Visitors to the Ashbnrton Domain of a fine evening now must be surprised at the number of people present about the swim ming baths and sports track. The baths last evening for instance fairly swarmed with bathers, from boys of eight or nine years to adults of various ages—amongst them some very good swimmers, whilst others were not yet able to trust themselves out of the shallow water. The councillors and ratepayers who were so persistent m their advocacy of the Domain water being used for swimming and bathing purposes, against others who proposed some unwork able schemes m the riverside and elsewhere, are now rewarded by seeing how successful the present bath is, both as conducive to health and also as a swimming sohool. The running track is now m splendid order thanks to the late rains and the efforts of a number of members of the Bicycle Club, who have been constant m their attention to it for some time, and quite a number of cyclists are now trainimg every evening, on various makes of bicycles, racers, roadsters, and safety's, all helping to make the beautiful Domain a real recreation ground. A stange story comes from Sydney. About three weeks ago some articles of clothing were found on the pier at Manly, and were subsequently identified as those of a young married man named Thomas Finney, who had gone there to fish, and had never been ssen again. It was at once concluded that he had been drowned, and the police dragged round the pier without finding the body. Oa Wednesday week Pinney turned up alive and well, and he tells a most extraordinary story. He says that before going to the pier to fish he was induced by some strangers to have some liquor, and that as he had never touched it before m his lite, he became Stupefied, and can remember nothing until he found himself on board the Tekapo steaming for New Zealand. His story is, however, sadly discounted by the statement of the purser of the steamer, who says that Finney came on board fully clothed and apparently m his right mind, and that the ticket on which he travelled to Wellington was taken out at the Sydney office before he came on board the ship. 