'I ho machine will be sent to Oamaru this aftornoon, and, it is said, will perform the work of at least a dozen men." We believe that this is tho host contrivanco that has yot been perfeoted for stono quarrying purposes, and reflects credit on the ingonuity of Mr Pickering, who designed it. The company will be enabled to work their quarries with greater expedition, and phco larger supplies of stono upon the market, at no doubt a cheaper rato than hitherto. Tho company has been success ful -moro so than wai supposed by many it would bo —and it is by the utilisation of such ingenious contrivances as tho ono under n tice that it will bo made still moro success ful. Tho New Zealand Times of tho 29th ult. nays : " Ono of the stipendiary Magistrates of tho colony has had the courage to pxpio«s his opinion in respeot to tho Gaining and Lotteries Act. Iv tho charge heard recently in the Oamaru Residont Magistrate's Court against a person for hoi ling a half-crown sweepstake, oounsol for tho accused mado a swooping denunciation of the Aot, and avowed that, in his opinion, nothiug moro iniquitous had been passed ainco the days of < 'ahgula ; a most dangorous and oppresuive Act, and ono which ought to bo administered with great oaro and caution. In this latter opinion Mr Robinson, R.M., is reported to have said that ho entirely agreed, and though compelled by tho arbitrary wording of tho clausos referring to sweepstakes, to inflict a penalty, ho fixed it at a morely nominal sum ; an example which might with evident propriety bo followed by nil other Magistrates called upon to adjudicate in similar oasea 4 until th-» Legislature has re assembled and had an opportunity of recon sidering tho praotioal beaiing of this obnoxious measure"

Tho Gorman Roichstadt having met for the appointment of the president, has ro-oloctcd tho former occupant of that office— Dr Faunbach. Serious disturbance* have taken place at Suez, arising out of the murder of a soidier by tho Bedouins, His comrades demanded instant vengeance, and pro ceeded to ransack the town. It seems a riot onsuod, and a body of soldiers going to the Governor's residence attacked him with violence. 