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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1646, 27 February 1886, Page 2

Mr Bills; of bird fame, is the inventor , and manufacturer of a patent , rat-trap which captures rats in a wholesale fashion, and has already nearly depopu* lated the whole of the vessels on theNew Zealand coast of their rodent tribes* ■ : • According to the Tiinaru t Hfratd a 17-acre paddock of oats close to St. ' Andrews, on being threshed ' out yielded tjie reiijatrkably hea^y r.eturri u pf l97^s b'ushejs, 1 op sojnetH|ng oyep J.l^"b i ijshel§ tq' tb,e acc^. The. next gaddqclE is'ql" wheat and is growing an 'ayer'age of 86 ibushels to the acre. It is quite evi. dent that the jiroughfc haa ,nbt ruined everybody. ' -■/ : ; :■'■ • Messrs F.'-R. Jackson and & Co. will hold their fortnightly stock sale at the St. Hill street i yards, Wanganui,6n Wednesdav next, 3rd March*. Tlo list of stock published contains for^v ward and empty cows, and a large ntim- *■ ber of sheep/ , ■-. :*'. - '.•■ T?he matter-; |n dispute between Mr .Spackman, of Otaki, and the Mahawatu - County Council,'; in reference to a qlaini the arbitrators,., Messrs Simcox and for compensation was to be decided before M'Lerihan,( s'es^erday./ Mr r ,Thynne; •■• . v (Coiahty Chairman), M/Stewart (County V* Engineer), and Mr Hankins>' (County Solicitor), left for Otaki to be present at theiinvestigation.- Mr D. H. Macarthur : was to act as referee. . ' rphe ?Q»t makes the-fqllowm? vmte on the Btor.y tofd by jibe gir.l to the ; Ww- ; r'arapa D(aily : — We, ;have enquired 1 "at the 1 Asylum as to whether 1 any' 'girl named Annie Neilsqn lias recently been 1 confined in the' Muh't View Asylum^ and have been assured that no person of tfie \: name has been committed to the Asylum', Th,e/ la««t young girf'^ae Septenaoer last. Ths police are not aware of any comittment .ot the kind. A girl named Neilson, was, many months ago, convicted of larceny, and received a senv— • tence of six. months' imprisonment,^but . > .< she subsequently died. "' " '' " v ' * The Admiralty have purchased - for a new torpedo boat with a length, of 125ft ! built by Messrs White,- ofCoweß. ;/-s It is claimed tor the boat that going at the rate of 21 knots an] hour she can be brought Jo a dead stop in a few seconds, . and that going at full speed she can turn * a circle nearly within her own length. It has not yet been .deckled whether^she .will be used as a torpedo-boat, and after she ! has been taken: .. over by thVnaval authorities £6000 will |be spent^on her before her complete trials are.totered on. : . = During an electrical disturbance las^ Tuesday week; £Be* tefegraph dper^r^'a^ Lumsden received a scare,?by Qie freaks of the electrical .fluid in the offic^ ,j£ho Southland News states that not very distant from the office no less-, than twelve telegraph poles were more or - less, injured, large- splinters being striickloffJ Borne of them, while five or six are splili from head td foot. " ; - ; ' '• ■*>*'■ ■■■-