ACCIDENT TO THE MARAROA.
"The Don" will be thrown open to night, from ?.3O till 9. Mr Bishop does not promise" "a bun scramble" or "a gre'ajb splash," but he does' say that he will "afford— every -opportunity- of in specting the mamnioth - -stock ' and multitudinous bargains to bo" found on the 'tpremisos, ' iv, the"* .Avenue., tTo visitors to" town and the public gener ally,, "The Don" extends * hearty in vitatipn.- , ' •

Auckland's new Opera House will be called "His Majesty's Theatre."

The Queensland Government have de cided to offer a reward of JESOOO for the best means of eradicating prickly pear.
Captain Edwin wired at 1.20 to-day: — North-east to north and wets gale after 20 hours from now; glass fall; sea considerable; tides high.
A British Treasury estimate of the cost of the Duke of York's visit to Aus tralia and. Canada puts the amount at from t0.~J700.000. Whew! -

A petition, bearing over 800 signa tures, has been lodged with the chair man of the Southland County Council demanding a poll on the rating on un improved values. 1

Visitors to town by train were pour ing in to-day, there being some twelve cars fully laden with excursionists from North and something like a similar number from, the South.
