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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 151, 26 June 1872, Page 2

Fatal Case of Smallpox. — The man Henry Thompson who was reported some few days ago to have been attacked by smallpox at Auckland has since died. St. Mary's Church. — It will be seen hy advertisement that there will be solemn vespers in memory of the late Bisbop Viard at the above church, this evening. Amateur Theatricals. — We are requested to remind our readers that tha amateur dramatic entertainment in aid of the fund for the Harmonic Society's piano will be given at the OddfelloW Hall, tomorrow evening. Education Rate. — At the Magistrates' Court this morning three or four cases were beard in which the defendants were sued for the education rate. In each instance judgment was given for the amount claimed and costs. Opening op a Church at Waitara. — A building which has for some time been in tbe course of erection at Waitara, as a place of worship and scboolhouße, was opened last Sunday, when the service was conducted in the morning by the YenArchdeacon Govett, and in the evening by the Rev. J. Crump. Miners' Liberality.— -The following is one out of tbe many instances of liberality that are so frequently recorded in the newspapers in the mining districts. The West Coast Times says : — Some short time, since a miner, named William Beattie, was accidentally killed at Woodstock by a fall of earth, aud a subscription was set on foot to raise a sum of money for his widow and child. The list waß recently closed, the amount collected being £155 9s. 6d.

Lecture on Venice. — The Bishop of ' Nelsou will give a lecture on Venice, illustrated by the beautiful dissolving views that were so greatly admired in Nelson when exhibited two years ago, at the Richmond schoolroom to-morrow evening, the proceeds to be devoted towards the fund for the organ in the Church recently erected there. Drawing Koom Entertainment. — There was a full house at tho Odfellows' Hall last night on the occasion of Miss Colville taking her benefit, and the actiug of both herself aud Mr. Hoskins was fully equal to that of previous evenings, the audience frequently testifying thoir delight in the most marked manner. The next entertainment will take place on Friday evening. Latest Reports from the Karamea River state that at present about eighteen miners only are working on the beach claims in that locality, but they all seem to be earning fair average wages, and probably something more if the real truth was known. The great need of the place is a proper pack track for the easier transit of provisions and mining tools, especially between the Mokinui and Little Wanganui Rivers, where travelling is not only difficult but positively dangerous, on account of land slips and other obstructions. The Karamea miners are all comfortably settled in snug huts, with little gardens surrounding ; and the climate there seems specially favorable for the production of vegetables. Potatoes, for instance, ripen a month earlier than on the Buller. The members of tbe little community pine in single blessedness, aot a female living within miles of the place. The first flutter of a petticoat among the claims at the Karamea, will be hailed as an event worthy of unperishable record in the annals of diggerdom. The Permissive Bill. — Petitions to the House of Representatives, of which the following are copies, lie for signature at Mr. W. C. Wilkins's store, Bridgestreet; at Mr. Robert Burn's, Trafalgarstreet; at Mr. Robert Black's, Hardy-street; and at Mr. I. M. Hill's, Waimea-street : — men's petition. That a great portion of the crime, together with much of the want, degradation, misery, lunacy, and premature deaths in the Colony, are the results of the common sale of intoxicating drinks. That, as the ancient and avowed object of licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors is to supply a supposed public want without detriment to the public welfare, your petitioners are of opinion that a legal power of restraining the issue or renewal of licenses should be placed in the hands of the persons most deeply interested — namely, the inhabitants themselves — who are entitled to protection from the injurious effects of the present system. Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Honorable House to pass a law giving power to the inhabitants of any licensing district, by a majority of two-thirds, to prohibit the issue of any license for the common sale of intoxicating drinks within such district. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. The women's petition concludes with the same prayer, and contains tbe following clause : — women's petition. That your petitioners, many of whom are wives and mothers, view, with great alarm, the domestic and social misery and unhappiness which, together with crime and other evils of equal magnitude, arise from the common sale of intoxicating drinks. Splendid Returns are bein^ obtained by cradlers on the Molyneux river beach. From the 14th February to the 10th May, at the Immigration office in Dunedin, applications were made for passages for 107 persons. Sheep, bullocks, fowls, and a fine young Durham bull were shipped from Christchurch for Honolulu on the last run of the Nebraska. The Hawke's Bay Boiling-down Company are about to discontinue operations. Sheep are now too valuable to be boiled down. The only plentiful thing in the way of viands at Reefton is said to be green whisky, which comes from whence no one knoweth. A Mob of Natives at West Clive, Hawke's Bay, broke into an hotel a few day 8 ago, drank the liquor, assaulted the inmates, and destroyed property to the value of £200. At Raglan (Auckland) lately, some Maoris robbed a store, to which they obtained ingress by slipping down the chimney. Another store in the same place waß also robbed by Natives, who removed a pane of glass, from one of the

windows with a skill quite equal to that f of Pakeha burglars. ■ Mr. Joseph Howe, a Cabinet Minister in Cauada, has been delivering a "stroug " lecture to the Young Men's Christian Association of Ottawa, on the conduct of the 1 mother country. He declared that the " Dominion, with only four millions of For remainder of news see fourth page. J

people in it, had to govern half a continent, and face a people of for.y millions; | that it could not tolerate a laggard or a ] coward ; that in any war with the Union i it would be five times as completely overborne as France was by Germany; that a new policy had been developed at home, and Great Britain was to retain her troops, and surround herself witn ironclads, and the Britons across the Atlantic were to be abandoned. On the eve of the most serious negotiations, Canada had been stripped of every soldier, and the thirty millions were " to hoard their rascal counters in two small islands," and let the Empire go. A Clergyman Mesmerised. — The incumbent of Trinity Church, Plymouth, has felt it his duty to bring an action against the proprietor of a local paper for an article commenting on a performance by the reverend gentleman when under the influence of mesmerism. It appears that a mesmeric entertainment was lately given at Plymouth, and, possibly with a view of testing the genuineness of the performance, he went pn, to the platform and submitted himself to the operation, and, it is said, succumbing to the mesmeric influence, darjced " The Perfect Cure." On this text the paper enlarged, after the manner of local papers, thus, as the rev. gentleman alleges, bringing him into contempt, and causing his congregation to leave him. Now, anyone who knows what mesmeric entertainments are knows that what happened to the Plymouth clergyman might happen to almost anyone, and that the operators always make their victims do the most incongruous things. This being so, it may be questioned whether a clergyman ought to risk being made to dance " The Cure." But really the most absurd part of the business is that a congregation which has had twenty-one years' experience of its pastor should be affected by such a matter. , The jury gave the Rev. Mr. Barnes a verdict for £5. The Fiji Gazette gives the following details of the murder of Mr. John Muir: — " The schooner Marion Renny, from a labor cruise, anchored in this port about 6 o'clock on April 29. The deceased, Mr. John Muir, well known to residents and traders here as master of the cutter Alacrity, went on board about 7 o'clock, ostensibly to see one of the seamen, whom he called Jack. He remained on board for some hours, when he was accosted by a Cuban half-caste, named Antonio Francs, the steward, and asked his business. After some words, deceased and Francs had a ! fight, and were separated by the mate and supercargo ; deceased going into the forecastle , and Francs into the cabin. In about three minutes the latter came on deck, with a knife stuck in his belt, and, walking deliberately forward, asked ' Where's the man who wanted to fight me ?' Deceased from below, in the forecastle, cried out, ' Here I am,' upon which Francs said, * That's the last word you'll speak ; T'll cut your throat.' As he uttered this threat he descended the ladder, put his left arm round Mr. Muir's neck, and slabbed him three times, once in tbe heart, again a little below, and lastly in the abdomen. The unfortunate man, who was sitting on the locker, fell back, and calling out, ' Jack, lam dying, I leave everything to you,' fell back and instantly expired." — Francs has been iried in tbe Supreme Court of Fiji, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Eggs. — A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph furnishes the information of how to get plenty of fresh eggs : — * ' Once, thirty years ago, I was troubled just as my neighbors are now, I fed my hens with plenty of corn and got but few eggs. I reasoned upon the matter, and happened to think that the constituent parts of milk and white of eggs were much alike. Now, it has been known to milkmen that wheat middlings and bran are about tbe best of any feed to make a cow give milk; why not then the best to make hens lay eggs ? I tried it, and since then have had no trouble. My mode of preparing the feed is to mis about five parts of bran with one of middlings. In the morning I wet, up with water about four quarts of this mixture in a large tin pan, taking pains to have it rather dry, though all damp. I set this in a warm, sunny spot, south of their shed, and they walk up, take a few dips, don't seem to fancy it like corn, and start off on a short hunt for something better, but always coming \ rouad_in..ji. short time .for a few more dips j from the dish of bran. There is little time during the day but what one or more are standing by the pans and likewise helping themselves. I am careful to mix for them just as much as they will consume during the day. At night, just before they repair to the roost, I usually throw them » pint of shelled corn, well scattered,, so, that each one. qan get a few kernels.: If your bens dotft incline to eat this feed at first, sprinkle a little Indian meal on top. I would like all who complain of not getting eggs to try my plan, and I think they will never be •orry."

There is now exhibiting in meuica* circles in Vienna a remarkable instance of tatooing of the whole body. According to his own account, tbe man, a Greek by birth, bad been a pirate, and had also carried on brigandage on the Continent. Seven years ago, he an>.l five companions were taken prisoners by one of the wiM tribes of Asia. Three of them were put. to death, but this man, with two others, was preserved alive and literally tatooed over the entire body. The operation lasted two months, and was performed by six men, who each day operated on different parts of the body. The proceeding caused horrible pain, and his two companions died under tbe treatment. His body is covered from head to foot with delineations of men, animals and fabulous things. The coloring materials used for the figures appears to be indigo, the ground,, especially on the chest and abdomen, being vermillion; here and tbere about a line's breadth of the normal color of the skin can be seen. The hands and the soles of. tbe feet are colored red, but have no figures. On the face aud neck are inscriptions in characters resembling Arabic. The skin has the general appearance, to the sight and touch, of bluish-gray velvet. He attends the General Hospital in Vienna, and Professor Hebra, who showed him to his class a few days ago, has had him photographed in various attitudes. — British Medical Journal. A Faithful Monkey. — A Bombay paper tells a story of which we can only say, Se non c vero, c hen trovato. A Madiassie, going on a journey, took with him some money and jewels, and a monkey, of which he was very fond. The poor man, however, was waylaid, robbed, and murdered by a party of ruffians, who went their way after throwing the corpse into a dry well, and covering the latter up with twigs and dry leaves. But they had overlooked the monkey, who saw the whole proceedings from the top of a tree. As soon as the road was clear, the intelligent beast set off for the Tehsildar's, or police-officer's house, and having drawn his attention by cries and moans, lured him on by signs to tbe tell-tale spot. In due time the body was discovered, anc! then, by the monkey's help, the Tehsildar found the stolen property where the thieves bad buried it. He then followed the monkey to tbe bazaar. There the monkey picked out one of the murderers, ran after him, and with his teeth held him fast by the leg until the man was secured. This feat he seems to have repeated until all the murderers were caught. It is added that they have since confessed their crime, and been committed for trial before the Tellicherry Court. An Agra contemporary suggests that such a monkey ought to be made inspector of police. Would not that be rather a descent for the monkey ? We should like to hear more about him, how he behaves, for instance, in giving his evidence before the magistrate. What sort of equivalent for an oath would be required of him, and would the identity of the culprit be proved by his showing his teeth ? If the story should prove to have any foundation, it will deserve a prominent place in the next edition of one of Dr. Frank Buckland's amusing volumes. — -Allen \ s Indian Mail. An Affecting Incident. — We hear, says the Herald, of a circumstance almost too good to be true which happened lately within a hundred miles of Wanganui. The effects of a recent Bankrupt had been removed to the stores of the Trustee, and that worthy personage, assisted by the supervisors, was busily engaged in taking an inventory, &c, when a folded and well worn piece of notepaper dropped out from a bundle of old things. "Just see what that is," said one of the supervisors to a person present, who immediately picked it up. "This, gentlemen, is important, and under the circumstances, affecting," said he, after having glanced nt it, " I think I had better give it you," and amidst roars of laughter, he read the following : — You are going far away, far away from all your debt, There's no one left to pay me now, and I iear you will forget; But ray Bill shall follow you wherever you may goCan you look into my Ledger and deny me what you owe ? When races you attend you'll be madly betting on, Never thinking if you lose the stakes, that my happiness is gone, And should you chance to win, perhaps a gentleman you'll be ; I'd be jolly glad to hear of it if you'd settle up with me. When you wear your light moustache, yovr belltopper, and paletot, I'm afraid you'll be forgetting all the small accounts you owe .* With a ring upon your finger and a lady by your side, You'll be letting some poor tailor in to support you in your pride. 0, were I Lord John Russell, or, what's better, Sir R. Peel, I'd have all such swindling gentlemen with a bailiff at their heel. AH swindling should be stopped and business go on right By imprisoning all the bilking gang and those that ulope by night.