OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 81, 6 April 1871, Page 2

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A brood of Paradise ducks have been hatched, and are now full fiedged, near Hobart Town. A new Church on (he road between Picton and the Wairau was to have been opened by the Bishop of Nelson yesterday. The following Permissive Bill advertisement appears in the N. Z. Herald :— Inhabitants of Onehunga ! J. L. wishes to add one more to the seven already established legalized temptation shops, to drunkenness. Be up and prevent the packing of the Bench. The London correspondent of the Age writes : — There is a slight improvement in wool, owiDg principally to the demand for army clothing. I am advised that even should the war terminate producers must not look for a great advance. Two bottles strung together and securely sealed have been washed on the beach of Cornwall, England, one of them containing three letters directed to Hamburgh, aud two sixpences to defray the cost of postage. The other bottle contained a pint of rum to recompense the finder for bis trouble in posting the letters, which are from the Danish .brig Anne Georgina bound to Laguayra*

The laws o!' Western Australia appear to be of a somewhat Draconian character. A man has been seutenced at Penh to three years' penal servitude for stealing a piece of braid ! A Terrible Storm. — An Australian paper, the Welhella Chronicle, states that in a terrific storm which lately occurred in that neighborhood, all the trees for a mile in width, and for several miles in length, were levelled to the ground. An Auckland paper says that the ladies of that province have resolved to present Mr. Creighton, M.H.R., with a testimonial expressive of their gratitude for his support of the Permissive Bill, and general admiration of his talent. The subject has been earnestly discussed, and it was proposed, as Mr. Creighton himself was not the only person interested in such an honor that the testimonial should take the form of a bassinette. Upon this proposition being made the meeting adjourned for further consideration. There are fifty-three Sundays in this year, which commenced, and will end with a Sunday. The Marlborough Neics learns that an application has been made to the Warden at Havelock for a claim to a quarfz reef that had been discovered at Deep Creekl^ The News says that the Provincial Government have purchased the hull o{ the barquo Hera for the Picton wharf, which is intended to be used in a similar way to tibe hull of the Napier in Nelson many years siu'ce, and will no doubt prove equally serviceable. Mr. Carletojt was 'severe in his speech as a defeatpd candidate. He said : — " His only remaining link of 'connection with the Colony was now broken, for he would never again confest a seat.' He had prophesied long since that New Zealand must follow in the wake of the neighboring colonies, where all was 'bottom upwards' — where t.he uneducated classes had taken command of the educated. The latter had made a better fight here than elsewhere, but must inevitably go down in tbe long run." Cheap Coal in Otago. — At the Tokomariro coalpit, good couls are at present being sold at eight shillings per ton. Mr. Anderson, the Wizard of (he Ndrth, is about to revisit Australia. He wiil start for New Zealand in May. At Christchurch, the Town Hall has been sold by auction, and bought by Mr. L. E. Nathan, for £3,900. It originally cost £4,480. The Chairman of the WestlauJ County Council gets a salary of £600 a year, besides an annual allowance of £300 for travelling expenses. A Paper is published in the Cherokee nation, one page of which is printed in what is supposed to be in the Indian tongue. One of its exchanges says : — "It's the worse case of pickled tongue we have come in contact with. The page looks as if there had been a nitro-glyceriue explosion in a type foundry." The ladies of Christchurch have given. a beautiful belt, valued at £13, to be shot for by No. 6 Company Christchurch Volunteers. From a return in a late Gazette, we learn that during last year 39,797 8-10 gallons of spirits, distilled in the Colony, were lodged in bond, and 1 1,551 J gallons taken out for home consumption, and 81| gallons for exportation. The amount remaining in bond on the 31st December was 28,130 7-10 gallons.