They nve liberal peoplodown Greytown way. Thoir contributions towards the Hospital bull supper were so generous that the typioal twelve baskets of frag ments which wcro left over, after feeding tho four hundred present at the Ball, realised no loas that £7. They, wore kindly sold by Mr P. H. Wood at an impromptu auction sale bold in tho l'aiaco Hall llto day aftor the dance, As tho Government subsidiso all voluntary gilts by 24* to the £, this £7 really | moans an addition of about £lO to tlie hospital's funds.
There is no surer way of having everybody's help than by trying to help everybody.
VERY LATEST.
The Weather at Tinui (nV TELEOItAPH, [Prom Our Own Correspondent.] Tinui, Monday. Heavy snow and hail fell here during last night, aud at six o'clock this morning the thermometer regis tered 86, Pah. The hills around are all covered with a white mantle, and the cold is excessive. .. ■ Death of wi Old bottler. Marion, Monday, L, C, Richards, an' old settler, was found dead in bed at the Bail way Hotel yesterday. A bottle of bird poison, parti* emptied, was on the table near him, and it is sup posed he drank tho poison duriug the night by mistake.
The Cable' Steamer." ! Wellington, Monday, In conseqnonco of the heavy southerly weather, tho Scotia was unable to go out last night, and is still in the harbor waiting the first opportunity to pick up the cable, The detention of the steamer is rather a costly thing for the Govern ment, as they are paying her £2lO per day while in tho harbor,'and £250 outside.
