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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 21 August 1886, Page 2

Referring to the " Stark purohnae " th# Aackland Bell a Government organ, says : —This is the biggest swindle that probably ever wa« perpetrated in this district and there is nat an honest man in Auckland but cays so. After a slipshod attempt to test the value, the bargain closed. Prompt payment was the essence of the. contract. Mr Stark pocketed the money, and cleared cut of rhe country, t« wait i till the clouds rolled by. Do ministers doubt Orange pluck now ? auks the St James' Gazzette, in coramemtins on the Orange riot* at Belfast ; and it points out that the " street bojss of Belfast in their wild exultation hare .not flinched from meeting volleys of buckshot with the coolness of disciplined troeps." To this Truth adds a rejoinder:— "The rabble, it is true, attacked inoffensive Catholics, and wrecked the houses of Catholics ; a few volleys, however, seem to have sent the cowardly ruffians howU ing to their homes." When the Lytteltoa broke up im the gale at Timara there seems to have bean a disgraceful scene on the beach. Says the Timaru Herald : —Among the first article** to come ashore were several casks of spirits. Ote of these soon had its head knocked in, and then glasses not being available for love or money, hats were used as vessels for holding the liquor wherein to convey it to the looters' mouths. Two or three " hard cases" were speedily placed liors de eomhat t but the arrival of the police soon put the free, and what gave promise of develop* i ing into a very drunken, orgie at an end.