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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1629, 17 November 1874, Page 431

The annual auction sale of pure-bred sheep and cattle held on Saturday at Christchurch, was very successful. Messrs Miller and Heslop, Hawke's Bay, purchased several sheep at high prices. In a case of sly grog-selling William Monteith of Green Island, Otago, was fined £2O and coats on the first, and £lO and costs on the second information. Two others were fined £2O and costs for a similar offence.

The fledgling Province of Westland (says the Tribune) is making the most of its probably dying hours to sport a little vain finery. It has imported a "seal" from Melbourne—not an amphibious seal, of the kind whose skin is so precious,.but a. device for producing impressions on provincial documents, of which the local papers describe the design to be exceedingly appropriate. What the fern-tree with five fronds, under which two kiwis are grazing, can have to do with special appropriateness to Westland, we are at a loss to conceive. The Latin motto may, we presume, be read either seriously or facetiously: first, as meaning " I too shall reap a harvest of plunder;" secondly, as " I shall be in the same mess as the rest," Btmeammiaeritf