It is stated that Mr H. S. Fish leaves for the Home Country by the Ruahine, and that he will be back in ample time to take part in the General Election. The Cargill road Wesleyan Band of Hope wti3 opened last Friday evening. A splendid programme was submitted, including a short address by the Rev. R. Taylor and Bongs and recitatioua by friends aud the children. Mr J. Sbackloek (superintendent) occupied the chair, and after a few well-chosm re marks extended a hearty iuvitation to ill to attend future meetings during the session. Miss lUinsford accompanied during the evening. Two trifling errors, both probably tele graphic mistakes, in the reply, as printed, of Dr MacGregor to the criticisms contained in the reporc of Judge Ward, as Commissioner in the Ashburn Hall inquiry, have been pointed out to us. In the second paragraph of the reply, Dr MacGregor is said to have wiilten that "the Commissioner's criticism " is based on section 77 of the Lunatics Act, ISB2, whereas the words actually employed were " the severest criticism." In the next paragraph, Dr MacGregor was made to say that "section 134" showed that only one of the partners in the proprietorship of au asylum need be resident, but the reference he made was actually to section 135. By the Alameda, which left Auckland for San Francisco on Saturday, a number of old colonists left for the Old Country, some going on mining speculations and business.
DUNEDIN HOUNDS.
delightful scene. Where all around is gay—men, horses, hounds, Aud in each smiling countenance appears Fresh blooming health and universal joy.
