Ono knows thab summer numbers are printed in the dullest, depths of winter ab Home,'and that by June the Christmas num bers are ready; but to see Chriscmas cards, and diaries for ]_02 exhibited in September is somewhat startling, and jusb at first ono feels that tho enterprising salesmen are a " wee bit too previous." A nietureof some Maori ladies enjoying the latest spicy story of some one or other which is also ex htbtted.in all, the shops has good and amusing points. It will prubably soli well " for home."'*

Mr Drumtnond, who moved to Whangarei about a year ago, is engaged at present on a large canvas, representing a tlab land scape, with a few Maori houses in the lefb foreground, seen under a dark, stormy sky, indicating a coming storm. "A Culm, Marsden Point," ami a view afc Grahams town, Whangarei River, are almost finished, and are intended for tho forthcoming ex hibition of bhe Auckland Society of Arts. Besides these, Mr Uiummond' has for warded to tho Wellington exhibition a large canvas, the .subject of which is the Ocean Beach, Whangarei Heads.
