A special meeting of the Harbor Board will be held to-morrow afternoon for the purpose of confirming ihe arrangements made with Messis Anderson and Co., of Christcburch for the purchase of a dredge. Tho Postal Department are issuing post cards, containing vie«s of the principal buildings in the cities of the colony and of its chief scenery. The views are very good, and add materially to the look of the cards. Captain and Mrs Blake of the Salvation Army left for the South by the Mararoa last eveniug being accorded a good send-00' at the wharf. They are to be succeeded by Captain McKay and Lieutenant Tottoni both of whom arrive from the South on Saturday. The-New Zeahnd Loan and -Mercantile Agency Company have received the follow ing London cablegram, dated Januaryll:—6 :— " Wool: The sales opened scarcely at the level of last series. The attendance of home and foreign buyers is good." Mr R. H. Image proceeds to England by the s.s. Star of Australia, which leaves Gisborne this evening. l)r and Mrs Cleghorn, of Blenheim, who it was stat«l the other day intend ultimately to take up their residence at Napier, are" also to be passengers by the steamer. We have received from Mr Thomas Adams, stationer, the December number of the Windsor Magazine, which as usual is a double number, and includes a com plete novel, " The Mysterious Mr Sabin," by E. Phillips Oppeuheim. The mogazine lias a large number of most interesting articles and stories, profusely illustrated. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, Messrs G. Matthewson and V. Pike, Jus tices, presided. A number of cases were called, but had been adjourned on account of being beyond the jurisdiction of the Bench. In the action John Kellow v. Charles Hyde, claim £2 10s for saddle and bridle alleged to have been unlaw fully retained by the defendant, Mr DeLiiutour appeared for the latter. Judgment was given by consent for the sum claimed, the amount to be reduced to Is. if the property was returned within forty-eight hours. An accident happened recently at a railway crossing on the Warrnambool line, four miles from Terang (N.S.W.) Mrj Alex. Soulligan was about to drive over the crossing in the dark, when the night express train to Warrnambool dashed into his vehicle and pair of horses. 