Mr John Calaghan writes that, at consi der able iuconvenienccjhc wen tfromMnkarau to Helensvillo, expressly to hear Mr J. S. Macfarlane's address, advertised for tho 16th, and was much disappointed that the candidate did not arrive according to ap pointment.
The following Masonic item appears in tho "Hawkes' Bay Herald ":—The District Grand Master of the North Island ot New Zealand has offered the distin guished post of." Grand Chaplain " to the Head Master of the Napier Grammar School, the Key G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, M. A, We understand tho reverend gentle man has accepted the appointment. Mr D'Arcy Irvine has been for some years a Grand Oilicer of the Craft. As one of the domestic chaplains of His Grace the Duke of Leinster, Grand Master of Ireland, he was ex oificio an officer of the Grand Lodge of Irelaud.
