January.

1.—Dunedin branch Bank of New Zealand opened (December 2nd).

21.—Sentence of Anderson, alias Burns, to three years' hard labour for participation in Mangatua robbery, October 18th, 1861.

22.—First regular dramatic company playing at Music Hall, Princes Street. Mr. Vernon Webster, Mr. John Wilmot, Mrs. W. H. Foley, and Miss Melville.

29.—Rush to Waitahuna.

31.—Arrival of Garrett, implicated in the Mangatua robbery, he having been captured in Sydney.