Sydney News

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 114, 26 April 1888, Page 3

Sydney News

" " ■ '""".,■• r— ♦ T •'■; --■ .- ..- --> •;- „■] :; .'» .-Y-.Vi. '• — 'r.' : -- . - , A correspondent writes to us from Sjrdrieyi -N-SiWiV under date of . the 15th instant i— :*? It is with sincere pleasure I read of increasing prosperity^ and families, of the old, spot, and old friends, aid. trust both: will continue."After some remarks on the Ne> Zealanders who are leaving the colony ne goes on to say : "Compare the. taxation of New Zealand with this polony (N-S^W.) Take the following examples : : All woolens, and, draperies in '- New Zealand are taxed equal to 16 J per cent., with importers profit oriit is equal to 20 per cent. In this qolony-r-fr^e._ Tour.: boots and fopii are' taxed. In: this colony they are— free., Your produce—no sale for it, and your population too small to cousume - it. . , Your ' Municipalities, Counties, Eoad ; Boards are all tared, and heavy debts -are' on all governing bodies and pnvate individuals, "Here, a municipality receives pound for pound from ' Government for the first three years' of its existence, and 10s in the £ for the next .five, years,, and so <mv, The local taxation here is Is in; the £, and a dry earth-closet rate' for emptying twice a- week, which is about & tenth xrf what it costs Feilding people to do privately. We liave a population' (in our suburb) , of 27,000, with 5000 shops all told. The population of the city and suburbs last week was W estimated at 349,000, an increase of 9000 .since I came. Ijhave just counted tue. number of customers: served (iti my shop) by self , three bauds, and a buy, yesterday— B32; ;. , / ! The ola&8 of mien very scarce hißrer j list now are ineu like the : two B.s, wholuuderstknjis sinking and timbering mining 1 shafts and, driving. H. would get his £4 and JBS a-week here easily as possible as a mining mana- ; ger. We are all mining mad, and nine out of every ten has some interest somewhere, arid that reminds me, in the Stab you saidv 'iso mkny Unix -of ore?: It suppose you did riot believe ime when I said that it was, pure melted silver in bars, arid worth 3s B^d per ounce. The.yield last week is smaller than usual," and shares are down a hundred pounds each. On Wednesday we have, the annual Grocers' Pic-riic it .Sfr^sJßp^ -Bank's Grounds, Botany, where we will have over 500 or 1 000 from city ■, and suburbs, which w0 include all importers, wholesale men,. retail men, and their friends, including^ M.L.V.s; tickets, 255. No jam, nor frills, but decency and order. ; ' j '.'..:' , ,: T The weather here is dry and cold, consequently no grass,, and butter is going up. I sell three 1 quarters of a ton a-week, andif : i could get good N.Z. butter I would- sell it as soon as N.B. yff. Ihe risk of getting it over is very great, because one day's rain would put the price down 3d or fid per lb, inside of a week. So, : just as it might be at the wharf 'and the (ship's) cargo known the price might go down 6d, which- would .mean a heavy loss, ;