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THE WEATHRR BKPOKTS. Commandkh Edwin would confer % benefit on tho public if he would telegraph his weather reports to tho various post offices in the country. It would be nn extra trouble to him as lie would only have tn write one telegram, as it could be sent to all the office*. Ho wired to The Wnikato Times last Wednesday that there would be frost that night, but as the paper was not issued till after the frost, his information came too late to be of any service. If the local officeß received reports, they could he posted on the notice boards, and people could take measures to protect plants likely to bo injured by frost. The frost last Wednesday night was unexpected, and consequently no one thought of protecting the parly potatoes, most of which in this district were cut down. Commander Edwin's predictions are invariably correct, and had it been known here that he predicted frost people would have covered up potatoes and other vegetables.

THE SOUtfEUs" GRAVES. More thai) two yours ago a sergeant and party of A.C. were sent here to improve (?) the graves of the soldier* who were buried in the churchyard. The improvement consisted of levelling the mounds which marked the graves, removing the tablets on which the names were inscribed, in fact all was done that could be done to efface the memory of the dead from the minds of the people. Nad there been a memorial window or tablet in the church, it is very probable the iconoclast with whom the idea of levelling the graves originated would have given orders to have it removed. Of course a buitable monument; with tLe names engraved on it <fee was to be erected immediately, but the stone is f>till in the quarry, and by all appearances likely to remain there. In every other country the soldiers' graves are attended to, and if no monument be eicctcd, the graves, at least, are not dug over, nor the tablets removed. The neglect of this matter by the Government is the cause of a groat deal of comment. One gentleman not long in the colony told me he for one would willingly subscribe to a fund for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument. He thought it strange that nothing \v\s done to honour the memory of those who lost their lives in the service of their country. By their death the peace of thecountry was secured, and the least we can do is to show some icspoct for thoii memory. When Captain Bridge, of the Espiegle, came here on a visit tho first placo he asked to bo shown was the churchyard where the soldiers were buiied. Ho was surprised when ho was fliowii a level piece of ground with not a sign of a mound, and was told that under thib the soldier lav at res?t. He said little, but doubtless if he gave expression to his thoughts, it would have been in a, manner the rsverse of complimrntaiy to the powers that bo. If the matter were represented to the member for Wai pa, I am sure he would bring it under the notice of the Government, when, perhaps, the new Ministry would sec the matter attended to. A list of the names and the regiments was taken bv the sergeant in charge.— -(Own Correspondent.)