of tho stakes run for, the qlub's copjirf-* bution being' something : like 1 twsnty pounds. The privileges brought a, good siim of money into the 'so^ that practically if not a soul had paid for admittance, and the machine bad~aot. been m use, the dub, would- bare made.a profit. The machine put through £ 1750, and as the club receivear fix per cent., allowing nothing "for tKe odd money, the receipts from that source^ were Altogether the clvb 1 Hei?" ceives double what it gives m stakes, and something over far profit,— Napier Telegraph. ; ;;i :/",TAT At the conclusion of. the bearing of the case of assault arising put of the ,'dog-fight at Peilding. His "Worship :said there was a great deal of conflicting evidence. He was willing to allow for mistakes and misaprehe^sipn, but could not help thinking that some of the witnesses jnrilfuljy lied. It wjasj probable that Turner was somewhat to blame as regards the assault, but that 'charge jwould be dismissed ; but as regards the language used by Belfit it was a disgrace to Feilding, He would be sentenced to seven days' hard labour m theT «Waqganui gaol, which lie hoped wonfdlM » ! lesson lo him and to other, youqg ineai to keep thoir tongues under control, for he was determined to put down, the gadv habit of swearing and the use of obscene •language m the public streets, ; ;y i A Melbourne telegram m the Sydney ■Evening News reads as follows :^." The .Collirigwood Coundil has resolved tdjpre-^ hi bit 'Salvation Aruiy' processions. Many of the suburban "^councils' which formerly permitted them are now restrict* ing or forbidding them, as they lead to disorderlinesß, besides annoying residents with their blatant noise."