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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 249, 20 October 1871, Page 2

The Coal Trade between the Bay of Islands and Auckland is said to be increasing considerably. Four cargoes of coal were lately on tbeir way to Auckland, and three other cargoes were immediately to follow. Goldfields of New South Wales. — It is said that the goldfields of New South Wales have been more productive this year than for any corresponding period during the last five. The yield of the last half-year was 42,776 ozs. more than that of the same period last year. We are exceedingly gratified to learn that three whales have been already captured by the Albion. The intelligence has been brought to the Bay of Islands by another whaling ship, and will be glad news for the shareholders. There could be no doubt of the success of this enterprise, but that it should have been inaugurated by such a slice of good luck as the present capture, was hardly to be expected. We • trust that this is but the small beginning of some splendid hauls, and that an enterprise so likely to be of the utmost benefit to tbe district will be crowned with success. — Auckland Evening Star. Meeting of Natives on the Wanganui Riter. — Mete Kiugi returned from a visit to the up-river district on Thursday week, after almost fourteen days' absence. He was accompanied, says the Wanganui Herald, by Tahana, Pepi, Topia, and other chiefs,. Mete haviDg received arj invitation from Topine to visit him at his place, Maraikowhai, where some 250 natives assembled to welcome Mete and discuss the present state of affairs. Mete and party, after the conclusion of the meeting, proceeded to Taumaruauui, the most distant settlement on the river, where he met Naarupiki, Hau, Parata, and other chiefs of note, and at which pa a second meeting took place. Mete's accouut of the intentions of tbe Upper Wanganui natives Is gratifying, and the whole of the tribes located on this river may now be* said to have again united, and made up their minds to live for the future in peace and

friendship with their European neighbors. At both meetings the ceremony was gone through of presenting a female child to Mete, signifying thereby the wish of the inland tribes to return to a state of peace and tranquility, aod the determination to which they have come uot to renew strife with the white men. From all we cao learn, we are led to believe that our native neighbors are sincere in their professions. — Independent. * Ikon Telegaph Poles. — Iron telegraph poles are being introduced into Switzerland with great success, aod have been placed on 350 mileß of Swiss railways. It is anticipated that in Germany, where iron is cheap, poles made of that metal will be substituted for those of of wood on the lines. W. Dibgy Seymour, Esq., Q.C., the Recorder of Newcastle, in his charge to the Grand Jury, at the late Michaelmas Session, made strong reference to the drink traffic. Among other things he said, — "The jury would agree with him, that it was worth bringing under their attention the exteut, effect, aud general statistics, — guaranteed by being compiled with a great deal of care, — of tbe extent to which the liquor traffic is rife in England. There are at this time, six thousand habitual drunkards abroad in this country, one million five hundred thousand occasional drunkards, five hundred thousand criminals, one hundred thousand of which number were continually in custody, making a total of two million six hundred thousand, a constant standing army of crime, or as it had been properly and forcibly put, ' The devil's militia of the line.' There was only one way of practically checking the evils arising from this melancholy state of things, or rather, two ways ; the one being to extend their police establishments, the other to change the licensing system. He left tbe Grand Jury to say which would be the most economical and judicious course." -

One Clunes paper, in an editorial, describes the editor of the other io the following terms : — "A time server of the worst type, a panderer and a sycophant of the lowest order, a trickster and blackener of men's characters, an anything you like, sir, to fill his own pockets, serve his owu purpose, and keep his paper afloat." Five Wagons, loaded with Chinamen and trieir goods and chattels, arrived io Cromwell on Saturday afternoon. A considerable number of the "heathens" have , located themselves in the neighborhood of the Bannockbum, and the remainder continued their journey into the interior. We are reliably informed that this steady stream of immigratiou from the Land of Flowers may be expected to continue for many months to come. The cause is easily explained : one of their countrymen lately went home, after only fifteen months' sojourn in this Province, with £1,300, a sum which in China constitutes a colossa fortune ; and 7 about' the same time severa others returned hence to tbe land of their nativity with sums Varying from £200 to £500 each. — Cromwell. Argus. The following paragraph from the Dunedin Southern League "applies with equal force to tbe many unimproved sections to be met with io this town. It says : — " Any cultivated eye must perceive a great absence of garden attached to private houses in Dunedin. A garden, in our opinion, contributes to health and to ornament. It is a splendid source of pastime for those ladies whose husbands can afford the luxury — or shall we say the penalty — of a domestic help (as tbe Yankees call a servant). It leads to the culture of flowers, which a poet calls * the stars of tbe earth.' At any rate, the culture of roses is surely a more genuine accomplishment than is the extravagant culture of the person. A fuscbia exceeds a chignon in beauty; yet where we see fifty chignons we only see oue gardec Has the three volume novel of tbe Braddon type— the book of bigamists and yellow-haired assassins — so absorbed the sympathies of the ' curled darlings of our nation,' that they have no time for a little cultivation of ' God's acre ? ' • We know of nothing more pleasantly coquettish, and at the same time quite honorably pleasant, than to see a young and blooming wife with rake or hoe in hand, extracting weeds, or planting roots, or saviDg seeds. Perhaps if Professor Black, our new coming apostle of natural science, is a good-looking muscular Christian, the study of floriculture will receive an impetus. It is a pity that science should have to depend on good looks so far as the ladies are concerned, for it often happens that knowledge seeks for refuge in a homely sanctum, whereunto the prying eyes of girls in search of beauty would not gaze." The Hindus. — The accusation made that the Hindus are habitually untruthful may be denied in many respects and doubted in others. They are kind to their children, perhaps over-indulgent ; they honor their parents and elders ; are extremely charitable, for it is part of their religion to be so; honest in their transactions one with another ; industrious ; and in religious matters tolerant, unless specially excited; as soldiers, brave and patient ; as merchants and traders enterdrisiug and persevering.— Coll Taylor's Students' Manual of History of India. " Home."— -Lord Shaftesbury, in speaking of "Factory Legislatiou,"after paying a high compliment to. both employed and employers! urged on the former the necessity of "never parting with a hair's breadth " of the good results which had spruDg from it. It had been suggested that the operatives should go later to work in the morning and work later at night. The npble r lord said, " Out upon such a proposition !" . What would become of their domestic joys, of their retirement to their homes ? What would become of their wives and children, with the pleasant domestic teaparty, with the teapot simmering and the fire looking bright, and the wife watching with twinkling eyes for the return of her husband ? And what would become of the children ? How was he to kiss them as he could do now, altogether when he came home from his work? If the time was extended to 8 o'clock, goodbye to all those domestic joys. The children would be gone to bed when the father returned, and if they were to be kissed, it must be in tbeir cots succesively,: which waß a different thiDg to having them upon your, shoulders, aud head, all snatching the wished-for kiss." _ !; National^Brains.— An elaborate paper was read not long; ago before the Royal Society, in: which the existing evidence as to the weight of brain among different nations was analysed. The average brainweight for the English is . stated to be 47.500Z.J for 'the^^^^ncb, 44.53; for the Germans, 42.83; but there are; discrepancies in the. results; of different observore, some giving a greater average than this to the Germans. The Italians] Lapps, Sweede, Frisians, aod Dutch come' into the same category 'with the English. Among the Asiatic races, tbe Vedahs, of

Ceylon, and the Hindoos give a mean of over 42.1 loz. The skulls of Musselmans afford a slightly increased average of brain weight over those of tbe Hindoos. Two skulls of male Khouds — one of the unquestioned aboriginal races of India — show a brain-weight of only 37.870z. The general average of the Asiatic table shows a diminution of more than 2oz_. when compared with that of European races, although there are great differences; the Kaffre rising high, and the Bushman sinking low, in the scale. The average of the whole of the original American races reaches 44.730z. s which is 2.140z. less than that of the European races. The Australian races show a brain-weight one-nioth less than the general average of Europeans. The Malays, and others of the Oceanic races, who migrated boldly, for commercial purposes, over the North and South Pacific Oceaus, and occupy the islands, show a tolerably high average of brainweight; and on arriving at this section, we return in some measure to the large brain- weight of Europeans. . Work During Morning Hours. — The author of Picadilly Papers in London Society says : — ' ' I know a remarkably able aud fertile reviewer, who tells me that, though over his midnight, oil he can lubricate articles with a certain sharpness and force, yet for quietly looking at a subject all round, and doing justice to all its belongiogs, he wanted the quiet morning hours. Launcelot Andrews says he is no true scholar who goes out of his house before 12 o'clock. Similarly, au editor once told me that though his town contributors sent him the brightest papers, he always detected a peculiar mellowness aud finish about tbe men who wrote iv the country. I knew an important Crown official whose hours were from 10 to 3. He had to sign his name to papers, and as a great deal depended on bis signature, he was very cautious and chary how he gave it. After 3 o'clock struckj no beseeching powers of suitors or solicitors could induce bim to do a stroke of work. He would not comtaminate the quality of his work by doing too much of it. He would not impair his rest by continuing his work. And so he fulfilled the duties of his oflice for exactly 50 years before- he retired on full pay from the service of his country. And when impatient people blame lawyers for beiDg slow, and offices for closing punctually, and shops for shutting early, and, generally speaking, the wider adaptation of our day to periods of holiday and rest, they should recollect that these things are the lessons of experience and the, philosophy of society and life." Travel. — Would you make the most of a capable youth ? Drive him away from home, even should his home be a vast metropolis, a London, a Paris, a New York. If he never quits it he gets withered and localised into a cockney, pr a badaud. A youth of mental force, especially one with the boldness of genius, will not wait to be driven. Travel is a lively educator; it opens,; it expands, it liberates the mind. Observe those citizens — of the better class so called — who never go beyond their country or state; tbey get to be so self-complacent about petty horne-possessioDS, so intellectually (and unconsciously) ;: emancipated, from ever breathing the same close mental air, so redolent of provincial egotism, that the sole self-defence their friends have is to laugh outright at such childish limitation. When a competent man travels, he goes out of himself, he projects him leyond the narrow circle of home activities and customary influences ; his faculties by being freed, are strengthened. To go out of one's self, is, morally, the most gainful movement tbat can be made. Akin to this is the intellectual liberation by travel, which, like the moral, is often rich in. wide-spread benefit. Had Shakspeare not travelled up to London, what would have become of us ? We should have had no "Lear," no "Tempest," no "Hamlet," no "Imogen." Stafford on Avon, with neighboring Warwick, could not have fed the brain out of which were to spring these wonders and giants. Much of circumstance genius can overcome ; such conquests is one of its functions; but it must have room for the free play of its sprightly brood. Who will pretend that if Raphael-had been- born and bred in picture-banning Constantinople, the world would have been replenished with/his Madonnas? ' Goethe* was .'impelled to travel away from prosaic Frankfort, and his long life in genial Weimar he freshened and indoctrinated, by, travel: Jnto^Fraqce, ; into Switzerland, ;ihto; Italy. 1 !- The best thing Franklin ever dM was' t6 ; ruii away froni Bbfltbh^wheii 'a'boy.j A, new city witb! ne w jnfl'tienc'es^w'ripdght . freshly on his self-reliance and resources, and- 1 unfolded his mental': means more decisively. His remarkable individuality he brought with him froni htf birth 'place/b ut its full development ; ; wks ij due '| : tS fi 'his .."abode In .liPfoiladelpihiay 1 '" pleted'^FranKliu's ' ea/rly^ ' iff? '-; 1■ ' . i-j^iJj-v- Y\{ vi u il ytt 'u,'i JflK.'