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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 205, 28 August 1880, Page 2

A wanton waste is referred to by the Rangitikei Advocate: — "The wild cattle in Paraekaretu bush are an excellent source of meat supply to the struggling settlers, and they are naturally jealous of strangers poaching on these preserves, especially when the interlopers shoot the cattle merely for the hides, and leave the carcasses to rot. Two men from Wanganui recently paid the bush a visit and shot twenty-seven head of the wild cattle, skinned them, and left tbe carcasses behind in the forest. A late Sydney telegram says :— An impudent and mysterious robbery of gold, in transit from the Queensland National Bank, at Cooktown, per steamer Victoria, to the City Bank, Sydney, was discovered on arrival here of the vessel. Five boxes, contained about 500 ounces, and one of these believed to contain about 126 ounces, was noticed to, be very light, and was opened with special attention, in the presence of witnesses, by the manager of the City Bank, and found to contain only scraps of paper. Investigation leads to the belief that an empty box was substituted for the full one between the bank and the ship at Cooktown. * * * * * * * Referring to the theft of the gold from Cooktown, people say they remarked at the time of shipment that the box was much lighter than the others. The wharf at Cooktown is about a third of a mile from tbe bank, and the route running along the main street. The Customhouse is a wooden shed on the wharf. The box sent bore three National Bank seals, but the box received had no bank seals, but two without impression and one Customhouse stamp ; none of the other gold boxes had the Customs seal. Mrs Greer, whose name has figured so prominently ' in connection with the Melbourne Opera House tragedy, passed matriculation examinations at the Dublin acd Oxford Universities, and graduated at the London Academy of Music. It was intended that she should open a music olass at Fow, and that her husband should find a position in some bank. The following is a summary of the rateable lands in the colony under the Crown and Native Lands Bating Bill :— Crown lands in North Island : agricultural, 860,727 acreß ; pastoral, 3,936,767 acres. South Island : agricultural, 2,738,926 acres ; pastoral, 17,975,908 acres ; or a total of both classes of 25,512,338 acres. Native lands in North Island : agricultural, 1,544,797 acres ; paatoralj 8,270,169 acres. South Island : agricultural, 66,206 acres ; pastoral, 173,189 acres ; total, 10,054,361 acres. He came into tho editor's room with a large roll of manuscript, and said very politely : " I have a trifle here about the beautiful sunset yesterday, dashed off by a friend of mine, which I would like inserted if you have room." " Plenty of room. Just insert it yourself," replied the editor, gently pushing the waste basket towards him. " Zephaniah," said his wife, with a chilling severity, *• I saw you coming out of a saloon this afternoon." "Well, my darling," replied the heartless man, " you wouldn't have your husband stayiDg in a Baloon all day, would you?" A shocking case of inhumanity occurred in the Wairarapa a few days since. A traveller was returning hojie, when from some cause the horse ridden by bim fell and broke its leg. Tlie rider left it there upon the road with the bone protruding through the skin, and of course unable to move. However, some persons passing by at once communicated with tho polico, who went out and ended the animal's sufferings by shooting him. — Poet.