A correspondent infoans the Wellington Post that " the other day in the. neighbour hood of Johnsonville he flushed a covey of partridges. The birds number-til about fifteen, and were v/eli grown. We think, however, he was mistaken as to the class of birds. No partridges urn known to be turned out here, but there sire » Urge num ber of California!! quail about, aud in size, general appearance, aud fight, the Califor nian quail very much resir-mbl :• fcao partridge."

The Wanganui lit raid says : —" The Scan dinaviaH newspaper, before allude-' to, will soon become an establish**.) fsi-t, writes a reliable correspondent; but ii »w.euv. that the scheme ia different from what \vm been said about this formerly. Tbv ■ !.;k is to publish a combined English :.\»} Scandina vian paper—the la'trr f«t .''p.-jir r-- Mipple rnent to the former, and with -. of its own. It will lie opf-n t- :h - .'-.; '.i-rs to take both or either of the <■.'■■. sub scription being lixeil tn- ;i>med

papers. A company has been floated for the erection of a printing office in Palmer ston, where the papers will be published, and as the cause has been received and sup ported with enthusiasm, we may look for its speedy realisation. English and Scandina vian editors and printers, as well as plant and site for the erection of the printing office, are ahvady secured, so the buildings will be started in a short time. In connec tion with the printing office, but wholly as a private enterprise, will be a stationery shop, with English and Scandinavian library and reading-room ; and I underataud that a, good assortment of books is all eady ordered from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark."

It affords us much pleasure to welcome back to Dunedin those accomplished artistes Mr and Mrs George Darrell. From our Northern files we learn that they have been playing witjh marked success iv Wellington to crowded houses. We can assure our readers that a great treat is in store for them. Oa Monday evening Mr and Mrs Darrell will appear in " Romeo and Juliet," of course in the title rOles.
