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Patea Mail, 19 September 1881, Page 4

All the Bay of’lslands natives, north of Auckland, have-to be vacillated,. Government have promised to, consider the question of offering a bonus of so much per. head-on each of the’first fifty ostriches introduced into,; New Zealand, with the .view of. encouraging ostrich farming. . ' During the storm on, Sunday might,, the 11th, a large rata tree growing about 6 or 8 chains from Mr W, Galpin’s house, on the Ngarnrn .Line, near Matron, was struck by lightning, and on the 14th was still burning. 1 In Committee of Supply on the 13th, Mr Bryce Staled that'the income of the colony, including taxation and railway profits did not exceed £2,000,000. Of that sum they had £1,500,000 to pay for interest on loans nnd sinking fiind, leaving not move than £500,000 for other purposes. Flogging.—-At Otaki on 14th September, nn alleged case of assault of a pupil by a teacher, for refusing to drill when ordered' to do so, the Court decided that the teacher had done his duly, but that as'no provision had been: made for physical training in the school he was fined in the nominal penalty of Is ; both sides to pay their own costs. Fish. —Trout which had been turned out in the river at Petano, Hawkes Bay, have all been killed by shags. Tjic fish had been let loose in a part of the stream overlinng by, a shag rookery, and of course had not a chance to live. Better success has attended the salmon trout turned out in the Tuki Tnki, it being reported that fish have been lately seen in the neighborhood of Patangata.