Local news: Mr. Jas. Cuthbertson, of Clarendon, has shown us a letter from his son Norman, dated Galivan Bay, August 15. In it the young man says he is working on the erection of a hotel and store at the place mentioned at $10 per day, pays $3 a day for board and is making about $50 a week, which he considers not bad. He expects to make enough money to do him over the winter months, during which he says there is nothing doing except whip-sawing lumber to be used in constructing sluice boxes for washing out the sand in which the gold is found.

Picking blackberries are all the rage. Several parties from Bristol district have gone to the mountains in Onslow and returned laden.

Parties who own dogs within the corporation and who have not paid their dog tax are to be looked after by the secretary, who has been instructed by the Council to collect all such taxes on or before Sept. 20th. After that date, dogs on which the taxes have not been paid will be destroyed.

The Methodist church was well lighted on Sunday night with the new Angle lamps recently imported from New York. North Clarendon Methodists are preparing for the erection of a new church — an improvement much needed.