YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3126, 25 February 1873, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S NEWS.

The New Zealand Herd'd, in a recent editorial, styles Mr G, E. Barton, “ihe Court Jester.”

Six pairs of grouse were shipped on board the Warwick for the .Auckland Acclimatisation Society, Only one pair survived the passage.

The scarcity of female servants continues general throughout the f’olonv. Forty-live domestics came to Auckland by the Warw ck, and in four days all were engaged with the exception of five. Six of them obtained employment at 12s a week, and the remainder at from Ss to 10s a week.

Owing no doubt to the threatening state of the weather, the attendance at the Circus was not so large as on the previous occasion. The programme was repeated, and the various items were gone through with a degree of expertnrss, accuracy, and ability which excited freqm-nt, lend. and prolonged applause. The audience seemed thoroughly to enjoy the performance. There will be an entire change of programme this evening. We are glad to sec that Otago will be so well represented at the Colonial prize tiring. Twenty-three men, including the present champion, two ex-champions, and eleven, of our best shots leave by the 1 hoebe on Wednesday, and we have every reason to hope that not only will the new belt come to the Province, but that it will receive the lion’s share of the pnVs. Vet we think it will he hard pressed by the Northern men, and particularly by those, from theThamesdisti ict, which we see by our teh grams sends down ten men, three of whom are Government representa’ives, while the extra ones include Captain Murray, Lieutenant Hoskins, Volunteers Barrington, Stone, Thomas, and Gordon. Hoskins, Gordon, and Partington shot at Christchurch last year; the flrstnnntioncrl shot steadily throughout the meeting and was at one time close up for the championship ; Partington was the winner of the ladies’ prize.