In the case of Charleß Harris, charged with house-breaking, the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty." In George Gome's case, which was a charge of fraud, Mr Stringer, for the Crown, did not feel justified in proceeding further after hearing the nature of the evidence for the defence, and the prisoner waa discharged. A Colonial's Success.— We have to record the Buocess of another Colonial student at the Edinburgh University in the last medioal examinations. News haß been received by the last San Francisco mail that Mr William Crosbie Hamilton, who went from here to the Edinburgh School of Medicine, haß passed the entire final examination for Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.8.C.M.) with credit. At the same time he represented the Colony at the 'Varsity sport 3, when he ran third in the Quarter-mile, and but for a mistake would have gained second place. Fire.— This morning, at 10.45 o'clock, an alarm was given, and the fire waa found to .hf» in a house, No. 16, Peterborough street, oc^ited by a labourer named Samuel Blunt, ana .owned by the Church Property Trustees. T%> engines turned out but their services were no* regaired, as the fire was extinguished by a tew. buckets of water before it had obtained a very Btcong hold. It was caused through the chimney being defective. The only damage done was that the wall alongside and above - the fireplace was slightly burned. So far as can be ascertained there was no insurance c tber on the houEe or the furniture. Women's Institute. — The monthly meeting of the economics department of the Women's Institute waa held on Tues day afternoon at the Young Men's Chris tian Association rooms, when a very inte resting paper on " Boy Labour " was read by Mr Smith. He said that the remedy for the abuses which arise from the em ployment of boyß lay in co-operation, the time for which is, he considered, not yet ripe. Till then such palliative measures must be used aB appeared beet to meet the difficulty. Among these were mentioned the more stringent enforcement of the Factory Act and the opening up of the land to the people. He also suggested that the wages of apprentices should vary automatically with those of skilled labourers; and lastly, that there should be fixed periodical examinations for apprentices. 