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Cromwell Argus, Volume XII, Issue 587, 8 February 1881, Page 6

At the Auckland Police Court the other day a large number of larrikins were sentenced to three months' imprisonment for robbing orchards. The steamer Protos has been chartered for two more voyages between Australia and London to bring cargoes of fresh meat and other articles of food. Our old friend Mr Thos. Fergus is Hon. Treasurer of the Dunedin Athenteum. Last year no less than £BOO were expended on books for the institution. There is a great rush of grain from the Victorian country districts to Melbourne. Becently the goods platform at Spencer-street station was crowded with over 50,000 sacks. The Australian Eleven won the match against the Canterbury Fifteen by one innings and 100 runs. The play of Murdoch, who scoied 111, is described as a magnificent exhibition of cricket. Captain Thompson, the harbor-master at the Bluff, has been offered by the Harbor Board a retiring allowance of £IG7 10s a year. He has been IS years in the service, and has done splendid work in his time, but is now too weak, physically, for active service. He is suffering from valvular heart disease. Advices by last mail state that in consequence of the increasing business of Germany with Australia, arising out of the .Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions, a line of sailing vessels has been laid on from Hamburg, and a line of steamers via the Cape to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. The first will be the Gautama, of 3000 tons, sailing on sth March,