! War Rum«rs.— On the 2flth ulfc., a cable gram reached Dunodin :—": — " Thero are vaguo minors of an alliance between Russia and Italy. The Russian Press alleges that if the British squadron enter* the Hellespont Russia will encounter it as an alien squad* ron." This appears in tho " Sydney Morn ing Herald " in the following form :—" There are vague rumors about an alliance between Russia and Italy. The Russian Press alleges that if a British squadron enters the Helles pont, it will encounter an Italian squadron."

A Delightful Daughter-in-Law. —A Nelson man has got a neat thing in wives from amongst the recently arrived immigrants . Ho took her to live at his mother's, and the old lady told the Bench the other day in an action for assault, that on the 14th July, tho fresh inmato threatened to put her on the fire, threw coffee over her, shoved her out of tho house, struck her with a brush and after wards with a stick, causing her hand to bleed, and tried to put her in a deep ditch. Tho complainant had to flee for her life. The daughter-in-law was fined L 2, and bound over to keep the peace.
Masonic. —An emergency meeting of Lodge Waitaki, No. 11 11, E.G., will tftk\» place to-night at 7 o'clock sharp.
