The box office for the De Murska concerts was opened to-day at Mr Jones's and recited in the sale of a large number of aeats. It is duite advisable that those who intend pat ronising these concerts should secure then i places early, as the hall is almost certain to. be crowded on both nights. An unfortunate Maori named Heteraka arrived in Oarlyle on Friday (says the Mail) in a state of destitution and the last stage of pulmonary disease. He was accompanied by his wife and two children, the youngest of whom is also dangerously ill, and the con dition of the family was pit >We in the ex treme. He applied for help to the Native Commissioner, as also to theKesideut Magis trate, but neither of them was able to afford any assistance, and there was no place for J him to find needed care and shelter. Dr Walker prescribed for them, but that was all that could be done. The man is especially intelligent, and speaks English fluently and well. His passage was paid to Wanganui, he states, by the Government in Wellington, but how they came to ship him to this part is not clear, for he does not seem to have any friends in the district, and the future pros pects of the family are of the gloomiest. In such a case surely the Government should do something. John Edmond Brennan has written a letter to us in which he expresses surprise at the 'fuss ' made by our contemporary relative to his recent dismissal from the police force, and the delay of the Inspector replying to the j memorial forwarded by him asking for an ; inquiry into the grounds upon which he has been discharged. The paragraph in thia morning's iswie of our contemporary, he chinks, conveys the impression that he is j again seeking to join the police force. He wishes it to be understood that if the billet | was offered him he would most certainly re- j fuse to accept it. This is said to be the latest development ; of the detective system in Dunedin. 