At the City Council last night, Mr D. A. Graham, now in England, was ap pointed Gras^ Engineer. There were 18 applications.
THE CASWELL MARBLE COM PANY.
Dunedin, September 20. The Caswell Sound Marble Quarrying Company have been granted a lease by the Land Board, of 320 acres. They intend gettiag skilled workmen from Home, and erecting machinery to carry on operations at a cost of £2300.
good. The property was, however, handed back to tbe first* mentioned person, who then rewarded the furniture dealer with— a three, penny pipe 1

Adelaide, the cradle of the totalisator, is tiring of its bantling, and Mr Baker, the gentleman who was mainly instrumental in legalising the machine, admitted in the South Australian Assembly last week that the arguments he had used in favor of the introduction of the totalisator were un-

founded, and that instead of the machine doing away with the bonkmakers, as he expected id would, it had increased gambling to an alarming extent.
Madame Camille Urso contemplates an early return to the colonies. Her company will comprise Miss Emily Spader, soprano; Miss Margaret Hall, mezzo-soprano; Herr Lubling, pianist; and Mr Alfred Burbank, a humorous American leturer.
