Dividends on all proved accepted ilaiins are nmv paynhlo at the oflice of bo Deputy Oll'iciui Assignee! in the bl owing estates: Joseph Williams, and Henry Aulin, During the sovcrc frost last Saturday light a water-pipo belonging to a wind nill in Mastorton was burst for a (lis .unco of liftccn feet,

Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.lt., has pro mised lo attend at tho Teclinica! .School, Mastcrlon, on Hatuulay next, at 2 p,m,, :o formally open an exhibition of paint ings by Mr Irvine and his pupils, Tho Duko, when speaking to the two small boys who walked from Invcrcargill to Duncdin to sec bis Royal Highnoss, remarked, "This isthostuil'to make line soldiers of the Umpire." A syndicate care of A. 11. liuchanan, Ilobson-strcct, Wellington, won the third prize of X9OO in Tatlei'sall's sweep (or the Y.1t.0. Grand National Hurdles,

A Poverty Hay paper points out that merchants are buying up the output of dairy factories for the whole o( next season at ten pence it pound This shows eonlidenee in the stability of the market.
