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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1049, 4 October 1878, Page 4

The mails for America, Great Britain, and Europe, via San Francisco, will ciose at th« Milton Post Office on the morning of Thursday, the 10th inst., at 8 o'clock.

Several cattle have been poisoned lately by eating tutu on the ridges in the Tokomairiro diutricfi.

We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Feigu3OLi f.n* the vifc.l statistics of thy. disfcric':. duntur the \mfit mo ; 'th. rp hey are : — Butbs, 49 ; dra^-s, 3 ; marriage, 1.

A F"WV da s ago, three ba^s of oits weiv stolen fr..m a field beloogiug to v-r Aadrevp M'Lir n, where they had beeu left overnight for the pur pose of bc-ing sown on r.tie morrow. PkESSTJRE on our 8} ace hs>s compelled us to omit, from gthis ami the previous issue of the Bruoe Bekalb the customary instalments of tbeiovel, " A Co>infcy P»m»iy." It« publication will be resumed n our next.

Messrs Bryce Bros,, entire h>r-:e, General, was sold ~ffc r the lace Walking Show in Dun edin or £285 guinea*. This is crotiitable to the Lovell's Fiat district, where the horde was reared. General i* a four year old.

It is creditable to Mr J. Watson, of Milton, under wuose supervision tbe Matau bridge was built, tLafc it has stood the atram of the late fl od without the slightest siga of yielding Yet when it was built such a flood was uever expected

At Waugaloa a bridge and a quantity of debris have been washed as lore. One or two residents c»f Milton have found their way to the coast and by last accounts were reaping a harvest in skinning sheep, c-.ttle, a<«d several goats which were cast ashore from the sea.

The open season for trout fishing (except in the Water of Leith) began on Tuesday last. Ifc may be as well to intimate to a co«pl» of persons from Milton who in past time have been in the habit of netting Lovell's Creek, that the Acclimatisation Society's Hanger, Mr Bart, has received orders to keep a strict eye upon poachers. The amount received from Mr Bracken's recent lecture in aid of the Otago Benevolent Asylum, was £14 4s Od. Considering that the prices were much, lower than those usually charged afc Milton, this argues well for the crowded state of the house on the occasion of the lecture. The Benevolent Asylum will realise some £12 from this, with the government subsidy of pound for pound in addition. A movement is on foot amongst the settlers inte. ested to pre«s upon the Railway authorities the necessity for a station andsiding at the crossing ef the district road leading to the .North Branch of the Tokomairiro River. A petition is being numerously signed showing the quantity of produce sent away from this portion of the district each ytar, and pointing out other facts iv suppers of its requestFur the information of local subscribers to the Royal Association for the promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, it may be mentioned that the prizes drawn by subscribers in New Zealand this year were : 9916, St. .Nicholas and Belfry, Ghent, by Ernest George, £21— P. L. Dienan, Crom-ell, Naseby, New Ze land ; 8814, Late Autumn on the River Achray, Tr.»s.-ache, by P. Buchanan, £21 - Sulscntt-r, ficton, New Zealand ; 9925. Near Murvhly, Du-ikeld, by James W. D >w, £5 ss.— j Alexander, P. M. Ophir. Naseby, New Zealand.

an act of practical though quiet ph Lmthropy clessrvfs r. cord. Mr Jain^s El 1* r ßrown, he-T---in^ that there was a scarcity of bread at St r ling auiot.gsfc the people driven fr^m sh^ir homss by the floods, went to a baker in Vlilton, •md at his own c >«£ d^spxtoheti a earn of breal to the place in quetio ;. This *'as of fj,t- mo c service than the offije^ of gentlaaien who wmc about asking p-O(jle how many persons thty could aceomodafce when none wanted to come Mr James Adam parcicu arly distinguished him self in the latter direction.

Mk R. BAi/LAivxrwE, the representative of a firm of Canadian is at present in vlilton, engaged in the work of canvassing for subscribers for a new work on " Sacred History, Biography, and Explorations, &c" Tha enterprising publishers of the work, Messrs J. W. L«yon and o<>., of Guelph. Canada, have recently established a branch or their business in Melbourne, and] Mr Ballantyne is tbeir agent in JSTew Zealand. Haying sojd nearly 3000 copies since his arrival in »-ay last, he may lairly be congratnlafcsd on the success attending his mission. Mr Ballantyne has been also successful in arranging with this newspapsr for a column advertisement all to himself, to which, for further particulars we have much pleasure if directing the attention of our readers.