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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 199, 21 August 1872, Page 2

The BisHor of Auckland, in the course of a sermon preached at St. Paul's Church last Saturday week, said that some anxiety was felt regarding the safety of the Mission schooner " Southern Cross," which vessel, according to his Lordship, ■was by latest accounts five weeks overdue at Norfolk Island. He also informed the congregation that a meeting of the friends of the Mission had been held on Saturday, at which it had been determined to despatch a vessel to Norfolk Island, with orders, in case of there being no word of the schooner, to proceed on to the Mission stations on the Islands, and pick up the missionaries who bad been left behind, and that one of our local clergy would accompany the vessel. The New Zealand Herald, proceeding on the perfectly gratuitous assertion that Germans and Scandinavians will be much more easily led than true Britons, favours us with the following slightly alarming prophecy: — We cannot but view with the utmost apprehension the immense political influence which might be secured by the expenditure of that portion of the loan set set apart for immigration in augmenting the foreign element. For instance Mr Ormond, Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, will be absolute master of that section of the colony through the block vote of twelve hundred Norwegians, ' sent for by him for special settlement at the Seventy mile Bush, 'and that, although the entire colony is responsible for the money it takes to bring them out, to buy the land on which to locate them, and to find them in employment. Gratitude to Mr Ormond, who ■will be regarded by them as their benefactor, will ensure this, for we can hardly suppose that they will trouble themselves much about their obligations to that impersonal cause of their prosperity — * the country/ When is a theatrical manager like an astronomer ? — "When he discovers a new "star." Hercules was a model husband : rather than stay out at night he invariably carried bis club home with him. An Australian has a false eye made of an emerald and a diamond. He considers his sight priceless. The young lady of Allemagoozelum who was up with the lark is now down ■with the rheumatism. Deaths from cholera in the Jaunpur district average at present three hundred & day. An Indianapolis man took advantage of his wife's having smallpox to send for his mother-in-law. The result surpassed his utmost expectations, and he had the satisfaction of paying her funeral expenses a few days after her arrival. A number of workmen in Woolwich laboratory, it is, whispered, are specially employed in the manufacture offish torpedoes, " machines of iron, in shape somewhat like & fish, about 5 feet long and 1 foot in thickness, and; containing a little engine worked by compressed air, , capable of propelling the torpedo a considerable distance under water with, wonderful accuracy. When it strikes the Hull of a '■'• hostile ship it explodes with fearful force*