PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 130, 5 June 1869, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Bishop Jenner has left Duuediu for Melbourne, on bis way to England. A subscription, amounting to £200, was raised for his expenses. la a parting address, Dr Jeoner says : — "The voice of the majority in the Synod was not the voice of the Church in Otago and Southland, and I decline to recognise it as such. My present intention is to proceed to England at ouce, and I shall not return to New Zealand until I. am sent for — i.e., until the Church in this Colony sees fit to undo the grievous wrong and injury which has been inflicted on me. Three young ladies who started from Cbarteris Bay, in Canterbury Province, with the intention of reaching the summit of Mount Herbert, were prevented from returning by a heavy fog, and were out all night in the rain with nothing but a flax bush to protect them. One of them is seriously ill. It is stated by the Lyttelton Times that Mv Weld; who is now Governor of Wes-

tern Australia, will mcsfc probably be nominated to the governorship of New Zealand when Sir George Bo wen's terra of office shall have expired. The second attempt to iutroduce the salmon ova into Canterbury lias failed. Not one of the ova lias been hatched. la Otiigo, tlie ova have been hutched and last year's salmon are thriving admirably. Theue has been great sensation at the Thames consequent ou a discovery made by allotment holders that the agreement made by Mr Mackay with the natives gives them power to charge auy rent they like after July 1. Reliable Intelligence. — The Westport Times, of 3rd instant, has received the following news from its telegraphic correspondent in "Wellington. Our Wellington files, containing an account of the opening of the Assembly, have come to hand, but we have failed to discover anything like the extract we now quote, and which we commend to our readers as a striking proof of the unimpeachable veracity of either telegraphic wires or telegraphic correspondents: — "Wellington, Tuesday. The General Assembly was opened to-day by commission, which included the appointment of Dr. Pollen as Speaker of the Legislative Council. Major Richmond, in a speech in the Council, said that a permanent remedy must be applied to Native disturbances. A highly organised force, embodied for a definite period, was demanded. Imperial troops could not again be asked for. He also intimated that a Bill providing a summary meaus oi dealing with persons taken iu. arms against tho Queen would be introduced." A Fortunate Speculation. — The Wellington Independent has the following singular story : — Although many persons have been very unfortunate at the Thames quartz reefs, yet some others have done well indeed. We will teli our readers a little story to illustrate this assertion. Once upon a time there was a certaiu clergyman in Wellington — it is not impossible that he is here still — who being jailed and fagged, went to hue a fortnight's visit to the Thames diggings. Weil, he saw the Thames, talked with the famous Hunt, handled lumps of quartz studded with little nuggets, and having opened wide his eyes and uplifted his hands, straightway determined to iavest his little capital — some £450 — iu the purchase of a half share in one of the claims which looked '• likely." Then he returned home again, leaving a laborer to work for turn on wages. For weeks and months did this laborer and all the other shareholders work to no profit, and the reef was pronounced to become a " duffer." For weeks and months did this clergyman pay out of his little savings the laborer's wages till the time came that he could pay no more, because he had it not. Then he went unto a young merchant and besought him to buy a half of his share. The young merchant was doubtful, but ultimately purchased a joint interest in the half-share for £125, its original price having been about £300, with the wagea paid included. Then suddenly there came glorious news. The reefers had found auriferous quartz. Then next mail told of eighty tons crushed with a produce of 60 ounces; then next mail again there was another crushing which gave 140 ounces; while the last eighty tons have given more than 200 ounces of virgin gold. The clergyman aud the young merchant, are now joyous and think their fortunes are made. Somebody has already offered £1,000 for his half share, but they scorn, it, as they are getting splendid dividends, which they expect daily to increase — perhaps, indeed, or give them £500 a year each. We rejoice at the good fortune of our friends. We trust that the young merchant will soon erect a palatial warehouse, and that the clergyman will exchange his napless hat and rusty sables for a two-guinea " Bennett" and a suit of superfine broadcloth. Dk. Livingston. — Zanzibar letters to November 26th, state that for a long time no tidings of Dr. Liviogston had reached that place. No uneasiness, however, is felt respecting the brave explorer; and one thing at least is certain, that Livingston's countrymen will for the future be slow for to believe such stories at that told by Moosa. This Moosa, it seems, was handed over to Dr. Kirk, at Zanzibar, but as it was found that he had already passed eight months in heavy irons he was set free. — Chester Courant

Education. — The Rev. Pax ton Hood, in his very suggestive work ' ; Self-forraa-lion, or Aids and Helps to Miud-Life," says: — "All education must be selfeducation ; feeding the body or feeding the mind are alike pieces of workmanship that no one can do for us ; all the education that has ever been in the world has been the result of self-rielerminatiou. selftraining, and self-reliance Mauy are foolish enough to suppose that lools alone are necessary to make u workman ; that the possession of a good library and philosophical instruments alone will make xhe erudite and the philosophic mind. Does the possession of the organ make the organist, or the hammer the blacksmith, or the plane and handsaw the carpenter ? Reflections at the Bah. — In "Routledge's Christmas Annual," a " refreshment girl " thus discourses: — "The position of a bar-girl is very odd. It is neither one thing nor another. We are dressed up like ladies, we look like ladies, but we ain't. I know we're not, because the gentlemen laugh at us, and look at each other sometimes ■when we say things. The young swells make love to us. but they would never marry ais. Thee that would marry us we wouldn't have. There's ■a deal of love one kind or another wasted on us bar-girls. It hurts the young men more than it •does us. We get used to flatteries — we hear them all day long: but each young man thinks that he is the party that has made the impression. We are the ruin of many young men, without being able to help it. They come spooning round us, and in hanging about the bar they learn to drink. I have known a young man drink a whole bottle of brandy in nips in the course of i.n afternoon. He didn't want the nips, and only took them to have an excuse for standing at the bar and talking to us. I have seen many young men goto the bad this way, under my very eyes. I have seen them drowning in liquor, as it were, without having the power to rescue them ; for of course it would never do for us to refuse them drink, unless thev were much the worse and noisy. The nonsense I have listened to! — the grasps of the •hand I have had! — the deep-drawn sighs I haye heard breathed over the pork pies and sausage rolls! the oceans of champagne I have seen out on the shrine of our fascinations! Poor young men, if they only knew what fools we think thfiui! Sale of a Wife. — A remarkable story is reported from Totnes. A bachelor became enamored of the wife of a man living at Dittisham, and negotiations were concluded for 'her purchase for the sum of £50. The money was duly paid, and the husband left the place, promising never to return to claim his wife. Soon afterwards, however, the woman was missed from the house of the purchaser, having proceeded to rejoin her hiiJ-band at Totnes. where, with the £50, they are -enjoying a second honeymoon. Duking the year 1868 the deaths of 203 persons resulted from hoise .or carnage accidents in the streets of London. With a view of lessening such a sacrifice of life, signal-posts (semaphores) have been erected, to regulate the traffic ; and the experiment, according to the testimony of the police, who work the -semaphores like the railway system, has proved very successful. Chignon versus Teesses. — Already a few Parisian belles have unrolled their chignons, and allow their hair to fall unfettered over their -shoulders ; already flowing hair, attached to combs, is seen in hairdressers' windows, instead of former huge chignons. The Dkess for the Velocipede. — The problem for modistes now, is a garment that will permit females to bestride the velocipede.