NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, Thuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2021, 20 June 1885, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, Thuesday.

Tin flnp«t lot of mciino >>tud sheep c\er seen hcie lia\c been nnpoitcd by Alessis Hoadh-y and Co. fioni the well-known stud flock ot M. Weston, Tasmania. They pas& undei the hammer next Monday. The Boiough Council has had a by l.uv passed against piocessions without pot mission of the authorities. This is aimed chiefl} at the Salvation Aimy nui sauce. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The main lull of the exhibition building is completed, and space for exhibitors is being maikcd oft. b Fiiilay. Yesterday about £700 was paid at the Custom- lioise as duty on under proof spmts, and to day, up to a short time befoic clobing, the amount of duty paid on that account was nearly £.">l)00. Niwily all tlic tea has been cleared from bond at this port. An old settler named Capt. Edwin Stafford, well known in connection with the shipping tiade between this colony and Newcastle, \\ci found dead in bed this morning at the Lower Hutt. Death occurred fiom natural causes. The Poet has been sold by Mr Donne's executors to a Wellington sportsman for £100. The Minister for Mines has placed £1000 on the estimates for the construe tion of a hgh level water race at the Tnanirs, the amount to be expended on the county providing another £1000. Should the Lowl Finance and Powers Bill become law, the count} will be in a pohition to borrow money for this work on the secnnty of a special subsidy. CHRISTCHUROH, Thursday. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals here have decided to hold a Children's Pet Show for the cxhi bition of all sorts of animals. The Belfast Freezing Company arc making additions to tlwir woiks which will be completed about the end of November, and comprise storage accommodation for £5000 more sheep. The killing and freezing capaaity of the woiks will be raised from 412.'i4 I 2.'i sheep per diem to G'»o. TIMARU, Thursday. At the Magistrate's Couit today, Fiedk. liiicts, who escaped fioin tiie haul labour gang yesterday, but wab afterwauls le-captuied, was sentenced to thirty days in nons and sobtaiy confinement, and twenty-four days on bread and water. DUNKDIN, Thursday. Thiee handsome boxes of New Zealand woods ha\e been prepared for Mr Vincent Pyke, lined with satin. In each box is a copy of "The Old Flag," printed on satin in gold. They aie intended for piesentation, one each to the Queen, Prince of Wales, and Duke of Edinbuigh. TACPO, Friday. Two thousand eton- sheep, with Dick Holies m chaige, passed through here from HawLo's Bay for Cambiidge and northern markets.

An Ttauan Ojutok on tiii, Biutimi Om\kactek.— An Italian deputy, Signor De Zi-ibi, speaking the other day at Java an Colonial expansion, said :— " The Englishman, the true mirror in which is lcfk'ctcd and revived the ancient Koman nature, departs without looking back, is not disheaitcned at the fiist reverse, and considers nothing useless to the life of his country. He watches the little island of Peiim with the same jealousy with which he guards the \ast cmpiic of the Indies. He spends blood and money on Zululand as on the rock of Aden. He does not fear distance from his native land, nor shun enoinious lesponsibihty. He does not require the ground to yield oaks or palms lin a single day. When— stmck by the f.ill of Khartoum, by the anger of 13iamark, by dynamite explosions, by the Purliamentry desertion of the Parnellites, by the death of Stewart— ho hears that Russia is taking advantage of this moment of anxiety to advance on Herat, he does not debpond. On the contrary, he rises supprb, and cues, confident in Ins strength, 'To Herat ! to Herat !' This piece of declamation was received by the audieuco with great applause,"