The football season at Greymouth opened on Saturday. It is rumored that Mr F. A. Learmonih, the well-known auctioneer, of Hokitika, is about selling out his business to Messrs Wade and Spence. An attempt is being made by several of the Greymouth members to remove the head-quarters of the Westland Central Board of Education from Hokitika to Greymouth, and amongst other reasons advanced by the Greymouth Star in favor of the change is the following : —" There is an intention to annex the Westport, Charleston, and Reef ton districts to West land, as forming part and parcel of the West Coast proper, and, if this is done, it would simply be impossible to have the head-quarters at Hokitika." Who told the Star man of the "intention." I

A little girl near Oamaru was kept from school the other day to assist in getting in potatoes. Her excuse note contained but one word, which the teacher at first thought was the Latin name for some new disease, but he afterwards found out it was fair English. Perhaps our readers can decipher it.—" Kepatomataterin." The Inangahua Herald cannot but view with rogret the extraordinary influx of Chinese which has been characteristic of our alluvial gold workings during the past few years. We hear of unemployed all over the colony who could certainly earn more than a living on these goldfields, and it is anything but satisfactory to find the superior races starving in the centres of population, when an extensive field exists for employment, and one in which but little skill is required.
