LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4942, 4 January 1879, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'i .. ■ ■ —-—♦ Hho City stock salesmen wish the Land loaUd sitting days altered from Wednesday on account of .that being the stock sales day. Owing to tire decrease of duty on tea and sugar L 1,741 waa collected at the CustomHouse yesterday on those articles alone. Three thousand two hundred and sixtyseven persons booked from Dunedin Railway Station -on ithe 2nd. inst. ! Of these 1,920 travelled on the Ocean Beach line, The police estimate the damage done by the Dunedin roughs' on New Year's Eve at El5O. j;=. ::.-•/;;• ■■• - ■ The yield of gold from tbe : Thamcs during 1878 was 01,607 ounces, or a decrease of 5,192 ounces ontheyield of 1877. . Mr Ancfrow Kinross, the Ministerial candidate for Mataura, addressed the electors of Eiyercafgill last night. He expressed him-' mt decidedly .in, favor of the Government on afl party, question*.; approved of the deferred payment system, and claimed credit for supporting it in the Provincial Council; would bo in fa a reduction of the price of. deferred payment land, and an extension ef time W that at the end of three years dummies could not hand over the HoldingsI'to 1 'to capitalists; and advocated manEood suffrage, with one year's Colonial and rfiort local residence. The numbers should 6e elimihated_froin the back of ballot papers. Ke believed in an elective Council, but the power to elect:should be veßted in proper Vv . 'He agreed with ''*" the principle of the land tax, and thought that they-Bliould-.B\\bseqnently have an income tax. Ee would 'support the' Ministry in adopting measuresi ; to. restrict Chinese imjrrigratioTbv;. AuMiiimoKß, "vote of confidence

"The South fjraedin. .Church,, of, .England < 0?* 7 - Sch ° ol ? 'nanibcring ''ltiG^witK 4 -their ' n T.^ B » held"an enjoyable picnic and excursion at Green Wand on the 2nd inst., in grofenda kindly given for that purpose by Mr Buckingham having retired from the contest, Mr . John Studholme has been elected for Gladstone in the room of the late Mr Teschemaker. :