The poor little things wandered unheeded— so far as their surviving parent was con cerned—about the cabin and decks o£ the Albion, roughly dressed, boys and girls much alike,; and almost if not quite as they left the. Dallam Tower, in the clothes given to them by the sailors. Some, of their .father's effects had been saved from the wreck, and as they followed him trustingly but helplessly in the streets of Dunedin, each of them carrying some small articles of value, the salvage of what they had on board, the sight was very pitiful. The authorities found it necessary to interfere, and for a time at least the children have been taken care of by them " The land for the people, and the people for the land " The hon. member for Nelson City (Mr Luckie), lately used; these words in the House. In referring to. them, the Wellington Independent says :— He struck a key-note which will undoubtedly be re echoed through the length and breadth of the Colony. The timehas evideatly arrived when the question should be decided whether the waste lands of the Colony are to be turned into what Mr Vpgel said last night, "one large sheep walk." or whether they are to be occupied by cultivators of the soil, Ross has contributed about twenty m ners to the Haast rush. An Auckland telegram states that Mr Fairclough, tragedian, in conjunction with his agent, tweaked the nose of Mr Drury, reporter of the Southern Gross, for an ad verse criticism. Summonses have been taken out The most interesting item in mining news in the last Lyell Argus is connected with the Little Wonder claim. Messrs Carrol and Cairns have, during the week, been getting out. some first class stone. Opinions are about equally divided as to whether an en tirely new leader has been struck, or as to whether they are merely working a portion, of the original leader, over which they acci- Jentally drove a few'mb'hths ago. A cir cumstance that would seem to bear out the latter theory consists iti the fact that at that particular spot the famed Little Wonder was wavy — no six feet running in exactly the same direction. At the other claims work is being steadily proceeded with. .Considerable interest is created in the case of the lunatic Smith, formerly a resi dent at Levuka. 