AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 183, 2 August 1872, Page 2

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. $>, i&\&: V.iAuqKLAKD, .August I. r 4y, '^TiiielW;pDga yyoiigH arrived from Bvd|| ruew| tliisfL, mo riling;.;? bringing Australian! news to the 26th uuly, t5 MELBOURNE. Appell, the defaulting sharebroker at Sandhurst, bus been sentenced, to eight years' imprisonment. " ■ - l • ■' ■ '' ! Over one thousand persons attended the Governor's ball. , Another case of smallpox ha 3 occurred at Sandhurst, the patient being a miner. The Education, Conference has closedi The resolutions adopted partially x sup"port a mixed system of secular and religious education to be impurted by the same teachera.l . : It is stated that Sir George Bowen will probably, in a couple 'of months, succeed Viscount Canterbury as Governor of Victoria. A. document-, signed ;by 34 .'passengers of the Hero, has been published iv the Argus, testifying to the cleanliness of the vessel. „• ' •. • - - . ■ ; -. The steamer Somersetshire has arrived from London, bringing papers to. May 26. Sugars are easier, maize 3s, flour £15. There is a great scarcity of bottled ale; I.soo, packages have been sold at 10 j to Is. Quicksilver 4s. Ifc ,is stated that out of 4000 tons of sugar in bond 2800 are held by one firm. NEWCASTLE. The miners are still on the strike, the New Lambton Colliery being the only one at work, , ADELAIDE. . Wheat, 5s 7d. For 250 tons of flour for shipment £13 10s has been refused. BRISBANE. Captain^ Lake's body has been found. •■•■-. SYDNEY. Flour, £14 to £15; Wheat, 5s 6d to 63 4d ; A damaged cargo of wheat ex Cyrene, from New Zealand' sold at 4s!2d to 5s 2d ; Bran, 9^l to 10£ d; Oatmeal, lUd;., - . ■ •■■.•-■.• / , Cagii's Opera Company opens at the Victoria Theatre, on the 2nd September. Charles Simpson, an old settler, was murdered on the 23rd July. Ihe Hero is still in quarantine. The doctor is recovering. For remainder of news see fourth page.

Marlborough FLAX.-This fibre, which in the 'London 1 market has taken the name of New Zealand hemp, is bringing moat satisfactory For- the shipment made last season in. the Asterope, from -Port Underwood, by Messrs. N. E wards and Co., account sales have been received "us fbiiowß :— 39 bales, £40 a ton; 9 ditto, £41 to £42, Logon-and Sinclair; 47 bales at £38. A. M. L; 102 bales at £37, N. F. M. ; 9 bales at £37, C. N.; and 103 at £36 10s.. to £37 a ton, R.— Express. Mr Brogden's Laborers. — Mr Brogden has not got his laborers on such cheap terms as we were first led to suppose. In the firs); place, the Messrs Brogden had to provide them with passages; in the second, they had to furnish them with outfits, varying from a cost of £2 to £7; they pay their fares to London ; find them bedding and mess utensils, and laßtly gaurantee them ■work in this Colony for two years at 5a per day. la some cases the men leave their wives and families behind them, and the latter receive 12s a week while the men remain in Mrßrogden's employ The men are at liberiy to work for other employers before the two years expire on paying what they owe to Messrs Brogden. — Post. The Colonial Architect has reported on the state of the Government buildings, ■which state he asserts to bean exceedingly unsatisfactory one. In fact, hon. members are informed that it is by no means certain that during tbe course of some stormy debate the roof of the House of Representatives may not fall about their ears. It seems that during the past two years dry-rot has made sad havoc among the white pine of which the building is principally constructed. Temporary supports are being introduced to prop the roof up for the session, but Mr. Clayton thinks that it would be unwise to allow it to remain on longer than six months. Under favorable circumstances the building might hold together for several yeatß, but in the event of an earthquake or a severe south-west gale, a collapse might occur at any moment. The slave trade at Fiji has given rise to what is termed by a correspondent "an international question." A Mr. Proctor, claiming to be an American subject, invited the assistance of the American Consulate,, in order to secure "labor" from the Carl, when it was found that Mr March objected to the removal. The B itish Consul refused to allow those stolen human beings to be sold in the slave mart; whereupon Mr Drury, the present Acting American Consul, stepped in and gave his official concurrence to the removal of ten of their number from a British ship. This ia a matter of the highest diplomatic importance, for if American Consuls are allowed to interfere with the official duties of their. English confreres- — to override and act in opposition to their decisions — to meddle officially •with English vessels, why there would be an end at once of Great Britain's independence. , The Waikato Times reports a large gathering on the occasion of opening the first flour mill at Hamilton. During the course of the proceedings, one of tbe speakers is reported to have said : — "Such ventures as this gave a great impetus to the growth of wheat. In 1858 the Maoris grew and exported from this district 36,000 bushels ; from Kawbia, 22,000 ; fronvOtea, 13,000; and from Whaingaroa, 8000 ; making a total from the Waikato district of 76,000 bushels of wheat in one year, and he hoped the time was not far distant when we shall not only be able to supply ourselves but export, and hoped to see woollen factories started. Not above ten years ago the factory at Nelson was not as large as the room they were in at present, and only turned out about 90 yards a month. Now he believed they could turn out 900 yards in the same time, and the demand far exceeded the supply. Eighteen months ago, he offered wool well washed, for 9J per pound, and at the same time paid 15d per pound for it manufactured, which was assuredly a good margin for manufacturing, and must pay any company that liked to engage in it." During the war the French manufactured cannon from church bells. The Germans are now manufacturing church bells from the cannon they captured from the French. ■ In some of the States of Germany, the law does not allow a man to be married unless; he can read, . write, aai cast accounts, and anyone who employs a workman that cannot read and write is liable to a heavy f penalty.. : , Examine nis, Mouth fok his Age.-— Eector'a daughter (to Sunday scholar) — "Oh 7 you have an elder brother ; well hbwr old; is he ?" Sch;oolbby;~-' r ?ll)ahno, /miss; bufc heYj ust . -started, ,o* .swearing., Jjjuch a .reply in^NelsoDi^wouJd |bV ■ 'eijQivalent .f to ''About seven years of age." ■ ;;•,..';..'.. :,\OC' ;V.:..An! \JE f^ i^&&^^ixemijß;' .a scre w twoin wood, heat a piece pi JLvpn ■ reji.

a minute or two ; then the screwdriver will easily get itj>ut, if used while it is warm. f White Lines in (Cabinet Wobk. — The Chinese are supposed to use a combination of rich gluten and fresh shell lime in their inimitable white work; indeed, they use rice paste made by poundiDg boiling rice into a sticky mass, for a great number of purposes, Rice, when pounded as above, with a little plaster of Paris, is a capital snbstaocfl for inlaying. Tee latest " London improvement" is the luxury of sea-bathing. In a bill now before Parliament a company asks for permission to bring sea- water pumped from the ocean at Brighton by a series of ''lifts" to the summit of the South Downs, whence it is to gravitate through enamelled pipes along the turnpike road, to the West End of London, at the rate of about half-a-mi!lion of gallons per day. The statement that Mdle Tietjens has declined £4,800 with her travelling ex* penses besides, to sing two pieces for twelve consecutive days at the Monster Jubilee Festival, which will be commenced in Boston at the end of this month, is not a canard. The offer was made by telegram, but the London engagements of the German prima donna prevented its acceptance. £400 per day, or £200 per song, is indeed terms which may be stated to be the maximum ever proposed to aoy vocanist. — Athencßum. A Married Woman at Decatur, Ohio, the other day, piDing for her husband's society, went with her three little children to tbe billiard-room, and took a seat by his side. "It's disgraceful," said he, looking daggers at her. "I know it," continued the injured wife, " and you have borne, the disgrace so long, my dear, that I am determined henceforth to Bhare it with you," and she took out her knitting work, and settled down for the evening. He went home much earlier, and it was the last of him seen in that billiard-room. Dr. George Wyld, ia a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, records a narrow escape which he had from being killed by lightning during a thunderstorm on May 9th. "As I was walking across Wirable-don-commoo," he says, at twenty minutes past five o'clock, in the midst ot a deluge of rain, I suddenly received an electric shock in the left temple. I was carrying overhead an umbrella with an iron frame and wooden handle. A ring of sparks crackled from the extremities of the iron spokes, while almost instantaneously there broke immediately above a. terrific peal of thuader."