At Brisbane, a girl of 18 pleaded guilty to bigamy recently. She had married twice inside 12 months ; the first husband went away to look for work, and when he had been away for eight months she got tired of waiting and married again. It was don e with little or no conc.ealment and her only plea was that she didn’t know there was any harm in it. The Express is responsible for the state ment that there is said to be a family in the back blocks from Eketahuna which is abso lutely running wild. The children have never seen a school, and their language is quite unintelligible. So seldom do they see a stranger that when one recently visited the house the youngsters became terrified and hid themselves from view. While three men were driving their horse along the Wanganui road the horse shied at a railway engine and swerved, capsizing the trap.. The occupants were thrown out close to the railway line. One had his collar bone broken and sustained contusion of the leg, another had his ribs fractured, and the third escaped with a few bruises. The former is in the hospital. The engine pulled up clear of the obstruction. A performing bear having escaped from a livery stable at Gore the other day, a local resident tried to recapture it, with the result that a lively encounter took place. The animal bit the man in the thigh, whereupon he stabbed it in the eye with an umbrellai the only weapon with which he was armed. The bear, returning to the attack, clawed one of the man’s hands badly, but finally was overcome and ssnt back to captivity. The body of Clung Fong, a well-known Chinaman who died about a fortnight ago, has been embalmed and shipped to China. In view of the wreck of the Ventor and also the possibility of legislation prohibiting the disinterment of bodies buried in the colony, it is not unlikely that the bodies of all Chinese who die in New Zealand will, for the future, be embalmed and shipped at once to the celestial Empire.—Grey River Argus. In the course of an interview with a north ern journalist, the Hon. 