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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 140, 12 May 1885, Page 2

The R.M. Court will sit to-morrow. Tkere are neriril smsjll debt cases «tfd two charges of assault. None of any special interest. A complaint- has reached us of a fairer : whe employs the young member* of his family, which incliqlftjß. little girl of ten years, in certain laborious outdoor work only fit fer men. The occupation is upecified in a* English Act as ene in which no "yonng person" or female shall be engaged, Merepjrer, these children are reported to have lieea seen at work long after 2 o'clock on Saturdays, thus making the employer doubly guilty, ojEa^breaoh of the law. A word to the wise is enough, and we hope the practice referred to will be desisted from ntiontfe. 7 . .i: ;' > ; . •;/•■.■ It may not be generally known (says the Aacklrtnd Star) thit rthe;A. Battery of Artillery is the oldest Volunteer co.u|»iy in the British Empire. It was , originally a , rifle corps, beiner: known as the Ist R»yal«. It Hubspqu «ly became : the A uckland/ jfLrttilnxf ■ Com -any, and when lite JUew Zealand Ite^'nuni of that body and wan made the premier company. Another f«pt »f which New :Zealanders' may 1 lie proHd in connection with the Volunteer-movement is that it : m in, ,Uiis country tha^SvitUh/.ytaluaI tears rw*iw tneir^-KptiiWotflto."