Mr A. R, Bunny informs us that the appeal against the decision of Colonel Roberta in the case Hosking v, Beetham is to be proceeded with,

MrE. of the Wellington Labour Bureau, is in Masterton to-day, making inquiries into the allegations made regarding the men sent to this district from the Bureau,

Tho Pahiatua paper nays the Mayoral troubles and Borough squabbles of Masterton havo dona more to advertise this town than either the resources of the district or the enterprise of tho inhabitants,

One of the oldest settlers in Maurice villa passed away on Wednesday night last in the person of Mrs John Jessen. She had been for some time past a severe sufferer from asthma. Mr Jessen and a grown up family of one son and two daughters are left to mourn their lots. The deceased lady will be buried at the Lutheran Cemetery,. Mauriceville, this (Friday) afternoon, The young men Stevens and Gunther, who wero before the Masterton R.M. Court yesterday, wore drinking on the previous afternoon in another hotel, and not in the Star Hotel, as stated, They certainly did enter the Star Hotel, but immediately the licensee discovered their condition no had them ejected,

The Napier Telegraph says :-Many of our readers heard on Wednesday a

strange rumbline sound—a sound which was like distant thunder, astho rumbling that precedes an earthquake—woll, tho Natives are predicting a severe volcanio eruption, and say that that sound is tho sign of it coming, The herds of wild horses running on the Kaingaroa plains near Taupo have loft tho flat country, and this is regarded as a sign of in stinctive knowledge of coining trouble,

Masterton may lack many things,- but it undoubtedly possesses tho champion contrary man of Now Zealand, Yester day had, with much announcement by the Government, been proclaimed Arbor Day throughout the Colony, and most of us rejoicing in the leisure, either planted trees or looked on approvingly and patronisingly at othor people deing it. Not so our wayward friend, for out at his farm at Upakt, ho. with fiendish delight and many chuckles, spent the whole day from early morn to dewy eve chopping down trees one after the other, all from pure oussedness of spirit and wantonness of habit. 