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Southland Times, Issue 1185, 20 December 1869, Page 3 (Supplement)

The Nelson Acclimatisation Society are advised that a large number of harea and partridges would be sent out by the John Banyan, which was to sail from London tor Nelson in September. The Mount Ida paper writes that a novel and interesting spectac ] c was presented at Naseby on Saturday .week, at the interment of the remains of the deceased child oi Mr W. J. Millar, found drowned in a water-liole in that town on the 18th insi. The coffin containing the remains of the deceased child was borne to its last resting-place by young boys, children of gentlemen in the township. Much interest attached itself to this unusual spectacle. About a fortnight ago a party of two left Queenstown en route for Martin's Bay, via the Greenstone River, for the purpose of prospecting the ground in that neighborhood. They took away with them, says a Cromwell paper, a natural curiosity in the shape of a jackass, laden with provisions, implements, &o. A horse, described as "a pretty little bay gelding," was sold the other day at the Hutt pound, Wellington, for the sum of two shillings , being considerably les3 than the cost of the, advertisement announcing the saL?. The Daily Times of the Bth mat. understands that the Provincial Government have accepted a tender from Mr Proudfoot, the contractor, for the construction of' the: Port Chalmers Railway, for the sum of £70,000. This sum is to include permanent way* rolling stock, and stations. The contract has not yet been signed, but all the arrangements have been verbally made. The New Zealand Gazette of the 29fch ult., contains the appointment of Harvey, Thomson, Esq., to the various offices lately held by Mr John Hare in Southland. An inter-provincial cricket-match between Canterbury and Otago, played in Dunedin last week, resulted in a victory for the latter by 4 wickets. Of seven matches played, Otago has won five. A " San Francisco Monthly Line of Packets " is advertised in the Sydney paperß. The first vessel of the line — the Yosemitc — was to have I sailed from Sydney on the 15th ult.