----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrivals - July 17 - Kahu, s.s., from Chatham Islands via Lyttelton and Wellington. July 18 - Wairarapa, s.s., from Northern ports. Passengers - Mesdames CARLILE and M'CREEDY; Misses TIFFEN and PERKINS; Messrs SCANNELL, EVANS, CATO, TAMATA, PARAPA, ROGERS, ROUGH, FEARN (3), NICOLL, PANKLE, ROSS, ATKIN, SMITH, BARRON, DEAN, CATO, and ALBERT; Rev. Mr FOX. July 18 - Orpheus, schooner, Captain SMITH, from Timaru. July 19 - Te Kapu, s.s., from Gisborne. July 19 - Talune, s.s., from Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers - Misses RANKIN and MUNRO; Mesdames FILBROOK and four children, WRAY and son, and BONIFACE; Messrs PEDDIE, ROTTER, WRAY, WATSON, HARPER, ARROW, SUTTON and family, CUMMING, and MULMOCK. Ex Tekapo from Sydney, Mr and Mrs BILSBOROUGH. July 19 - Queen of the South, s.s., from Wellington. Departures - July 18 - Wairarapa, s.s., for Melbourne via Southern ports. Passengers - Mesdames POLLOCK, LUCAS, M'LEA, and BOLAN; Misses CUTHBERT, DINWIDDIE, and POLLOCK; Messrs CUTHBERT, NORMAN, RAE, and SANDS. July 18 - Kahu, s.s., for Wellington. July 18 - Pendle Hill, three-masted schooner, Captain WIDERSTROM, for Auckland. July 18 - Fanny, s.s., for Gisborne. July 18 - Talune, s.s., for Sydney via Northern ports. Passengers - Mesdames BOWES, WIDERSTROM, ROSS, PIOREA and infant, and WILLIS; Misses CARRUTH, RYAN, PORTER, and KENNY; Messrs CARRUTH, BUDDLE, BIGSBY, AIREY, RICH, BEST, MULLAN, BARRON, ROSS, BUCHANAN, and LYNAM. Marriage - CUTHBERT-JONES - On the 16th of July, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. BEST, Robert CUTHBERT, of Timaru, to Edith Alice, eldest daughter of T.R. JONES, Esq., of Napier. Death - HOWELL - On the 18th of July, at East Clive, David HOWELL, aged 62 years. The funeral will leave his late residence to-day (Monday), the 20th, at 2 p.m. for the Havelock cemetery. Friends please accept this intimation. T.P. FULLER, Undertaker. A very pleasing ceremony took place at our office on Saturday at "knock-off time," when all hands assembled round the "stone" for the purpose of making a presentation to Mr J. CARRUTH, who was leaving the HERALD after having been over sixteen years in the office. Mr S.J. FREEMAN in a few well-chosen words referred to Mr CARRUTH's long connection with the office, and on behalf of the staff, handed him a handsome pendant with a "composing stick" on one side and a "setting rule" on the other, both raised, the whole being in gold and suitably inscribed....... Our Waipawa correspondent writing on Saturday says:- - Mrs Venetia HARDY, school teacher at Blackburn, has been appointed postmistress. - It was discovered this morning that at some time within a few days a deliberate attempt has been made to burn Mr PETTIT's fine stables at Kaikora. A man named James NICHOLL, aged 23 years of age, met with his death on Saturday near Petane under peculiar circumstances. NICHOLL and another man named M'BIRNIE were working for Mr WALLACE at splitting posts, near the Kaiwhaka cutting.....An inquest will be held at Mr WALLACE's house today by Mr F. SUTTON, acting-coroner. NICHOLL's relatives reside at Clive. Mr S. SPENCE, who is leaving the employ of Mr R. HOLT after acting as accountant for the firm for nearly 17 years, was on Saturday night entertained at dinner at the Terminus Hotel by the employees.