A Mrs Eyton, who has b-:en deserted by her husband for twelve years, saw a man in the street whom she alleged to be her hus band, and had him arrested. The gentleman, however, satisfactorily proved his identity, and the lady is still husbandless. A lady correspondent of the ' Age' is the author of a novel and daring proposal for getting rid of the deficit which is causing such trouble to the Treasurer and anxiety to the recipients of iucomes over £ 150. She suggests a tax of 10s on every bicycle and machine of that sort, and on every buggy, gig, coach, and phaeton ; (3d on every room in all houses ; and iJs on every piano. By this she calculates to obtain £400,000, bicycles and pianos yielding each a harvest of ioO.OOO. To show that she is patriotic, aud not merely taxing o'ker fellows, she signs herself " Victorian Native, and One Who Owns a Buggy aud Five-roomed House. 7 '

The Convention just closed in connection with Uie Students' Christian. Union was a success far beyond the dreams of the pro moters. Fifty-live delegates, both men and women, attended from the universities of Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmania, and New Zea land, and m 230 delegates from the Victorian Educational Institution. This was a larger delegation than has attended any other similar inaugural gathering of the move ment except in Japan, where 500 assembled. The outcome of the Convention is that the various Christian unions of the colonies formed themselves into an Australasian Students' Christian Union, and a constitu tion was adopted. It was decided to obtain a travelling secretary provided sufficient funds were guaranteed. ADELAIDE, Jink 14.
