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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 63, 13 March 1872, Page 2

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News by the Oraeo, from Roper River, says that she steamed 60, and was towed 40 miles further up the river. Todd says that a horse express will shortly be established.

Lyell. Kicher stone than ever is being found at Boatman's ; some of the specimens shown are ■wonderfully rich. It was reported at the Ahaura, yesterday, that all the claims at Rainy Creek have been jumped several times, and the Warden will have much trouble in deciding the ownership of most of them." The Arrowtown correspondent of the Wakatip Mail writes as follows : — " As a relief to the other excitements, we have been supplied with that of an attempted bank robbery to talk about. On the morning of the 13th it was discovered that, through the night time, a panel had been nut out of the fi'ont door of the Bank of New Zealand, immediately under the handle, by a series of auger holes, evidently with a view of getting the key if it had been in the lock ; bur, it was not, being in the safe keeping of Mr. Mackay, the agent. Nothing w&s taken. The night was dark and rainy. There is no trace of the burglars. A Somewhat Unexpected Incident occurred (says the Melbourne Leader) in the Princess' Opera House during a performance of II Trovatore. When Sijrnor Cecchi and Madame States bad finished ! the duet which brought the third act to a conclusion, the prima donna left the stage rather abruptly. The tenor was disconcerted, and when he reached the wings made use of some uncomplimentary allusions in very choice Italian to the lady. He was overheard by Orlamini, who, probably moved by a chivalric desire to defend the fair name of Leonora, and avenge the wrongs of the Conte di Luna upon the body of Manrico, drew his sword and made a rush at the base traducer. Fortunately the sword was blunted, and (he weapon glanced harmlessly off Cecchi's breast, but inflicted a flesh wound ou his left hand. Quick as lightning Manrico drew his stage sword, and but for the interference of the chorus a most dramatic conflict would have taken place behind the scenes. Claims Against Great Britain-. We understand, says the Detroit Commercial, that a Chicago paper will present a claim , to the Washington Treaty Commissioners " for expenses incurred in the composition of an obituary notice of the Prince of Wales." All the newspapers in the country will have claims of this kind to present, and we shall have an individual bill to offer. For as soon as it seemed that the Prince was about to die, we procured the Cyclopcedia and wrote from it an original half-column notice of the Prince, concluding with a mournful and yet ingenious prophecy of the immediate decline and fall of the British Empire. Three thousand other editors in this country did the same thing, and yet the abandoned young man actually had the audacity to set at defiance the power of a free press and persist in living. Can anything illustrate, in a more forcible manner, the demoralizing and ruinous consequences of monarchical institutions upon the mind and heart ? But there are two alternatives : the Prince must either die or the British nation must pay. We cannot be trifled with in this reckless manner. One more such outrage as this, and we will loose George Francis Train upon Canada with his one million servant girls ; and those who know what American servant girls are — the red-haired kind especially — vrill understand the gravity of this menace. What Advertising Did. — Millaud, the banker and newspaper speculator, who died recently in Paris, and who founded the Petit Journal, which at one time had a circulation of nearly half a million copies, was an enthusiastic believer in the advantages of liberal advertising. One day he had at his table nearly all the proprietors of the leading Paris dailies. They conversed about advertising. Millaud asserted that the most worthless articles could be sold in vast quantities, if liberally advertised. Emile de Girardin, of La JPresse, who was present, took issue with him on the subject. " What will you bet," exclaimed Millaud, '* that I cannot sell in one week 100,000 francs worth of the most common cabbage seed, under the pretext that it will produce mammoth cabbage beads ? All I have to do is to advertise it at once in a whole page insertion in the daily papers of this city." Girardin replied that he would give him a page in his paper for nothing if he should win his wager. The other newspaper publishers agreed to do the s<une thing. At the expiration of the week they inquired of Miilaud how the cabbage seed had flourished. He showed them that he had sold nearly twice as much as he bad promised, while orders were still pouring in, but said the joke must stop there, and no further orders would be filled. Me. Diskieu on Plain Sewing. — At the delivery of the prizes for plain sewing lo his co: lagers at Hughenden, Mr. Disraeli spike on the importance of this i accomplishment, He said that at the ] Great Exhibition this year thete was a display of plain sewing from all the

countries in the world, and that the prizes were all given to Great Britain, the judges being of opinion that the plain sewing in Great Britain was superior to that of any oilier nation of the world. On coming to examine the prizes, however, when they were allotted, he found they were all given to Irishwomen. He wanted to know the reason of their gaining all the prizes. He was perfectly willing to do justice to the abilities and talents of our fellowcountrywomen in Ireland ; but he could not understand why all the prizes in this department should fall to them. He found this out — that the Irish Government had very wisely recognised plain sewing as an important part of national education, and that it was not recognised in England. In consequence of the prizes offered by the Irish Government, plain sewing had been stimulated and improved among the people of that country, the immense result of which could hardly be conceived. Every Irishwoman who went to the National School was taught plain sewing, and the consequence was, that the greatest degree of happiness and comfort was diffused over all the household of which they were members. In England, unfortunately, this bad not been the case. Many who lived in the cottages around knew what inconvenience was caused by the blundering manner in which women without proper instructions attempted to make or mend their husband's or children's clothes. Prizes were now offered for the first time by the vicar's lady for plain sewing, and he looked forward with much pleasure to the improvement which competition in this respect would effect among his friends around.