THE ELITE COMPANY.
The above company, who open their reason on Tuesday next, played in Timaru last night to a packed house. They appear there again this evening, and in Oamat u on Saturday and Monday, arriving here by Tuesday morning's train,

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
John M'Lellen, while engaged gold digging at Shag Valley yesterday morning, was struck by a fall cf earth and had his leg broken. At Purikeriki on the sr'n inst. the youngest child (a boy two and a-half years old' of Mr and Mrs A. Farquhar sutlered what were thought to be slight burnt; throngh his clothing catching tire. The shock, however, was so great that the little fellow died on the 10th inst.
CORRESPONDENCE.
AN EXPLANATION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sik, —In connection with the fire in the house of Mrs Crosswell in Fowling street on Wedncsdav, I would like to stop the mouths of the gossipers by saying that, though the fire originated in the room occupied by me, my candle was never lighted in the day-time, and was found exactly in the place and in the condition that I left it early that morning. The fact that I lost T4 nr to worth of property, which was not insured, ought to speak for itself.—l am, etc., J.wr> K. fyr,u: i;TuN. Dunedin, August M

FOOTBALL.
