iSTo fewer than eleven cases of scarlet fever in Duoedin were reported to the local Board of Health on Tuesday morning. Our Kaitangata friends •ivill observe that a concert and readings will be given in the schoolroom on the evening of Friday next week. Sergeant Finnegan, of the Otago Police Force, late stationed at Baiclutha, has been ap pointed to the charge of the Milton Station in room of Sergeant Smythe retired. The meeting of the Athenseum Com mittee which should have been held on Monday evening was adjourned for a week. The ad journed meeting will therefore be held on Mon day evening first, when some important business will be brought forward. It has been arranged to hold Caledonian. Sports at Milton on New Year's Day. The pro gramme will be a fust -rate one, and no painß will be spared to make the sports a success. The prizes will be numerous, and amongst others will be one of £5 for the quarter-mile race. The Tokomairiro farmers have com menced sheep-shearing. Crops in the district are looking well, and are far advanced. In some fields the ears of the wheat are well formed. There is very little oaten crop this year com pared with what has been sown in the past. In our report of the exhibition of Fri day last, the best part of the Show is omitted to bs mentioned. We refer to the galaxy of youth and beauty — the ladies- whose presence and graces added so much lustre to the several at tractions of the day. We question if such an assemblage of blooming, healthy, industrious young ladies was ever before seen in the Colony. Rainer's grand histironie mirror of the American War was exhibited in Barr's Hall, here, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening 3, and was witnessed by large crowds. Indeed, on Monday evening a great many weiv una 'le t«> obtain admittance, and had to Trait till the succeeding nights. The exhibition was a highly interesting one, and the audiences were delighted with the various scenes presented and described. We are sorry to learn that two cases of scarlet fever have broken out in the town of Milton. 