The ketch Wild Duclc is loading at Oac hunga for Waitara. The schooner Fiery Cross was expected to be ready to sail from Tc Kopura, for Waitara, this day (Saturday).
The Secretary of tlic Inter-Colonial Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, which will be held in Melbourne in October next, has forwarded a list of special prizes to the amount of £1,185, which will be awarded to successful compe titors as per list, which may be seen on appli cation at the Herald Office.
The Borough Council having taken the In stitute building, and the library having been dispersed, a Book Club has been formed at Miss Cottier's Fancy Repository. In an ad vertisement in yesterday's issue, the Hon. Secretary (Mr. C. D. Whitcombe), notified the terms on which the Book Club will be opened. We trust it will be well supported.
We have searched to-day's issue of our con temporary through and through for ''the antidote" which it professes to have admin istered. We will endeavour to see through the riddle to-morrow.
Members of the Opera troupe will take part as vocalists in the celebration of High Mass, at the llonian Catholic Church, to-morrow morning's service, commcucing at eleven o'clock.
Letter from Mr. tiuell as to remarks made by the Mayor, will appear ou Monday.
The s.s. Oreti left the Waitara wharf at 5 o'clock last evening, arriving at Onchuuga wharf at 7.15 this morning, making the pass age from wharf to wharf in a little over fourteen houj s.
