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Per Eva there has arrived from Rockingham Bay a valuable and interesting assortment of warlike and other implements used by the natives of that region, and presented by Mr. Leefe, the Police Magistrate at Cardwell, to our Museum. We hope so good an example will not be thrown away on those who have it in their power to imitate it. Among other notable articles in the collection are two shields of a considerably larger size than those used farther south. There is also a very large and handsome dilly-bag, made apparently of split bamboo in a very neat and workmanlike manner. The shields and the dilly are all stained with remarkably similar and by no means unhandsome patterns of red, white, and black, which, though resembling nothing in the heavens above, nor on the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth, are yet by no means devoid of symmetry and a bold artistic touch, which is not always to be found in more pretentious ornamentation. About the most remarkable implement, however, is one which we are told is a sword, though how any human being smaller than Jack the Giant-killer's friend, Blunderbore, could have wielded such a weapon we are utterly unable to conceive.
At the same time, the grip of this cumbrous weapon is too small for anyone who wears kid gloves larger than 5½ at the outside. It is quite a puzzle to us, and we should much like to see the weapon in use, provided always that we were well armed, or that the brobdignagian warrior with the liliputian hands had no hostile intentions against ourselves, for if he had we fear that our labour would be thrown away, as we should have little chance of being able to record our impressions. Seriously, however, it seems to us too clumsy to be of any great service to anyone, however big. There are several other articles amongst those so liberally presented to us by Mr. Leefe, which it would take us too long to describe, so the best way is to recommend those of our readers who have the opportunity to go and inspect them for themselves.
Whiltst on the subject of the Museum and Library, many of our readers will thank us for calling their attention to several im-