The lake does not) rise’' much even after heavy' rains, and the country .ia never flooded by it.,;, j In fal-hing' off on the public an ineffica-l icious article, the injury is not- so ; much in the | ;fact. of its-ibeing utterly worthless,.as’-in the \ mistrust it produces,- and the 1 consequent lack : of ’ public confidence , that inevitably ensues. .People .upon whom,impositions, .have been practised grow wary and watchful, and this i suspicion soon.becomes so intensified, that they .even look with disfavor upon-what’is 1 genuine. > Hence the necessity of rejecting :everything that: entrenches upon, Udolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam • Aromatic Schnapps, >,the. k one unapproachable preparation,— [Advt.J

' -‘The Hon. Major Atkinson; GolCnialTrea sutet,- v and- 1 -’the -Hon:"GeO; McLean, were pas sengers by the Hawea from’Lyttelton on Suh day: - 1 -“' c o [- oi;. j. the Haiwarra Assessment ,Court, held on there .were no objections to the valuation roll, which was therefore formally .confirms^.,, M r 1 ./ The girl Alice Greening was put aboard the • steamer Ringarooma: by the police j yesterday week: 1 ;She is being forwarded to her father, who resides at the Thames, and who, it is .hoped,.may! succeed .in breaking her of the evil ways into.which she has fallen. t;;. 1 1

' 1 'jSti J. Hirtop has received the. following telegram “Reefton, 11th March, 1882. WelcomO return, 1 12980 z amalgbim' ‘from the ‘'top' 'plates,' r reßoit of ,90. tons '! crushed.” ’This is r abovq even the usually excellent re turns from the’WelOome'mine:. - From,Messrs ,W.,and-iG. ,Turnbull and Co; yre haye received ,;a goodly parcel of, American Railway Guide Books,.full of information, and profuse in ; > illustrations., ~ A mere glance at these advertising mediums is sufficient to in duce the wish for leisure and ineans; to travel by, riyer, road, and rail, through scenes which ' transcend, in interest, and. where comfortable locomotion is reduced to ( a science. , In the Resident Magistrate’s Court oh.Satur: day, before Dr. Diver and Mr J. H. Wallace, J.P.’s, Patrick -Clarke, aged l nine years,-was brought up as-a neglected child. ’lt appeared that he is the son of Eliza Clarke, the woman who was recently sent to gaol in default of "finding sureties'to keep the peace towards one of her neighbors. He was sent to St. 