NEWS OF THE DAY.
Mr Hall-Joß.es ye_ter_thy informed Mr Meredith that the* pkns for the Waiau bridge would be completed iv about three weeks" time. Mr W. H. Hargreaves, manager of tbs Bank of New Zealand in Akaroa. lias been promoted to the charge of the Waimate branch. An Auckland teTegram says that the flagship Royal Arthur remains there till tha 7th or Bth of July. The proposed trip of the flagship to the Islands has been abandottesi.
No further information has been re vived of tlie b'at-k man who was alleged o b. haunting Waikari; indeed, some go io fur now suggest the affair was a !o:*_x.
Our Wellington correspondent says that there is some difficulty in getting a good Op2>osition candidate for Pafca, Mr Geo. Hutchison's constituency. Mr Bruce has been asked to stand.
Colonel F. J. Fas, who is still at Stony mrst, has greatly improved in health, but : & ia not deemed prudent to remove Tvigi to his home at Hawarden.
There was another swarm of footpath riders appearing at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, and the funds of the calony have consequently benefited to »_.e extent of £10 12s.
Mr E_w__d Lewis, evangelist, from Nel son, and formerly nf Sydney, is taking tbe place of Mr George Manifold at the Church

uf Chris., Durham street, for three months, .ur 'Manifold being engaged in special mis sion work witb the southern churches.
A telegram from Napier states tbat the award in the Hatuma case gives the claimants 585 acres of land near Waipukurau, and does not carry the mansion and chief station buildings, as previously telegraphed.
