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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 138, 19 March 1872, Page 3

From Tauranga wc learn of a serious accident, which bofel a little boy, a son of Captain Sellars, on the 12th inst. I lie little fellow was playing on the beach at ’le Papa, and was accidentally run over by a dray, belonging to Mr Percy. One of the child’s thighs was broken, but it isexpected that the injuries will not be of a permanent character. —lbid.

It is reported that a case of small-pox has occurred iu Sail Francisco. Oi the arrival of the steamer Constitution in San Francisco, from Panama, she was placed in quarantine in consequence of one of the passengers having died of small-pox on the passage. The man died twelve days afvr li 1 >vas seized with the disease. No other case hid occurred. — D. S. Cross.

The//". B. Times says:—“The s-homier Hero, which arrived on March 8 fr an Wairoa. was the bearer of three native prisoners, recently captured at Ruakitr.re by bubInspector Ferris and a party of constabulary, One of them, named Maaka, is believed to be one of those notorious Hanhaus euphonic i.lly termed To Kooti’s ‘ executioners.’ The prisoners were marched to the Napier gaor.” The Sporting Gazette Melbourne cores-r pendent remarks ,l By the mail I have been informed that Harry (Jooke, so long and favourably known as trainer and j -okay on the Victorian Turf, and who took charge of the horse Darkie when he left here tor India, was accidentally shot dead when out hunting in Ceylon. From the same source, I learn that the well-known horse -Skipper, formerly the property of Mr Hurtle l-’isher. reported to have died ou the passage up, is alive and kicking, and that he is having a most successful career at Calcutta, under the assumed name of Victor. Several horses from Victoria have been lately sold in India with made-up pedigrees; a colt by Panic out of Marchioness, and any number of Panics out of celebrated mares, having been in the. market there. I need scarcely say that such impositions do an immense injury to the trade, and those men who resort to such disreputable practices are not only destroying their own business, but bringing discredit on the colony. Mr Clceland’s two horses, sent by the Geelong, arrived at Gallo in good order, notwithstanding they had rather a rough passage. Saturday’s Volunteer Gazette says : “ Wc arc credibly informed that in a few weeks the War Medal, granted by H. M. Government to the Colonial Forces in New Zealand, will be ready for presentation, and wc take this opportunity of calling the attention of the Defence Minister to the irregularity that is now permitted to exist, recipients of prizes for good shooting being allowed unquestioned to wear the emblems of their successes in the rille range on the same breast as that acknowledged, by all nations and in all ages, to be the place only for marks of gallant distinction won either in the Cabinet or the field. Captain Every Maclean, a good oflicer iu the colonial service, might just as well appear on parade with the legiou of medals lie has deservedly gained for short-horns, fat pigs aud sheep, as those members of the Volunteer Force from the Middle Island who were present at the last General Government prize-firing with their left breasts covered with decorations (gained by successful company aud district firing) which would have been equally meritorious and distinctive, and not open to criticism, if worn, by permission of the New Zealand Government, on the right. Wc feel confident that wc have only to bring the above circumstances to the notice of the Defeiic Minister to ensure correction by a geueral order being issued on the subject of the wearing of medals and other decorations granted to the New Zealand service, civil aud military.” Wc quite agree with what our contemporary says, and think that the authorities should interfere in the matter, as at the present momeut, to the uninitiated, the nut who wears a company’s prize-firing me. al, appears just the same as the nun who has perhaps fought hard for the Imperial medal,