Preparations are being midc for commencing the conatraction of a light railway acroBi the Ills of Sheppy 1 he lioe will itart from Queenuborough and the tarmlnan will be at Leys down. Tli3 firit iod of the new light railway connecting Hartingfcon, Derbyshire, Leek, and Staffordshire wai cab by the Duke of Devonshire, the occasion being one of generjl re joicing. The railway wilt open up t rich agrcaltaral and pictareiqsa dn • trict. The new IoteratHoaal Cjde of H\g nali will aborbly be iuued. £m^ bodied t herom will be a tyibem of uighb signalliog at tea, bated upon the Morte pdociple,

10 TUB EDITOR. Sir, — I am glad to see thab yon published my second Icbter on this subject, but I am sorry tint ib wss nob pabliBhed sooner, *b the elections aro now drawing so near th*b I am afriid tbere ii nob time for me to Bay all that I wanted to sty before the election?, and I do not know that it will be much use in writing aboab it after* wardi. Well, I havo already eaid in my last letter bba!) I believe that tlia present Government; will go back inbo power again, and probably stronger ih»n ever, and although I am do Op positionist, yet facts are factp, aad tame la no question that since the time whea bbc freezing works made a gen ~ eral et-rt to tike rabbita, thab the rabbib idorinistrabion has been a dii or.ee bo the country, bat it wai tboat tbfl time of the Otago Jabilee tbat the rabbit administration was at iti very iToreb, and aboab this time I rod a reporb from one of the inspectors to, I think, Mr Ritchie, which etitedthat rabbits were being trapped whe e they had never been trapped before, Wtl 1 , I fail to see why they should nob be trapped and ntnlised if the parties who caaght them had nothing betber to do, bat tha sore poinb wltb the inspector scorned bo be not tint the rabbits were iboro, hn& ihab aomebody was catching (hem and bringing them oot where tlr-y would be seen. 