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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 75, 1 April 1869, Page 3

.•Russian Emigration. — The Pall Mall Gazette says:— The Russian Government has decided .upon assisting the starving Finns by sending them but bodily to colonize the Amoor regions. An old German vessel has been bought for this purpose at the price of 30,000 roubles, and the emigrants will be carried by instalments from Bremen. Every man is to receive on his arrival , 200 acres of ground, free of taxes for 24 years, together with the necessary implements, cattle, &c. This stock, as well as the expenses of the journey, is to be repaid in eight years' time, by instalments, to commence after the fourth year. The 24 years over, the colonist will be called upon to. pay. a tax for his land, at the moderate rate of 24 roubles annually. It is said that the Finns are very grateful, and that both they and Russia are likely to profit by this colonization. So Nice. — During the hearing of a case at Melbourne lately, it transpired that the offal, blood, and entrails connected with some bone mills were carted to East Collingwood, to be used in the manufacture of gelatine lozenges and ; follies. I

A Wholesale Poisoner. — We read in the Pioneer of India: — " The last Police Gazette, N. W. P., publishes the confession of a Hindoo, named Ramadheen, not quite 21 years of age, who for the last 20 months has followed the calling of There is no nonsense about Eamadheen. He does not pretend to scruples or remorse of any Mnd. He calls his victims ' shikar' (game), and alleges no other excuse for his practices than that it was very dull at home in his village. So far as we can enumerate the persons he poisoned in the year and a half, they are about 20 ; but he is very cavalier and careless in figures, and talks of a family whom he may murder, with a lordly negligence as to the number of its members. Ramadheen is not in the least superstitious. Most of his victims were either Brahmins or faqueers, and his favorite hunting grounds |were what he calls ' holy places' — Blindachull, near Mirzapore, and the Magh Melahere."