INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 985, 4 March 1881, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL AND INTERCOLONIAL.

The Accclimitisation Society has <Teci<ln-) to have a closed season this year for pheasants. The receipts for admission to the Auckland cricket ground during the two days o the Australian match were—First day, U25; ami second day, LIGJ. Oueshilliiig a head was charge 1. A Native name I Himi Taina, recently discharged at Auckland on a charge of lunacy, on his return to M.mgonni, got locked up for larceny, and lire I the police station, which was destroyed, and escaped lienee. He was capture 1 ami brought up, and remanded to Auckland. • At Timani, on tha 24th ultimo, a clerk name I Holthonse, while practising with a pistol in a-buck yard, struck a little boy named George Healey over the region of the heart with the bullet. The injury is serious,-lint not 'likely to be fatal. Holthouse has been arrested and reman led. Tire third order of merit for b lots and shoes, hasdieim awarded to Lightband & hj .G'hi-iituhilrch, by the Melbourne hjxhibifciod Ja Iged. v 1 I Toe Victorian Government intend to try dl.avmtm t’s p’nisphorfse I oats- in their endeavors to exterminate the rabbit pest. i At tjie Licensing Court held at ,Welling-. loh on the Ist all triplications for newlrcOuahj were refused. The podee reported- that no’ further ,hotels Were required iu the City, - [His Excellency is expected to start on ihjs tour through the South about tile middle of next we. k. . ~ _ The Mayor of Lyttelton has receive 1 in-timation-that the Gove nor will visit chat place on his way South, but the exact date is not fixed,