Ab the late meeting of tho Onohunga Choral Society, an amount of interesting work was performed, which should assist still further to make this Society a greater success oven than ib has been. The secre tary, Mr A. Jackson, read his annual re-port, and the treasurer submitted his, which showed a satisfactory balance of £1 6s. When the expenses of buying new books and other charges in connection with a musical society are taken into con sideration, tho fact that- tho balance is on the right side of bho ledger is grati fying. Rules b" and 7 were altered to provide for a committee of three to confer in conjunction with the director on all questions relating to the selection of musical pieces, etc. New rules, 14 and 15, were passed reducing hon. members' sub scription. It was agreed thab there shall be 5 concerba during the year, and thab bhe charge be to hon. mambers 1?, instead of Is 6d. Mr Charles C. Fleming was elocted President, Dr. Scott and Mr Frost vice presidents. Committee of Management : Messrs Walrond and McAlpine, and Mes dames Lyell, Pefctingrew and McFarlane. Mr A. Jackson was re-elected secretary, and Mr A. Robb treasurer. Persons using garden hoae aro advised to be cautioned in not unnecessarily wasting the water and allowing it to run to waste over the foobpaths, ebc, as the Council re serve bho righb to determine the supply whore unnecessary waste is found to bake place. Ab presenb this is tho case in numerous instances. A Southern paper reviewing "Frank Melton's Luck, or Off to New Zealand," by Thomas Cotble, says : — " Oubwardly bhis book bears bhe appearance of a ' shilling shocker,' bub inwardly ib is crammed full of love-making, advenbure, descriptions of station, goldinining, and bush fighting life in Now Zealand, to gother with quite a respectable allowance of bhe history of this colony woven in, such slight liberties being taken with ib as a writer of fiction always feels justified in taking for the sako of increasing his effects or making his incidents hang together. The plob of the story is a little thin in places, and bhe workmanship is somewhat rough, bub mosb of bho descriptions are very true to life, and some of them are written with a good deal of spirit. 