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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 48, 24 February 1872, Page 4

Trade with America. — The Wellington Independent says : — The Nevada when she left this port yesterday had on board 1200 bales of wool and flax, 1100 of which were shipped in the southern ports, and the remainder here ; so that before she leaves New Zealand on her homeward trip she will likely have on board a cargo equal to that of many of the English traders which leave our ports, having yet to take on board her Auckland and Napier cargo, which is usually very heavy. The vessel of this mouth will take about 900 bales of wool more than on any previous voyage. This is a rate of progression which speaks well of the growing relations between this colony and America. A terrible affair occurred in Saline county, Nebraska. A party of immigrant?, with their families, were passing through ~ the couDty westward, when, the cold increasing, they concluded to camp and light a fire. They were on a piece of high prairie and several miles away from any house ; but somß three miles from them was a piece of timber. After unhitchiog their teams, the men started for this timber to procure fuel. Not returning for several hours, the women left their children and started to hunt for them. This is all that is knowD, save that next day the bodies of seventeen persons, who had perished from the intense cold, were found. The children, who were left in the waggons, were the only surpivors of the party who had started to procure homes in the West. Sir Charles Dilke has been refused the use of the drill hall at Chelsea, in which he proposed to meet his constituents. The officers of 2st Middlesex Engineer Volunteers, to whom application was made, passed the following resolution ; — "The officers of the Ist Middlesex Engineer Voluuteers, as loyal subjects in the actual service of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, bearing in remembrance recent public utterances by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P., in derogation of the dignity of the Crown, unhesitatiugly decline to afford an opportunity for a repetition of such utterances, in the drillhall of their regiment. The commanding officer is requested to forward this resolution to Sir C. W. Dilke, M.P., as a reply of the officers of the regiment to Sir Charles' application for the use of their drili-shed." What may happen to a hard-up digger, travelling in search of employment, is exemplified in a case related in the Tuapeka Times. A miner passing through Waitahuna, looking for work, called at the residence of a friend, but finding no one at home, he resumed his journey. He had not proceeded far before he was overtaken by Constable Youngstod and arrested, at the instance of his friend's wife on a charge of having stolen a one pound note from her dwelling. The man, of course, protested he was ionocent, and the lady as strongly protested he was guilty, as a neighbor of hers had seen him enter the house. As to the pound having been removed from where she had placed it, that was quite clear to her mind, the las*t time she saw it being about three o'clock in the afternoon. Under the. circumstances, the constable could only do what be did — lock the man up. Between nine and ten o'clock, the lady's husband, who had been to Waipori, returned home; and on making him acquainted with the state of affairs, he at once told her. that it tvas he who. had taken the pound note.; No time, was lost in explaining matters

with the officer in charge, who at once liberated his prisoner, who will carry with him recollections far from pleasant of his short sojourn in Waitahuna. The Queen and the Photographer. — A certain journalist informed loyal Englishmen a few days ago that the fullest details respecting the movements and manners of our own Court were to be obtained from the Viennese newspapers. Parisian papers have no less the specialite for anecdotic sketches of the royal family of England. A reactionary organ of the Figaro type, recounts the adventures of a French photographer at Balmoral, which is certainly not known to readers of the Court Circular, perhaps not even to the personages whose names occupy the foremost places in its columns. According to this print, in spite of her indisposition the Queen had summoned from London, through the means of Lady S , a French photographer of talent and ability. He was to take a copy ot a portrait of the Prince Consort. The operator, who is discreetly called X , arrived at Balmoral two hours before the time indicated. He carried with him not only las apparatus, but a change of linen folded iv a silk handkerchief, fearing that the dust and smoke would necessitate a slight renovation of the outer mau. He enquired of the Porter for Lady S , and was referred to the chef as the only official who could speak French. M. X told the cordon bleu that he wished to change his linen, but was pooh-poohed, and informed that her Majesty did not like des f aeons. M. X would not however be persuaded, but was clamoring to be shown a dressing-room when Lady S arrived, and forthwith introduced him to the white drawing-room. On his re-iterating his request, he was told that he was sufficiently presentable without any further decoration. Left alone, the photographer was the prey of terrible anxiety. To appear before the Queen of G-reat Britain and Ireland without changing his linen — and he a Frenchman and a photographer — -such a catastrophe was not to be borne. M. X precipitated himself behind a screen, and having divested himself of his upper clothing, was extricating himself from the Alpha of male attire, when the Queen entered. With his head enveloped in seedy white, the end of a rubicund nose protruding at the aperture of the collar, the photographer elicited a hearty laugh from her Majestyi His flight was like that of the hunted chamois. Search was made for him, but hie has never since been .seen at Balmoral.