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Common petroleum, or paraffin, oil, has been recommended to protect guns from rust. When put away tor the season, simply wipe the barrels with a woollen rag dipped in tbo oil. ' A Scctunun at Hamilton, Canada,™tends to present an axe handle to the Princess Louise, because in all her sketches of Cana dian forest scenes she represents the axe handle as straight, whereas it is crooked. Sir W. Fox will oil Wednesday examine Mr Williams, late Land Purchase Commis sioner at Patea, in reference to some £5,000 alleged to he duo to the Patea and Waito tara natives, and not accounted for. In a recent sundisturbance a protuberance was thrown up from tho surface which was 230,000 miles long, but in a few hours it subsided to only 18,000 miles. The inscriptions on the land wall at Con stantinople extend over a period of more than a thousand years. It is perfectly safe to think a man is a fool, but not always safo to say it. So little freedom of speech have we, even in this country. Hancock, charged with indecent assault at the Thames, was discharged, the evi dence not being sufficiently strong to warrant conviction, / An Order-in-Couneil has been published authorising Captain W. H. Colbeck to build a wharf at Batley, at tho junction of tho Otaraatea and Arapaoa Kivers, Kaipara Harbour, and to charge regular fees for the uso of the same.
