On our first page will be found in teresting reading matter under the fol lowing headings : — '"Royal Visitors," "The Courts," "The Excess of Women," "The Religious World," and football and sporting.
The Auckland Star states that Mr Vesey Stewart, the founder of Katiknti and To Puke Settlements, is in com munication with the Imperial Govern ment with the view of forming special settlements in the Orange River Col ony, riouth Afrio*.
It is expected that the greater part of the Volunteers from this district will go on to Christckurch, and it is therefore uncertain when they will re turn. Those wo do not go beyond Wel lington will probably return to Wan ganui on Sunday.
A southern contemporary says: — The rabbit industry has taken up the at tention of the youth a great deal. Some mere boys are earning more wages than men occupied in professions. A boy in Wyndham, about 15 years old, received his month's "rabbit cheque" the other day, amounting to £15.
la an odd corner of a garden at Mornington (Dunedin), the mistress of tho house, while on the hunt for vege tables, unearthed a veritable giant po tato, which, when, cleansed ot the ad hering patticles of earth, was found to weigh 31b 7oz. It belongs to an early .variety, somewhat resembles a totoisc in ahape,. and is perfectly sound and free from blemish.
