Miller, having stimulated the settlers to greater exertions in this direction. One gentleman has Spent £1300 in machinery, and intends, if possible, go in largely for grain-growing. Of late years the industry has been neglected owing to the great difficulty of getting laborers to gather in the harvest. Formerly Poverty Bay used to grow a considerable amount I of wheat, supplying all internal wants and exporting tho surplus to Auckland. Now that the Court of Petty Sessions at Waipawa has been abolished a pro posal has been made that the Eesident Magistrate's Court shall sit fortnightly instead of monthly. At the sitting of the Court on Tuesday Mr Kenny inti mated that he would continue the exist ing arrangement for another month, to see how it worked, when if necessary he would make the proposed alteration. A meeting of those interested in th« formation of a Poultry and Canary Association will be held at the Criterion Hotel this afternoon. As an instance of the unwillingness of some Hawke's Bay settlers to risk their money or labor in agi'icultural operations, a gentleman well-known in the province informs us that ho has twice offered to allow tenants on his land to sow wheat or oats without paying any fixed rent, the landlord simply taking the straw for the use of his land, tho tenants taking all the grain. Tho offers wore, however, declined, the men instead asking for • work at ploughing at a fixed price per acre. Tho land in question forms one of the richest blocks in Hawke's Bay, and with, proper cultivation has in past years yielded enormous crops. Mr H. F. Clist notifies through our advertising columns that he has taken the Pacific Hotel, Havelock, where he will be glad to see his Napier friends when they may be passing that "way, A bullock- drivel* the other day sought to give himself up as a lunatic to the police at Pino Hill, Otago. The man did not appear insane, but persisted that he must be, and he told the following pathetic story.: — His dray had stuck hard and fast in one of the bad roads there away, aud he had exhausted nearly all his vocabulary of 'oaths without materially bettering his position, when a buggy con taining four stalwart men hove in sight. 