A telegram was received last week by the police that a man named Action, re siding at Alcitea, was fined £SO for sly grog selling. It appears that many com plaints have lately been made to the police that the men employed on the stations in the neighborhood have been in the habit of getting most villainous decoctions as liquor from some person or persons in that locality, much to the detriment of the men themselves, as well as to the injury of the interests of their emplo3 r ers. No doubt the station holders in that district will be gratified that tlic police have so soon been able to bring home to some one the evil complained ol by them. Action was given one month to pay tho fine; or in default to u idergo two months imprisonment. An English contemporary says : —“ The Record is much exercised by a refractory curate, who complains that he has been fourteen years in the church, and yet has no chance of preferment* ‘ Come what will (exclaims the curate), ment, or disendowment if necessary- - * away with a state of things injurious to religion and antagonistic to justice. Other curates, the writer says, are of his opinion, believiqg that if the church were dis established, brains would have a chance against family connections, influence, or purchase. The Record is horrified at these dreadful sentiments. * They savour moro of the Communism of Paris, or the International Union, than that of Evan gelical Christianity.’

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NEW ZEALAND MAIL.
| June 29, 1872..
