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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 144, 28 May 1881, Page 2

1 A Cpol Gentlemen.— it appeare (hat a European, who for a- time resided m htw Plymouth, had a warrant issued against him for not satisfying' a claim. Hie coolly proceeded to the Jilagistrate'a office, and Ihreabned to shoot the first man that d.ired to serve tha warrant on him. He then went to a Maoxi settlement, and the warrant rptna : ns wnserved. Whirlwind en the West Coast. ;— The AsTihwton Guardian has the followingacc^untof a destructive whirlwind which pass?d over Greymouth on Thursday last: — '• About s..3o.thHinoroing a sort of whirl-- 1 wind from the south west direction, went through the town< leaving its coarse marked , wi'ih wrecked houses, chimneys blown down' verandahs an'i fences carried away. It firs blew down a large pile driver, then wrecked most of the houses on the west' side of. M^Kay street, smashed up a new two-storey buildhig used, as a Ohineae store, and opened by Wye Kee ;■ and blew the end out of the Great Western Hotel. Xhepext place of importance to suffer was the .English Churc-h, one half of which was utterly up. while the part, left standing was twisted on the piltes. The pa,rsjnage also, was considerably damaged. A good deal of minor damage was done to private dwellings. Pr«Se,TVin?.— The following American plan' of preserving better madein, the flush o| the season tilithe price improves should' come m handy..^.enable farmers to market (their butter v m a pi;c«, eentablecondition even m our hot summer ti>r c. After the butter is churned, properly vrQiifed, and salted, j>a.q^ed j^. i^one fai.

to within an inch or two of the top ; then lay on a cloth and fill the jar with best "butter Ea it ; place the jar m a clean flou*b'afrel, having previously put 4in of salt at the bottom. Tnen fi'l up with, salt, bo ; as to cover the top of the j ar to a depth of : 6in. : or Btn. and place the ban el m a cool I cellar. One or more stone jars can be pot l in-the same barrel The batter comes out tsweet. having moreover retained all the aroma usual with the spring-made article, and tasting as if just churned. - A Modern Gurrdeiypn.nr:4 X?-. viacial paper states that just before comJmencfcg.hj^jermqn a few Sundays ago, the R«v. Mr Lyon, of PeHhT'obTerveJi* a~do~g~ifr Church. the owner did not put the animal ftiit^wnen're^ießiei to do so, • the re-,. verend gentleman himself ejected 4 the i catiinb- intruder, -wisely arguing '.-jthat .Bis.' congregation; could jsearq.ly be expected to p:>t up with a dog m a pen", when* thty already -had a Lyon m the- pulpit.; , , ■ j r "t 7Spendthrift rfblinny.^At a recent meeting (says the iiViw Zealand. Berald) of the Cambridge. Farmers Club', when its | financial" position was 'being discussed, and the fact ppintedout thatTa "money demand was. at present greasing on the club, Mr/ J; Sheehan,.iM,H.:R.. iurged'the ;Club to increase its subscriptions, and, hunt up ; it« mumbsrsr La tbb South they, had farmer's' clubs at which visitors could put .up their; horses and- obUiu -luncheon. H thfi Jand. owners m tlje district would not put their , hands m their pockets and support the Club; ,be would hav.e, to join 8 : r Geprgs Grey again,* and go m for cutting up the waste lands into 1 00- acre '] blocks' 1 (laiighterv) They -should double the subscriptions and make it a real Club. They must popularise the Club. It was nonsense to say that'll mere earn of £75 was a serious difficulty.-, He. would; knnck down that amount m billiards m the course af f a* nignt. I ■.;..; . ■^•■~ J -q y. Native Decrease— The^cengns re turns of the Maori: .population; says the '^dvoeate, horn Oeo tq.^aifcara show that there has be&n, since 187.5, the alarming decrease of 25' per cent. ,TJ» enumerator attributes tbe decreasa,; to constant travailing to and from P.arihaka during the last three years, and to the Natives being exposed to savij re weather m the winter. He goes on to remark that m nearly every place he learned that barely ont fourth of the women were child •bearing^ J > ' » ' '' ''■ >;' : ' j