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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 225, 23 September 1870, Page 4

What was meant by Annexation. — Mr. Kynnersley in supporting the annexation movement in the House made use of the following expressions : — Fe would support any measure that would place both sides of the Grey Valley under one form of Government, but he did not think that annexation to Nelson would give satisfaction, as the people of Greymouth were a pushing people, and would not be content with the slow system of the Nelson Government. If they were annexed to Nelson, ifc would be found that the Greymouth pr-ople would soon remove > the seat of Government from Nelson to the Grey, and that ifc would be the annexation of Nelson to Greymouth, instead of Greymouth to Nelson. The Orawaiti. — A correspondent of tbe Jf'cslport Times, whom we seem to recognise as tho writer of the "Overland trip fiom Westport to Nelson," which appeared some time ago, has had the whole poeliy of his composition called forth on gazing or. the waters of tho Orawaiti, and thus discourses on that river, aud beer : — I had got ns far as the Orawaiti. Compared with the Mississippi, this river, afc its junction with the sen, fails to impress the beholder with an idea of magnificence. It is decidedly petite. But in one respect lit excels the prince of rivers. Ifc is pretty. j Tiie Great. Father of Waters is only grand. Prettiness is a characteristic merely of his minutest tributaries. Having seen both the Mississippi and the Orawaiti, I give the preference lo the latter — on the same principle as people prefer a pewter to a hogshead of beer. Bulk is not necessarily an element of beauty." W r ho cares about looking nt a hogshead ? Hogsheads are hidden away in cellars, damp, dusty, and cohwebbM. But put a i pewter before a ir.tn — put it two or threo times before him — ar.d doth he not smile, and lake it towards him as a bosom frieud — even unto his lips, otherwise sacred, let us hope, to the holiest of uses. The poetry of the man's soul is touched. Ifc cannot be the mere love of beer which thus inspires him. It cannot be any particular personal respect for Messrs. Hooper & Dodson, or for Messrs Parker & Garsides, as men and brethren, or even admiration of their creative skill ns brewers. It is — it must be — the metalliferous brilliancy of the exterior of tho vessel, the clear amber color of its contents, the rainbow-tinted globules which adorn their surface— these ifc musfc be which so affect humanity that, in nine cases out often, [the privileged spectator of a half-pint measure parodies the great poet, aud to himself observes — Is this a pewter whicli I see before me, The liandle towards my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. , Ifc is purely upon this principle that other people like pewters, and tbat I like — the Orawaiti. The Mississippi may roil into the sea, and hogsheads may be rolled into their cellars. Give to the man of poetic sentiment the purling stream and the pewter pot ! Both of which are to be had simultaneously afc the Bridge Hotel, Orawaiti, for the small charge of one sixpence. TnE Popes of Rome. — Neve Frei I Pressc, of Vienna, thus summarises the ! History of the Popes : — Since St. Peter (supposing Ihat he ever was in Pome) there have been 297 Popes, of whom 24 were Anti-Popes, and one female Pope. 19 Popes quitted Korae, and 35 reigued, abroad, eight papal reigns did not exceed each a monihs duration, 40 extended over one year, 22 over two years, 54 over five years, 51 over 15 years, 18 over 20 yoars, and only nine exceeded that duration. Of the 297 Popes. 31 were declared usurpers and heretics, and of the remaining 266 legitimate occupants of the Holy See, 64 met with violent deaths, 18 having been poisoned, and four strangled. Independently of the Avignon Popes, 26 were deposed, expelled from Rome, and banished ; 2S others were only maintained in power by foreign aid. The amount received on the Canterbury railways for the month of August -was as follows — oa the Lyttelton and Christchurch line £3016 9s 9d as compared with £222 13s 5d in tbe corresponding month of 1869 ; on the Great Southern Kail way £765 ls sd, as compared with £625 2s 2d for the same month last year. — Press