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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2702, 16 November 1881, Page 3

A rara avis in (this) terris, a nightingale says an Auckland paper, was shown at the Auckland Agricultural Show last week 1 Could not these glorious songsters be acclimatised with us ? The Government Insurance Department are now offering bonus certificates to policy holders. We have just been shown one announcing a bonus of £sl on a policy of £SOO. Seeing that the premiums paid on this policy only amount to £9O, the bonus must be considered very satisfactory. The bonus mentioned is added to the policy. The report of Consul Layard from Noumea gives a poor account of the condition of New Caledonia. “ I have stated, he writes, “ that this island can never be a colony in the true sense of the word. As a penal settlement it will last just so long as the French Government maintains its extensive staff of officials and the naval and military forces necessary to curb the convicts. Withdraw these, and I am confident that at the end of the year not a single person that can leave the island will remain on it.”