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Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2956, 12 June 1877, Page 2

The manufacture of parchment has been commenced in the Marlborough province.

Insurers in the Standard Company will receive, next quarter day, a bonus in the shape of a reduction in the premiums payable.

The Wellington City Tramway Company promises to be a great success. The shares are nearly all taken up.

As shewing the growth of the Te Aro end of Wellington we may mention that in 1870 the valuation of that Ward was £32,059, now it is £84,340.

The N. Z. Herald states that the draft of the new Native Land Courts Bill will be circuJated during (he present week. The Auckland Land Ring, as well as the smaller Rings are said to be iv ecstasies.

Fifty five horses have been entered for the uext Melbourne Cup.

At a foe tball match in Auckland between a team of Colonial players agaiiist a team representing the World, the former won by a try to nothing. The local papers state that the game was well contested, the play being good all round.

The sporting writer in the Argus says :—: — 11 The result of tbe Wnnganui Steeples causes one to exclaim, not how are the mighty fallen, but rather how are the lowly risen, for last season the winner (Ireland) was passing through a most unsuccessful season as a hack hurdle racer."

A new wharf is to be constructed at Onehunga at a cost of £9410.

' Atlas,' in the World, says :— A rather curious story ia told, apropos of the boat race, about an old gentleman who, for the last twelve years, was in the habit of taking 1000 to 1 agaiust tho chances of a ' dead heat.' This bet has been yearly laid him by the same individual (who aunually received a P. 0.0. for £1). The poor fellow died this year a fortnight before the race.

One of the best aud most energetically managed acclimatisation societies in the Australasian colonies, is the Queensland one. From the fiist it has devoted the larger portion of its fuuds to theintroductiou of useful .fish, fiuit, ornamental trees, shrubs, grasses, &c, aud the settlers of Queensland are beginning to reap the benefit of the society's enterprise. Even the great teak tree has been introduced aud auccesßfully acclimatised. At [a recent meeting of the society, a settler wrote respecting the proper mode of growing some of these newly introduced trees. Some teak trees were stated to be 25 feet high, though they were tender pot plants four years ago. These teak trees were 8 inches in diameter at the base, and tbeir tops covered a space of 15 feet in diameter. There is now growing freely in Queensland, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, the Brazilian wine palm, the date tree, and almost all the tropical and semitropical plants of value in commerce. The arts aud sciences have either been acclimatised or are in a fair way of being so in that colony — N.Z. Herald.

Tenders are invited for the erection of an auction room and offices at Bulls.

The case before the District Court possessing keen interest for our readers in the Manawatu district;, we publish a full report.

The lease of the vacant section at the corner of St. Hill Street aud Taupo Quay, has been purchased by Messrs Hunter and Mills, who intend erecting business premises there.

The Regatta Committee meet ou Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. This evidence of its existence is gratifying, and we trust for the credit of Waugauui that the apathy Shewn by the members will be replaced by a determination to make the project the success it ought to be.

Mr Berry, at Geelong, said he would introduce a land tax estimated to yield £200,000, which would leave a surplus at the end of the year ; the whole to be devoted to the reduction of the tariff. Protective duties were not to be interfered with, but other articles not now protected would be added. A loan for railway purposes would probably soon be required.

At the conclusion of an article on the falling off in the Customs revenue, the Otago Da^ly Times says that ' although the Assembly may decide to relieve.the consolidated revenue of the payment in future of subsidies to the counties and boroughs, we shall not be surprised if the imposition of a land tax is proposed by the Government.'

The Ritualists (says the London Echo) have decided on the formation of an entirely new communion, and to secede from the existing Church ofEnglaud, it is said, on the 29th of May next. 'An archbishop and two bishops' are said to be consecrated by ' two foreign prelates ' — we suppose these must be Mr Reinkens and the Jansenist bishop — and, ' iv order to avoid trausgressing the law of the Church,' they will take ' English episcopal titles which have lain long in desuetude.' Mr Tooth is to be one of the three. The missal and manual of the new sect has been printed. It contains directions for the administering of the Seven Sacraments appointed by the Roman and Greek Chnrches, with the three creeds now in use, and the Decalogue after the English form, thereby closely resembling the Liturgy ia use by the Irvingitee.