INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1483, 5 January 1882, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Last Night.

H.M.S. Emerald was expected to leave Sydney on the 31st December for Wellington, reaching here about the tenth. It is understood she will take His Excellency to either Fiji or Sydney. The total Customs revenue collected in the colony for the nine months ending, 31st December, amounted £1,074,749, being about £66,000 over the estimate. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, Alfred Morey and Eliza Stewart were convicted of robbing from the person, and sentenced to three years and six months' imprisonment respectively. Mary Morey was acquitted. The charge against the Hon. C. T. Pharazyn will be heard to-morrow. AUCKLAND, Lufe Night. The selection committee appointed to pick a team to represent Auckland in the forthcoming match with the English cricketers are as follows :— J. Mumford, Lynch, and Robinson. '

;•<_ A careful observer reports that he has ;seen a toad swallow" 54 rose-bugs for a and another feast on five large green caterpillars; two.-thirds the size of a lady's little finger. They will even fteke^the' hairy jnp'?tbirds 'dislilce; ;' f armWand'gSrdenerß,wduld' do :weU s ;tb tf cultiva^ W xweful 'th^upliimble