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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 16, 20 January 1868, Page 2

We are gratified to learn from our Auckland files that Madame Cargndiui's concerts in that city are nightly attended by crowded and enthusiastic audiences. The bakers of Hokitika have reduced the price of bread from Is 6d the 4lb loaf to oue shilling. The Grey River Argus of tho 18th says that the necessity for regular means of transit from the coal miue to the Cobdeu wharf is again made manifest. There is not a ton of coal to be had for love or money, and vessels which would have taken cargoes are obliged to clear out iv ballast. The steamer Kennedy, which left on Tuesday afternoon, had to leave with barely sufficient fuel to carry her to Nelson. The fresh in thu river has prevented the barges getting up to the mine. There are in New York city 250 public schools, with 2,000 teachers and 227,000 pupils.

A very elegant candelabrum has been placed in the pulpit of the Chapel Boyil iv the Savoy. In the centre is fixed a sand-glass, which ou entering the pulpit the. chaplain turned down, and directly the sand had run out (in about 20 minutes) the preacher ceased. The old Purifcaus yrere accustomed to have a glass, the sand in which rati out in an hour ; but, though they used it as a check, they were in the habit of disregarding* ita admonitions and continuing their sermons lor another hour after the time which at the outset they thought sufficient for the communication of their spiritual instruction. (For English Telegram and other News see Supplement.)