Mr E. Burke of the well-known bottling firm of E. and J. Burke, of Dublin, whilst on a visit to Dunedin recently for the benefit of his health, in timated that he would give a £IOO cup to the Dunedin Jockey Club, to be run for at one of the Forbury race meetings next season. A contemporary remarks that the vagaries of that hysterical production, the War Cry, are never surprising, but here is a peculiarly delightful combination in a communication from headquarters by a local officer:—" Little soldiers' Salvation picnic came off on Tuesday. Flags waving, sand wiches disappearing, march, open-air meetiug, and eight hours in a paddock. Beautiful day, every body happy, Sister Gilbert carving; God bless her." Flags, sandwiches, marches, paddocks, carving— what a bewildering succession of pictures !

The Dunedin Times states that among the exhibits sent to London for the forthcoming Exhibition, as types of the products of the Colony, were three fleeces of wool shorn from sheep belonging to Mr James Scott, of Keilor, Waiwera, near Clinton, selected ou behalf of Dr Hector (the Commissioner) by Mr W.L. Lees, woolbroker, picked by him from wool iu the stores of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company as fairly representing the best kind of crossbred wool which the Colony produces. The wool was bright, clear, aud long in the staple, and altogether was considered well worthy of exhibition. The Dunedin Star speaking of the Premier, says:—"He has a keen intelligence, a ready wit, and, above all, an excellent memory, which retains, in a somewhat undigested condition certainly, the mass of promiscuous reading with which he habi tually gorges himself." The value of real property h«hl in this colony by individuals is estimated at £75,000,000.
