The plant of the Inverell Herald has been seized by the proprietor of the In verell Times for costs in the late libel action, Bond v. Cook. The friends of the latter, within six hours, ordered a complete new plant, which was despatched the same day. In the meantime, arrange ments were made to print the Herald at Glen Innes, in order that the copyright of the paper might be preserved. Thus the plant is in Bond, and the Herald for the time is Cook-ed.—Bulletin. A Karamea settler named O'Connor, with his wife and child, has arrived in town from the Settlement, for the pur pose of obtaining medical treatment for his child. Whilst coming around the rocks known as " O'Conor's Mistake" Mrs O'Connor narrowly escaped being washed out to sea, great exertions on the part of her husband being necessary to rescue her. The travellers report the inland track to be in a frightful state. By a typographical error in the leading articls upon Mr Fisher's address, pub lished in Tuesday morning's Times, the annual cost of public education in New Zealand was stated as "£40,000," whereas it should read "£400,000." Mr J. Bickerton Fisher, M.H.R., will leave Westport, en route for Wellington, per Grafton, about Saturday. He goes by way of Cliristchurch. The local Amateur Dramatic Society have arranged to give a performance at Addison's Flat on the evening of Saturday week, the 18th instant,

Mr S. A. M'Alister has been appointed to the offices of chief postmaster and officer in charge of the telegraph, at Blenheim. The Kaikoura Star is the authority for the statement that Mr T. F. Winstanley (who has been Postmaster at Blenheim since he left Westport) is to be what is unpopulaxly known in the Civil Service as " retrenched." In his electoral address at Greymbuth, Mr Morris said that he was decidedly in favor of putting an export tax on wool. A small tax on wool would be practically an assistance to native industry. An ex port tax on wool would induce the grower to seek a market for his product in the colony, instead of sending it home. He could not see what objection the squatter could offer against being taxed a penny in the pound on wool. He should remember all that the colony had done for him. 