NEWS OF THE DAY.

West Coast Times, Issue 574, 27 July 1867, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

(FROM YESTERDAY EVENINa'S EDITION OF THE

WEST COAST TIMES.)

The digger, whose leg was broken by the fall of a tree, yesterday, in the Waimea District, and who was brought into town last night, and taken to the White House, was removed early this morning to the Hospital.

We would advise the owners of unregistered dogs to lose no time in getting them duly registered, as the police are acting on the instructions they have received, viz., to destroy every dog they may find in the streets not wearing a registered collar. This morning two dogs (one of them a very valuable sheep dog) were taken to the Police Camp as unregistered dogs, and probably ere this they have been killed.

A hair-brained enthusiast of the cavalier genus, who signs himself " Colonist," has published a pamphlet in Sydney advocating the confederation of the Australian colonies ■with the expected Prince Alfred as King of Australia. The "Sydney Empire" jocosely scouts at th,e idea, and winds up a humorous article thus : — " We think ie only fair, in the meantime, to remind " Colonist" that the Duke, as the descendant of a long line of Princes, must naturally feel a deep regard for the rights of a legitimacy ; and, as he has no doubt been studying Australian history preparatory to his visit, he will probably be shocked at the utter disregard of one x -who, though now jio more, may he presumed to have left numerous descendants who might hereafter appear as Australian Perkin Warbecks and Lambert Simuels. We allude, of course, to the amiable and lamented King Bungaree.