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It is stated that Te Wliiti is keeping well at Kelson. He was much distressed at Hiroki’s death. He said Hiroki was a bad man, but that it was not right to kill him, and added that nobody ought to kill anybody else. He was sorry when he heard of Winiata’s arrest. Professor Denton made a somewhat startling discovery at Auckland. He believed he had found the sites of fiftyseven extinct volcanoes, and he is of opinion that Auckland must have been a lively place at one time. In Now Zealand there are 3570 persons employed on the railways, and this year there are 365 more than last year. In (lie South Island 834 men were employed public works alone. Seventeen persons were killed, and fortynine injured, on the New Zealand Hailways last year. Tbe.Ship Hotel, at Timam, and ground on which it stands, have been sold for £13,500. The New Zealand Times is to bo issued as a penny paper in August. Up to the middle of July, nearly £1,600 was received for the Timnru Disaster Fund. Barbed steel wire is now being manufactured at Oamaru. The quality is said to be good, and the Colonial article is comparing favorably with the imported wire. The machinery was made in the Colonies. Mr John Chambers of Hawke’s Bay, some time time ago patented a icfiigeiating machine, and it is. a great success. Companies in England are about to give this machine a trial. I