They ascribe tho death of a number of per sons, who have died lately m the district, to the operation of his magic-arts. A public meeting was convened on the subject, at which he wa« charged by several individuals with having brought about the death of several of their relations by witchcraft. His indignant denials were disregarded, and the meeting, with one exception, came to the sage conclusion that he was guilty, and that he was a pest m the district, who ought not to be suffered to live. He was then informed that it was only out of consideration for tho law that his life was spared, and warned to be careful not to move about from the place where ho was born, otherwise he might come to grief. Ruteno Piwaka alone dissented from the decision of tho meeting. He said the deaths charged upon Rapid a arose from natural causes; the Lord had said unto Adam, when lie and Eve sinned, ' Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return,' and .so it had ever since been." One op New Zealand's Wondbrs. — The Auckland Herald says : — We understand that the proprietors of the Southern Cross b.s., intend having an excursion trip to White Island, or Whakaari, the well-known active volcano, situated m tho Bay of Plenty, about fifty miles east of Tauranga; and we have no doubt but many parties will gladly avail themselves of so good an opportunity of visit ing that wondrouß sulphur manufactory, which the traveller along the coast only sees at a distance enveloped m vapour. White Island contains an area of nearly bix hundred acres, and the general form is that of a horso shoe range of hills, ouclosing on rather more than three sides a level area, m part occupied by tho hot lakes aud m part by the deposits from the hot springs which supply it. Dr Hector, m 1870, showed that the flat occupied by the deposits "has nn extent of about thirty acres, and reaches an elevation of sixty feet above tho sea level, rising gradually to the interior of tho island between the lake und the sea, and occupying two-thirds of tho spuco within the amphitheutre. 