lips of Mr Justice Williams still ringing in their ears, thousands of the citizens of Dunedin should accord. Mr Ward the reception of a patriot,, and a conqueror, and sympathise with him as a martyr, is, so far, one of the most amazing and saddening aspects of the whole wretched and degrading drama. It is a sign of such moral degradation, if not of complete absence of mqraj sense, as must fill / every thoughtful and upright citizen with anxiety and feaiv If such as these are ..." to be the gods of democracy of New Zealand iithehjtherei^ 1 in very truth no > hopei for thejre^ublic^ajQd the future of this coiin^try mu^ De.snrouded in dark 7 • .. r

** 1 The Dunedin Jockey Club have purchased a property, consisting of i 155 acres, at Wingatui, where ft new racecourse is to be laid out. It is said that the site is a first class one, and admirably adapted for tne purpose to which it is to be put. ; /At a Qpre\ church on a recent "Sun • day th£ minister was reading from; Proverbs xi. On doming to the verse 'A false balance is aY abominV ation to the Lord,' he said that, had Solomon liVed' in these days, he would probably have said 'A' false balance skeet is an abomination to the Lord.' At a meeting of the Council of the National Association (Auckland sec tion) held oh Saturday the action of the Ministry in reference to the resig nation of the Colonial Treasurer was considered and the following resolution, recommended by the political com mittee of tho Council, unanimously adopted :—' This Council qf the Na tional Association records its regret that in face of the evidence given in the recent enquiry before the Supreme Court at Dunedin it should have appeared practicable to the Premier of the colony that the Hon. J. 