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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 143, 23 June 1871, Page 4

For .the . Melbourne. Cup there are sixty-one entries. New 1 Zealand is unrerepresente.d. . „ , . » . A Brewer in London has been fined £200 for having stored quantities of sugar for the purposes of business. It is reported that Miss Yelverton -faas become a farmer in Missouri. We hojfe her- husbandry will be successful this time. Curiosity, or a desire to know, is the parent of belief in natural, and the builder of the firmest bulwarks around Revealed Religibu. It has soared sunward — counted the stars of the firmameut— extended to us the boundaries of creation — calculated the density of other planets — and measured that of our own. "Clara, I love but thee alone," thus sighed the tender youth; "O, hear me, then, my passion own with irembliDg lips, in earnest toneV Indeed, I speak the truth ! *' He paused — the blush o'erspread her cheek; she let him draw her near; scarce for emotion could she speak, yet still she asked in accents meek, " How much have you a-year ? " , •■■ r • Cricket Feats. — The " three Graces " have been playing some interesting cricket in Gloucestershire. Mr. 'W. Grace hit three sixes off three successive balls. Dr. E. , Grace scored 211 (not out) in one innings, during which he hit the unprecedented number of eleven sixes. Mr. F. Grace struck a ball with such force that it went clean, through a lady's parasol like a cannon- shot. The . New York Herald makes the following candid confession :-— " We are a people fond- of. boasting of our strength on land and sea. We consider ourselves able to cope with England or any other first-class naval power, that our navy can do everything and our army but little less; and yet the public is not aware of the lamentable fact that, so far as our marine is concerned, , we are scarcely a fourthrate." . ;;:.: "' The French ■ peasacit^l'Farmers' Seed Fund, amounting, with the. aid of^lS^OOO from the Lord Mayor'sJfund, to 'ab^out £40,000, is being energetically administered. Seed corn, sufficient to sow 14,000 acres of spring wheat, 'sooo acres of barley, and 10,000 acres-^.df oats, has been supplied, besides '6oO tons of seed/ potatoes despatched to Boulogne and. Honfleur. With this, and what is being got ready, and the donations of seed still coming in, the money subscribed by English agriculturalists will have secured a crop of nearly 40,000 acres of land to the poor French farmers who have been ruined by the war. Advice to Reporters. — At Napier (Hawke's Bay) there is such. a dearth of news that tbe reporters have, to do something to create locals. One of the representatives of the Press, it appears, unbolted a stable door and allowed a horse to walk out in the public thoroughfare. The horse was taken in charge, by the police, and its owner duly summoned for the offence. Out of this small matter the reporter made four distinct paragraphs, occupying nearly a column of the paper. First he recorded the fact of a horse being at large, and commented on the carelessness of owners in not using sufficient precautions in locking the' stable door. Second, in another paragraph, he recorded the police case, and the dismissal of the charge. Third, under the head " Caution to Mothers," he animadverted upon parents allowing their children to rip through the streets of the town, by which their lives were endangered by being trampled on by stray horses. Fourth, he advocated that the clauses in the Pound Regulations Act should be more stringently enforced, instaucing . the case of the t stray horse, which he himself (" sub rosa") had been instrumental in liberating. The Poor Parson's Pig. — The writer of the "Perrybingle Papers," in speaking of the successive reductions made in the remuneration of civil servants, doubts whether th^saviDg is done on tbe square, and - says-— ■" Whenever I hear of these reducings, and. reducings, it always reminds me of ' the priest's pig. The pig's owner was a poor country priest, and the pig had got to get his living in the forest on acorns, or anything he could rootle up on >. his own account. Being the only pig about, they couldn't afford to kill him outright, but v whenever any visitor came to the place, they used to hunt him up, atSijußt bleed him within an inch of his Jife, eb" as to: be able to make black puddings ."but-ot-him ob'the-cheap. Well, the mow^vialQys came the weaker the pig got, tilj^MßK?' ' '^ c saw a crow< * °f ££opl e k. co *Hrn«™Hßß Priest's gate to dinnJftyEJe

The latest, style at dinner parties' in New York is to have a faa placed .it etteh lady's .plate on one side of whi^h is printed the bill of fare, &ik! on thu Other a looking-glass.' ""' ■ ' Philosophy (says Frederick Schlegel), when studied superficially, leads to unbelief and atheism; , but, when properly understood, is sure to produce veneration for God, and to reader faith in him ihe ruling principle of our life. - - ; '.' Clever." — It is heartily to be wished that cleverness hail never, risen from the rank it held in the days of Dr. Johnson. "Clever," says that author, "is a low .word, scarcely ever used but in burlesque or conversation, arid applied to anything a rnnu likes, without^a settled meaning." r\ Prentice Mulford, who ever siuce reading Bret Harte's " Heathen Chinee," has patronised a Chiuese laundryman, writes a pathetic account of an outrage recently perpetrated on him. He says, using from habit the editorial we : — "They sent home with our washing yesterday a thing that branches off ia two •ways a little below the top, like a. railroad junction, and has puckered frills edged with, tatting- qn each end of the divide. ■We' don't 1 know what "it is, an' we're a poor friVndless'rnan, with only one virtue,, and none but' villains would seek to iDJure that." ■,;. • ..:■■• " Not one hundred miles from Duppo, ". writes the correspondent of the Sydney Empire, " on an excellent sheep* station, there i& an intelligent p.io.us old, man, who rounds up hia 1 sheep (in the bush every Sunday, opens his Bible,, and. after; giving out a -text preaches^ sermon to his sheep, which sometimes occupies half an hour in delivery. I am "credibly informed that this flock of sheep has become so accustomed to be' preached to once a week, that on Sunday they seldom attempt to' travel further than the preaching ground until their pastor has sermonised them. He usually gets on the- familiar stump which serves as a pulpit,, and if the preacher were ntft -in tear nest 'the apparently attentive looks bestowed upon him by some of the.|old,s $we:stvwqftld]joften relax hissstern' features fronts sadLoes's. to. .extreme mirth. All the slfeep face him, tfe dog' lying by p£s'idef '] "fWTitn; t^e^b|el|n'one hand, the preached hammers a way->.with "the'vothyr, ibis stentorian voi^e^elftg^h^rd amile off. Thouglf .J^ls^gesticulaC^op's'sf e sbmeti mes violent, y:e#ih&'sheep.4ooK and forbear to nibble the.^most . enticing blade of grass untilth^benedictionvhas been pronounced; after" Which.' they., turn right about face, an%djsperse themselves over the plain, or in ' : the saltbush scrub. Meanwhile the old shepherd partakes of his primitive breakfast, and then pursues his monotonous vocation by' following them." ' A correspondent of the European Mail writes, "I have been making some enquiries concerning New ZeaJios^ flax, and through the courtesy of a leading firm of brokers give the following information foi; the encouragement, of growers. They write : We are now paving for experiments that are being made on the leaf, so as to lessen the expense of preparing and producing a fibre, that will be more applicable for tbe real flax purposes; we also want to utilise the • waste leaf, so as to be avaifable for making paper; in that case we could find an outlet for 1000 tons a month, but we are afraid the high freight will be an obstacle we cannot overcome. If the dry leaf could be delivered in Great Britain at £8 per ton, there would be no limit to its consumption for paper. To give you an instance : In 1851 we introduced a fibre from the Mediterranean, and in 1860 we succeeded in getting 3000 tons used in the year. It has attained to such proportions that with an' advance of price just double, we are quite starved upon an import of 93,000 tons per. annum, and the manufacturers have got over their prejudice agai nst ra w material.'- " Writing on the taking of the census, an Indian journal says:— "The numbering of the people has its difficulties in Ceylon tbe same as elsewhere. Singhalese^ like other Eastern races, are always jealous of the intention of their rulers, and cannot pretend to any great intimacy with statistics. Around Colombo the most extraordinary ideas are entertained regarding the object of the census. The people of the rural :dißtricts,haye heard .sufficient of . the war in France to know how, large anumber of Freufchipen, have been destroyed, and what gaps have, been, caused in domestic Icircles by the sword and, the bullet. The idea has been implanted in the maternal mind that the information about Lsex and age is for the .purpose of • ascerH^ning .where a good "soppily pf husbands H&JBtrench .'widows, and, desolate spinsters Acting on: this impresnative heads of families are JHHHmeir unmarried sons into the the jungle, out of reaoh of the HHh^^Hu enumacators,. in the hope HH|HHAay i escape '■ the French