A huge python in the Perth Zoo, which has been fasting for the last few months, got into the quarters occupied by the our anc outiings and swallowed two of the latter. A pursuer of the Breelong blacks for Bix weeks says it is marvellous iho quantity of blood Jimmy Governor lost after being shot in the mouth. The form of the Canterbury Jubilee Memorial has now been decided upon, vi/i, a statue in bronze of Her Majesty the Queen ; upon the four sides of the stone pedestal will be placed raised figures (bas-reliefs) in bronze. Ist., The Pioneers, symbolical figures with names of ships or persons to be decided upon. 2nd. The industries from which the province has derived its prosperity. 3rd. Canterbury in her Jubilee year sending forth her sons to fight for the Empire. 4th. A memorial with names of those of Canterbury's sons who have died in South Africa. Lord Tennyson made a speech in the Adelaide Town Hall during the month which is certain to awaken very far-reach ing echoes. The occasion was the annual meeting- of the Aborigines' Friendly Asso ciation ; and Lord Tennyson asked his audience : "Are you aware that black women in the Northern Territory have : 'insufficient protection by law from, I am sorry to say, the brutality of some of th lawless white men there, and butier <\ect "I ingly? Are you aware there is a ureai deal of illicit trading in liquor with tin i blacks there, which ought to be stonneo and which is ruining them body and soul ? Are you aware of what your late Chief , Secretary stated last year in Parliament, that the blacks are even now being carried away from their tribes by white men into virtual slavery? In God's name I hope South Australia will awaken to a* truer sense of the responsibility that she owes to these blackfellows, and that she will put down with a strong hand these abom inable iniquities."

CANTERBURY EXHIBITION.
