Local and General.

We have .great pleasure in acknowledging from Mr Thomas Wrigley the receipt of a cheque for two guineas, towards ' the Indian Famine Relief Fond. The friends of Mr 0. N. Boberts who was for some years manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Taurarig'a, will be glad to hear that he has lately been transferred from Ngaruawahia to a more important agency at Gore, Invercargill, where he has a sub-agency under Gore is situated in a large producing and him. flourishing district. The weather tho last few days has been, anything but what could be termed springlike ; a cold westerly gale of great force has been blowing, and clouds of dust have been the natural accompaniments. During- Tuesday night last a very unusually severe frost was experienced, which we regret to learn, . has nipped earlypotatoes, beans, &c, in vegetable gardens." - - • We are informed by; the' Postmast^Bf^Mx Sheath, that mails for Ohinemutu are now made up on Wednesday and Friday afternoons, in addition to the usual mail on Monday. Mr Hannon, the Tauranga representative of Mr Peters, the proprietor of the'mail coaches, has been good enough to offer to take up themail to Ohinemiitu on the extra days, Thursday, and Saturday, that the coach is now running. This new arrangement will be a great convenience to the public. The Chairman of the Town Board has re- - ceived a subscription list from the Auckland Committee for Raising funds towards the Indian Famine Relief Fund. The object in view requires we imagine little to be said in its favour ; it should recommend itself to the feelings of all British Colonists. It has on . undoubted authority been stated thai every ' £5 subscribed will save a human life ! Need any more be said ? We would recommend the formation of a Committee for the collection of subscriptions towards this great ; object. . We hear that there is a probability of an Auckland eleven visiting Tauranga, to play an eleven of the Tauranga Cricket Club. Mr . Taylor, a member of the Committee, forwarded the challenge to a member of the West End Club, with whom he was .acquainted, and has received an answer- to the effect that it, is likely a team will be found willing to take the trip. v The ninth of November being a whole holiday is the -day . proposed for the match, and as it would be a most interesting event we hope to hear after the next mail from Auckland that it is de~ finitely arranged. ■ . Our Taupo correspondent sends us th©' follawing: — The late deputations ,of native!, chiefs from Hawkes* Bay Btreniously endeavoured to induoo the Taupoans to repjgj" diate their land transactions with the whites-} . and treatened they would oease to drive flookS 1 of sheep to this Siberia if the natives ■here'; would' not agree to their propositions, \ ; ; ]& must be remembered that sheep have been sent-" hither previously by Maoris from: Napier tq-i! Te Hui Hui, to Te Whitu, to HoriTe:Gauai> ; and other loading men in this district, '.hence the threat held out by the Ngatikuhuhunuy but to the credit of the honest aboriginea herethoy preferred : , „:..:, ._ v,

: We notice that Mr R. C. Jordan has made extensive additions to. his ; Sale -jYa^ds at Judea, and fui-ther improvements are in progress. By this evening, we are informed there will be ample accommodation for yarding, drafting, branding, &c, a thousand head. of cattle. Mr Jordan deserves support for the very liberal manner he supplies all the requirements of firstclass sale yards ; no expense being spared to . render the accommodation all that can. be' desired. The match proposed to be played this afternoon by the Cricket Club, will be between two elevens of toe club, representing respectively, " England" and " All Comers." The players chosen for the former team, are Messrs Griffiths, Goldsmith, Sisley, Neighbour, Taylor, Roy, Newenham, Ellia, and Smith, and two others; and for the "All Comers," Messrs Connell, Bonner, Quintal, Buddie, Brookfield, Home, Hoyte, J. D. Wrigley, McKinny, Commons, and Marks. Play will commence at the usual hour in the Government Paddock. Mr Home informs us that twenty copies of Nav.ello's Glee-Hive, a collection of over thMy>aapj3ular glees and madrigals, have arrived for the use of the Choral Society. The books have very obligingly been lent by the Choral Society in Auckland, and were forwarded by the Honorary Secretary MiArchibald Clarke in response to the request of Mr Home. A glance through the book in question shows that it contains some very charming music, some of which will doubtless shortly be heard at the first concert of the Society. The following is from the Qreymouth Star : — Unostentatious charity deserves to be recognised, and a case of this kind recently came under my notice. Judge — : was ' travelling between Westport and Charleston, and on his way stayed at a cottage to get a drink of milk. The person in charge was a poor woman, whose husband had but lately died. The Judge asked for the milk, but was met with the answer that she had none, her cow having broken its leg, and she. was too poor to buy another. The Judge entered into conversation, learned how matters stood, and went on his journey. Next day a fine cow was sent from Westport. Where facts speak, comment is unnecessary. A writer in Truth gives the following : — " A friend of mine isfortunate enough to be the happy possessor of some meadows on the banks of the Thames. In those meadows he keeps some cows. Yesterday morning his dairymaid brought him a letter which she said was tied on to the tail of one of the cows. On opening it he found it contained a three-penny-piece, and the following pencilled memorandum :— " To the owner of this cow. Sir, — For the last hour we have been trying at various houses to purchase some milk. Having been unsuccessful, we took the liberty of extracting a soda-water bottle full from the bearer. Please accept our apologies and our threepence. Yours respectfully, — Three Bank Holiday 'Keepers." This shows the advantage of a strictly honest commercial education. Our OpotiM correspondent, under date of the 25th instant, writes: — The Rev. Mr Grace arrived here last -week for the purpose of superintending the erection of a new tombstone over the"grave of the Rev. Mr Volkner. The tombstone, which is a neat and unostentatious one, is of white stone, and contains the record of the reverend martyr's death, and several suitable scripture quotations ; it is surrounded by a handsome ornamental iron fence. On Tuesday afternoon the Rev. Mr Grace held Divine Service in the native language, in commenoration of the event of the Rev. Mr Volkner's death. The natives attended in large numbers, and appeared much impressed with the address, which was eminently adapted to the understanding and circumstances of the hearers, being a retrospect of the history of the settlement, dating from the death of the Rev. Mr Volkner to the present time, and contrasting the horrors of the war with the present state of peace and prosperity. On the following evening a European Church meeting was held, at which the Rev. Mr Grace gave a most interesting account of his imprisonment by the Hauhaus during the execution of the Rev. Mr Volkner. Several matters connected with the means to be adopted to commemorate the circumstances as an historical event were then . discussed, and it was proposed by Mr Carley, and seconded by Mr Connelly, "that the Rev. Mr Soutar, Captain Preece, R.M., and Mr Robert Bang, be ap- - iMiijftfuited a Committee to make application to the Government for a grant of a piece of ground, being the spot upon which the execution took place, with the view to the erection of a monument thereon"— carried. Proposed vby-the Rev. Mr Soutar, seconded by Captain Preece, R.M., " that a vote of thanks be accorded to the Rev. Mr Grace for his kind services in obtaining the tombstone for the Rev. Mr Volkner's grave" — carried. *• Atticu*," in the Melbourne Leader, says : — "I. asf year a divorced- couple were re-m.-ir-ried. All the bitttr re&riniinations, the public exposure, the heavy liiw expenses were forgotten: and the two who had originally become one by the alchemy of matrimony, and who were analysed by the Ditorre Court into a condition of single blessedness, flew together again when they were told they wight live separately. In talking of this case to a clergyman he told me he hnew a still more n-markable one. He once married a couple who had been before united and who weiv never divorced. They were firßt married in England nfter a short acquaintance, when very young. They quarrelled, ac younp people will nnd the husbunfl ran away and murie <"or the dippings. In a few years slie in perfvet ignorance of his movements followed and pft up a ri-fres'iment tent, on the great rush to Dunolly. He, as a t»t ranger hpoaine her lodger. They liked ench other, like ripened into love, and they agreed lo marry. When giving the full det.nilt* of their ntimes, plnoes of birth, &<!., to my friend Ihe clergvmun tliey found out for the first time their former rplation ; but having bought their wedding clothes and paid their fees, they determined to proceed with the ceremony. Of their fir tire history 1 am ■ ignorant, but they ought, to be the most closely united couple in Australia. Settlers wiahing to buy furniture and clothing of all kinds will find just what they want at the City Hull A rondo. It is ttie largest establishment of the kind in Auckland. The uropriators study the interest, of country buyers in having furniture inude to take to pieces, and thus save freight by packing in a ■ small compass. There is always a ]nrjjß stork of bedroom furniture to select from, nnd bed> ding of all sizes. I lining and drawing room.c mites always on view. The immense trade

done at the Arcade is due to the cliPn)>rP9s and dmahil'ty of thiiir ware, also to the great rn r o in Ken in puck ins; country order*. The. lui'sjesr, frtock o! cnrprls in Auckland. I'ol. loway and Gui'lick huvc- a- largo stalf of first claws ctibmet. hinds cOnatuut Iv at work, and invite intending purchasers to inspect their stock before buying elsewhere. Orders nec;>m. panied by a remittance faithfully attended to by Holloway and <*arliok, City Mall Furniture Arcade, Queen Street, Auckland, — [Advt]