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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 89, 17 April 1871, Page 2

The Provincial Government of Otago offered free passages to Martin's Bay to bona fide settlers by the Luna, which was to sail on the 4th from Dunedin. A return of the value and quantity of gold expor&d from the port of Greymouth during the quarter ended the 31st March, has. just been made up in the House, and is as follows : — 22,495 ouaces, of tbe value of £89,981 13s. 6d. ; upon which duty to the amount of £2,811 18s. 9d. w^s paid. I The Wairarapd Mercury says : — The j first lot of legs of mutton from the boiling- \ down establishment near Featherston, were offered ito .the public on Monday last; various customers appeared to appreciate the luxury of being able to purchase good legs weighing from nine to eleven pounds a-piece for one shilling. -, 4 We. learn that the Clio has been in\ dock, ia Sydney, but on examination *'the injuries she had received were found to be v so much more extensive than was antici* pated that Commodore Stirling hesitated ; about incurring the expense, as well as the risk of placing her: hors de combat for a considerable period under present circumstancesVSTid has accordingly written to' England for\ instructions, pending the arrival of which the Clio will remain in Sydney harbor. An Auckland correspondent writes : — " Qur unemployed have got notice that' the Government of "Victoria would provide passages to that Coloriy for such unemployed as may choose to avail themselves of, the privilege. Of late, owing to heavy gold yields, and other fortuitous circumstances, work is . more abundant ; and as Victoria, at present, does not seem to be the working: man's paradise that some imagined, ; emigration from Auckland has . -received a check. " , ; - >• ■ The Evening News mentions the establishment of a rather novel industry in Auckland-Trwitchcrafy no less-— and asserts that it V becoming highly profitable. The "..industry " has been established in a icouft |;leading from liojie Qf th«* principle streets, by ' an ' energetic female, who invokes,. thaiFatesSan^ binds them firmly to the interests of her suiters for the small charge'of h^lf-a'-erown* for each I miserable dupe. Our contemporary Hays that a coa-

tinuous stream of victims flows towards the den, and that many who thus throw that money to the devil which ought to be applied to the relief of the destitute, are wives and daughters of men in the upper circles. Meterological Query. — When is it the worst weather for rats and mice ? — When it rains cats and dogs. — Punch.