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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 79, 2 April 1872, Page 2

The Carandinis are giving concerts at Hobart Town to densely crowded houses. A Lad, residing at Mount Albert, Auckland, has been gored to death by a cow, the horns penetrating his heart, A Company, with a capital of £10,000, is to be formed for the erection. of a public market in Christchurch. The Subscriptions collected in Christchurch alone towards the establishment of a Corn Exchange have reached to about £200. The Anglo-Australian in the European Mail says : —Dr. Featherston is in Scotland, busy in the matter of procuring suitable emigrants for New Zealand. Messrs. Brogden are inviting tenders in Dunedin for two hundred ballast waggons, to be delivered in Auckland. The Dunedin tenderers are sanguine of securing tbe contract. While at Greymouth, Mr. Fox was asked to deliver a lecture on behalf of the sufferers by the flood. The Premier declined because of want of time, but sent a cheque for ten guineas as a mark of his own and Mrs. Fox's sympathy. The Argus has been shown the follow^ ing passage in a private letter from an authority in the Peninsular and Oriental service: —" The introduction of Australian butter and jams to our ships has been a great success, and I think we shall be able to avail ourselves of—to some extent at least —your soups and meat. Not only are these articles cheaper than anything we can get from home, but their quality is very much superior." The cold in Paris has been great enough lately to freeze brandy. The deposits in the Irish Savings Banks anaount to £26,000,000, and are rapidly increasing.

Opium Growing seems to have been successful in the Wangaratta district, Victoria. An acre of white poppies is said to yield abont £15 worth of opium. At a meeting of the committee of the Southland Acclimatisation Society held on the 13th, we learn from the News that the secretary informed the meeting that a case of salmon ova had come to hand per the steamer Albion, on her last trip from Melbourne, haviog been transhipped there from some vessel from London — it was presumed the Great Britain. No advice had been received of the shipment of the package, but from previous correspondence on the subject, it was surmised that Dr. Buckland was the sender. The ova had evidently been packed in hermetically sealed bottles, euclosed in a case with sawdust. It proved a total failure. Through the glass tbe ova looked fresh and healthy, but when oponed the bottles emitted a smell described as horrible, showing that the eggs had been dead for a long time — killed, it was thought, by the total exclusion of air. The writer of " Casual Notes" in the Daily Times, has tin? following with reference to the remarks of Mr. Macandrew at the opening of the Port Chalmers Dock : — lt is a pity that occasions calling for public speeches from Mr. Macandrew do not more frequently present themselves for his remarks have a quaint naivete about that is charming. For instance, at the formal opening of the Graving Dock recently, he let us into the secret of his mellifluous eloquence,whicb, he tells us, he has nurtured by tbe genial influence of "five or six tumblers of toddy." It is not surprising, therefore, that being without his inspiration, he pleaded to be allowed to make but a short speech. Perhaps, also, it was owing to the same cause that he was betrayed into giving a rap to the members of the Government he adores, and one of whom was present. I refer to his observation regarding the members of the Dock Trust bearing their own travelHog expenses, and which practice, he said, '* is what I should like to see pervading many more of our institutions." The people of New Zealand, who pay so dearly to enable Ministers to travel all over the world, entirely agree with his Honor in this respect, and rejoice that the earliness of the hour led to bis censuring the Government, even involuntarily, for their conduct in a matter which is becoming a public scandal. For remainder of news see fourth page.