HBH 1892 Sept 10 2 local news A gentleman who has just returned from Wellington says that the civility he experienced there in connection with the telephone exchange, as compared with Napier, was so marked as to constitute quite a business luxury. The Wellington exchange employs female clerks. Our informant also says that the telephones in Wellington are in better working order, and more serviceable, than those in Napier. We have to acknowledge receipt of Volume I. of Mr Wilfred BADGER'S "Statutes of New Zealand." It is a most useful work, and the first of four volumes to comprise the whole public general law of the colony up to date.