ADELAIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, 5 August 1872, Page 2

ADELAIDE.

The Land Bill is carried. Heavy losses have occurred in a ship at the Roper from the poisonous herbage. A tbirty-ounco nugget has been found at Mount Pieasaut. The smelting of iron has commenced at Adelaide. South Australian flour netted £12 103 in ti»e English market. Flour is shipping for Natal at less than £13. Wheat firm at 5s 8d to 5i 91. For remainder of news see, fourth page.

Mr. Kla.es, who was known among his acquaintances by the name of the King of Smokers, has just died near Rotterdam. According to the Belgian papers, he had amassed a large fortune in the linen trade, aud bad erected near Rotterdam a mansion, one poriion of which was devoted to the Brrangeme'nt of a collection of pipes according to their nationality and chronological order. A few days before his death he summoned his lawyer, aud made his will, iv which he directed that all the smokers in the. country should be invited to his funeral, that each should be presented with lOlbs. of tobacco and two Dutch pipes of the newest fashion, on which should be engraved the uame, arms, and date of the decease of the testator. He requested all his relatives, friends, and funeral guests to be careful to keep their pipes alight during the funeral ceremonies, after which they should empty the ashes from their pipes on the coffin. The poor of the neighborhood who attended to' his last wishes were to receive annually, on the anniversary of his death, lOlbs. of tobacco, and a small cask of good beer. He desired that his oak coffin should be lined with the cedar of his old Havana*cigar boxes, and that a box of French caporal and packet of old Dutch tobacco should be placed at the foot of his coffin. His favorite pipe was to be placed by his side, along with a box of matches, a flint and steel, and some tinder, ns he said there was no knowing what might happen. A clever calculator has made out that Mr. Klaes had, during his eighty years of life, smoked more than four tons of tobacco, and had drunk about 500,000 quarts of beer.

Mrs Stenhouse, in " A .Lady's Life among the Mormons," after giving an extended account of her life and labors of herself and husband in the interest of polygamy, thus relates how the ojdeal of giving her lord and master a second wife was passed through: — As the time approached for me to do this I felt like a condemned felon in his cell, waiting in agony the day of his execution. I know that ray husband suffered also, now that it was so near; for he necessarily saw that it would make a great change in his future life. His freedom was gone. The dreadful day at length arrived. As may well be supposed, I had passed a wakeful and unhappy night, and I felt very sick and nervous ; for I was soon to become a mother, and it seemed to me that I had not the courage to go through the day. However I nerved myself to the task and silently made preparations for going to the 'Eadowment House.' The morning was bright and lovely, and calculatedto inspire joyous hopes and happy feelings. To me it brought nothing but fear aud trembling I could not even trust myself to speak to my children for I was chokiDg with sudden emotion, and they, not knowing how deeply I was suffering, looked at me with wonder in their innocent eyes. 'Oh,' l thought, 'surely my husband will at last understand the depth of the love I bear him, for, were it not that he believes the doctrines to be true, I would even now dash this bitter cup from my lips.' There was a darkness before my eyes, and struggle as I might I could see no ray of light, no glimmering of hope. I was utterly cast down and broken-hearted, and felt almost as if the Lord had forsaken me. I could not go to my husband for sympathy ; for I felt that bis thoughts were with his young bride, and that my sprrows would only worry him at a time when he roust desire to be at peace. The time at length arrived for us to go to the Endowment House, and there, at the altar, the first wife is expected to give proof of her faith in her new religion by placing the hand of the new wife in that of her husband. She is asked the question by Brigham Young : — " Are you willing to give this woman to your husband, to be his lawful and wedded wife for time and for all eternity ? If you are, you will manifest it by placing her right band within the right hand of your husband." I did so. But what words can describe my feelings ? The anguish of a whole lifetime was crowded "into that one single moment. When it was done I felt that I had laid everything upon the altar, and that there was no more to sacrifice. I had given away my husband. "What more could the Lord require of me that I could not do ? "