Some eighteen or twenty frost fish washed ashore on the beach at Moeraki, were retailed in Dunedin at from 7s to 8s each. Some of them measured five feet and a half in length. A bullock on the farm of Mr W. Tod, of Lincoln, Canterbury, was lost for three weeks, and then found in a straw stack, into which it had eateu its way. The animal seemed none the worse for its long confinement.
A telegram from Dunedin says that Mr J. Cracroft Wilson, C. 8., has been created a Knight of the Star of India. A fine sample of twilled sheeting, woven by Mr Forbes, Hilton mills, Ar broath, Scotland, from pure Hew Zealand fibre, is on view at the rooms of the Can terbury Flax Association. A good many licenses for pheasant shooting have been taken out in Nelson this season. The sportsmen report the birds to be pretty numei’ous in some dis tricts.
The Orangemen of Christchurch cele brated the 12th July, by a banquet at the Clarendon Hotel. Over 130 persons sat down.
