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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 833, 9 March 1867, Page 2

The Immigrants per Montmorency. — A good article upon this subject, extracted from the Daily Telegraph will be found in another column. Joyce Dormer's Story. — Finding, on the arrival of last mail, that this story is being spun out to tedious length, we shall not continue its republication. We pur- | pose, for the present, substituting a reprint of some of the best of the stories which appear in the Christmas serials. Government Rifle FißiNG.—iThe firing for the district prizeg by Nbs 1, 2, 3, and 4 companies of Militia, and the Kifle volunteers, will take place on Monday next at 10 a.m., at the vange of the Napier Rifle Company. For the other companies of militia, the firing will take place at Waipukurau on Wednesday the 13th. Recognisance Forfeited. — Yesterday morning, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Owen Murphy was charged with beating and ill-treating his wife, and was convicted of the offence. The defendant being, for a similar offence, under recognisances to keep the peace, his recognisances were ordered to be forfeited. Hia sureties are thus let in for £10 each, in default of payment of which they will be imprisoned. Leicester Rams for New Zealand.— Mr. John Burton, of Barton House, Malton, the " champion breeder of England," has sold two of his prize sheep — the winners at the Great Yorkshire and the Great North of England shows — for exportation to the I flocks of Major Whitmore, Rissington, Napier, New Zealand. — Times.