“Youth” proved as attractive as ever on Saturday evening, notwithstanding the un favorable weather. Owing to the circum stance that the railway authorities had arranged to detain tUt-11.15 train until after the close of the performance, a considerable number of country residents took, this oppor tunity of witnessing this spectacular play. Those who have not yet made up their minds to see this piece will not have much time for deliberation, as “Youth” will only be put on the staie a few more times, in order to make way for the equally sensational drama, “ Lights o’ London.”

“If wo want to eradicate evil we must strike at it in the high places.” This is the opinion of Mr' W. G. Marsh, who delivered one of the finest discourses that has ieen heard in the city yesterday afternoon. Mr Marsh, in support of hia statement that vice prevailed largely in high society, instanced a banquet held in Australia to celebrate the one-hundredth seduction achieved by a mem ber of the Legislature. Nor did he stop here. Alluding to the Contagious Diseases Act, Mr Marsh explained the workings and objects of that measure in a straightforward manner by no means complimentary to the powers that be. Such plain speaking, such clear truth, as characterised Mr Marsh’s utterances, have not been heard in Wellington for a long time, A correspondent in Devonshire writes : The inhabitants of Kingsbridge are consider ably exercised over a case of the Edoch Arden type in that town. Some years ago a young woman of Kingsbridge was married to a sailor named Luoraft. Ho went to sea, and his wife saw him no more. It was credibly reported that he had been drowned, and Mrs Lucrait was regarded in the town as a widow. Eventually a tradesman in the town named Burner paid his addresses to her, and a short time since Mrs Luoraft became Mrs Burner. A few days ago, however, a stranger made his appearance in town, and calling upon the Kingsbridge tradesman revealed to him the fact that he was the sailor, Luoraft. The subsequent conversation seems to have been of an amicable character, for Luoraft shortly afterwards left the town, and Burner remains in quiet possession of hia wife.
