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Patea Mail, 7 May 1881, Page 3

An announcement comes from New York of a plot amongst the Irish Fenians in the city to murder Gladstone. The manufacture of pulp for paper-making, and the manufacture of dextrine, has been commenced in the vicinity of Christchurch. Mr Dillon. M.R., has publicly announced that future evictions in Ireland will meet with wholesale armed resistance by the tenants and their sympathisers. An extraordinary attempt has been made to destroy a church at Madrid, by throwing bomb-shells into it while the congregation was assembled for public worship. Moody and San key have announced that they will re-visit England in September next, and that, after holding a series of meetings, they will proceed to Ireland on a reviv tour. During next year a party of members of the English Alpine Club are expected to explore the Southern Alps in the Canterbury Province, New Zealand. The Auckland City Council office has been robbed, the treasurer’s safe being opened and £2O in gold and notes taken. The cash-box, with cheques for £3l, waa found in the adjoining yard. The Stolen Steamer. —Private telegrams from England state that the Highland Kailway Company’' received the amount of insurance on the steamer Ferret, alias India, which was reported at Home, to have been lost, and which is now at Melbourne.

Delayed Mails. —The Suez mail was late in March owing to the termination of the contract with the Union Company, then came the accident to the San Francisco boat, and now the wreck of the Tararua, with mails for Europe, has cansed a third delay 7. Two men, with between thirty and forty v dogs, have been rabbiting in the locality east of the Pumahunga, Wairarapa, and destroy weekly nearly 2000. Besides rations, powder, shot and caps, the men are allowed twopence per skin, which would give about £l6 to be divided for one week. Sunlight in England is a most valuable commodity 7. Professor Leone Levi estimates that every day of sunshine last summer was worth a million sterling to the country. Emigration returns issued in England show that while the excess of emigrants to the United Slates over immigrants in 1880 has been 131,000, as compared with 71,000 in the previous year, the number of the British population emigrating to Australasia has decreased from 35,000 to 18,000.

PATEA STOCK AND PEODUCE REPORT. 6th May. Mr C. F. Barker reports having held a clearing sale on the 4th inst., at Appleton Park, Kakaramoa, on behalf of Mr R. T. Southby. The sale was largely attended, and the bidding brisk throughout, especially in cattle, the enquiry for which class of stock there is a decided improvement. Cattle. —Milking cows, 18 head were yarded. These wore brought forward in good condition, wore thoroughly quiet and well bred, having been mostly imported from Canterbury. The prices ranged from £4 to £lO 10s ; 6 store cows, first class quality, £5 ss; 11 cows and calves, £4 17s 6d ; 10 cighteen-months-old and two-year sleeis, £3 10s ; 6 heifers, £3 2s 6d ; yearlings, 19 steers, £2 10s ; 13 heifers, £2 7s 6d. Horses -Draught working horses ranged from £lB to £29, and young draught from £7 to £lO. Hacks and young stock sold at fair prices considering the short demand for this class of stock. Sheer.— Cross-bred store wethers 200 sold at 8s 6d ; cross-bred store owes, 450 sold at 5s 0d ; fat inclines, 850 fetched 8s 4d ; and 650 stores brought from 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Pius.—These were really a first-class lot. Sows ranged from £2 to £4, and young store pigs 21s. Implements. —The drays and other farm implements were the best obtainable, and were in good order. Drays sold at £l3, £l7, and £22, D.E\ plough £l7, sowing machine £22 10s. Grain and Produce. —Wheat, 1400 bushels, white Tuscan, at from 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; oats, short Tartarian, 3s 9d ; barley, 2s 10k! ; potatoes, £3 per ton.

FREEMAN R. JACKSON’S FORTNIGHTLY STOCK REPORT. Wanganui, May 4. The sale at Hawora was very dull, no stock being sold under the hammer. I succeeded in placing nearly all that offered after the auction, at current rates. The continued dry weather militated against sale. At St. Hill-street to-day the bidding was brisk, all the lots being cleared, showing that confidence was in a measure restored by the splendid rain that fell during tbe last few days. I do not anticipate any change in prices of store stock during the next three months ; but, as a matter of course, fat stock will improve as the spring approaches. Cattle. —At Hawora, 510 head were yarded—Fat bullocks, £6 17s Cd ; best stores, £5 10s ; medium bullocks. £4 10s ; cows and calves £4 7s 6d ; heifers £2. At the yards to-day, 212 head were penned —Fat bullocks, £6 15s to £8 ; cows, £5 10s to £6 ; cows and calves, £4 10s ; cows, £3 to £3 5s ; heifers, £3 ; calves 355. Sheep. —At Hawera, 1051 were sold— Fat sheep, 10s ; interior 7s. At St. Hillstreet, 658 were sold—Fat wethers, 10s 6d ; store wethers 8s ; ewes and wethers, 7s 6d ; lambs in wool, 6s Od. Pins. —The pens were well filled— Porkers, 9s to 16s ; largo bacon pigs, £3 to £3 10.s ; small stores, 4s Gd to Gs. This description of stock arc at slightly lower values. Houses.— Mr G. Mitchell’s horses sold fairly well —2 year old draughts, £6 to £l2 ; 3 year olds, £ls to £lB ; hacks, us usual, no alteration in prices. Exports.— Bo cattle, 622 sheep, and 50 pigs.