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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 169, 17 July 1872, Page 4

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A Locomotive Engine, constructed in Dunedin, is to be temporarily used on the Port Chalmers railway for drawing waggons. A Petition, with 2000 signatures, has been forwarded to the Governor from the Otago Goldfields, asking a free pardon for Ewing, sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for shooting a Chinaman. A Gentleman who resided in Otago for many years, writing from London, says — "I have been struck everywhere I have been with how much more the North Island is the New Zealand of people in England than the South. It is time that people ou this side should get rid of their present ideas of New Zealand, bound up with Native disturbances and Native wars. The mining resources of New Zealand are miserably represented in the British Museum, the Geological Museum in Jer-myn-streef, and the Kensington Museum. Her gold statistics are lost by being mixed up with and called ' Australian.' In fact, whether one hears the country Bpoken of in general society, consults scientific worke, or visits museums, poor New Zealaud gets little of the credit due to her, while ehe has a full measure of the virtuous disgust of the British taxpayer for having burdened him with the cost of her Native wars." The Rockhampton 'Argus, after describing a narrow escape from fire consequent upon tbe explosion of a kerosine lamp, says: — " We have frequently stated that a few teaspoonfuls of salt thrown into a tin of kerosine will effectually prevent the oil from taking light; we have practically proved that such is the case, ahd we strongly urge upon those who burn kerosine to adopt a very simple remedy. That our wooden buildings will yet many of them be swept away by fire, we thoroughly believe, but it is the duty of all those who occupy them to take every precaution to prevent so far as possible a most grievous certainty." A Portion of the collection of paintings formed by the late Mr. Gillott, the steelpen manufacturer, realised afc auction nearly £74,000. Rrigham Young-, has been re-elected " First President, High Priest, and Prophet" of the Mormon Church. He sent a message regretting that " circumstances," viz., his being detained in his own house on a charge of murder — prevented his attendance.