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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 200, 25 August 1870, Page 2

It is rumoured that Mr. Yogel has been asked by the electors of Wairarapa to represent them in the House of Representatives. An luvercargill Chemist has been fini jd 10s. and costs for omittiug to enter a sale of poison in a book kept for that purpose, as required by the Sale of Poisons Act. Excuses op Militiamen. —Few people, remarks the Wairarapa Mercury, would credit the excuses that enable Militiamen to shirk parade. One gets off because of " incompatibility of temper," another because of "a pain ia his big toe ! " and the last we have seen is " a slight derangement of the stomach ! " The Marlbohougii papers are advocating the necessity of holdiug sittings of the Supreme Court in that province. The Express says: —"Take the last sittings as a specimen of the loss to the public by the present arrangement. The costs iv one case alone will amount to £700 ; all the lawyery in the Province being engaged iv the suit, had to go to Nelson, besides upwards of twenty witnesses ; while, had the Court sat here, the costs would probably not have exceeded £100, to say nothing of the great personal loss to the several parties concerned. Nor was this the only expensive case ; there were two or more bankrupts, one civil, and one criminal case, which required several persons to lose weeks of time. Singularly enough, the Judge, the council ou both sides, the lawyers, and all the witnesses, left Picton in the same steamer, to go to Nelson to find a jury and crier to complete the Court necessary to try the cases!" Returns show the total sales of land iv South Australia to be four million acres \ and average price, 255. per acre.

The Loaves and Fishes. — From a return moved for by Mr. Bunny, it appears that Mr. Ormond, the Superintendent of Hawkes Bay, draws a salary of £700 per annum as Geneial Government agent on the East Coast ; a Wellington contemporary observes : — " As we presume that Mr. Ormond also draws his honorarium, aud his salary as Superintendent of Hawkes Bay, we imagine he must be iv receipt of the largest official incomes in the colony ; but it is difficult to see what use it is having a General Government Agent for the East Coast residing in Wellington ; and if the business of that office can be discharged from Wellington for three mouths of the year, we fancy Ministers might manage to do it for the remaining nine months also. We believe that Mr. Ormond's clerk is also residing in Wellington at present.