A correspondent referring to the late fatal accident at the Loan and Mercantile Company's buildings, Queen-street, sug gests that—"Police Sergeants should be put through a course of simple surgical practice, such as the use of the tournequet, the picking up aud tying of arteries, pro per bandaging, &c, Sec, and if the requisite appliances were kept at the station there would be, perhaps, a great saving of life."

The members of the Auckland Dramatic Society will give their second performance to-morrow evening in the Remuera Ball. An excellent programme has been prepared, and an omnibus will stai t from the Grey hound at 7 o'clock fur the Remuera Hall, for the convenience of Auckland friends, The pieces selected for the entertainment arc the comedy, "A Lesson in Love," and 1' Parents and Guardians." The former was written by Mr C. S. Cheltnam, son-in-law of Leigh Hunt, the poet. The characters will be sustained by no less than twenty one lady and gentleman amateurs.
A candid confession was made in the Police Court by a young lad named Harris, who had stolen six pounds of mutton from the steamer Mary Allen. When asked to plead, the prisoner said "Yes,J am guilty." His Worship asked him how he could be guilty of such a mean act. Prisoner looked up with a waggish smile and replied : "Your Worship, 1 went a-fishing and caught nothing, and as I was returning to the wharf I saw the mutton lying on a dish near the cook, and thought it was a cheap piece of meat, and £<. I took it." The boy's candid confession caused a titter, which ran through the Court.
