Ltttelton Regatta. —The committee will meet in the Colonists’ Hall this evening at half-past seven o’clock. Philharmonic Society.— There will be a members’ practice of “ The Messiah ” at Spensley’s Music Hall, this evening, com mencing at 7.30. Testimonial to the Mayor.— lt is in contemplation to present a testimonial to his Worship the Mayor on his retirement from office during the present month. The matter has not yet assumed a definite form, but the City Councillors are to hold a meeting at an early date to decide the subject. Workmen’s Wages.— A Bill to secure workmen payment of their wages from con tractors has been introduced into the Vic torian Assembly by the Government. A Melbourne newspaper gives the following exposition of it:—Some misconception ap pears to have been created by the supposi tion that the Bill proposes to establish a lien by a workman on the chattel or thing on which he has been employed. It does not do so, but establishes the workman’s claim, in our opinion, much more securely than could possibly he accomplished by a direct lien. It is proposed to extend by a simple and speedy process the principle of attach ment, which means that a creditor having obtained the judgment of a Court may compel a third persons haring moneys of the debtor in his hands to hold them for the benefit of the judgment creditor, and to satisfy the claim from such moneys if suffi cient. So far from instituting class legisla tion, the promoters of the Bill are simply extending to the poor man and to small matters the operation of a legal process which has worked remarkably well when applied to large traders and to large trans actions. A creditor who obtains judgment in the Supreme Court by summary process attaches the moneys of the debtor wherever he can find them ; why should not the work man who recovers a verdict in a police court do the same ?

Kaiapoi Regatta Committee. —This com mittee met at the Kaiapoi Hotel on Wednes day evening last. 'i he members present were Messrs R. Wright, H. Feldwick, R. W. Smith, H. J. Wood, J. Feldwick, H. Kerr, A. T. Clark, C. Pearce, T. Dudson, C. E. Dudley, and the Secretary. The Commodore in the chair. On the motion of Mr Feldwick, the names of Messrs J. Callender and J. 