In another column appears a notice from Lieutenant Haul tain, thab the Local Secre tary New Zealand Rifle Association will be in attendance at the Drill-shed on Mon day evening to receive entries for the Napier meeting. Although entries will be received up to Wednesday, it is advisable that all competitors should enter on Mon day evening so as to arrange for issue of railway passes, which will only be issued to competitors who have actually entered, and to those volunteers who are going as markers.
Mr Basil H. Thomson, Assistant Premier of Tonga, who arrived here by the Wainui on business, proposes to return to Tonga next week, when he will bo accompanied by Mrs Thomson, who has been staying in Auckland for some time for the benefit of her health. Mr Thomson is working in harmony with the King and the new Ad ministration, and he is very hopeful for the future of the kingdom should it be spared being the scene of political intrigues or maladministration. He intends to remain in Tonga till the laws are consolidated and revised°and the national defences placed on a 2atisfactory footing.
Mr Bishop, P.M., will preside at the Onehunga and Otahuhu Police Courts, in the place of Captain Jackson, R.M., whose districts are of such extent as to preclude him from attending those of Onehunga, etc., to which he was lately appointed.
