JP* Hon. Ca{>tain Roasell was a wwaewitr from Wellington by tbe Batorday morning, and spent the day ia town. Hβ left in the evening by the north gam for Waikari,<*to daoghte * Mrs Fox, wife of Colonel Fox.
The war news, wiwm received at Palm a lew <laye ago, proved so exciting, ttat one »<> time in firing off *ma*i c«todge* from a revolver, and juat managed a telegrapb wire with oneoFthe

The Holewell di*trict is evidently not iht only ooe m New Zealand where the traction ffflgjnel>eooinee a bnvdan. At a meeting of tae Mfeawata County Conned! last week, the o*tne» reported that owing to a resident running a traction engine on Longburn £ongot«a it would cost the Council at west £100 a year more to keep it in repair. ?*» Home Industries Committee of th« J nbilee Exhibition are raaking arrangements to,|wwlde glaascase accommodation for ex tHbHa requiring special protection. A enall extra charge will be made for this, and exhibitors are requested, in another column, to immediately give notice if they require the case*.
In certain cirdes in Wellington the im pression is gaining gronnd that, consequent on the announcement that the Duke and Dudhess of York will viarfc New Zealand, the Premier will abandon iua trip to Eng land, feis efforts to bring the session to an early close being attributed to that desire. Toe impression is, of course, not grounded on anything definite, and is more or less conjecture, but ia supported to a certain extent by the anticipation that any honours to be conferred on colonists will, in all pro bability, be conferred by the Duke of York.
