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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 91, 16 April 1872, Page 4

every man's name out of the paper who comes before the police court. A Correspondent of the Australasian writing on " Amusements in America," in speaking of one of the Concert Halls he had visited says : — The audience was the most mixed I ever saw in any place of amusement. Drinking, smoking, cursing, and debauchery are here carried on in the most barefaced manner, and, I regret to say, Sunday and weekday evenings all the same. Well, I've seen the amusements of California in their worst phase, for the first and the last time. I did not think it was possible that such a hotbed of vice could possibly have existence on the face of the globe. The following extract ffrom a letter from a spectator of the Tichborne trial is published in the Argus : — T must tell you oi the one occasion on which Bovill, C.J., looked awkward. Baigent, who is judiciously deaf at times, was beiug crossexamined, and the judge took the occasion of lunch to administer a rebuke on his fencing performances in the morning. " Witness,' he said, ' we will now adjourn , and let me take this opportunity of telling you that your conduct has, in my opinion, been highly improper and unbecoming in any one in jour position.' This in a very dignified tone. Baigent put his hand up to his ear and said, 'Did your lordship say " half-an-honr ?" ' Bovill could not get through his rebuke again." A Stylish Barmaid. — A correspondent of the Southern Cross writes : — " I have just seen something new in lhe matter of barmaids. An hotel keeper here advertised for one when he received a reply from a young lady at Christchureh. The communication enclosed three photographs. These weie all of the same young lady, but each in a different kind of a get-up. They were numbered one, two, and three respectively. The lady wrote as follows : — ' My terms for style No. I are thirty shillings per week ; for No. 2, thirty-five shillings per week ; and for No. 3, two pounds. Nos. 2 and 3 are very expensive to keep up, and I would as leave come down as No. 1, unless you prefer to tbe contrary. My washing must be paid for and I decline to clean glasses. I must refuse to enter the bar before eleven o'clock in the morning. I have always doubled the bar trade of any hotel I have been engaged in.'"

The King of Bavaria has forbidden persons in the civil and military services of that kingdom to be Freemasons, members of the Internationale, or other secret society. New Rule for the Grammar of Courtship. — A young lady says tbat a gentleman ought never to feel discouraged when the "momentous question" is negatived by the object of his choice; "for in life as well as grammar we always decline before we conjugate." The Melbourne Argus of February 23 contains a descriptive notice of a storehouse for the maturation of colonial wines, erected on the banks of the Yarra, near the Falls bridge, by Messrs. A. and R. Caughey, gentleman of long standing in Melbourne business circles. The Argus says of it : — It is no wonder that the attention of the passer by is directed to a building which appears to have no windows, is in fact half a celiar, and whose roof is purely and simply a shallow cistern, full of water, designed to promote coolness below. The place has, in fact, been designed for one purpose, and its extent is such that there is ample space for the storing of more than a quarter of a million gallons of wine, or nearly half the present annual produce of Victoriaii wine-presses. The design contemplated in the structure is to preserve a uniform temperature within of 60 9 . Forenheit, and this has been accomplished. The stock now in store represents £20,0007 The Dunedin Evening Star has the following under the head of, " a suggestive fact": — "Not long ago, a prisoner in one of the gaols — not a hundred miles from Dunedin — who had been sentenced to hard labor, resolutely refused to work on account of its severity. His rations were reduced— still he refused; then he was confined to the solitary cell, which is usually a most powerful persuasive, for even a desperate criminal has a dread of a solitary cell, but his obstinacy was still unshaken. The Visiting Justices at length gave authority for him to be flogged, as it Was necessary that discipline should be maintained, and he was tied up and received a dozen lashes. The "cat" brought him to submission, and after his back was healed he did bis work without further trouble. When his sentence had expired, and he was leaving the gaol, he said to the governor, " You will never see me here again; Lean tell you that." His experience of gaollife had been anything but such as to tempt him to renew his acquaintance with it, — yet, in the course of a few weeks the same man was committed to the very same gaol for another term of hard labor." A San Franciscan Theatre has recently been crowded nightly to witness a sensation play called "TN eck and Neck," in which a man is seemingly hanged before the audience; the rope is placed round his neck and he falls suspended through a trapdoor. The excitement of the audience is worked up to the highest pitch, and prolonged applause follows ou what is described as one of tbe most degrading specimens of sensation scenes ever witnessed. Mistakes about Editors. — It is a great mistake to suppose that editors keep public readiDg rooms ; that Ihey have pleDty of time to talk to all and everybody ; that they are delighted to get anything to fill up the paper ; that they have plenty of time to correct bad manuscript ; that they are io duty bound to puff everybody ; that they should know everthing whether informed of it or not j that they have plenty of money ; that they should notice every scalawag; :that travels ; that they should have hews when there is not any news ; that they should print every man's name who attends a dog- fight, and should keep