The Presbytery of Olutha held its terly meeting at Balclutha on the 18th inst. The TZev. j. Copland was moderator. The business was of a local character, and the presbytery adjourned to the third Monday of Peceinbexv

To-morrow evening, the Eev. B. Con 'nebee will deliver a 1 lfectnreon "The Suffer ings of our PuritaaForefathers for conscience -ake in 1662," in tfte;Hall below the Con -gational Church, in Moray Place. ; ; the district of Cromwell, the mining ■ence is of most satisfactory nature. ■' :tmorlais<i Waterllace from the|Sow : ' '■" Complete to the banks of the nd a number of additional

sluicing claims will be set in motion. This race is capable of carrying about twenty heads of crater, and has cost for-construction about L4OOO. The sluicing claims at the Kawarau Gorge are looking extremely well, and in a few weeks there ■will be some rich washings-up to record. i ■

A sitting of the Supreme Court, for the hearing of cases under the Debtors and Creditors Acts, will be held on Monday next. The following is the list:—Third hearings- John Baker, John Might Coote, Henry Manders, John Switzer, J°nTl Hayward, Frederick William Beale, John Joseph Kelly, James Dodds. Second hearings—Abraham Solomon, George Dempster, Henry Taylor, Anthony St George White, Samuel Howard, Edgar ..Ivens, James Gardener, George Howorth, and David Kirby. First hearings —James Ure Russel, William Blair, James Rae, Join Eichard Cuttle, John M'Curdy, James Simmonds, Joshua Lazarus, Charles Chalker Beer, Robert M'Pherson, Franz Julius, Thomas Bailey, Catherine Hart, Thoniai Hopper Strachan, Daniel Eadcliffe, Robert Osbarne Carrick. - -. y

We hear that the Princess Theatre is to be re-opened, for dramatic performances, on Saturday evening.
An emergency meeting of the Otago Kil winning Lodge, No. 417, 5.0., will be held this evening.
