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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 58, 18 March 1879, Page 2

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(per press agency.) Christchurch, Friday. Mounted Constable Bashford was given into custody at Malvern by Colonel Brett for neglecting to salute him, and sent down as a prisoner to town in charge of Sergeant Wheatley. On arrival. Inspector Hickson at once orderod Hash ford's release. At Malvern a solicitor applied for Hashford's release, which was refused. Bashford did not salute the colonel, because li 9 was unacquainted with . him. The constable talks of bringing an action for false imprisonment. As a respectable married woman was leturniiig to her home last night she was knocked down and criminally assaulted by William Mandens. The fellow was afterwards arrested. Wellington, Monday, 7 p.m. Sailed, 4 p.m. — Jane Douglas, for Foxlon. Passengers — Mr and Mrs ' G. W. Russell, Mr and Mrs Ingles and family, Air and Mrs Mowlem and family, Mrs Perry, Messrs Smith, Munro, Moinet, Clasman, Hanson, and Smart. An apparently semi-official article ia to-night's Chronicle deals with the financial position and prospects of the Colony. While considering the Customs Revenue so far satisfactory, it' says the land tax is not likely to come up to expectations, and the loss of the amount to the year's revenue will more than absorb any surplus which may be anticipated from Customs. The estimate was £100.000, and cost of collection, £10,000;' but it thinks the cost of collection will reach £18,000, while the amount collected will be £120.000 (sic). The minor items of ordinary revenue, except railways, are likely to meet anticipations. The Postal and Telegraph show a steady advance. It had been hoped that £400,000 would be iealised from Waimate Plains, but the utmost that can now be anticipated from plains during the year is £120,000. The Chronicle thinks the Treasurer cannot hope to receive from laud revenue before end of financial year more than a million, thus leaving a deficit on this item of a quarter of a million, which will require all the ingenuity of treasurer so as to prevent a deficiency appearing in his next statement. The railways go a long way to make up deficits in other departments,^ The estimate was £710,000, and receipts- for half-year "reached £309,000, since whioh the Dunedin and Invercargill line had been opened, and an increase in railway traffic had taken place all over the colony, and from this branch of revenue a total of £800,000 or £900,000 is expected. The article goes on to say — " The large estates can easily bear another penny on land tax, to make up for the falling off in the land revenue." Further on it says — Given time, the railways alone would carry the colony safely over all financial difficulties.