LOCAL AND GENERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 599, 14 January 1879, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tenders are required for putting m posts, stad otherwisaynroving the Race-course at the Willo^BTenderß must be m not later than 4^^i. on Wednesday, at the office of Measrs^Ferris and Pitt. Messrs. Ferris and Pitt will hold a cattle sale at the Waerenga-a-hika yards, on Monday, the 20th inst, when they will dispose of 100 head of stock, the property Mr. William Cooper. The incoming English mails via San Francisco are due at Auckland to-morrow, j

The business at the Police Court this morning, was confined to three or four debt cases, none of which possessed any features of interest. A Committee meeting of the Poverty Bay Turf Club is advertised to be held on Friday next, at the Masonic Hotel, when important business will be transacted. The rabbits having devoured everything eatable m the Mallee Scrub are now advancing on the Wimmera district m Victoria, and are threatening ruin to the pastoral tenants and selectors. Some of the stations are already being worked at a loss. The Ministers of Lands has been authorised to spend £1500 m the supression of the evil, the pastoral tenants and settlers promising to contribute a similar amount, A Bill will be introduced next session to deal with the subject m a comprehensive manner. It is stated by the Waimate paper that when the Christchurch Volunteers were passing through that place they rushed the refreshment stall kept by an old woman, and did not pay her. Large quantities of gold, specie, bank notes, and other valuable property have been removed from the banks m the small ountry townships to Melbourne. This has been done from fear of Kelly's gang making a raid, particularly on the unprotected towns of North Gipps Lands. The Afghans have an Irishman m their ranks m the person of a favorite cavalry leader of the Ameer's. This worthy once graced the ranks of the 87th, where he was known as O'Donnel. Twice did he become a sergeant, and twice did he subside again into a private. Finally he disappeared, and is now to be found at Candahar.