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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 33, 9 February 1867, Page 3

The Melbourne Age of the 26th ultimo says : — Mr. Edward Clarke, a well-known member of the Victorian bar, has just received an appointment from the New Zealand Government to a recently established juilgeship on the West Coast of that colony, and is on the eve of taking his departure from these shores to enter upon the duties of his new office. Mr. Clarke for a time performed the functions of Acting Crown Prosecutor in Melbourne, and formerly discharged the functions of a county court judge in England. The Marlborough Press of January 30 says a very sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Picton on Friday morning last, between 2 and 3 o'clock. The shock was preceded by a more than usually prolonged and heavy rumbling sound. Main is not the cleverest professor out, if the Evening Post is to be believed. It says Professor Rowley has introduced into Wellington the great invention of hair brushing by machinery, and has imported from England, at considerable cost, Gosnell's patent rotatory brush apparatus, which is in full work in his establishment. The Post-office Savings Bank was opened at Wellington on the Ist instant, and we understand a large number of the public have already availed themselves of the benefits derivable from the institution. Miss Dolly Greeu, a favorite actress at Dunedin, has been presented by some of the play-going public of that city with a gold bracelet, a brooch, and a pair of ear rings, set with pearls. The Dun&tan Times says that Mr. J. S. Hickspn, warden at. the Teviot, has been honorably acquitted of certain charges of neglect of duty, preferred against him by some miners at Miller's Plat. The Otago Acclimatisation Society invites presents of native birds — such as the paradise duck, the tui, the kaka, and the Maori hen, and begs the assistance of Acclimatisation Societies in this island.