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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 55, 4 March 1872, Page 2

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The return match between the single men of the Motueka and Riwaka districts was played at Riwaka, on Saturday last, on ground kindly lent by Mr. York, the Motueka eleven coming off victorious. The following are the scores : —

———_——__———__—_____— ________n____ I Six drays and waggons are at present engaged in the traffic between Inangahua Landing and Reefton. The Ross News is informed that the Donnelly's Creek Company struck coal on Monday evening at 90 feet. The Aborigine has arrived from Melbourne with 1000 feet of very strong linen hose for the Ross Fire Protection Committee. Two Sections of Land in the township of Reefton were surveyed on Tuesday, and taken up for the purpose of erecting a Catholic Church thereon. The Installation of Bro. John Hudson, as Master of tbe Pacific Lodge of Freemasons, took place at the Masonic Hall, Hokitika, on Feb. 26. In the left-hand branch of Donnelly's Creek (says the Ross News) mining matters are progressing favorably, nearly all hands making good wages ; but less flattering accounts are received from the right-hand branch, owing to the heavy damage done to the dams and tail-races by the floods during the latter part of December. Full Dress in Church. — We copy the following from the Saturday Review : — People are generally supposed to go to church for devotion, but if they do, devotion and vanity are twin sisters. Look at the number of pretty hands which finds it absolutely necessary to take off their gloves, and which are always wandering up to the face in becoming gestures, and with the right curve. Or, if the hands are only mediocre, the rings are handsome, and the diamonds sparkle in church as well as anywhere else. And although one vows

to renounce the lusts of the world as well as the fiesh, there is no use of having diamonds if ones neighbors don't see them. Look too at the pretty faces which know so well the effect produced by a little paint and powder beneath a soft mask of thin white lace. Is this affair tbeir best confession of sin ? And, again, those elaborate toilets in which women come to pray for forgiveness and humility; are they for the honor of God ? It strikes us that honor of God has very little to do with that formidable, and may be unpaid, milliner's bill; but the admiration of men and the envy of other women a great deal. The Pope is wise to make all ladies go to his religious festivals in a uniform costume and in black. It narrows the margin of coquetry somewhat, if it does not altogether remove it. But dress ever was, and ever will be, as webs spred in the way of women's righteousness. For remainder of news see fourth page.

A Fatal Accident is reported by the West Coast Times to have occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Cassius claim at Ross, to a man named Vann, brother of the manager. Vann was in the cage at the bottom of the shaft, and was leaning out of it pulling the signal rope for hauling up the cage. Before he could recover himself the cage was pulled up, and his head coming in contact with the cap piece of the drive, he waß doubled up with his head downwards, and in that position he was jammed up between the cage and the wall of the shaft, until the cage had proceeded some fifty or sixty feet, when he fell to the bottom. He lived for about an hour, and died in great agony. An Affectionate Spouse. — A marriage settlement is a capital thing under some circumstances. It has kept many a carriage rolling, that would have been through the auction mart but for that piece of parchment. Talk of the merry marriage bell ! its merriment is shortlived, as compared with the lasting, the sterling, the joyful consolation of a wellsecured settlement. But there are drawbacks even to settlements. lam told that a person, formerly engaged in extensive business transactions, settled, say, £10,000 upon his wife. (There is no implication that he had no right so to do. His assets, I believe, at that time exceeded his liabilities by more than that sum.) Latterly, thiDgs have gone crookedly with him. He is a man who hath had losses. His ships have sunk, he has overstayed his market, his means have dwindled, if they have not altogether disappeared. For some undisclosed reason his wife doesn't think so well of him as when he made that settlement. In fact, the report current is that he has been turned out of doors by his once affectionate spouse, who, by virtue of the Married Woman's Act and her handsome settlement, puts him at defiance, and looks at him complacently through the parlour window of the house which he once fondly, but credulously, believed was his own in all but name. — "JEgles." " Dinna be always Dram Drinking." — A minister once preached a sermon against intemperance, a vice very prevalent in his parish, and from which, report said, he was not himself wholly exempt. " What ever ye do brethren," says he, " do it in moderation, and aboon a', be moderate in dram-drinking. When ye get up, indeed, ye may tak' a dram, and anither just before breakfast, and, perhaps, anither after ; but dinna be always dram-drinking. If ye are out in the morning, ye may just brace yersel' wi 1 anither dram, and tak' anither in the forenoon, but dinna be always dram — dramming. Nobody can scruple for ane just afore dinner ; and when the dessert is brought in, after it is ta'anawa'; and, perhaps, ane, or it may be twa, in the course of the afternoon, just to keep you from drowsying and snoozling ; but dinna be always drinking. Afore tea, and after tea, and between tea and supper, it is no more than right and good ; but let me caution ye, brethren, not to be always dram — dramming. Just when you're going to bed, and when you're ready to pop into it, and perhaps when ye wake in the night, to tak' a dram or twa is no more than a Christian may lawfully do ; but brethren, let me caution you not to drink more than I've mentioned, or maybe you may pass the bounds o' moderation." Church Discipline- in Scotland. — David Leyes, at St. Andrews, for striking his father, was, in 1574, sentenced by the Kirksession to undergo severe and protracted discipline. He was on the first Sunday to appear before the congregation "beir heddit and beir futtit, upon the highest degree of the penitent stuill, with a hammer in ane hand, and ane stone in the uther, as twa instramentis he mannest bis father with, ane papir writin in great letteris about his heid, ther wordis, Behold the Onnatukall Son punished for putting hand on his father, and dishonoring of God in him." On the second Sunday he was to confess his guilt, "in meddis of the kirk." Then the following Monday he was to " stand in the jaggs, in the market cross, from ten o'clock till twelve noon." At noon he was to be placed "on ane cart," and then " to be cartit through the hailltown, and be oppin proclamation the pepill to be advertised and informit of his fait." The culprit was thereafter to be conducted back to the cross, and there a proclamation made in his presence " that if he ever oflend again his father or mother hereafter in word or deed, that member of his body quhairby he offendit salbe cuttit off from him, be it tung, hand or futt, without mercy, in example to utheris to abstein fra the like." In 1603, the Kirk-session of Aberdeen resolved to distrain the goods of certain persons who had contumaciously absented themselves from the communion. At Dumfermline, in December, 1845, Helen Walker "made repentance on hir knees," before the Kirk session for "communicating at the Lord's table."

Sickly Pkinces. — Few of the Crown Princes of Europe are strong and healthy men. Several of them are not likely to live to ascend the thrones of their fathers. The Czarowitch of Russia has been a chronic invalid almost from infancy, and at 15 was hardly expected to reach manhood. His son and heir, too, is a sickly child, Tbe only son of Sultan Abdul Aziz is consumptive. Dissipation in the various capitals of Europe has made the Crown Prince of Egypt, born in 1853, old before his time. The Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold, of Belgium, and presumptive heir to the throne, is nearly deaf, and suffers from heart disease. The health of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, too, is by no means good, and his prospects for a short life are among the objections made to the proposed future union of the tbree Scandinavian kingdoms under his sceptre. The Austrian Prince Rudolph, now thirteen years of age, has always been feeble, and is not likely to live long. The Crown Prince of Germany is in vigorous health ; but his friend and comrade, the Crown Prince Albert, of Sasony, is sickly, and the heirs to the throne of Mecklenburg, Baden and Hesse, are all feeble. Come up and Teetotal. — The San Francisco Neios Letter says : — We are in receipt of a neatly printed pamphlet entitled the " Teetotaller," which starts out on its career of usefulness " under the auspices " of one John Blob. John begins refreshingly thus : — " Oh brother, why will ye, and why will ye not ? Lo ! the crystalline liquid drippeth from the rock, and wasteth upon the plain — and ye will not. The fiery poison moveth itself in the glass — and ye will. O miserable blind ; there is no safety for thee but in our band of teetotallars ! Come up and teetotal. Come and join thy thirsty spirit unto ours, even as a drop is joined unto its ocean ! " If John means this last as an invitation to drop in and take a drink, he ought to tell us where his bar is. Mr. Blob, as a philologer, you are without a parallel ; the verb "to teetotal " is the grandest conception of the age. Hereafter it shall be the dearest pleasure of our existence to visit the public schools and hear that delicious part of speech conjugated. Fancy the rapture of hearing from the rosy lips of some young thing such verbal music as this : — "I teetotal, you teetotal, he teetotals," etc., through all the moods and tenses ! We have never teeto tailed any, Mr. Blob, but your touching picture of the water going to waste on that unappreciative prairie affects us to tears. We know at last why the ocean is called " a waste of waters ; " it was christened so by a teetotaller, who grieves because he could not drink at all. John Blob, if we had your mouth drawn over a pump-spout and soldered watertight above the edges, we should exalt and depress the handle of that useful machine with unwavering constancy, until your skin should be equal in tension to the head of a drum. Then we should beat upon the same an exceedingly lively air.

Motueka. Ist innings. 2nd innings. J. Hogan, cW. Pattie 11 b Painter 21 Hapukuku, run out,.. 0 hit wicket 3 J. Boyes, b White ... 0 b White 4 M. Simpson, b Painter 3 c Macmahon 3 W. Boyce, b White ... 6 runout 10 R. Hall, hit wicket ... 0 c White 10 — Luxton, b Painter 1 c Drummond 11 J. Felix, b Painter ... 11 b White 22 J. Grooby, not out ... 24 b White 0 H. Boyes, c Macmahon 1 b White 3 R. Cross, c Painter ... 0 not out 3 Byes, &c 27 39 Totals 84 129 Grand Total, 213.

EIWAKA. Ist innings. 2nd innings. W. Pattie, 1. b. w. ... 1 b Hogan 4 G. Duncan, bJ. Boyes 7 b Boyce 5 E. Jennings, c Ha11... 6 candbGrooby 4 W. Bishop, hit wicket 1 b Boyes , 3 G. Painter, c Hall ... 5 c Hogan 27 B. White, b Boyes ... 5 c Hogan 15 J. Macmahon, b Boyes 2 c Grooby 11 P. Fry, run out 0 not out 27 J Drummond, b Boyce 7 b Grooby 3 R. Pattie, not out 4 b Boyes 12 H. Try, b Boyes 0 1. b. w 2 Byes, &c 4 20 Totals 42 133 Grand Total, 175.