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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7980, 26 September 1887, Page 2

The quarterly meeting of j the Egmont Lodge of Oddfellows will be held this evening at 7 o'clock.

The local telegraph office will be open till midnight for Press and ordinary telegraphic matter,\but after 8 o'clock Sunday rates will;be charged for ordinary telegrams. Captain El win telegraphed at noon to-day :—": — " Every indication of north-e«st to north and west gale, and' heavy sea and heavy rain. Glass further fall."

The editor of the . Rangitikei Advocate hes been shown a rate notice by a gentleman who ia the owner of a property in the town of Oamaru, wherein ia contained the not very gratifying piece of information that the amount of rates totals the sum of 4s 6d in the £, consisting of a general rate of Is 3d, three special rates of Is 3d, Is, and 6d each, and a water rate of 6d. It may be mentioned that four or five years ago the gentleman referred to was offered four times the amount this property cost him, and now the market value is about half the sum he paid for it.

The latest London " sensation " is provided by the Pall Mall Gazette in tho shape of charges 'of the gravest kind levelled against Col. Hughes-Hallett, M.P. The alleged delinquent, who has hitherto 'maintained the character of "an officer and gentleman," is said to be '• a great hand at penny readings and poetical recitations." He is in command of the Second Brigade of the Southern Division of Royal Artillery. He denies the diabolical charge laid against him.

What might be termed a rara avis, in the form of a grey rabbit, is occasionally to be observed on the beach near the railway station, in a sort of meditative mood. The animal lives apparently under a pile of iron rails in the station yard, but as the sea of late has made great encroachment under the rails and carried away a great quantity of earth, the rabbit no doubt while sitting just ontside its domicile looking at the sea, as it was the other day, thinks that it is high time he changed his quarters.