A vert neatly got-up .business card lias, been sent to us, - published by Mr. Wheeler, of Dun'edin. At one glance, all the news papers throughout the Colony -that Mr. Wheeler is' agent for are clearly displayed. ,The words " Wheeler's Advertising Agency and; IllustratediNew Zealand Herald Office " ;in the ; centre set off the.yplacard.to advantage. - Mb. Kennedy and family, gave their enter tainment, as announced, on Monday and , Tuesday; .last ,at uthe Masonic: Hallj'-IJaseby. ' Tne hall was. well filled on each occasion;- tbp audience evidently endorsing'our opinion ex pressed last week that an entertainment pre senting features of Buch„ genuine humors' "not often offered to tie- Ifaseby public. Young and old !. like enjoyed" and appreciated = 1 the "twa houra at hame." ~ ~ - We learn from the head' race that Mr. Dillon's contract; that given up by Mr Pearce, will be finished within eight d,iys._ The con tractor is now busily cutting the'small races froui. blind gullies-necessary to- protect the main Naspby "six miles,have been sublet, and this week Mr. Dillon commences the .remainder .with fifteen Europeans, and thirty JiJhinamen. We have no facts from"'the other "contracts, although we have'reason to believe they are progressing. The following ships sailed during; January -(the hames'are in some .cases so-incorrect 111 the telegram that'they cannot be guessed) : Annette, for Auckland, 300 souls"; Navvie,. ■for Bluff, 300; Asia, : for-' Otago; -500 r ;-Pen mnnton and another, for Wei ingtoii, 660 ; Yurina and another, for Canterbury, 606 souls. /The screw steamship Atrato- was to sail on UVbruary GforOtngo uucl Canterbury- direct, with 700 souls. -There were to sail-during. February,-6,000 -. tons. (query r t of; shipping in all). A large, quantity of railway plant "was to be despatched during February including vthree.locomotives;and six-carriages.—'- Star.' Last week,JMr„Vincent Pyke, Mr., J. B. Bradshavr, and Mr. J. C. Brown, ,'M.H.R.'s j waiced upon'his Honor the (Superintendent to' ascertain the progress made with regard 'to the establishment.of an Assay Office in Dun <edin, in"conhection f ,with the Melbourne Mint. The Supenntendent (according to the ' Tua 'peka Times') su£that»nokhing- -fresh-had been done m the matter; but he had received a letter from Mr. 