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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 103, 3 May 1871, Page 2

A Melbourne contemporary says: — "One of the most remarkable instances of good 'iri- raiding is that of a Sandhurst resident who,jßome time ago, accepted six r shares iin ..a. novyr well-known r company,: in i sat^fkctionibfia doubtful debt of £45. He has just sold one of the sis for £3000, and< at 1 'rate his cheaply acquired interest jjß; Wpt-tb £18,00%, ; ,r ; „; ; ■• , ■ J X %J?RoMamGiNVßiiTioHyMv Whaley, of New Orleans, has perfected an in-

vention for propelling street cars by condensed air. Each car will have two cylinders, or tanks, to contain the compressed air, which is to be used as a meter. These cylinders are on the top of the ear, and are to be charged at the depot by an engine worked with steam. In connection with these cylinders there is to be an engine, for which a special patent has been obtained, to receive the condensed air, and rotate the wheels of the car. On a recent trial, with a pressure of 90 pounds to a square inch, one of these machines carried 28 men 3A miles in 7_- minutes, turning corners and ~ stopping with the greatest ease. A correspondent of a Berlin paper has taken the trouble to cast up the German losses which have been announced in French Bulletins and correspondents' letters since the beginning of the war, and he finds that according to these veracious chronicles about two millions of German soldiers have been killed. They have also reported the death in battle or by disease, of Priuce Albert and Prince Charles of Prussia, Prince Frederick Charles, Count Moltke, tbe Duke of Nassau, General Treskow, and the Crown J Prince himself. As for the King and his A Chief Minister, the former has been re presented as having been deprived of/ reason, through remorse for his invasionof the sacred soil of France ; aud the latter as having been killed while endeavouring to repress an emeute by Bavarian soldiers. For remainder oj newi see fourth page.

The ! Chinese have resolved on goiug in for ironclads. They have sent' to England for au expert who thoroughly understands the building of such vessels, the lines of which will be -laidi down by Mr. A. G. Lambert,: the marine constructor to the Imperial Government.