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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 145, 7 July 1888, Page 2

3ipsy King has been scratched for th« New Zealand Cup. * The Other House' will be the subji-ct of the Rev. W. Harris' disco -ire in the , Methodist chapel to-morrow evening. The eyenioß xerviee will, for the future, commence at half past six until further notice. It is quite pleasant to notice how swim- • mingly New Zealand is getting along with- ; out English cablegrams. It is true the press agents in Australia have, in consei quence, a great strain put on them foi ' items, but with such stand byes as the butter markets and the Chinese question [ they still manage to run newspapers into , expense for simple and guileless rubbish. The Hon. Mr Larnach " stood Sam" 1 last Saturday n'ght to th'rty of the Civil servants, and gave them a good square meal. This delicate attention was gratefully received, as many of the civil servants haye grave fears that their " daily bread" will be of light weight for a long time under the new policy of small salaries and heavy taxation. Kipai pjotection. The London Morning Post of May 20th records the death of the wife of Mr P. Comisky, of Auckland, as follows : — " Died. — On the 7th instant, at Speaker's Court, Palace of Westminster, Mary Anne, the wife of Patrick Comisky, Esq., of Auckland, New Zealand, youngest daughter of the late ltobert Hanbury. Esq , of Pole Hill, Staffordshire." Mr Comis* ky is well known in mining circles. He was once a prominent man in the palmy days of gold mining in Hokitika. The Chinese Government have resented the action of the Australian colonies anent Chinese immigration and have issued a proclamation in which it is declared I'hina regards the treatment of its subjects throughout the Australian colo* nies as illegal and a breach of the treaty. A threat is made that reprisals may be taken as China lias 13,000000 soldiers, with a navy which will be sufficiently large — in a few years — to warrant the Km pi re in taking aggressive action. As it will, at least, take three years to get ready, the Government of China com mand all tl eir subjects in the colonies to wind up tleir respective businesses and affairs within the three years, and to return to China by the expiration of that period.