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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 302, 22 December 1871, Page 2

Volunteer Newspapek. —A new paper entitled the JfewZealand Volunteer Gazette and Coloniul Forces Record is to be published in Auckland next mouth. It will he devoted entirely to the interests of the Volunteer movement. The Hokitika Star says : —The returns from the land sales in Westland have of late far exceeded the estimated amount. During the last month upwards of £1000 have been paid into the hands of tbe Waste Lands Board. The Westport papers point to the quantity of goods being shipped from Greymouth to Westport, aud from thence con veyed to the Murray reefs.as conclusive evidence as to the superiority of the route via Westport over that' via the Grey Valley. The Cromwell (Olago) Argus comments severely on the fact oiaJforse race having come off on a recenta^Sunday, at which " the elite of Cromwell, including certain professional men," and the sergeant of police in charge of the station, were present. After this was decided, a trotting race and a foot race wound up the sports. The Wairarapa Mercury of December 2 says : —Some gentlemen from Greymouth hnve been to the Wairarapa fto purchase horses for Exportation.-**- Their liberaTity ■is.u.nbojKfdcd. For thoroughbred mares and sound draught horses they offer £3 to £4 For hacks of a good stamp, brokeu-in, aud not over four years old, from 10a. to 255. Journalism in the Fijis. —The proprietors of the Fiji Gazette seem to he io an uupleasaiit predicament. On the 4th of November they claimed the indulgence of their readers under the following ' perplexing circumstances.' * When we arrived io Levuka, from Sydney, last June, we lind with ub a staff of six stalwart young printers, all eager to distinguish themselves in this, until'lately, terra incognita, full of life and spirits, aud vigor. Oft.'these, death has laid bold of some ; the others

fouud no delight in the pleasures of Levuka, and betook themselves back to Australian climes ; and the last of our gallant band now lies in our office stricken with fever, and a day or two since was at death's door.' It is no matter of wonder that, under such circumstances, the Gazette should cease to be published more .than once a week, and that the publisher should appeal to a generous public " to consider the difficulties of a position which no human perception could have foreseen, and no bumanpowercould have obviated.'" MONARCEICALGoVERNMENT.-M.Thiers, President of the French Republic, recently uttered the following sentiment: — I have for forty years desired for France a constitutional monarchy as in England. I have always found greater liberty existiug in London than Washington. A constitutional monarchy is in substance a republic, of which the President is hereditary. For remainder of news see fourth, page.