WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12379, 24 February 1903, Page 3

WELLINGTON NOTES.

NEW ZEALAND* CBICKET TEAM. DARING DAYLIGHT KOBBEET. THE AEGTLbIiETILEMBINT. POULTRY FOB SOUTH AFBIC4. AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. [BT TELEGRAPH.— special to herald ] Wellington, Monday. Cricketers here ate pretty well agreed that Marshall (Wanganui) should have been selected as a member of the New Zealand team to play against Warner’s eleven, or at all events that he ahonld be in the team for the Wellington match. It some of the Southern men cannot come up it is thought that'Lnsk, Mahony, and Williams should also be considered.

A dating daylight robbery was carried out by two men in the Western Hotel this morning at 5 o’clock. They made an attempt to open the safe, which is in the licensee’s bedroom, with keys abstracted from his pocket, A noise awakened the occupants and Mr Pagni, the licensee, gave obasa to the intruders, who escaped by some back stairs, They took about £2 worth of silver from a table and would have made a much larger haul had they opened the safe. The Milboutne and Te Being* estates, Hawke’s Bay, recently acquired by the Government, comprising an area of 33,713 acres, ate to be known as the Argyle Settlement. Surveyors are now busily engaged in the work of subdivision, and the land will be opened for selection at as early a date as possible. There is a brisk demand in South Africa for poultry, and the Government poultry grading depots at the four centres in this colony are very busy just now, the daily output being about 600 birds. At the Auckland depot there is being got ready a large order of poultry for the South African market on behalf of an Australian buyer. A Gazette issued on Saturday gives details of returns, showing the nnmber of hoiees, cattle, and swine in the colony when the returns were compiled (15th October last). The returns show that the number of horses in the colony Is 287,419, the largest aggregate yet recorded and 700 increase upon last year’s total. Cattle have increased daring the year by 98,879, the previous year's total being 1,361,784. Swine have decreased in number during recent years, the totals being—--1900-1, 250,976; 1901-2,224,024; 1902-3, 193,740. A return is also included giving the snramsrv of the return of sheep taken on the 30th of April each year. Ihe totals are as follows; 1897,19,687.954; 1898,19,673,725; 1899, 19,348,506; 1900, 19,356,195; 1901, 20,233,099; 1902,20,342,727.