The Hawera Star says that it was mentioned at the Acclimatisation Society meeting that no less than 2000 hares had been killed lately on one farm on the Brunswick line. Six or seven years ago there was scarcely a hare to be seen, Mr Fitzherbe.t’s Dog Begistration Act Amendment Bill provides for the dog tax collectors having power to enter on private premises with the view of ascertaining if the provisions of the original Act have been complied with. The English Mechanic says;—Coal covers an area of 5,000 square miles in Tennessee, with from one to three workable seams, the best coking seam being the Sewanee, which is 500 miles square in extent. In Alabama it covers an area of 6,o^osquare miles, embracing the Warrior, Cahawba, and Coosa fields, with three or four wor able seams each from 4 feet to 7 feet-in thickness, and mostly coking coal. Of these the Pratt seam has hitherto furnished by far the greatest amount of coal j but the good coking qualities of the oilier veins have been proved. The production of the Pratt mine is now 2,510 tons per day, and that of the Sewanee mine 1,500 tons per day. The following is given by a home paper a a specimen of Australian reporting. The paragraph is said to have been from a Queensland newspaper:—“ Matthews started "ii foot, alone, to walk over the range to Tho 'nborough, but, overcome w’th grief and wniskey, ’ay down on the banks of the Barron river to sleep. Now, the alligators of the Barron river are both numerous and ferocious. They nssinuilatcd Matthews, with the ex ception of one leg, which was recognised by the bool on it. This, after having been identified, was afforded Christian burial in the Cairns cemetry, the funeral being largely attended. There it still reposes, while the balance of Mat-hews is wandering about the Barron River as an alligator.” Commenting upon Mr Deakin’s refusal of a Idle, the Press says:—“Like most young Victorians, he is a thoroughgoing Democrat, and he has not been able to see his way to accept the offer of knighthood which has just been ra de to him. We must say we find it difficult to understand this rooted aversion of advanced thinkers of all honours and t : tular distinctions. 