The Waipawa Rifle Volunteers will pamde by torchlight in the Public School playground, at 8 o’clock this evening Sergeant Major Dewar will be present. The matron of the Waipawa District Hospital reports for the week ending July 9tb :—Patients in Hospital. M 24, F 5; admitted during week M2, FI, discharged M 2, F 0 ; died M 0. F 0. Mombers of the Waipawa Fire Brigade are reminded that the monthly inspection and meeting takes place this evening, at 7 o’clock, instead of 8 o’clock as usaal. A foil atteDdanoe iB requested. The D.1.G., Wellington, advertise for an active agent to taki up the high grade bioycles controlled by the Anglo New Zealand Cycle Company. Liberal terms will be given to a competent man. Already the Wellington Acclimatisation Society is moving in the direction of introducing a farther supply of desirable gam9 birds, and active steps to this end are likely to be taken at an early date. A meeting of the Citizens' ball com mittee was held in tbe Empire Hotel last night, when a number of aocounts were passed for payment It was estimated that tbe ball would rosult in a profit of aboot £7.
Mr Frederick Weyerhaeuser, a wealthy Amerioan, is, with the probable exception of the Czar, the owner of more timber than any man on the globe. It is esti mated that, with his immediate associates, Mr Weyerhaens a r controls 15,000,000,000 feet of standing white pine.
