There is a great demand for cats in South Australia for rabbit destruction. There are already about 5000 cats on one large run, and they have done such excellent work that another army of the natural enemies of the rabbit is to be put in the field. It is somewhat difficult to get the requisite number of cats, and as much as 2s 6d each is being offered for them. Experience has proved that no damage is done by the cats which confine their attention solely to the rabbits. The Nelson Colonist says:—“ The residents of Brunnerton present a somewhat peculiar petition to the House. They ask that free railway passes be provided for seven or eight boys, sons of poor laboring men, who cannot be controlled by the female teacher of the Brunnerton Catholic school, so that they may attend the Greymouth Catholic school, and be duly walloped by a male teacher. This method of State aid for controll ing the unruly rising generation is decidedly original.” Lynchers in America succeeded in executing, without any trial or legal ceremony, 195 criminals in 1861, against 126 in 1870, and 176 in 1889, the last named, having, up to the past year, been the holder of the record. The negroes, says a London paper, again monopolised the majority of this list—there being 121 blacks, 69 whites, two Indians, two Chinese, and one Mexican; and it is somewhat startling to see that among these wete six women, the previous year only numbering one female in this ghastly category. As regards the locality in which these peremptory vengeances took place, the South, of course, takes the lead—Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi heading the list with 29, 26, and 23 lynchings, respectively; while in the West, Arkansas and Montana come next on the list. The methods of Judge Lynch in executing his decrees are varied. There is no particular mode of execution as in carrying out sentences of the law; and the rope and pistol are about evenly divided in popularity, v/bile burning at the stake comes prominently into favor in cases of brutal outrage. The manager of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, Mr J. C. Hanna, has been successful in his efforts to obtain the release from taxation of certain assets upon which his company were technically, but not equitably, liable to pay. The Petitions Committee (A. 