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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 87, 24 March 1880, Page 2

The Qii’cnffaml Irish Belief Fund exceeds £10,OX), and in New South Wales £-'-,00).

The line steamer City of Sydney caught fire nt San Fr.incise > wharf, bat tho flumes were exiinguisho l before the vessel was greatly dimaged. Cliri'teliurcli is going in for a loan of £SOOO far ihe erection of Municipal offices.

Thero will probably be over 20X) visitors to tiie Christchurch Faster Encampment.

Grey Miami win tiie ll.iiui'C.ip Hurdle Rice in Nap.or and Vampire tile Clip. Tli opuectm; appears to have boeu a success.

Mo-srs Villanoo aid Mason have purchased the race horse Jiaudwide for £25).

[ntf 'diijuliTT 'jf It'ul' fpu, witTi wfiaT o'bj et in new is not stited. A proposed b dlnon Arc ic Expalitioi is pr iposed a l . Horn-. Tito sc iioiii • is generally condemned as impractical) c and suicidal. The murderer of General Melikoff has been execute I at Bt. Fetersburgli. He refused to involve his aeeoiu dices, and ded th’li root the hour. Hi durbunces among the spectators were numerous, but no' serious.

The Deceased Wife Sister's Bill lias been passed in the Cauad.au House of Comm ms.

Prosecutions liavo bam institu'ed in Wellington 111 cases of alleged breaches of tho Fern lies Employment Act, foul the provision of which it appears that saleswomen are exempt.

There lnve be-n two arrests for era hczjlement in Auckland, one in the railway department, and the other in a bank Torre is no au'liorit itive s'atoment tint the Prince and Princess of Wiles will b ■ presell 1 at tho opening of tho M-.T hourn i Exhibition. The Post devotes an article to the travels of the Railway Commissioners, under tlio heading of “ A Lightiniugforood Commission. [t is reassuring to Earn that large sums of m mey are being sent for investment in Wellington. Tito security is so satisfactory that largo remittances are indeed forward too. Welling on offers a higher rate of interest than Curistchurcli by ‘2 per cent. Tlio Native meeting at P.irihnka prom ses to be the largest and most imp irlaut that has yet taken place. Major Stack, of the New Z’aland Militia died at Nelson on Saturday week. Mr H. Redwood has purchased Falcon by Castaway, from Mr John StevensTuo horse promises to turn cut a grand animal, and though but a youngster has immense doveloptn mt of bone and muscle. The raising of the Quienslanl Loin has boon postponed till iit’ier tho general 0 lec!io i shortly to take place at Home. The services of Judge Fenton as Chief Judge uf the Native L ind Court are to bo retained. M mey is evidently more plentiful in Wellington. (Juo firm of solicitors is advertising £(iU'X) to lend in small sums. Tiio biuk late of discount r.t Home now is quoted at 3 per cent. Money 13 li in bn. is in less active demand. Fighting is still going on between Chili and Peru, b imbarding ail 1 n ival engagements being tbe ord-r of the day, in one uf which tho Huascar lost her Commander. U lemployc t agitations are still unsetll ijg me working classes in Dunedin. The prizo-wieners amongst the competitors at the late rill ’-meeting li >.vo been nude the subjects of demonstrations in their nspoctive towns.

Thore has been a soriius revolt of the Chinese at Pekin, anl a high Chinese official has been beheaded by the rebels.

The Hon. J. Wjfcv -- . retire from tiie vWrk* Ins decided. to hi* best horses liyjian I'u. 4, stun of Tiie been sold. (lie Berry family tt>f s "*lO othert of Service, over in the Civil has aroused cousil of lon£ standing, Vie. Chin. r*sblo indignation in The newly Uppar Wairau is jßffed goldfield at tnough it lias abTjtVintf g°°d pmapects cm vwllcir.y. p many men as it The boutii A J \ directing attentat f-irm-'-rs are conversation off to the PaTuune itary tere.sts. Tiie agricul urai infor the p.ist seaajKjdeld in that colony acre. A movement B A Wales to in New South Ojnipany on n.HaWnt AI iik Condcusing The British trj|^ aU '' bo temporarily cj at the Capo are to General Clifford, opin uidod by Major A resident of* murdered his sefcathurst, Australia, labouring uudeflkfifi daughter wide tremens . J ultack of delirium There has near® ramitta gaol, iNfflbeen a rising at Par-* consequence of'Sjif South Wales, in bread ser/ed ouA-bad 'quality of the There is ho jf^ Ue P c,souers ' shed takefcJ*BltlnoJ of any blood--policy of tuougU ihc What still un >p.*d* confidently miiurtxi;i cam it Mrs Edwarj /te^‘ Wellington for *3LHart, a resident of at the age of 7Trears has passed away The llangitikAy been undergoing! railway b. idge has and the train iiffcourse of screwing u.>, usml speed. J siucj passed over at