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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1066, 27 April 1882, Page 2

The South Dunedin Borough has floated a water loan of £5OOO, bearing interest at 6 per cent., at par. It has been discovered that the railway was mined in no less than eleven different places between St. Petersburg and Moscow. A large meeting of unemployed has been held at Trafalgar Square, London, at which resolutions were carried urging upon the Government the necessity of providing means for assisted family emigration to the Colonies.

The semi-official Government organ of St. Petersburg, declares with reference to the retirement of Prince Gortschakolf, and his succession by M. De Giers, that the Russian policy is strictly pacific. According to the Board of Trade returns nearly 40,000 tons of fresh beef were imported into England from America last year. The value of this enormous quantity of animal food £2,000,000, or a fraction over ad pei s.

Shipments of butter are being made from Auckland to Sydney, the Auckland market being glutted, and farmers finding difficulty in disposing of their weekly produce at even 8d per lb. In Sydney it is worth something like Is 9d. The Thames Ailver/iser says Shareholders in tl:e principal claims at Te Aroba agreed, at a meeting on Saturday, to give Mr J.C. Firth, of Auckland, a large interest in the mines. He is erecting a 40-liead stamper battery. A mining expert from Victoria has passed a high opinion on the goldfield. Messrs Haynes and Archibald, the defendants in the libel case of Moore v. the proprietors of the Sydney Bulletin, who were imprisoned on the 6th of March for non-satisfaction of a writ for over £6OO costs in the suit, were released on the 21st instant, from gaol, the money having been guaranteed in payment of the costs.

Mrs Langtry has an eye to business. Her terms for her provincial tour are 60 per cent, of all receipts, she herself finding nothing but the company. The stage appointments must be “of the very best description,” and the scenery must all be new, as “ Mrs Langtry does not accept the usual scenery found in stock.” Provincial managers are fighting shy of Mrs Langtry. Mr Gladstone has written to Mr Bradlaugh on hie exclusion from the House of Commons. He says : —” As you are aware the House lias determined by a considerable majority to take into its own hands the exercise of this jurisdiction. Thus the measure which I contemplated has failed ; and I may say, in reply to your inquiry, that I am not prepared with any other to propose.”

Sir Henry and the Misses Parkes, who are now visiting Stoneleigh, the birthplace of Sir Henry, are the guests of Lord Leigh, at Stoneleigh Abbey, near Kenilworth, Warwickshire. A procession of children and laborers of the district was formed in honor of the Premier of New South Wales, and presented him with a congratulatory address. A match, for £lOO a side, has been made between Mr Joe Gallagher’s Catch’em and Mr Joe Gallagher’s (of Taupo) Te Whetu. The race will take place on the Auckland Steeplechase Course, at two o’clock, on Saturday next. Pat McCoy will pilot Catch’em. Te Whetu is most fancied.