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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 306, 17 May 1894, Page 2

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CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT. DANGEROUS MILITARY MANCEUVRE. (FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION). Hob art, This Day. Steele the defaulting accountant of the Hobarii Coffee Palace Company was sentenced to three years for embezzlement The man William Chandler was sentenced to four years, his wife Anna and daughter Bertha to three and a half ) ears and the woman Norab Dbu to three years imprisonment for the manslaughter of Thomas Budd The Budget estimates that the present financial year will show a surplus of nearly £6000. The revenue for next year it is estimated at £783,000 and expenditure at £755,000. Heavy retrenchment is to be effected in the civil service commencing with Ministers of the Crown whose salaries are to be reduced to .£6OO. A bill will be introduced to impose a tax on the unimproved value of land. Sydney, May 16. Obituary — Captain McLeod, a New Hebrides trader and well known in New Zealand. It has transpired that during certain military manoeuvres at Newcastle on Saturday last one of the hjdo-pnenmatic guns was ruined, involving a loss of between £4000 and £5000. From what can be gathered it appears almost a miracle that a similar calamity to that on the Cordelia did not occur. It is believed that a shot carried away the whole rifling of the gun and the missile was very nearly jammed in the barrel.