Tbe girl Leta Meurant, aged 16, who com mitted suicide at Dargaville, it transpired at the inqueat, was always considered to be a very cheerful and intelligent girl, but was a great reader of novels and sensational tales, and her parents think that her mind miglit haye become turned from reading these. The jury returned a verdict "That the deceased took a doso of ' rough on rats' while in a state of temporary insanity caused by reading sensational literature." The Press denies that Miss Marsden, ex matron of t the Wellington Hospital, is the person who has been posing in Europe as an authority on lepers. Our contemporary says:—" There is a great probability tbat a young ' lady' who was for a time in the hospital as assistant nurse and who subse quently went to Melbourne and was married there, and thence went to England with her husband, and who visited Wellington alone in 1888, having come out via Melbouane in the same ship as the Duke of Manchester, has personated Miss Marsden. The lady in question is extremely clever, and proved her self an adept in the ait of deception. If tho truth ever doeß come out we have little doubt that it will be found that the real Miss Mars don ia nothing at all in this extraordinary imposition." Wednesday's Eeefton Guardian says :—: — "Last night's meeting of the Inangab.ua Rifles was poorly attended, and ifc was accord* ingly decided to postpone the meeting until Thursday night next, when the Govern ment inspection parade will be held, Lieut. Banning being the inspecting officer. Tbe want of interest shown by the members of our local corps is very demoralising to its existence, and unless better attention is paid to the parades, the recommendation of Capt« Hume some while back with regard to the diabandment of corps in isolated districts, wiil be given effect to.". Advice to Mothers ! —Are you DroK.en in your rest by a srek child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mes Winslow'b Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. 