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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 149, 28 June 1869, Page 2

Feakful Gale of Wind. —This town was visited by a S.E. gale of wind on Saturday and Sunday last, which was more severe than has been experienced for some years. Several chimaeys and fences, we hear, have been blown down, and trees uprooted; bat beyond that, no other damage of a serious nature has been done. Taranaki Herald, June 23rd. A mounted orderly came in this morning before daylight with the v intelligence that the enemy (Ngatimaniapoto) are on the ranges between the White Cliffs and the Redoubts at Wai-iti. They supposed to be in force as their fires appear numerous. — Taranaki News, 24th June. . , The utter failure of Mr. Firth's embassy to the King has been tee only local political, news of interest daring the past week. That gentleman, together with Mr. G. 0. Davis aud another, having

paved their way with a present of some eight or ten tons of flour, &c, proceeded up tho Waikato, a self- constituted embassy, to sue for peace with the King on the part of the colonists. " We, the commons of New Zealand," however, met with very little encouragement at the hands of Tawhiao's courtiers. They were outmanoeuvred, out-bounced, out-argued by abler diplomatists than themselves, and, as the crowning result of their visit, the KiDg and chiefs flatly r.efused to come to the proposed meeting at Ngaruawahia. Great indignation is felt amongst all classes, and among men of all shades of political opinion, that private individuals should have presumed to have interfered in such a matter. The people of this Colony have eaten enough of dirt during the last n ine years to have been spared this last degradation. No wonder that the Maori holds us, cheap. — Auckland Herald. Sleighing with a Girl. — Of all the joys vouchsafed to man in life's tempestuous whirl, there's nought so near approaches heaven as sleighing with a girl — a rosy, laughing, buxom girl ; a frank, good-natured, honest girl ; a feeling, flirting, dashing, doating, smiling, smacking, jolly, joking, junty, jovial, poser-poking, dear little duck of a girl. Pile up your wealth a mountain high, you sneering, scoffing churl, I'll laugh as I go by.wi.th my jingling bells, and girl — the brightest, dearest, sweetest girl ; the trimmest, gayest neatest girl ; the funniest, fairest, roundest, ripest, roughest, rarest, spiciest, squirmiest, squariest, best of girls, with drooping lashes, half-concealing amorous flashes — just the girl for chap like me to court, and love, and marry, you me — with rosy cheeks and clustering curls, the sweetest and the best of girls. — American Paper.