Several export divers, who sought to recover it, said that they had seen it, but latterly they declared that they were unable to find it. Then the police obtained the services of a diver, who walked over the whole of the bottom of tho waterholo without discovering the body. Only one lad, who was bathing at the time of tho fatality, reports having seen Galway enter the water, aud this fact, in connection with tho difficulty of finding it in so circumscribed an area, renders the cdso somewhat peculiar. Tho New South Wales Chief Justice, in making absolute 19 decrees nisi for dissolu tion of marriage the other day, called atten tion to the fact that in 18 cases tho wives wore tho petitioners. Tho New South Wales Department of Agriculture, acting upon the recommenda tion of the Board of Experts, has decided to offer at the next Royal .Agricultural Society’s Show a sum of £215 as prizes for the best exhibits of butter, poultry, sheep, wheat, barley, bacon and hams, tinned meat and soups, and fruit suited for export. In a circular issued by the Queensland Post and Telegraph Department the fol lowing occurs:—“ It is notified that as the publishers of newspapers and other periodical publications in this_ colony are prohibited by law from publishing any advertisement of an indecent nature,’ or relating to sweeps, consultations, &c., it has boon decided that on and after Ist January, 1897, no newspaper or periodical publications, in whatever colony they may bo printed and published, will be allowed to pass through the post offices of Queens land if they contain any advertisements contravening the Indecent Advertisement Act of 1592 or the Suppression of Gambling Act of 1895.”

A shocking discovery was made at the Kew Lunatic Asylum the other day. As ono of the female officials was going her rounds of the B division, she noticed smoke coming from a cell occupied by a woman named Lilian Morrison, who had been re ceived into the institution from Malvern. - She was confined on account of her suicidal tendency, and every precaution was taken to prevent her putting an end to herself. She slept by herself on a mattress on the floor, and her clothing, in accordance with the regulation, was removed every night. 