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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5488, 13 February 1896, Page 3

Of the twelve American Manchesters the most seritvus rival namesake is the New Hampshire city on the Merrimac Eiver, which has sprung into prosperity within the last sixty years through the utilisation for the purposes of cotton manufacture of the Amosksag Falls. Its population is less than 40,000. There is a Virginian Manchester with 9200 people, and another in Connecticut with a thousand less, but with large woollen factories, and this town rejoices in a suburb called South Manchester, with considerable silk mills. There are two townships of the name with 3000 people apiece in lowa and Indiana, three with 2000 in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Vermont, the latter two being favourite coast resorts, and there are four villages with 1500 in Tennessee, New Jersey, Michigan, and Maryland, the last being an iron centre. The aggregate American population that has a Manchester for its home is 69,500. The strike of Paria omnibus drivers has elicited the curious fact that French judges and judicial officers are forbidden by the etiquette of the profession to ride in an omnibus. They must take a cab or walk, if they do not own a carriage.