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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1003, 24 November 1881, Page 4

As usual politics run rough in Wanganui. The Herald speaks of Sir William Fox as a c< hoary-headed sinner ” and a “ wind-bag. ” A Wtnxrft — The London “ Economist” warns investors against lending more money to Queensland. With a population of 226,000 she hasa debt of £13,200,000,and while that of New South Wales is but £24 per head of her population, Queensland’s is £5B per head. Her resources are much inferior to those of Net/ South Wales. Sir Garnet Wolseley expresses the i that the Channel tunnel will | never be constructed. He considers that it would be a lasting source of danger to England. The Hawke's Bay Herald says It will be seen that another addition has been made to the racing stock of this district, Mr C. C. Murray having purchased at Mr Ford’s sale Mr C. Webb’s Virginia Water for 400 guineas. A lady wanted her little girl to bathe in a room, the windows of which opened into the yard, in which were some fowls. “ But,” said the little girl, “ I don’t want to bathe before the chickens.” “ Oh, never mind the chickens,” said her mother. “Well, said the little woman, “ I won’t bathe before the rooster, anyhow.” Speaking of the Foxhall and Iroquois victories, the Times says: —“We may honestly and cheerfully congratulate Americans upon another solid triumph worthy of them, by which the racing season has been marked ; but these triumphs are not purely American, as Iroquois and Foxhall are of pure English and Irish descent. Until one of our great races is won by a horse of American blood and breeding, and trained and ridden by an American, Englishmen will not feel alarmed.” Keene’s Foxhall won the Select Stakes at Newmarket on the 12th, and his jockey, McDonald, was presented with £2,000. Foxhall, it is said, will be pitted against Iroquois, soon. The Otago Daily Times has the following :—During the hearing of a case for damage consequent upon the spread of the bush fire on the Peninsula, Mr MacDermott, who appeared for the defendant, urged that the common law of England would not in this matter apply to the colony, because here fire was used as an ordinary means for clearing ground. Mr Simpson remarked that the lighting of fire for that purpose was also an ordinary farming process at Home ; to which Mr MacDermott replied that it might be in the North of Scotland or other barbarous places, but not in England. This called forth a retort from Mr. Denniston tothe effect that the bogs of Ireland might have been improved by the same process ; and later on Mr. MacDermott expressed the opinion that the practice only ■’ prevailed in the Highlands, before Scotland was civilised by an influx of _the Irish nation. The arrest of Parnell in Dublin, on the morning of the 13th, caused great excitement in that city. The warrants were signed by Secretary Forster, and charged the agitator with inciting the people, and the intimidation of others from paying their just rents, and with intimidating tenants from taking the benefi tof the Land Act. He was locked up in Kilmainham gaol. The Cabinet was unanimous on the subject of the arrest. Gladstone was informed of it at Guildhall, and his announcement of the fact was received with uproarious cheering by the whole of the large assemblage, the guests rising, and waving their hats and handkerchiefs. Mr. Parnell’s arrest, which took place at Morrison’s Hotel, Dublin, has caused intense excitement throughout Ireland. Carlow, Kildare, Longford, Louth, Wexford and Wicklow counties, and certain baronies in Meath have beeiv-proclaimed under the Coercion Act Moderate Liberals and Conservatives approve of the arrest. In announcing the event at Guildhall, LonMr. Gladstone said: —I have been > informed that the first step has been taken toward the the vindication of law and order, the rights of property, and the first elements of civilisation, by the arrest of the man who, entirely from motives which I do not challenge or examine, has made himself prominent in an attempt to destroy the authority of the law. We are not at issue with the people of Ireland. I firmly believe the majority of tenants earnestly desire a trial of the Land Act. The power with which we are struggling is that which endeavors to say how far the people shall obey the law. We have no fear of the people of Ireland, but do fear lest many shall become demoralised or intimidated.”

REGULAR Sales of Live Stock and Farm Produce are held by the subscribers at Ohaupo on the first and Third Thursday, and at Cambridge on the First Saturday- for Horses, and Fourth Thursday for Cattle &c., in each Month conducted by our W. J. Hunter & Co., Ohaupo. On each Tuesday at Newmarketat 1 o’clock, for Horned Cattle Sheep and Pigs. On each Friday at Durham Yards, Auckland at 11 o’clock, for Horses, Vehicles, Saddlery, Agricultural Implements, and Produce. Always on hand for private sale, Sydney drays, Saddlery, Harness, Bonedust, Artificial Manures, Clover and Grass Seeds. At Papakura on the First Wednesday in each month, at half-past 12 o’clock (Principal Market for Store Cattle). At Pukekohe, on the Second Wednesday in each month, at 12 o’clock (good market for obtaining Well bred Stock and young cattle). ■ Wool Sales held fortnightly in November and December. Skins, Hides, and Wool Sales, weekly at the Durham Yards, at 2 o’clock. 30 HUNTER & NODAN.