Itongotca is supposed to be a Temper anco township, and the residents stoutly oppose a licensed house, yet I am cred ibly informed (says a correspondent) that the liquor brought into the town ship 011 one day alone for Christmas week amounted to two and a-half tons,

Cherries are now ripe at To liciiigit, Poverty Bay, and tlio groves arc declared to bo a beautiful sight with their rich coloring of red berries, It is a shame (says the local paper) that the tons of fruit grown here every year should be allowed to go to waste, We presume the locality is /«/>'/, and consequently the fruit cannot be taken by any one- Native or European, A young girl named Lena Dent, in service at ilonibala. Now South Wales, was busy at domestic duties when she saw an immense tiger snake glide into 0110 of the rooms. She immediately locked the door between tlio room and where her mistress was, and seizing a broom, killed tlio reptile, which meas ured sft in length. A geological controversy is now agi tating Nelson—viz., as tlio formation of the Boulder Bank. The contention of Mr W. F. Jforlcy, 111 a paper read by him recently beforo the Nelson Philoso phical Institute, is that there is probably a bar of rock at the cntranco to tlio harbour, Mr Leslie Reynolds, C.E., who put down six bores, lias demonstrated the existence of a loose silt or boulder formation, but 110 rock.
