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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 127, 1 June 1870, Page 3

IS IT SO ? To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — A rumor is generally prevalent that in giving notice last night that he would move the third reading of the Executive Government Bill, Mr Luckie said that if it were not carried he would resign his seat in the Council. Is it the fact that Nelson is threatened with so tremendous a disaster ? Yours, in a fright. Anxiety. [Our correspondent is mistaken. What Mr. Luckie said was that if the Provincial Solicitor would take up the Bill he would retire from his position as sponsor to it. — Ed. N.EI M.J

The Peripatetic Philosopher delivers himself of the following anent picnics : — " Some people like picnics, others do not. lam among those who dp not. There have been persons who profess a liking for raw pork chops ; I know a man who prefers water to brandy. St. Anna ate chalk instead of bread and butter. Poor Tom lived on rats and mice. The Papuans breakfast on balls of red clay ; and that distinguished gentleman Anaxanthropophagonneson ate his grandmamma boiled in milk like tripe. There is no accounting for the vagaries of the human stomach, and folks yet live who prefer caterpillars in their tea, slugs in their champagne, salad dressing in their goseberry tart, and rheumatism in their dorsal muscles. To put it in the form of a conundrum : Is it better to eat one's d-nner properly served at home at a table, o r swallow badly cooked lumps of ham saturated with cheap champagne, seated on the grass in a damp paddock ? I believe that- the great object of picnics is matrimony. Mr. Archer states in his last volume that more proposals are made at picnics than at any other sort of diversion. It is not to be wondered at. Propose, indeed ! — I believe that when a man, suffering from damp grass, bad wine, and uncooked ham, is tackled under a tree in a thunderstorm by a resolute woman, he would do anything S" Good Side Show. — A pretty cheek. Population of the World. — Statisticians estimate the total population of the globe at 1,228,000,000. Cynical. — "No cards, no cake, no company, nobody's business,!' was recently appended to the marriage notice of a young. cynic. A Story is told of a young man who was going to open a jeweller's shop. When asked what capital he had, he replied " A crowbar." New Advertisements. WANTED, a GENERAL SERVANT. Apply at the Office of this Paper. 1055 WANTED, a HOUSEMAID. Apply to Mrs H. DAVIS, 1051 Waimea-road. WANTED, a Situation as NURSEMAID, by a respectable Girl. Apply at the Office of this Paper. 1053 WANTED, a MAN and his WIFE for the WAIRAU. Without encumbrances preferred. Apply to WILLIAM ADAMS, Wilden, Nelson. 1059 NELSON VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE. A MEETING of the Members resident in the neighbourhood of the Waimea Road will be held in the SCHOOLROOM, Hampden-street, TO-MORROW (Thursday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock. JNO. W. WIGZELL, 1057 Hon. Secretary.