Local & General News.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 44, 15 April 1884, Page 2

Local & General News.

» Sir Julius Yogel will arrive in New Zealand this week, bythe Tongariro. Donald Dinnie has not proved "an immense success " ia Melbourne. On Sunday last a lad named Crook had his thigh broken when tiding through the gate of the saddling paddook. By an Order in Council, the Gorernor has abolished the Native Licensing District of Upper Wanganui. A man in Texas is said to have perfected a wheat called Moll's Bed Winter that is rust proof. It is proposed to bring the Great Eastern to Antwerp during the Exhibition there in 1885, and fit her up at a floating restaurant. Tn connection with the .opening of the Turidn Exhibition, the Italian Government offers a prize of £400 to the inventor of the most practicable method for the transmission of electricity from a distance. The competition will be international. When the train was coming from Hal- . combe on Saturday night it managed to knock over » horned beast, which was wandering on the railway line. Its legs were broken and in order to remove it from the metals, it was found necessary to kill it. This was neatly done by a passenger who pithed the animal with a penknife, so that it died initaataneouslj, and witho ut further jpaia. ,

The Irish in England number twviityoue to every 1000 of population, and the proportion is s f eadilv decreasing. Lord Eipon, Viceroy ot India, is said to be working for the dis-establishment of the Anglican Church in that country. 1 In our leader of Saturday last a typographical error occurred. It it stated that the Agricultural returns rere f>r the Oroua, " Manchester" and Rangi. tikei Counties. " Manawatu" should be I read for Manchester. The Canterbury Times says that " Second rate Governors are spots of rust on the chair of loyalty." >ew Zealand has a happy mode of wiping off these spots, as Sir Arthur Gordon learned to his cost. Although the Nation.il Land and Mortgage Company of New Zealand has ir>t as 3'efc been granted a quotation on the Stock Exchange, sny» the Star's London correspondent, it is in a most flourishing condition, and ouly needs time to develop into as prosperous a concern as the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency. Mr P. Comiskey, of Auckland, and formerly a storekeeper oa the West Coast, has started a company to work sub-tropical industries. The nominal capital of the company is £10,000. The Government is to be applied to for an endowment of 100 > acres of land, and a subsidy of £1000 a year for five years. The modesty «f Mr Comiskey is* the most charming feature in his character.