The Jane Douglas.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1643, 24 February 1886, Page 4

The Jane Douglas.

The Manawatu uo-operatiVd Steam Shipping Company's screw steadier Jane Douglas, Captain Eraser, is announced to leave Foxton for Weliingtotij today, at 2 p.m.

The Feuding Jockey Cl'ib have nri*« opted the uew W.J.C. rule with regud to free passes. Next week a Native Lands Court opens at Gisbourne, which is expected to sit for a yea*\ Mr Bentley was bnsy to-day arranging the stock iv his new drapery prenri-. SB. By the Stormbird yesterday there arrived m Wanganui from Wellington twenty cases containing altogether 40, 000 rounds of ammunition for the N.Z. R.A. meeting. Mr ElWy Gilbert pianoforte tuner has arrived m Palmerston and is staying at the Commercial Hotel. Mr Gilbert I will remain m town for about a ; fortnight. Orders should bo left at once to recure due attention. . We noticed Mr Pahnerson to-day engaged measuring the frontage of the section on which Mr E. Leary's building is about being erected. We understand that the adjoining premises have been built upon a site having a larger frontage than the owner was entitled to. Speaking on Sunday night at the Theatre Royal, Mr Giover facetiously alluded to a method that he had seen practiced by a colored minister iv Aineiioa, who wished to get a good collection. The minister said. ''Those of you who have a dollar to give, come along to the table and deposit it." When titis was done he called for the half— Jollarp, and then for the quarterdollars. When these moneys had been gathered the minister then said, " Now we will take up the collection." A big sum was realised. The anecdote was much appreciated by the audience. The Otaki people mean to have a stir over their licensing election — no fewer than " twelve good men and true," having been nominated to form the committee for the new district. The poll is to be taken on Saturday next, the 27th inst., and a keen struggle is likely to take place. Among those nominated is a native chief, Hoaui Taipua, a man of more than average intelligence. A new oat, called the "Triumph," i is advertised m agricultural papers, says the Ensign. It is described as a white oat, which, as to its - prolific character, may be termed- extraordinary. The seed is only of average weight, but the hetds of grain so far surpass those of the common strain of oat m size that, at any price, it cannot fail to be an immense.acquisition to the grower. The straws are so lcng and stout that, although averaging fron six to seven feet 1 high, they carry their heavy load of grain without yielding. One' seed has yielded 2000 grains, aud many plants have more than teu vigorous straws, some brads carrying 300 grains. One gentleman got an ounce of seed, aud had a crop of seven feet high, with ten to twenty straws to a root. The oat was an astonishment to his neighborhood. According to the Press News, the Lord Chief Justice of England, m the hearing of a libel action recently, said that the whole scope and tenor of the courts m regard to libel hud somehow or other been entirely altered. By the old — and he should jsay better — authorities a criminal prosecution for the mere wrongs of an individual, where there was no danger of a breach of the peace or a public scandal, would a hundred years ago have been entirely scouted. For his Dart he thought the old practice was a healthier state of the law.