One of the objects to be discussed at the special meeting of the Just-in-Time Gold Mining Co, Reefton, on Monday night last, was the advisability of selling the ■ crashing plant owned by that company and the Fiery Cross Company. The attempt to force a sale of the crushing plant was not successful, and why it was ever contemplated by the directors is one of those Reefton mysteries •' which no fellah can understand," especially if the following account of the receipts and expenditure of the battery from the 6th April, 1878, to July 15th, 1878, as furnished to us by a truatworty coorespondent is correct : — Expenditure, including wages and all charges during above dates, L 595 163 9d : receipts from crushing during above dates. L 1421 5s ; balance, L 825 8s 3d ; truly, a very fair profit for fourteen weeks' work. A ball in aid of the funds of the Grey River Hospital will take placj at Faroa this evening. We regret to learn that Sir George Grey is suffering from indisposition, and has been incapacitated for the performance of his publio duties for several days. Active preparations are being made forth? construction of the ,Cobden Bridge. Appliances for stretching t c wires and making the cables have been erected near the railway station, and the work of driving the piles for the piers will commence shortly. Queen Mercedes, the young Queen of Spain, is not dead after all. In some unexplained manner her name was substituted for that of Isabella, ex-Queen of Spain, and mother of King Alphonso, who died on J une 26th. The late interruption of telegraphic com* munication on the Port Darwin line was caused by the natives having undone the wire at a shackle at one of the speaking places. The Napier Harbor Board, besides thanking Mr Carruthers, C. E. , for hia services, have voted him LIOO. Th« friends of Mr T. King, on his leaving the position of manager of the Bank of New Zealand at New Plymouth, have presented him with a handsome silver tea service. The Lyell Argus of the 6th instant puts it thusly : — '• There is no Flour in towc, there has been no Beef in the place for a week, and the last Pig was killed yesterday after eating the last Spud, are the people to starve through the neglect of the JBuller County, it is shamef ul, our supplies gone and our roads blocked up in fant quite impassible for ten miles on either side, what is to becoaie | of us? we must, thanks to the powers that be, either leave or starve; a pleasant prospect truly." Anew newspaper -is to be established at Foxton, Manawatu. The Melbourne Argus of the 3rd instant says:— "An application was made to Mr Justice Barry yesterday by Mr C. A. Smyth, on. behalf of Sergeant Toohey, of the !Sew Zealand police, who had been arrested on a capias issued at the instance of a girl named Fox, that the capias should be set aside. Toohey came to Melbourne to arrest John Fishenden on a charge of fraudulent insolvency, and he obtained from Fox a sum of LIBO, which was supposed to have been given her by the insolvent, and which she lodged, in her own name in a bank. As Toohey was about to proceed to New Zealand, she issued a writ against him, and had him arrested. In support of the application made yesterday, affidavits were filed by Sergeant Toohey and Datective Mackay, setting out the particulars in regard to Fishenden, alleging that the girl had signed a cheque for the LIBO, that this was the only transaction Toohey had with her, and it was believed that this LIBO belonged to Fishenden's estate. In reply plaintiff swore that the money was her own, was lodged by her to her credit at the bank, and that she signed the cheque only because Toohey and Mackay threatened to lock her up. It was contended by Mr Box, for the plaintiff, that the Judge could not decide at this stage whose the money was, and that it was for the Jury to determine the merits of the case His., Honor decided to discharge the defendant, and that he should only put in the common appearance to the action." The Fiji Argus of June 14 says that the barque Menachikoff, which arrived from Rotumah on Tuesday, June 11, reports that a very determined war is raging in the island between the Wesleyan and Roman Catholic native converts, aud that great numbers on both sides have been j killed. They have good firearms, but, it is thought, not much ' powder. They are forming forts and bariicades out of cocoanut trees. Just before the vessel sailed a correspondent saw twelve men lying in a house horribly wounded. They had been shot in a tight the day previous, and there was no means of alleviating their sufferings, no medical men being on the island. There was only seven whites on the islaud, who are threatened with death if they interfere. The Wesleyans will probably tet the best of it, as they far outnumber the Catholics.

With great regret we notice the death of Mrs Minifie, one of the oldest settlers in Wellington, and highly esteemed by all who knew her. She had reached a good old age, and leaves a whole host of descendants, even to the third generation, to mourn her decease An Irish correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times writes:— "The interest Mr Vesey Stewart has inspired in this country with regard to New Zealand is best witnessed by the large number of persons who have requested to be supplied with newspapers relating to the prosperity of his second party. Copies o? hi 3 pamphlet have been placed in many military reading rooms, and both officers and non-commissioned officers have expressed their convictioa that when, under the new warrant, they have to retire, New Zealand is the country for them. It was my privilege to receive a deputation of non-commissioned officers of the 2-14fch Regiment begging me to let them know if Mr Stewart would form another setttemenfc. All this is gratifying; ; it shows Mr Stewart is appreciated at Home, and for once contradicts the Biblical adage, ' that a prophet has no renown in his own country.' I trust these few remarks will show that Mr Stewart has achieved a grand success, and that he is introducing into the country a party of emigrants not second in fortune to the original ' Lyttelton ' settlers, and nowhere will their influence he more pleasantly felt than in the Bay of Plenty," The following is a statement of the revenue of Fiji .-—Total value of imports for 1877, L 134.688 j and exports, L 112.389, the latter showing an increase of nearly L9OOO on the previous year. The revenue for 1877 was L 18.812, showing an increase on the previous year of L3OOO. In the same year the sugar exported was valued at L 16,170, showing over L6OOO increase on tha previous year. The export of maize and cotton showed a large decrease.