A star ball of fire or a will-o'-the-wisp — I don't know which — makes its regnlar appear ance between seven and nine o'clock and commences tho moat eccentric movements imaginable : darting hither and , thither Blowly and with a gyratory motion, assuming as it goes the most beautiful colours. There is no illusion. Nearly everyone m the settlement has seen it, and we are all at loss to know what it renlly is, or how its appear ance is to be accounted for." An extraordinary scene occurred at a wedding at Portsmouth the other day. AMr Mariner, a grocer at Ijandport, 64 yeors o£ age, whose wife had died as recently as March last, left his residence with a girl named Elizabeth Look about 17 yean of age, and who had formerly been m his employ bs a domestic servant, and the pair proceeded m carriage, with postilions m" blue to St. Thomas' Church, for the purpose of .being married. Tho neighbours had' closed their shutters and drawn their blinds, while some of tho tradesmen had hung out mourning boards and bows,. and boards of crape. A crowd assembled m the street, and the pair were pelted with decayed oranges and apples, and other offensive missiles. Outside the church they were hooted and hissed by another crowd, and, on the return journey after the service they were similarly greeted. Meanwhile tho bridegroom's son had pro ceeded to place a mourning wreath on his mother's grave. A great deal of excitement prevailed m the streets, and traffic was temporarily suspended. :. Id view of tho nuisance caused by the Salvation Army m Napier, the following olippiDg from the London Standard of May 27th will be read wilh^ interest : — "Tho Town Clerk of Canterbury repoitcd to tho corporation of that city yesterday, that the Homo Secretary had given his sanction to a new bye-law recently adopted by. the council with a view to tho suppression of street music. The bye-law was shortly after the Salvation Army took up quarters m the city, and is practically intended to moot any cibo of disturbance that may bo created by the playing of musical instruments by the members of that body m their pre cessions through the streets. 