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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 170, 18 July 1872, Page 2

Two -Hundred - and - Fifty Men are employed in erectiDg the telegraph line lo Reefton. The New Zealand Herald asserts that the " postal subsidy to Mr. Webb is rapidly injuring our coasting trade." At a meeting held at Adelaide it waß resolved to agitate in favor of a perpetual leasing of the public lands. The Weather has been unseasonably warm at Sydney, the thermometer standing at 70deg. in the shade. Forty-four merino rams were recently sold at Adelaide, at an average of £27 10s. Gd. each. The authorities at Noumea have been advised that the transport ships Danae and Gueriere left France iu April, with 1000 Communist prisoners. The Filibuster Station, New South Wales, has been sold by auction with 17,000 sbeep at 14s. per head, which ia the highest price given for years. As much as £5 per 100 superficial feet is reported to have been given by a Dunedin firm for some. broad timber (boards) of rata, or ironwood, sawn at Waikawa. Mr. Morton Tavares, with Miss Surtees, is playing at Kaiapoi. Professor Haselmayer, with Mr. Small, is performing in Christchurch. It is reported that the Government of South Australia has received ,an offer from Melbourne to construct the trans-Austra-lian railway for a grant of 100,000,000 acres. " Tiiere is some talk," says the Echo, ♦ ' of the Welling ton Independent changing its politics again. How is this ? Are there no land transfer advertisements to be had?" The Arawa natives are much alarmed at the spread of smallpox, and have asked the Government to make provision for their vaccination. The Government has acceded to their request. Girls now-a-days, it is said, know too much at 15 and too little at 50. In -Italy, kids are skinned alive, in order that* the leather may be soft and -pliant for •gloves., ■:,'[.■ ■,'. _-■_ x :' . •.'■;.