A co-operative wool-scouring and fell tnongery works will be started shortly in the vicinity of Timaru. A contemporary stales thnt n Nelson clergyman now holds special services for footballers. Mr C. 11. Fry, the Sussex cricketer, hns made four successive centuries in county matches. An American naval squadron, under Admiral Dewey, is among the higher possibilities of next year's coronation.
A lamb bom at Mr 11. E. Young's farm at Colyton, near Fcilding, had six legs, and is altogether a remarkable freak of nature, ll was bom alive.
ltaragoza, Spain, owing to anli-clcrici riots, is like a city under interdict. Th churches are closed, ecclesiastical rcsi deuces arc guarded, nml priests nr stoned in thcslreels,

A copy of the first ccltion of llunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress" was recently sold at miction in London for £1115, ' It is doubtful whether llunyan earned as much during the whole of his lite. In our report of tho concert held in the Wcslcyau School-room on Thurs day cvoring, we inadvertently omitted to mention that Mr 1(. Langion con tributed n song" Island of Dreams," for which ho was heartily encored.
The movement for the formation of branches of (he New Zealand Farmers' Union has caught on in Otago, and al ready the farmers in several districts have banded together and joined the Union. Mr Glass is having a busy time.
A number of ladies in Pretoria have, by organising various entertainments, raised a sum of .£562 towards erecting a memorial in the Transvaal capital to British soldiers who hnvc fallen in the war. The Automobile Club of Great Britain nnd Ireland has arranged for important trials of motor-cars (o lake place in Scotland between Septembcr2nd and Gth. Five runs of 100 miles will be made from Glasgow—east, west, south nnd north.
