' For the Hawkes bury Handicap Prophet and Dagworth are most in favor at 100 to 14. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, yes terday, Henry W. Braithwaite and John Cabill were each fined 10s, and Margaret Cain 20s for having ..been .drunk. James Jones and W. J. Coates were each fined 10s and costs for allowing. a. horse to stray, and a similar charge against Joseph Kilgourwas, on explanation, dismissed. The following items of Parliamentary news are contained in some Wellington telegrams published in the Went Coast Times : — A letter to the Government, signed by 17 members of the Council, last session, its tenor being to the effect that Mr Lahman should be asked to resign, has been laid on the table of the Council, and notice of motion has been given that the reply thereto, if any, be laid on the table also. The Independent defends Mr Lahman warmly, characterising the publica tion of the letter as "disgraceful to its authors and derogatory to the Council." The article goes pretty freely into Warden Schaw's affairs. The same paper condemns the bill amending the constitution of the Legislative Council ; describes it as one "the Government ou^ht to be thoroughly ashamed of," and says that ."it will be summarily kicked out of the House of Representatives it ever it reaches that body." The Post also denounces the bill as a miserable sham, and says that the Government are simply trifling with a matter of urgent importance. Mr R; G. Stratton, architect, Dunedin, died very suddenly while on his way home in a cab. At the inquest the verdict was " died from aneurism of the heart." A man named M'Pherson was run over by a train on the Port Chalmers line. He was literally cut to pieces. He was intoxicated at the time. Mr It. White has been appointed Receiver of Gold Revenue for Kanieri ; and Mr Adam Bissett for Clifton. A successful attempt to obtain eggs of the brown trout has been made in Otago. Some 15,000 were secured from the Shag river. A prisoner named Duffy, who was sen tenced to twenty-five lashes in Dunedin gaol, received them last week. He suffered in tensely. An accident occurred last Saturday which was very near proving fatal to a little girl, the child of Mr Braddon, residing in Fitz* hert-street, Hokitika. 