DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 65, 31 October 1844, Page 2

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

The Government Gazette.—ln this publication, of Saturday last, we find it notified that the 3 )th of December, 1844, is fixed for the next Government Land Sale. This Sale will be the last at which Land Scrip obtained under commissioned awards on Land Claims will be available in exchange ; and that during the temporary absence of his Excellency the Governor from the seat of Government.no decision will be given on application for Pre-emption Certificates To prevent, however, the public suffering unnecessary delay, applications wrll be received and registered as usual, and the customary preliminary investigation on each case will be instituted. New District-—On Saturday last the Surveyors General returned to Auckland after being absent about a month. We understand Mr. Ligar has completed a purchase of a fine tract of country, which Mr. Shortland secured whils acting Governor, at Malta Matta, about eighty miles from Auckland; after which, Mr. Ligar explored the country, and with much difficulty found a good line of road from that district to Auckland, following the Western side of the range of mountains which divide the plains of the Waikato and the Thames. The! land is described as being of a very good description for agricultural pursuits for the greater part of the way. The Government Brig.—We have seen a letter received here from a gentleman who went as a passenger by the Government brig in her last trip to Wellington, who says the brig left the Bay on the Monday Eveniug and was at anchor at Wellington on the following Thursday Evening, thus completing the passage from port to port in three days, being the quickest passage on record. Business of all kinds was very dull in Wellington, aad the only Newspaper there, the Spectator, had stopped,

••- <mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammma»mpmmamammsam Y " ■ ——— The Dog Nuisance Act. —Prior to v this Act being brought into operation we ; had many complaints about the number of "dogs found wandering about the town and Bow that the Act is being carried into effect, some of the inhabitants are alarmed at the manner in which the dogs are destroyed, and amongst others, our cotempotary of the Times in his paper of Tuesday Jast, says, " the Poiice Magistrate will doubtless recollect the useful arrangements adopted at Sydney, and prevent for the future the disgusting exhibition of hanging the unhappy animals." There is no doubt the Police Magistrate does recollect how the dogs are made away with in Sydney, but the Times should know that the Police Magistral has not the power of having the brutes destroyed by any other means than those prescribed by the Ordinance, which is hanging, and whilst the bill was before the Council, on* July 11th, 1844, we said : ••*' A Dog Nuisance Bill, is about to be introduced; we observe that in certain cases, where dogs are taken up and not claimed within a given time they are to be banged; we hope for the sake of humanity, they will substitute some more easy death for the poor animals than hanging, which would perhaps keep them in torture for an hour, besides making a disgusting exhibition if done in any public place. Drowning in the sea would probably be the best substitute." The bill was hastily passed through the Council, and it was enacted that the dogs should be hanged ; we therefore repeat that the P. M. has no discretion but to have the dogs hanged. BIRTH.—On Monday mornng at her residence, Albert-street, Mrs. G. H. Denyer of a son. n*^***~