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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 171, 22 July 1870, Page 2

Califoknian Gold. — The richest gold mine in California yielded, last year, a profit of 34(),000 dollars. A Family Party.— A correspondent of an American paper-" took tea" with a Mormon elder at Salt Lake. City: the other day, at. which six .wives "presided," and 27 children sat round the table. '.' A Sangijine Calculation.— M. de Lesseps.sayshe knows for a fact, that one English company has put down in its calculation of current expenses £100,000 a year for " dues to the Suez Canal." The Archbishop of Dublin, in a letter to a lay member of the Church, says :— " I consider it altogether wrong for members of the Church to be present at, "or ta take part in, either Roman Catholic or Dissenting services." Masonic. — Speaking at the festival of the Koyal Masonic Institution for boys, the Prince of Wales said: — "I am confident that amongst her Majesty's subjects there are none more loyal to ; her than the body, of Freemasons. I may now recall to you that' about 75 years ago, when it became"" necessary"" on the" part of the Government" of 'thai time, to put down ' secret societies, iny ' late great-uncle, the jbuke of Sussex, stood up in Parliament and. demanded that Freemasons should he exempt from being put down as a secret society, and that demand was granted jj "and from Wat ; time" to this, Freemasonry,' being devoid of politics, devoted itself 'chleff^tjfchWfit^^