He encloses what he supposes to be a photograph of the camp meeting , grounds, but which ho discovers shortly ' afterwards is a likeness oE a famous ballet i dancer. An attempt is then made by hig [ companion to recover the letter from the [ mails, but a letter which contains a sum oi i money iB instead taken, and the < com , panions are followed by a detective as. mail robbers. To make matters # worse, , their respective wive3 turnup at Brighton , and very ludicrous complications ensue, ; During the season of fourteen nights the ; company promises to produce several othei , comedies in addition to Skipped hy flu Light of the Moon,

', Mount Sosiebs.— The Otago Daily Times i refers to the fact that the Milburn Lime , and Cement Company has lately discovered 7 a good seam of coal within a few hundred a yards of its limestone quarry at Mount e Somera. Liberal Association.— A meeting of r persons interested in the formation of a 1 Liberal Association in the Geraldine ! district was held in the Good Templar Hall 1 on Friday evening. About thirty persons i were present, and Mr W. S. Maslin was in x the chair. It was resolved—" That this , meeting form itself into a Liberal Associa tion for the Geraldine district." A provi -3 Bional committee of nine, consisting of , Messrs A. Sherratt, J. M. Sutherland, T. C. Farnie, P. D. Herdman, B. Annan, W. t S. Maslin, L. Newport and E. Eobson, was I appointed, and Mr W. S. Maslin was , elected chairman pro iem. At the close of \ the meeting the committee met for routine ; business. The New Zealand Cyclists. — News j has been received from a member of the , New Zealand team of cyclists, who left ■ Lyttelton on August 16, that they reached - Sydney after a very fair passage, and were j all in good health notwithstanding a little [ seasickness. Snug quarters were found , for them near the track, which is on the l Association cricket ground, and they ex r pecfc to be in the beet of form by Sept. 9, when the meeting of the Sydney Bicycle Club will be held. 