« The Queen—coupled with the name of Mr Westall » was the decidedly original toast given at a race-banquet in Hawke's Bay this month.

Mr C. F. Mitchell, publisher of the Hauraki Tribune, Paeroa, is a very old colonial journalist. He was overseer of the printing department of the Melbourne Argus in 1849, and afterwards ran the first daily on the Victorian goldfields, the Courier of the Mines and Bendigo Daily Mail.

Of all newspapers in the colony, the Napier Telegraph has been the most severe on the Salvation Army. And now that lively body have taken a lease of a big building adjoining the office of that paper, where they beat the big drum and bray on brazen instruments to their hearts' content.

Mr R. A. Sherrin, an old newspaper man and all-round writer, has had a bad attack of paralysis, and sought the hot springs of Rotorua. He has derived so much benefit that he hopes soon to be at work again; and meanwhile—by way of recreation—is turning the healing waters into « copy. »

The Dunedin correspondent of the Cromwell Argus writes: An old Cromwellite, Mr S. N. Brown, has had to take up his pen this week to defend himself from an attack by the editor of the Dunedin labor organ, and right well he has acquitted himself. It is unnecessary to enter into any details. If current rumor is correct, Mr Brown befriended this fiery editor when he first came to Dunedin, and gave him the opportunity of attaining his present position, which from the frequency it is paraded in association with his name in his own paper, must be one of the highest importance.