A speaker (it the meeting of the New Zealand Kennel Club, in Wellington, pointed out that, owing to the faulty con struction of the Dog licsistration Act, if ut burglar was bitten by a dog owned by a householder whose premises were being professionally visited, the house holder was held responsible by the law for any damage which the "unfortun ate " burglar might receive. The large shipping companies have decided to reduce the cost of shipping frozen poultry from New Zealand to South Africa and London to lUd per pair, or about Oil less than at present, The amount will include all wharfage, insurance, grading and other charges, but not of course the commission (usually ii per cent) for selling the birds, The most recent triumph of the French postal administration is an ingenious little machine which not only automati cally weighs letters and samples, hut records on an indicator at the side the amount required for stamps. When the article deposited on the balance exceeds the regulation weight, the indicator promptly hoists the sign" Too heavy," A New York paper slates that the prospectus of the new shipbuilding com bination, consisting of the Union Iron Works, at San Francisco, the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, and Louis Xixon and Co,, at Elizabclliport (New Jorsey), has been issued, The capital is 70,00b,000i101. The company are said to he able to equip warships to the minutest detail, either on the Atlantic or Pacific coast,

At Waitotara is a university reserve of 'IOOO acres belonging to the Victoria Collcdgo Council, The blook, divided into two small runs, has been offered for lease unsuccessfully on three occasions, It was fii-st submitted at one shilling per acre; then at iiincpeiicc mill again at six pence. The Land Board has decided to subnnt it again this time at fourpence per acre. The country is described as rough and broken, but otherwise it is jjood sheep land.
