Attention is directed to Mr G. J. Neills drapery advertisement. Bargains to suit the times are announced. On Monday night, m the Orange Hall, a public meeting will be held to arrange for rendering assistance to the sufferers by the Wairarapa wreck. The attendance at the * People's Day ' of the Metropolitan Show was about 2500 less than m 1893. The takings amounted to £827 15s. against £956 6s kst year. An aggrieved defendant m a rabbit case heard at Masterton the other day said the inspectors resembled the Czar of Russia, and they ought to all be m Siberia, as they were only invented to harass settlers. The Wellington Education Board issued, for the last first grade drawing examina tion, 6115 papers. The papers worked totalled, 5477 ; passes, 3169 ; and failures, ) 2281. This is an increase on 1893 of 580 paper?. William Moir, punt keeper at Clydes dale ferry, was drowned m Clutha river yesterday. He is supposed to have fallen off the punt. His body has not been re- CDvered. The captain of the Ashburton Fire Brigade desires to acknowledge receipt of £2 2d from Messrs P. and D, Duncan as a subscription to the funds of the Brigade, m recognition of the Brigade's services at the firs on their premises on Saturday latst. Mr A. M. Clark, of Temuka, was stizad with a fit on «he Show Grounds yesterday mornirif, and v us taken to the Canter buiy Club. It was revolted m the afternoon that he was m a very serious condition, bn'; inquiries made m the evening showed that he was very much better f|A Wairarapa paper says:—We hear that about thirty idle men are m the Masterton boarding-houses, and about forty m private residences. On each of the fctation-s ihe unemployed are said to be increasing, a,nd numbering from twenty to thirty to each run. A meteorolite, weighing 1961b5, has been found on the salt marsh east of Mug* Downs, North Wfssb Australia. It is an iron-stained mass cf bright pure metal, not a particle of stone being visible, and when struck with any hard substance rings like an anvil. 