Tbo Rangitikei Ad"ortisor professes to have absolutely reliable information that large merchants have, within the past few months, beon detected in quito a 'argo number of instances attempting to defraud the Customs, and yet in not a single instance has a prosecution been instituted,

The reapers and binders are in full awing in and around Mastorton just now. Every fine day in the harvest season is dbvoted to the work of gathering in the sheaves, and even the sabbath is not allowed to interrupt the proceedings in this gloriously, enlighted land, nothing but the state of the weather being res-, pectedi >.:•..'■.■

Wo (Rangitikei Advocate) havo boen shown a splendid staple, of wool, clipped from a Lincoln hogget 16 months old by Mr, James Beard, of Wangaehu. Its longth was one loot nine inches. Mr Beard has shorn a Lincoln ram of his own breeding, which clipped the astonishing quantity of tl-llb of wool, Tho following gentlemen are gazetted with others as Justices of the Peace : Eichard Slingsby Abraham of Palmor ston North; Alfred Augustus Browne

ofWanganui; Samuel Biown of Wel lington ; Frederick Edward Darby, of Ohai'iu, County Hutt j Robert Ohiseri ball Hamerton, of Wellington; Somer set William D'Dr'cy Irvine, of Wellington ; Goorgo Fain, of Martin-

borough; and Joseph Studholme, ol Karioi, Wanganui.
