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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 7, 8 January 1870, Page 2

The Wanganui Herald gives us what appears to be the latest information from the expedition which has started in. quest of Te Kooti, from up the Wanganui River. Kooti is said to be at Ongarue, at the source of the Wanganui, and been joined by Uriweras and others, who have swollen his force to 400 men. He has sent off to Titoko Waru, who is still at the head of the Waitara, about two days' march from Ongarue ; Titoko Waru has declined to join, saying that his quarrel is not with his own race, but with the pakeha only, and that he will remain quiet where he now is. Topine is opposed to our expedition, and has applied to the King party for assistance to prevent it, j but he seems to have met with no encouragement. M'Donnell's force is to move from Tokano and unite with that under Kemp and Topia. Some fears are entertained that the success of the expedition may yet be marred by a jealousy that exists between the two friendly chiefs Topia and Kemp, the latter fearing that now Topia has joined our party he will take up his true position, on the river as the leading chief. The Halciohtb cleared out at Wellington, for London, on Wednesday last with a miscellaneous cargo including 3,658 bales of wool and 107 bales flax, total value £57,296.

: Eeferking to the death of Mr. ' ■jkner, the "Father of Victoria," the I '$1/ Telegraph say s : — " In some par- ■.. Iculars England may be excelled by the jations of the Continent, but none of them an beat her in the art of breeding olonists — men of self-reliant and enduring Character, who found cities and empires ■h less fuss than a Frenchman exhibits frhen building a wine press, or a J-erman when establishing a lager beer aloon. The Thames correspondent of the Daily Times, writes : — " It is ■mewhat amusing to impartial observers 4 Jroiote the wonderful change that has fome over the Auckland newspapers of |ati^ Until very recently the Thames were puffed and their riches flailed in glowing terms, with the evident J jj^ntiop of attracting foreign capital and . Tfculation. But now they admit that depression does exist, and that very tew of the companies «re paying their v |3xpenses. At the same time they suggest jSremedies for existing evils, and in doing so, \se very strong language in reference to \me of the companies formed, and to the \j^omoters of them. H Telegrams from the G-ulf of Suez state what the divers have recovered from the wlCarnaiic the mails, twenty-two boxes of isoecie, 700 sheets of copper, and other TOffoperty ; also the dead body of a passen.*Jm* and his effects. i A Convict Peeacher. — Placards have jfeeen posted at Clapham containing the ifollowing piquant invitation to worshippers at " Bethesda Chapel : " — " Ned iWright, who before bis conversion was three times of burglary, will de- ♦ Jj^er a gospel address. Come and welcome ! No collection ! " I Disraeli has recently been quoted as lan authority on evening dress. Here is what the ex-premier says on the subject : wEvening dress is a style of costume Sanctioned by society for enabling ladies to display their natural beauties with a profusion worthy of a Grecian statue." Mr. Peabody, whose death was announced by the last mail, was born at Jff)auvers, Massachusetts, on the 18th /W£ February, 1795. He served as a [volunteer in the war with England in [1812, and afterwards became a merchant mm Baltimore, with branch houses at PhiWladelphia and New York. In 1843 he ■[settled in LondoD as a merchant and His munificent gifts to i^jje London poor and to various institute'tibns in America are well known, and on A both sides of the Atlantic the news of his 18 death will be received with deep regret. i^L A Quebec paper says : — Since the / jßanding of his Royal Highness Prince ' »j| Arthur, at Halifax, on the 21st August % l& sl > ne nas not Deen 1(^ e > as tne following ■ record will show : — During his sojourn he »i)as received and replied to 161 addresses ■ in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, %and Ontario, attended 107 luncheons and jfrejeuners, and 39 balls. The prince has Hi'also danced with 340 partners, received |'-Qver 1700 special bouquets, shaken over I 15,000 hands, given 69 presents, and has 1 been elected an Indian chief. He has Jtehot 150 head of game, has travelled 4800 &iiles, and has heard 50me2,000,000 " God Joless him." All tins to be accomplished |Tin seven weeks was pretty severe work. 8 The prince now desires peace and quiet to ■ rest and recruit himself. M The Pall Mall Gazette is responsible for the following : — A woman recently j Viied at Grayton-le-Marsh, aged thirty Jyears, whose case has been of much interrest to her medical attendants on account I of the unusual .symptoms it presented. § She bad been an invalid for several years, \, and bad been a patient in one of the Lonhospitals, from which she Was disS.. charged without having received, any ■ '■benefit. A few days ago she died of an 1 . attack of peritonitis, and on a post-mortem I examination being made a tumor, comI posed of human hair, resembling in apa black duck with a very long Jpneck, and weighing nearly two pounds, /was found to occupy and nearly completely f to fill the stomach and gullet, forming a tolerably -accurate mould of these organß, and extending from the stomach almost jointo the mouth. This remarkable conrcretion had caused great thickening and ulceration of the stomach, and was the remote cause of her death. A sister I stated that during the last twelve years \ she had known the deceased to be iv the Ababit of eating her own hair.