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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 875, 24 November 1870, Page 2

The Acclimatisation Society at InvercargiU, at their last meeting, passed a- resolution affirming the desirability oi' the Society being affiliated to the Otago Acclimatisation Society, A Mr T. L. Shepperd, who is a candidate for the representation of the Wukutipu, di«< trict (Otago) in the General Assembly, addressed the electors the other day, and in the course of his speech pointed o t the injury that would accrue to the province unless stringent measures were taken to prevent the inHux of Chinese on the goldfields of Otago, and to check it, he proposed that a poll, of £SO per head be imposed upon Chinamen, as well as heavy duty on rice ( At the meeting of the Senate of the Uni* versify of Melbourne recently, a letter was read from Professor Hearn, stating that an Unknown donor had made ati offer oi the sun* of £I,OOO, for the purpose of founding a new scholarship. The gift was not accompanied with any restriction* whataver.

We (Evening Post) learn that Mr George. .M'lutyre, one of the permanent Hansard staff, lias been appointed chief clerk in tue oiibe of the Eegistrar General of Land. Mr who is by profession a surveyor* is also practically acquainted with the working of the Tori-ens' Act, having for some years filled an, appointment, iu the Registrar's Qdico in T%%*. mania.

Oattlo owners in the Waitahuria distriot (Otago) have lost heavily of late by the tutu. A Southern paper says that the Omeo took a consignment of four dozen loaves of bread to the Bluff, not that the article was scarce there, but that it could be brought from Dunedinand Bold at the Bluff for twopence per 41b loaf less than the Invercargill price. The important portion of the machinery of the next election was deposited on Nov. 17 in the Supreme Court building. They are about the size of tea chests, and very much resemble children's money box;s overgrown. The following interesting information is from a Nelson contemporary :—-The trout hatched in the ponds and placed in the Maitai have thriven amazingly. Although only about fifteen months old, several of the fish are now nearly two feet in length. Should they have ■pawned this year, the river will be well Btocked with fish next season, and means may be taken to distribute them in other rivers. Host of the English birds introduced by the Society have increased at a wonderful rate, and more particularly the skylarks, which have spread so far as to reach the Wairau. These birds are now in such numbers that they build within the town, and may be heard in the morning from the principal streets. Linnets and finches have increased in like manner, and the colony of sparrows established on Dr Kenwiek'a farm at Stoke ore fast spreading over the neighborhood. Blackbirds and thrushes are seldom seon —the latter have disappeared altogether, but the note of the black bird may be heard at the back of Mr Huddleston's residence in the Wood, where a pair have built for the last three years. The starlings a!ao have disappeared, but they did so well for the first season there can be little fear .for their safety although nothing is seen of them. The two surviving rooks, so long restless for want of mates, we can hear nothing of Probably they are dead, unless they have found their way to the North Island, and joined the birds recently landed in Auckland. The Californian quail promises to become as plentiful as the pheasants, and are rapidly increasing. The Australian brown quail, turned out at Motueka, will, we hope, thrive equally well, although a pair of birds brought #ome years ago from Austa'ia by Mr Kedwood, and liberated in the Waimea, where they were known to have bred one season, iubaequently disappeared with I heir offspring. The attempt to acclimatise grouse, about to be made at Auckland we should like to see followed here. Both the red and fallow deer are ■increasing, and the country they have to range over affords such shelter as will ensure thek security.