The social and dance ou tho 6 h May, for the purpose of raising foods for the ourohase of a mnnio-il instrument for the dim riot school promises to ba very sue cesnful. A good programme haa been prepared, and considering the objec’, there ►mould be a large attendance. The north and south trains to and from Wanganui woro delayed on Thurs •lay owing to the engines breaking down It would be well for tho Minister for Railways to spend some of his surplus on new locomotives, for hardly a week passes bat a breakdown occurs

Owing to the low price of stock, the ChriHfchuroh Meat Company has decided to make a prosont of 300 to 400 joints of mutt -n from the various shops to the deserving poor of tho oity. The company requires a note from any minister or medical doctor, aud requires applicants to bring their own kit or meat wrapper. After wo wont to press on Thursday, Mr A. Turnbull, 8 M , gavo judgment in the following oases J Mathews vD. Moroney, £2l, costs £1 14*, solicitor £1 6t, Mr Loughnan for plaintiff and Mr Loo for defendant ; E. A. Robb v A. 11. Rqbh, claim £65 6s 6d, for defendant without costs, solicitor (Mr Lougbnan, £2 15s. At tho Oonrt yesterday before Mussrs Johnson and Inglis, Justices, Elvina Bis son was charged with lunacy and ordered to be examined by Drs Todd and Ross, who found she was suffering from roligi ous dementia, and she was accordingly ordered to bo sent to tho Wellington Asylum. Whut the rabbit export trade amounts to was forcibly put at the annual mooting of Nelson Bros Tho chairman stated that the frozen meat industry bad been pre jndically affected by the importation into England during tbo paßt year of 9000 tons of Australasian rabbits, equivalent to 420,000 sheep. So abundant has bsen tho crop harvest in America that the farmers in the west have been able to pay off immense quanti ties of debt, the lenders of which are remitting it to Europe, instead of invosting it at 8 per cent. This coarse they are taking because they have no confidence in the Government's action with regard to curreucy reform and bi metallism.
