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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1864, 30 July 1886, Page 3

On account of the unavoidable absence of the Secretary, the meeting of the Greytown Gun Club Committee is postponed until Tuesday evening. At a representative meeting of the various Oddfellows' Lodges held yesterday in Wellington a presentation was made by FPGM Joim Smith, jun , to the Loyal Greytown Lodpe. through : I'GMLoashyi fa photograph of the representatives of the Exhibition. A piesentation was jalso made to I'PuM LoaG.y, who has been moat energetic with nfnenceto Oddfellownhip. Representatives were present from I'etone, Hutt, Johusouville Porirua, Feathurstob, Greytown, Carterton, Masterton, beside the towu lodges Britania sod Antipodean. More Russian intrigues ! Baron Maoleny at M Petersburg, arranging for the despatch of Russian eiuigie.ntH to New Guinea ! Who's Baron Mscleay ? Oh, he’s a very mysterioua character, a Russian nobleman said to bool very high birth indeed, who took to science as Byoath, sod who -.pent about ten years among the natives of New Guinea stu lying botany and ethnology! Latterly, he's been living at Sydney, where he married a daughter of Sit John Robeitson, il 1 mistake uot 7 Is he really a man o( science 7 Oh, that's the mystery ! Some people ssy that his scientific pretensions are merely a blind, and that in reality he's a political agent of the Buiaian Government, who's been kept in these parts at) tbia while to supply them with inform* tion and prepare the way for some new move or other I The Russians have no footing hi New Guinea, have they 7 None, it is par tloued among Holland, Germany, and Great Britain I Then bow ean Made ay send Ruction emigrants there 7 Oh, I don’t suppose tbere'a anything to prevent emigrants of any nationality going there, but they would be under the authority of (he Power whose territory they landed on 1 But what would ha the good of that to Bnaaia 7 Hard to say ! Xb*W'* aontething vary about (he whole

thing ! Macleay always used to be bitterly opposed to any white settler going to New Guinea, and when Great Britain annexed pm of it, he wrote and protested strongly a minst any settlement la ini; allowed ! He’s evidently'been pluyieg a very deep game all along I—Press Cigarette. A New York woman who is fond of notority, has had the hoofs of her horses gilded, and they create a sensation when driven in Central Park.

The Melbourne ' Punch' has a wood-cnt representing Bismarck | and Gladstone in conversation. The former is made to say; “ Ach, Hitmnel, ray frient, vat is it you do ? At the end of my lives I see ray vork finished ; I have built an empire. At the end of your lives you vork hard to destroy vun.”

A Dunedin firm of dentists have offered a prize of a three guinea cup at tbe next Dog Show there for the terrier with the best set of teeth.