General Booth has arranged through Baker Bros. , agency to buy at Wellington a freehold property for £1,400, the lease of the present barracks having nearly ex pired. Tho Army are going to build thereon at a cO3b of £3,000. The position is a most central one, being in Dixon-streeb, opposite Herbert-street, and jusb off the tram line;

Ah tho Police Court to-day, before Mesare J. H. Salmon and D. Robertson, Justices, two persons were fined 5s and costs for first offences in drunkenness. Jamee Dodd for being drunk and disorderly was fined 20s and costs, with tho alternative of seven days' hard labour. George White was charged with drunkenness, this being his fourth offence ; also with the larceny of a pair of boots, tho property of some person un known, , and of a saw valued at 12s 6d, the property of G. W. Binney. The accused pleaded guilty and was senbenced to three months and six months, to run con currently.
