>. Sir. John Hall and family were pas ' senders fur England by the Lady Jocelyn, which left Wellington on Saturday. The "Maniototo County Council, which applied for LIO,OOO under the Roads and (i Bridges Act, has been '"granted L 2812 10s. • The Prince of Wales hotel, Invercar giil, was discovered to be on fire three ' different times on Tuesday morning. The ' damage was only slight. A rather bad case of sunstroke occurred 1 at Greymouth on Monday to a man named - John Thomas Kiel. The effect was to render him violent and maniacal. Several cases of erysipelas have been  admitted to the Melbourne, Hospital lately. A. meeting is to be held to consider the advisability of burning the hospital. ' No steps have yet been, taken by the .Government with reference to filling up the. office of U.nder-Secretary for Public .Works, vacated by the. resignation of Mr John Knowles. There Js a strong agitation in the. Teviot district for severance from Tnapelca and the formation of a new county. A .public meeting has been convened to con sider the subject. The S©uth Dunedin. Cpuncil has de cided to request the Electric Light Com pany to 'make an offer to that body of terms upon which the borough can be lit by electricity. An admirer of Mr Michael Davitt re cently took a queer method of showing ' his admiration. He placed a handsome diamond ring on the finger of Mr Davitt's .model in Tussaud-s exhibition in London. At the: Magistrate's Court, Napier, on ■ Monday, a publican. was fined L 7 and |. costs for an assault of a most severe and | .-„ beastly character. Three of the publican's i -. witnesses were ordered to be prosecuted for perjury. The Anglican. Bishop of Wellington :. figured as defendant in the R.M. Court ...there on. Monday in an action brought against him by the Rev. E. C. Wilson, for .stipend due. The case went against | the .curate on the ground that the Bishop was the wrong person to sue. There are $3 stiidents at the .Lincoln Agricultural School — 15 from Canterbury, 5. from Auckland, 2 from Nelson, 2 from Invercargill, 1 from Lawrence, 2 frcm Napier, 3, from Gisborne, 1 from Victoria, ' 1 from Dunedin, and, 1 from Wellington. 