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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 50, 1 March 1870, Page 2

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society have succeeded in importing a few rooks • from England. The subject of education is attracting ] attentiou in Auckland. The Superintendent lias expressed himself in favor of a ; system of secular educatioD, and he has in consequence heen assailed by those who favor sectarian teaching. Mr. Michie, the well-known Victorian Barrister, is now in Auckland. It appears that this gentleman has come for a change of air, and generally for the beuefit of his health, but the Auckland papers suggest that some society or institution should hold of him and let Auckland have the treat of one of his popular lectures. It is the iutention of the General Go- ; verumeut to substitute irou for wooden ;. telegraph posts. Some of the lines in \ Otugo are being re-constructed on iron \ posts. I A Dunedin paper states that the manu- * faciure of spurious gold is carried on by Chinameu on the Otago goldfields, not- > withstanding their double detection at i Cromwell some mouths ago. ■ The Hokiiika Star says : — We gather from advertisements in the New Zealand V 3lining Journal, published at the Thames, that there are no less than 55 firms in business there as mining and commission agents. The number of registered companies is put down at 442. Only 11 companies appear in the column headed " dividends," while iu the one headed " calls" 128 appear. The proprietor of the flax mills at Wainuiomata charges a bonus of £100 for anyone wishing to employ his patent for preparing flax, together with a royalty of £50 per annum. It is reported that a new grazing country has been found in North Australia watered by running streams, and within convenient distance of water carriage. Great preparations were, according to latest advices, being made at Mauritius for the reception of the Duke of Edinburgh, £5000 being voted by the Assembly for that purpose. In Adelaide, a member of the Assembly was to move that a bonus of £2000 be offered for the first 10,000 yards of woollen tweed manufactured in the colony. The rumor is revived that a white man, supposed to be the last survivor of Leichardt's party, is living with the blacks a long way to the north of the West Warrego district. A Memphis jury has acquitted a traveller who shot and killed a cabman for overcharging him. In Canada there has been great talk of a Fenian raid from the American frontier, and. representatives of the several regiments are now fully' engaged at the military schools which have been formed at Quebec, Montreal, and Toronto, in drilling the reserved forces of the domiuiou, and preparing them to be ready to meet any emergency. A Cable Transfer. — A man who owes a biil in London can now pay it in. four hours by simply going to Wall-street and purchasing a document known as a " cable transfer," a device born of the great Atlantic enterprise, whereby the equivalent of the money which he" gives in New York will be immediately delivered to his creditor in London. Imitate the Moon. — If you are a wise man you will treat the world, as the moon treats it. Show it only one side of yourself, seldom show yourself too much at a time, and let what you show be calm, cool and polished. But look at every/ side of the world. — Shirley; Brooks.