For really sound ecclesiastical informa tion commend us to the Auckland Star. This is the very latest: —" Whitsuntide was a festival appointment to commemo rate the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, and the newly baptised persons used to wear white garments. The feast is moveable, being always seven days after Easter." In an article on the political outlook in this colony the Adelaide Register says : " Sir George Grey's day is gone by. He is a leader without followers, an advocate without a brief. His rose-tinted demo cratic views have , lost their freshness, and it is scarely possible that he can conjure up any topic that will be alike novel and exciting. If fight he must, he will be like big Harry of the Wynd—for his own hand. The colony is apparently satistied that Sir George Grey has been already trusted too far and too often and may be content to repose at least for a while its absolute confidence in the pre sent Ministry, who really have done so much to promote the country's interests and to deserve the gratitude of its con stituencies."

A Ballarat councillor moved " That a widow's application for remission of rates stand over, as sho might marry a man able to pay them." The Chinese population of New Zea land is 4GOO, which is several hundred less than it was seven years ago. A terrible disease has broken out among the Chinamen employed on the Canada Pacific Railroad works in British Colum bia. The case of a Chinese cook will serve to illustrate the phases of this strange malady. He sat down, apparently perfectly well, to eat his dinner. His feet began to swell, and the swelling ex tended itself up his legs and body, reach ing a vital part in about ten minutes, causing his abdomen to swell and chest to expand in a most unnatural manner, and he tumbled down dead, all in less than fifteen minutes from the time the disease first attacked him. In this way these people are dying in dozens. 