" Palmam qui meruit Ferat." " Prodigious !!!"

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 292, 17 March 1849, Page 2

" Palmam gui meruit Ferat." " Prodigious !!!"

On the 11th instant, a/e/e was giren at tbe Military Bairncki (Hobart Town,) to the grenadier and lixht companies of the 99th Reniment, by the officer* commanding them, Majors Sooylie ami Heed, in commemoration of the third anniversary of the successful attack on Kowiti'a Pah, at Ruapekapeka, in New Zealand, under the command of Colonel D«i>pard, C.B. One of the verandahs wai formed into a laloon decorated with flags and evergreeus, with stars of bayonets and swords neatly arranged, and floral deviceaoftho royal initials. One hundred and twentrr six men tat down to a substantial dinner provided for the occasion, and in tbe afternoon about thirty picked men who had been in New Zealand, in the costume of the country, blankets and rugs, held a palaver or cor* roborie on the parade ground. They were armed with muskets and spears, and many had their faces painted in imitation of their former tattooed antagonists. The w»r dance was performed very characteriitic»Uy in the presence of a ffood many spectator!.—Mtlbourn.Morn. ing Herald, January 2914.

AitMr.~sBth Foot, LiVntenaut Joieph Hely, from the 7th Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Peoder, who exchange!. '

M UxVipicbnt Offer.—-The Rev.W.C. Cotton, ChapUin to the Biihop of New Zealand, Jiai offered to gite to the restoration fund of St. Nicholas Church and schools, Great Yarmouth, on condition that the remaining deficiency be railed by the pariihionerir