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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 117, 19 May 1871, Page 2

A blackfellow, evidently a stranger to the town of Braidwood, "was observed tbe other day standing and taking a dignified survey of the place. On being questioned be replied that he was & native of Sboalhaven. As he spoke very good English, aud was dressed in rather a fashionable style, he was supposed to be a cut! abovß;the ordinary run of hiß countrymen, who hang about the different townships^ and some one observed that he was a gentleman. .At this he was quite indignant, and qujijkly exclaimed, "JSTo, no, mister; not so bad as that. " His notion -of ' 'the t'erih 4 ' gentleman 1 was' (says the Dispatch) evidently that of a worthless, lazy fellow ; and so far as its Australian acceptation < goes, he was perhaps not far out. • ... cTijere, are now at the Cape of G-ood <;Hope, J (Jigging, t#d colonial riiagistraltes, four attorneys, foup medical men, and a host of 'ihe 'Press^-all looking for diamond^yj^! - t y ,'j ;•!;.; m';\: : ; ;yi:ji:sa