The Caledonian Games arranged to come off on New Year's Day upon the Recreation Ground here promise to be very successful. They will commence at 10 o'clock sharp. The Bruce Rifles will drill on the ground throughout the day. The fife and drum band will also be in attendance, an arrange ment which would have materially added to the eclat of those held on Boxing Day had it been entered into. We observe that the new hall and offices erected by Mr R. R. Jones, on the Main Road, are just ahout completed. The build ing now presents a respectable and substantial appearance, and no doubt will be a great benefit to the town. We gladly observe by announcement in the 'New Zea'and Gazette,' that the School .house at Mimihan, Mutaura, has been ap pointed a polling place for the election of Superintendent and members of the Provin cial Council, and we trust that the advan tages will speedily be extended for the election of members of the General A9se "bly j also, the inconvenience of a polling place there having recently been referred to by us. On Friday last, we observed suspended in the butchering establishment of Mr George Wilson, Port Chalmers a Leicester ewe weighing 1.19 lbs., and "a lamb its progeny this season, weighing 77 lbs They were bred and reared by Mr Garey at Poi'tobello, and were much nv>re fitted, in our opinion, for the boiling-down pot than for human food; however, tastes differ, and when we saw the remains of the carcase, a laige pro proportion of it had gone to supply the heavily-laden Christmas table of the following day. A splendid bullock was also suspended in the same shop, which had recently been transferred from the Makaura's grazing slopes by an enterprising Tokoraairiro cattle dealer, who had found a market for some thirty bead.
