A very pretty oorosiic, "Dare to do Eight," was gone throngh by thirteen little girls, who also sang an appropriate song at iti conclusion.— We have had a visit from the Rev, E. Lvtkcn, Who announced himself as an ex-Sifcerian prisoner, and he arranged to give a lecture In the Makotuku Hall a few evenings since, but only a fow turned up, and in consequence the lecturo did not take place.— Mr Fergusson ( the late head master of the school, left for Auckland lasb week, and tbe new master, Mr 3 ones, haß takon np his dutiea here.— l am glftd to oay that ab present we are ftee from the epidemic of measles, although they nro in Ihe neighboring districts of Norsowood and Ormondville. —A good doal of timber is belDg sent away ftom the now mil), which 5b now < in full swing. A tfam is being laid, which is expected in the coufed Of a few months to reach the railway station. A more than languid interest is still ! takca ln the affairs of the Earl and Countess of Clanearty, letter known as Lord and Lady Dunlo. The lady will lc better remembered as Mies Belle Hilton, of the music hulls, Tbe late Earl was stiongly opposed to lord Dnnlo's mar riage to this lady. In his will ho left his property with this ourions phrase:—"! devise and bequeath all my real and per sonal estate whatsoever to my dear wife, her heirs, execu'ors, nnd admlnhttntors respectively, well knowing thab sh« will carry out religlmisly what sbe knows to be my wishes with regard to tho disposal of it.". The Dublin High Court has jnst decided that the trust. Fn this bequest nob being sufficiently defined, the Dowa£cr Lady Clanearty holds the unsettled real estate in trust for the heir-at-law, tie present Earl. This upsets tbe late Earl's expressed intention to leave away his unsettled estate from Lord Dunlo in Ihe dvent of the divorce proceedings proving unsuccessful, A "ghost" has been succissfully "laid "at New Plymouth. For a week or so past (says the Taranaki Herald) Mr E. Howell and his family, who reside in Gill-street, have been much exercised in mind over certain myßteiioua sounds that nppeared to eminate from underneath the floor of a Workshop that stands in front of Ihe residence. 