NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2644, 27 September 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[PBB PRBHB ASSOCIATION.] NAPIBB, September 27. The entries for the Agricultural and Pastoral Show on Thursday are not quite bo numerous as last year. The numbers are 4 horses, 55 cattle, and 171 sheep. Since the lest municipal elections, the Council, viewing with alarm the fact that the revenue cannot meet the estimated expenditure by £2OOO, have resolved on retrenchment. To that end notices of motion have been given for a special meeting, to be held to-morrow, to give three months' notice to the engineer, overmer of roads, and inspector of nuisances that their services be dispensed with after this period. WELLINGTON, September 27. The plant end. stores belonging to tho Now Zealand Eifle Asaoc : ation have been shipped at Nelson per Penguin for Dunedin. WANGANUI, September 27. An influential mooting of Catholics w«a held lost, night to further the interests of the Colonial Land and Endowment Association, having for its object procuring land for Catholic settlement and endowment of school*. The society is at present taking steps to secure a large block of land under offer on favorable terms. Unanimous resolutions were passed in favor of the scheme, and all present applied for shares. An energetic ct n vass is being made through the district, and representatives of tho association proceed to Auckland and the northern districts.