Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1643, 24 February 1886, Page 2

The Mayor of Feilding has been petitioned to declare Wednesday th*' 3rd of March, & public holiday, witujn . the borough, on the occasion of the Palmerston Races. ':'"."' The local paper says thai orchard" robberies m Mar ton not only ccntinuo • but are on the increase. Numerous J victims of niidnjght thieves have cony? plained to us pf how they haye been fleeced. ; .'.•.„■.-"_■ Triplets seem to be becoming- fatftejL fashionable m the Old Country just now, The wife of a guard named Axten, einplayed on the South Western railway, gave birth, on December 23rd, to three remarkably flue healtfiy cjiildrep— twp boys and a girl, Pr Michael Wh|Jmarsh, who attended her, has written to T the Queen to ask for the usual bounty, 1 By an Edinburgh paper of December 18th we leant that no less than thrift strings of triplets have been recorded iV that city m one week } while the Daily Telegraph chronicles four others, all arriving about the same time A Whether these Christmas boxes were bailed with delight or otherwise by their parents the newspapers do'notify. Each of them, however, was entitled to receive the Queen's bounty, £1 per bead. Away back early m the fifties, when Sir George Grey wns Governor, the father of the native who was recently remanded to Auckland for. escaping from legal custody, wap the cause of what at one time looked likely to be * serious riot, if not leading to t littlt war. The native's father was at that date a policeman, and with his baton h« struck an old chief on the head. The old chief whose dignity had been ruffled, even if his person had not, been seriously injured, was furious, and,^ returning home to the Thames, a large detachment of natives, some hundreds strong, left the Thames for Auckland m their canoes. On arriving at Auckland they could not laud for some tune, and while waiting for the tide all the artillery guns were made to bear on Mechanics' Bay, where the Maoris were anchored. The sight of the guns caused their courage to ooze out, and they turned the canoes homeward -and departed without avenging the insult ''conveyed by the policeman's baton. — Exchange. Considerable difficulty is being experienced m collecting tho Maori census m this and the Manawatu district. When called upon to furnish the necessary information, the Natives, m many cases, absolutely refuse to obey the request of the collector ? " What Jo you want the information fur?" they suspiciously ask ; "we don't believe m giving it to you ; the Government have cheated us before, and we will not* be had again." Thus uo end of time is loit Jn explanation by the collector.— ildfoocate. '*••* * .1 tft*- -I* 'hi** It is said, on respectable authority' that tn ore than halfa-million pounds of willow leaf were shipped from Shanghai . last year as green tteaa — a large portion of it going to America. Wheatena is the name given to a newr manufactured product from wheat, intended as a breakfast food. It is said to combine all the good qualities claimed for the various cereal preparations of similar character, and some others peculiar to itself. It is manufactured from peeled or hulled wheat, of the best varities, and so prepared that it can be so perfectly copked fn f wo wjnutts that no additional amount of cooking will m any way improve it. • Itiiajsaid to be digestible, palatable, and nutritious .-■..:.*■■'■