Miscellaneous Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 150, 11 June 1891, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items

Her. Mr Berry, of Wolverbampton, in- J *> tends to visit New Zealand tor the benefit of his health, aid leaves almost.immt- * diately. Madame Simon»eo, who is ai ranging for an opera troupe to visit the colonies, has selected twelve of the artistes all of ■whom are new 10 Australia except one, Signor Cavailen '■ ~&- most extraordinary conspiracy has just been unearthed at the Old Bailey. * J?or the last 25 years it appears a ring of . incendiarms ha\e been successfully car tying on operations m London causing - no tenet lhan 8 U fires, and defiaudmir 1 10 insurance companies of neaily £90, 000. It is alleged thai a fem.xle member of the rin« escaped the police and is believed to be n New Zealand. \ Some time ago a well known ,firm of merchants m,tliis town selected several brands of especially excellent butrer for _*V_IP™ e J!l.*iii a ? Home market. Y<">t< r» "day the returns of sales came to h<md. aim tde result has been tliatan unusually good price 1 was obtained, showing conclusively that butter of proper quality 'commands- a 7, good market 'at Home. Especial ca:e, therefore, on the part of oar farmers in preparing their butter is i rewarded by correspondingly good prices. *, r^Palmerston Times. & Eighteen, thousand doctors are now required to- guaid the health of Great Britain. Few of thorn spend the evening ' ' J of « heir days in^ competence and retire-~jneiifef-'TIIo H doctor's life is the [most dangerous of .all, and, on the average, the f 9f of'ali. It'is even morrdanger_ons"than the n sbldierV 'Exposed^ to the jdcontagion of faful diseases, to cold, to niglit air, to acoident, it is not' to be "wondered that he falls, early jn the battle -> of life In T every^lit le town may be found clergymen-, offictrs, brewert.,J gro. - Jeers, j taih rs, , schoolmasters, jeweUers, j and. even, pedlars, wjio'end ' the even'ng of life injiffluencej and ease. But how seldom, lhe d> ctor. He gener ally dies',in ha m ess.3 (. 'n. Oil, The rtuctioneers Bill which fsnys lhe Star), is to b t e introduced dur- ~~ ing ;he approaching % session, and] will probably bean fharne^ of Mr T. Tliomp- _, son, lias fci its principal object to enable -"licensed auctioneers to, sell in anypart of ,- the C«-lo ! ny l on v a license 1 issued^ at the present cost of J640 per annum issue licens'estoappfaisers or valuers lat £20 per annum, and to auctioneer's clerks at c *£10 per annum' lhe 'object of these later dtovimoiis^is _to secure that,valua» tions shall J nnt be' made by persons not July .ittth^ri^ed,' while "auctioi'neers' arc -r, cpmpelle.i - i to -^p»y r annual licences. *' ' To net over local difficulties from a' fin* c. -' hiici-i! pomt of view, it' is 'proposed to put st-~ '«Jip whole of this money' paid for licenses fh 1 ;o ( lhe cbhsbhdaled " revenue, ' to be ' refunded to local bodies on a population babis. _> n *i ) j