The Bishop of Waiapu thinks thab the prohibition of the liqour traffic in New Zea land " has now come within the scope of practical politics." It's a far cry to prohi bition yet, your lordship ! Next year will be the jubilee of the establishment of the firsb Oddfellows' Lodge in Now Zealand. Thero is a movement on foot for tho establishment of a Grand Lodge of l|he order in this colony. Tho late Hon. J. Martin, M.L.C., of Wellington, has lefb a fortune of £120,000 in property to be divided amongst his ten children. Tho funeral of tho late Knight took place at Wellington yesterday. Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother ; in those six words lies whab the human heart contains of the sweetest, tho most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. —Massais. Ac the Glen Innes criminal sessions, Cole man, the driver of the train in which the accident happened to Sell's Circuß, waa found not guilty of manslaughter. The charge against Kelly, the guard, was with drawn. There is a fireman in Islington who advertises himself" as having saved '63 lives. As a matter of fact, he once carried out seven cats from a burning house. There is nothing like counting all the chances. The headstones at the graves in the Symonds-sfcreefc Cemetery of the officers and men who were drowned in H.M.s. Orpheus on the Manukau bar in 1567, have been re-paintod by seamen from H.M.s. Ringarooma. After "Hiawatha": — He killed the noble Mudjokivis, With tho skin ho made him mibcens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side out sido; Ho, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside ; He, to get the cold side outside, Pub the warm side fur sido inside ; That's why he pub the fur side. inside, Why he pub bhe skin side outside, ■ Why he put them inside outside. Editor E. T. Gillon, of Wellington, act ios as ageub for the Dramatic Authors' [ Society, sued the Dobson-Kennedy Com -1 pany at Wellington for £2 2s, fees for playing Gilbert's" Pygmalion and Galatea." 'He was non-suited on tho following grounds :—l. Thab no power was given him to sue in his own name. 2. That no '. 