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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 94, 24 April 1867, Page 2

For the benefit of those who discuss the subjects of population, war, pestilence, famine, &c, it may be as well to mention that the number of human beings living at the end of the hundredth generation, commencing from a siugle pair, doubling at each generation (say in 30 years), and allowing for each man, woman, and child an average space of four feet in height, and one foot square, would form a vertical column having for its base the whole surface of the earth and sea spread out into a plane, and for its height 3674 times the sun's distance from the earth. The number of human strata thus piled each on the other would amount to 460,796,000,000. The following motto has been suggested as an appropriate one for Auckland defaulters : —"A non est (an honest) man is the noblest work of God." Mr. George Coppin left Melbourne on the 17th ult. for Sydney by the Alexandra, his object beiDg to engage the Victorian Theatre, Sydney, for a dramatic campaign with the Haymarket company. Madame Celeste is under engagement in Ballarat and at the Royal till after Easter, when she will join his company. Julia Matthews will form one of the attractions of the Victorian company. The Newmarket Butchering Company, in Ballarat, advertise the following list of astonishingly low prices, viz.: —Forequarter of mutton Is each ; beef steaks, 3d per lb ; lamb, Is 6d per quarter. The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle (New South Wales) for last year was no less than 645,615 tons, giviug the enormous increase for a single year of not less than 183,610 tons. Amongst those who went home by the Rakaia, says the New Zealand Advertiser, was Commissary-General Jones, who has been for ten years in this Colony directing the movements of the Commissar'at. Although Mr. Jones has involved himself in political quarrels with some of the authorities here, he has made many private friends, who will deeply regret his final departure from New Zealand.