Provincial Briefs.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 20

Provincial Briefs.

The Waitahuna Farmers' Club last week paid 15s 3d for 61 dozen small-bird eggs.

Tho Quooustown Licencing District returned Messrs iYtason, Boyes, Dr Douglas, Davidson, and Rosh (banket:),

There was not a single objection lodged on Monday last to the valuation list for the borough of Lawrence.

Dog poisoning, which was rife in Oamaru at i his time Jast your, has boen ngain commenced. Five valuable greyhounds were found poisoned on Monday,

The total valuation of the borough of Oamaru, as paused by tbe Assessment Court, is £53,034. The assessment, as made by Mr < 'iHiroh, the valuator, was only reduced by £600.

Another heard of Scotch polled cattle has, according to the Banff shire Journal, just been established south of the Tweed, namely, by Mr Wallis, of Bradley Hall, Ryton-on-Tyne, who has disposed of his shorthorns on purpose,

A boot, containing the decomposed remains of a human foot, was picked up alongside the Oamaru breakwater on Monday. The foot is supposed to be parl of the remains of a Chinaman, who, it will be remembered, was drowned off the Maori some time ago.

The Tuapeka Times learns that another company is in course of formation to prospect the Gabriel's Gully reef. It is their intention to commence operations in proximity to the southern boundary of the prospecting claim held by Messrs Grieve and party. The proposed company will consist of 50 shareholders.

Harvesting operations (writes the Livingstone correspondent of the North Otago Tim&B) have made very fair progress iv this neighbourhood, and the yield, while not overabundant, is very fair ; it is expected to run on an average tbont 25 bushels t.o the acre, which does not leave much room for complaint, considering the ?e*"y poor yield en the plains below.

The Southland News has be*n endeavouring to create a sensation in Invercargill, because an unruly boy, of 13 or 14, received a well-merited castigationatthehandtiof tho head-master of ono of tbe District Schools. The Timer, takes a more ensible view of the mat tor, remarking that the constant nagging at teachers by stupid patents and a stupider presa is the very way to make the teachers bad.

The Bruce Herald Bays that the wheat crop in the Tokotnairiro district is, notwithstanding the serious apprehensions entertained, likely to be well up to the average. Many farmers who are reaping their crops are more than satisfied with the results so far. Iv some pnrts, which have suffered the most from drought, the will be deficient in bulk ; but taking the crops all round tbere will, it is thought, be little to complain of.