INDIA AND THE EAST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 189, 11 August 1871, Page 2

INDIA AND THE EAST.

Guile, July 10 — The China steamer again late, owing to the practice adopted of sending the steamers from China home through the Canal, and carrying as cargo silk and tea. Tbe Australian went last time, and the Mongolia goes this month. It is rumoured that Sir Hercules Robinson, late Governor of Ceylon, will get the Governorship of Victoria or New South Wales. The telegraph between China and London is working well.

A large meeting of the Catholic laity was held at Sydney on the 29th July, when it was decided to form a political association. The Vice-General was present, and on the following day he denounced tbe movement. Notice was also given in the Catholic chnrches that the clergy opposed the proposed society. Melbourne, it would appear, is not alone in the possession of a Messiah at the present day. The New York Tribune sa y S: — "Philadelphia is honored bythe presence of a prophet. His secular name is Konigmacher, but he calls himself, for some recondite reason, ' The Jesus of Isolation.' He parades the streets upon an old horse, his red hair streaming; and he carries ' a banner with a strange device.' He is not alone in his mystical mission; for there is also, in this city a brace of prophets, with uncommonly long beards, who walk up and down the thoroughfares, exclaiming: ' How are you men and brethren ? ' It might not be exactly the thing to stone these seers according to the ancient practice ; but it clearly would do no harm to lock them up. Many persons who had their complaint badly have thus been cured." By the last mail a communication was forwarded by the Government to the Agent-General asking -him to obtain further information relative to tbe Cape mail route, and also to ascertain whether tbe Imperial Government would be inclined to grant any subsidy in support of a postal service by such a line of steamers. The Chief Secretary has received a telegram from the Governor of South Australia notifying thai at the end of two years that colony will cease to contribute to the P. and O. Company's service. It is therefore considered not improbable that at the expiration of that period the whole jburden of that line will fall on Victoria. The Government of this colony has received propositions for two services via San Francisco, one from the colony of New Zealand and the other from a private firm. — -Australasian. " What can only be characterised as an extremely smart thing in dodges has," says the Castlemaine Representative, "recently been perpetrated in Daylesford. Early on Saturday morning the operator at the Daylesford Telegraph office, finding himself electrically isolated, instituted inquiries, and found that the wires had been cut, evidently with a file, at about a mile on the Castlemaine side from the Dry Diggings, four miles from Daylesford, and at a point about six miles distant on the Ballarat side. Information reached Castlemaine at about 11 o'clock on Saturday, and the proper repairs having been effected, the matter has been placed in the hands of the police. As on the Saturday there was a very sudden rise in the shares of a- well-known mining company at Daylesford it is more than suspected that the whole affair is a brokers' dodge of'unusually daring dimensions."

The Mother-in-La-w. — Under this heading, Punch, of a late date, has the following :— Happy the man who, when he takes a bri le, espous.s her alone, and none beside; and doth not find, as many husbands do, that he has married her relations too. L.t him that needs must wed, select a wife whose parents, bolb, departed have this life. Her sole regard that he may comprehend, and prove the else friendless orphan's only friend. What mortal ever yet the husband saw blessed in the mother he required by law ? Exceptions to all rules in times are born, Long live thy mother-in-law, young Lord of Lorn ! In the Police Court, says the San Francisco News Letter, a man has been sentenced for hammering a woman with a rocking-chair. That man is a beast ! A rocking chair ? Tbe thing in which his own mother lulled bis infant soul to sleep — about which cling all tender memories, as bats cluster upon a stalagmite — whoso arms are sacred, whose -back revered, whose legs hallowed, whose bottom — ah !it was cruel to put the entire anatomy of a rocking chair to so vile a use as beatiDg a woman with it, when an ordinary - three-legged stool would have hurt her just as bad ! For remainder of news see fourth page.