Ihm Owve-rament hw deeidted to place th_ Depajtmant of Industries in c-lmrge of a man of cornim»rcial tr._ir.ing, and will invite applications for the position.
A CHINAMAN'S ILL-LUCK

Light-fingered visitors appear to have been busy on the Wingatui racecourse on Thursday (says the itTaieri Advocate"). One at least of them made a haul, when he w&rred a Chinaman of £22.
TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA

The Government .has decided to call for tenders for a proposed steam service to South Africa, tenderers to state the subsidy requir ed, lhe steanita-s are to be capable of carrying aft least 4000 tons, and be fitted with freezing chambers, and be of sufiicieiitJy lightdraught to enter all the most important South African The service will be a six-weekly one.
AN FEL'S QUEER HABITAT.
As an instance of the tenacity to existence displayed! by ee_s, the "Mataura Ensign" mentions in one of the country districts near Core a traction engine was engaged recently uprooting willow stumps from the «Jge of a dry creek in which tliere had been ttt water for months. At the root of on_ *f the utumps an eel very much alive wus discovered, apparently little, if any, the ****** for his enforced absence from his Wal place of abode.
