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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 107, 7 May 1868, Page 2

Our readers will be glad to learn that the Executive, in compliauce with many representations which have been made to them on the subject, decided yesterday that the water supply should be placed on to the outer edge of property in every case, at the expense of the Government, instead of charging for its being laid on from the main, and those persons who have already paid for the laying on of the water from the opposite side of the street will be reimbursed. It will be seen from an advertisement elsewhere requesting that the members of the committee of the Nelson Branch of the New Zealand Patriotic Fund will meet to-morrow afternoon at Dr Irvine's apartments at Panama House, to receive Captaiu Rough's resignation of the Treasurersbip and to appoint a new Treasurer. A full attendance of the members is particularly requested. The Evening Post says that considerable uncertainty exists in the minds of sportsmen as to whether they may or may not shoot pigeons and other birds without a liceuse, and those who wish to be on the safe side are depriving themselves of the sport which at this season they have been accustomed to indulge in. The uncertainty arises apparently from the confusioa of terms, the Act making a distinction between ' game ' and 'native game.' Game includes only imported birds and animals, viz., pheasants, partridges, grouse, black game, quail, snipe, plover, swans, hares, antelope, deer, wild duck of any species, and such other imported animals or birds as the Governor may proclaim. Native game includes the following indigenous birds, viz., wild duck of any species, bittern, pied stilt plover, wild geese, wood pigeon, teal, black stilt plover, curlew, quail, and such other native birds as the Governor may proclaim. Licenses are only required to shoot or sell game ; any one may shoot or sell native game without a license, but, nevertheless, under one or two conditions, which may be thus briefly stated: — April, May June, and July are the only months in which native game may either be killed or sold, and in these months all Sunday shooting is strictly prohibited. The penalty for infringing these provisions, or trespassing on private property, is a sum not exceeding £20, one-half of which goes to the informer. In default of payment boys under 15 may be whipped, instead of sent to prison. The Wellington correspondent of the Oamaru Times says : — ' On dit, that the Press of Christchurch is to be removed to Wellington, where it is to be published in opposition to the Independent. ' Mr. H. F. Andrews, of H.M. Customs, Lyttelton, and formerly of Auckland, has been appointed Collector at Greymouth, vice Mr. JohnsoD, appointed to Nelson. According to the Court Journal, Lord Henry Lennox, Secretary to the Admiralty, has, it is reported, refused the governorship of Tasmania.