"Oriel" in the " Ar<*us" relates a. very amusing incident that happened in a little town not very far from Melbourne a week or so ago. The attendance was rather large and the committee felt that at the show dinner the funds the fumls would not per mit oC champagne to every gue-t. tin half the table was set with champagne at 17^ o'd per bottle, and the other half with vigorisie at 4* G I per dozen. By ctrcful arrangement the invited notabilities were placed at the champigno end, and the vigorine was left I it the sturdy agriculturists, whom the com mittee thought would mt know the difference. They dM not, ami i»n.! stilwart farmer having put away one whole bottle of %-jgorine to his own cheek, called the waiter and privily tippinghiin half-i-urown, desired him "to bring us. another bottle-of that champagne, will you ."

Countess 2s, Duchnss 2s 4d, Princess 2s 81, Empress 3». Th>fie Tuns an- fit tjfr >m uny Bi-'eos of ttatringttiK-y,

It ia stated that the price paid for Maxim was 4000 guineas, and that Mr J. B. Haggin, of California, is the buyer.
Mi' Wooldridgc, piano tuner, advertises that he may he found at Mr Harry Frtedlander's, Kast street, by those re quiring his services.
A lady of one hundred and ten is at present visiting IJuxton, She is wheeled down to hear the bind play nearly every day.
The number of people in the different races is estimated : Caucasian, 600,000,000 ; Mongolian, 600,000,000 ; black, 250,000,000; copper-coloured, 12,000,000. There was a close contest- in the Christ church mayoral election yesterday, which resulted in the return of Councillor William Prudhoe, who polled 604 votes against Mi- George Boiuiington's 544.
