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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 165, 12 July 1872, Page 2

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Wheat very dull at ss. 7d. to os. 9d.; Flour uncl.ans.ed. NEWCASTLE. Sailed : Wild Duck, for Lyttelton. [The following tplpjjrams have been received per Tan-run.] MFLBi>UH.NK. July f>. — The Government Gazette contains a proclamation ih'-t all v'ss._s from New Zealand ports are liuble to be plsiced in quarantine. A child riied at Long Gnlly. Benfligo, from smallpox. ' The deceased arrived by the Nebraska four weeks since ; "die fact is authenticated. Duffv indicated Grant as the future leader of the Opposition. A conference has been held between the Church of 1-nplami and' the I'resbyterians ; "-u^ject. pr.i[Osed co-operation in thinly ponnlntcd districts. fookev'ssolda. J.5 ss. Oil; buyers at £± 155.0d; sell rs, £5 1..5. Od. Sailed — Sarah and Mary for Greymouth; Alexandra for Auckland via Sydney. _heP and O. steamers, tbe last two mails, have beaten the Adelaide branch boats by two and three day?. The q ;estion of National education is attracting "ttention, and ere -ting difference of opinion between members of the Board of Education. It is proposed to erect a new Theatre at Geelong. There is a new Order of Abstainers (Good Templars) organising— originally from America. The charge against the Nev. Duncan Fraser, Pnsbvterian Minister at Ballarat. has been-re-mitted ti> a < om mittee for investigation, it is probable it will be nnsustained, and is said to he merely reta ! iativ_, re Inglis case, as McDonald, complainant, is affirmed to be a close friend of Inglis. SYDNEY, "Wool sales unaffected by recent news, competition good. The Hero arrived at Newcastle, having encountered heavy weather. The City of Melbourne put into Nelson Bay, short of coals; she has been relieved. Great scarcity of sailors for outward bound ships. The Divorce Bill passed the second reading. The Telegraph Copyright Bill is now being discu«sed. A sailor, while attempting to enter a Vothel by force, was struck with an iron bar fatally. A verdict was returned of justifiahle homicide. The Eurydiee is loading with wool for America. ADELAIDE White the mu-ic'an, and others went out on a pleasure party in a small cutter on June '20, since when they have not been heard ot Great anxiet* is felt for their safety. Two dogs have been washed ashore which was supposed to have belonged to the party. Wheat, 5s 7d. to 5s 9-.; Flour, £12 10s. to £14. Harrington's clause for the abolition of bnrroai is in the " Publichouses Act" has been withdrawn.

their position, and so they seized a vessel and murdered their hirers and every white man on board. A good many murders had been committed about this time, and. according to the evidence of an employe in the British Consul's office at Levuka, the officials there were keeping their eyes open, and there was a 4 general stampede among the skippers.' The plaintiff's case was that the defendant, fearing that the forty escaped islanders might, on being captured, say that they had been kidnapped, asked him to go to New Zealand out of tbe way. The defendant's version is that the captain ran away and left: his employment because H.M.S Blanche was daily expected at Levuka. Whatever influenced the captain, he did go, and he now sued the defendant for wages and bis expenses for some months after leaving Levuka, having, as be alleged, been still in his employ. Both plaintiff and defendant emphatically denied having been frightened at Levuko, but each slated that the other had been afraid. Nothing regarding the recruiting system employed on board the Lismore was elicited, as the counsel on neither side seemed to he inquisitive on that point. The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for ' £108 2s. 6d." The New York World has the following : — The greatest barrier to navigation from one side of the globe to the other, is the long and rugged isthmus which connects North and South America. This can be spanned by railroads without any vast difficulty, but the barrier would then only be reduced, not removed. If it comes within the power of the engineer to cut through that bar in the pathway of com- ■ merce, and allow vessels to pass without discharging their freight, such an achievement would eclipse in grandeur anything that has been done in this age of wondrous mechanical exploits. Two surveys have been going on during the past year to ascertain the feasibility of this undertaking — one at DarieD, and one at Teliauntepec. The report of the engineer of the Tehauntepec expedition is accompanied by twenty maps and profiles and many calculations intended to show that a ship canal across the isthmus is not only practicable, but that the obstacles in its way are of the most ordinary character. A canal can start, he says, at the head waters of ship navigation on the Coatzaccoaleos river, follow the valley of its chief boundary, and the dividing range of Tarifa, and thence descend through tbe pass of Tarifa, and cross the plaius to Salina Cruz ou the Pacific. The whole distance would be 172 miles, in the course of which 732 feet of elevation would have to be overcome by locks. Commander Selfridge at Darien has also found a pathway for navigation from sea to sea. He would sscend the river Atrato from tbe Gulf of Darien to the mouth of the Napipi, 150 miles. The Atrato is navigable all this distance for vessels of the largest size, so that a canal is necessary for only thirty-two miles, from the mouth of the Napipi to Cupice Bay on the Pacific side. Twenty-three miles of this space is a fiat plain, with a rise of only ninety feet, and no difficulties to overcome. All so far is common place, and there is nothing to excite the determination and plm k of a Yankee, but the rest of the way presents something worthy of bis attention. The proposed canal is suddenly stopped by a beetling ridge of hills 600 feet high, and in order to reach the ocean it must be severed. For three miles there must be a cut of 125 feet deep, and the remaining five miles of rock must be tunnelled. Here is something worth while, but after Mont Cenis and the Hoosac Bore, it is not enough to intimidate the American enterprise and daring. Bishop Tereot. — The Scottish Episcopalian Church has sustained a loss in the late Bishop Terrot. He was one of those clergymen who are fast becoming very scarce in all denominations. In him the device was subordinated to the man of the world. His scholarship was of the highest order, aud his keeu wit enabled him to bring bis knowledge to bear upon social subjects with telling effect. Like some other remarkable men of tbis now uncommon stamp, his cynicism and sarcastic humor were somewhat at variance with the lamb-like placidity of tbe ideal pastor's character, aud, like his clerical prototypes, he by no means disliked a quiet jest at the expense of his own order. The Scotsman in an obituary notice of the Bishop, mentions a story of this kind which he used to relate with great gusto. It hefel a dignified clergyman'— -perhaps himself. An Irish beggar was imploring him for charity, and using an enormous number of sacred objurgations. The dignified clergyman looked him solemnly in the face — " No, I will not give relief to one who appeals so indecorously, but I will give you what will be of more value to you in your present state ot mind-r-the advice not to take the, name of God in . vain." Irishman answers — " .And is it in vain I've been taking it ? and whose fault is that I shoald to know? "—Pall: 'V „-''■;.■.' 'p'^PP'. }