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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 92, 20 April 1871, Page 2

We (Marlborough Press) have much pleasure in being able to state on (he best authority, that our old friend, W. IT. Eyeß, Esq., M.H.R., has decided on entering into business in this town, in partnership with Mr. F. J. Carey, who is also well known here, and the name of the firm is we understand to be Eyes, Carey and Co. An eligible site has been secured, and plans for their new warehouses are in course of preparation. Willing- Victim. — A paper is going the rounds about a girl dying from tightlaciug. An editor, commenting on the facts says : — " These corsets should be done away with, and if the girls can't live without being squeezed, we suppose men can be found who would sacrifice themselves. — As old as we are, we would rather devote three hours a-day, without a farthing of pay as a brevet corset, than see these girls dying off in that manner. — Office hours almost any time."

The Ross News inserts the figure of a cross in its notice of Good Friday, and achieves the sublime and ridiculous in the following sentence :— " We mention it — having all reverence for the bright Exemplar whose corporeal death 13 this day commemorated, to explain that not publishing this paper would have in no way helped us to a holiday, as all the work of it was necessarily done yesterday." EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON. — The captain of the steamer Duke of Edinburgh gives the following account of an extraordinary phenomenon seen on the night of the 6th inst : — " The vessel was midway between Bream Tail and Wangarei Heads, and the night was dark as pitch, illuminated, however, at ahort intervals by vivid flashes of lightning. The vessel was in the midst of a heavy squall, when the attention of myself, the mate, and passengers, was directed to a meteoric display high in the air. It rapidly descended, increasing in size as it came down, leaving a brilliant tail behind it, illuminating the atmosphere all around it. As it approached the vessel, it had all the appearance of a red-hot mass of iron, and seemed to be about the size of a large cask. It made a loud hissing noise, and threw out showers of sparks in all directions, while the air was filled with a strong sulphurous smell. When some hundred yards above the vessel we all for the time felt unable to speak or move, fearing that it would fall upon our deck. Had it done so the vessel must have been wrapped in a sheet of flame, and have sunk instantly. Fortunately, however, it descended into the water, about 150 yardß on our beam, to the relief of all. In striking the water a loud hissing sound was emitted, and then all was wrapped in darkness, as before." It will thus be seen that the vessel had a very narrow escape from this falling meteor, which, by Captain Farquhar's account, must have weighed very many hundredweights.— Neio Zealand Herald. ' A clergyman in Glasgow used to relate the following:— "ln marrying a couple, he asked the bride, in the usual form of the Presbyterian Church, whether she would be a 'loving, faithful, and obedient wife ?' The bride promptly replied that she would promise to be loving and faithful, but would not venture on a pledge of uniform obedience. The minister paused and demurred. 'Just aay awa, sir, ' ejaculated the bridegroom. * She has promised to be lovin' and faithful ; an' foul fa' thae fingers/ rising his fist, ' gin she's no obedient!'" "He was a Vulgar Boy." — Mrs Lovekid — "There my little fellow, I've rung it for you ! " Runaway Ringer — " Well, then, if the peerler catches yer, don't go and sw6ar as it was me." Beauty may have beea given for a dower, but fashion too often caricatures it, and is always at some variance with the laws of health, as well as those of modesty. —■Gornfyll Magazine. . A recent New York despatch thus briefly relates 1 a'story s—" Eliza Kohl, a domestic in Newark, used , kerosine to Jight the fire this* motning. Her funeral takes place to-morroWi"