Ooa woe killed and others were brutally slashed about with BOino sharp instrumont. A paper published in Homo announces tbao a beggar noarly 100 years old has juat died in tho neighbourhood. In tho room in wh'ch ao died were found hidden in all tho oornors ounis which together eamo to over 2,000,000 bor £80,000. His opiv heirs ata two nephews, at present living iv .ibjeot ujisery. Nclicfl is given by Mr .1,nn03 I'urnt-Hi Town, U ik, in 1 puv3U:neo ci (be trovi tions ci " Tho .Shop ,'m d Shcj) Assistants Act, Lfe!)!, 1 ' lh.it a special meeting oi the BoLOn^h Council will be hold nl I'ie Couacil Chambei'3 on Tuosduy, fie 2 1st inst,, a' 7.H0 o'clock tot (hu'puipDse it ii}ipointiPn Thursday m the day <f the week on -which (he half-holiday shall be kept, A match has boon arrange! between tho Wangttnui and Unitod teßtns for to-morrow afternoon on St. John's Hill, commencing at 2 3C. Tho following aro tho teams:— Wanganui— U'Acej, Peak*, Parkos (2), j Watt, Pownall (2), Bwan, Montgomerie, Smith, and Ponn. United— Mcßoath, Me- Laron, Bank*, Beard, Hartnett, Kite, Ohapinnn, Muir, Vornoy, Gray, Boso, Beasloj*, Simpson, and Dixon, Two coach loads of tourists, seventeen in number, camo through Ircm tho Hot Lakes to Pipitiki on Tuotday last, and oamo down the river by tho steamer on Wednesday. Another largo numbor aro oipectoi down to morrow. Meters Halrick and Co. antici pate a largo increase in the rivor tourist traflio this summer, tbo firm having during tho past four years apont largo 6Uni3 of money in advertising this new route for tourists, Shark catching is developing into quite an industry in Sydney harbour, thanks to a liboral scale of rawar^s paid by the Fisheries Commission. The prices paid are as follows : — 5b for sharks from 7 feet to 10 feot long and 10l for ih&tkts 10 feet long and upwards. Since last November tho commission has paid for tho destruction of 27 sharks by ono man alone, tbe sharks ranging up to 13 feet in length. Writine from Apia, tho Bamoan oorroi pondont of the New Zealand Herald, says that a perfect maaia for largo boat building has seizsd the natives. Xhd competition for the possession of the largest craft is being carried to extraordinary limits, boats from 40 to 70 feet in length baing comparatively common. 