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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 210, 3 September 1872, Page 2

The Ilawke's Bay Telegraph thinks that if there were. a rivalry in the means of disseminating small-pox, a few hundred infected notes would carry off the palm ; and says that the paper currency of the town is disgraceful. A eecent number of the Canterbury Government Gazette states that during the quarter ending June 30, the total number of Government schools in that Province was 56, besides 16 aided ones. In these schools. 118 teachers are employed — 78 being male and 40 female. The higheßt number of scholars on the books was 5237— 2952 being male and 2285 female. The average attendance was 3578 — 2054 being male and 1524 female. Haselmayer and his magical feats will be a nine days wonder, but he was decidedly posed the other morning by one of our redoubtable draymen. His mystery boxes were ready for carriage to the wharf, but the professor's and drayman's ideas as to cartage rates did not coincide. The knight of the whip cut it short by saying, " Well, conjure them away if you can, but wizard or devil, or what you are, I think you'll want my dray, and the price is so much." The professor subsided gracefully. — Westport Times. South Sea La^or Tbaffic. — Frequent mention has been made in recent Australian telegrams of the brig Carl, the latest being to the effect that the captain had been committed for trial on a charge of murder, and the crew for felonious assault. The following account by Dr. Murray, the supercargo, of the horrors perpetrated on board that now notorious vessel, will give some idea of the enormities for which the captain and crew have to; answer : — The Carl sailed about the islands decoying natives to come off to the ship. \\'hen the canoes, came alongside they were ?unk, and as the natives edeavbured to swim to ; the shore they were picked uD-b^ the" CM'si boats, aud cenveyed on board the vessel. In this manner some eighty natives were kidnapped, and put down below with fifty other Polynesians, describes as friendly natives, all of whom were kept under battened 'hatches, $tjddea|;ij' the natives made an attempt to force the hatches; .when they were driven back by the crew who were armed with revolvers, and who fired , jpt° -this poor suffering mass of humanity, qntfl geyenty natives' bodies lay dead or ctyipg,' and the rest implored for mercy. The- dying, and : ?|be ; , dead, : pp. Murray ; states, were alike thrown overboard, though remonstrated against 1 i£, for many were not so badly wdunded l, M ttiafc, they might have been saved. The/human slaughter hoqas was. $ftprwajdß cleansed and whitewashed, and when subsequently an officer of; Jt.M;S., Kosarib boarded :tlbe sbip". the and proceeded to Levuka, the port she,had sailed from. :,,? ... r ,. ' ; » : -. W» JGjr. 'Ja^kspib^whoJisJ'dn : fA;merica, x; giveß/iia>.y his vbrjOfcher^m. Nelsony the followiD^, ac- ' "cpufit ! oi" ? tKis • great festival:^ 1 ' :,^And:-f novjr ;.^a ; '■■"'word^rir two J :abp|it| the ';S^JS:4^^|!^eStubUe^ : M^^tetedlyltniß^rflateist abiiyg of it^kind I*y^(l^'lWen^pl^^l^c^iineWenth'

greatest thing the world^yer.saw, and I guess they are right. "V}j? scarcely know @topr t6.^escribe^|for ||cannot be done; U^s j|ißtlimi»osßiblg Tfye; Yankee expreaskijon isfyhe b^|t najne.l'knowf^it, «• a big tning in '"music," and when you consider that every thing is on a ' Big* scale with them, this phrase is very significant. . There are most of the greatest artistes and composers in the world here; to the number of twenty thousand, with an average daily audience of fifty thousand, so you may guess it is big, and the result is greater than you can possibly imagine. When I heard 20,000 people sing with 10,000 instruments, an immeuse organ, and cannons , marking time, I, like thousands more, simply sat and wept. It mnkes a mark upon the mind never to be effaced-. ; It is difficult to imagine so great a concourse of people under the control of a conductor, aud still they act in general unison without confusion. The cannons are fired by an electric battery fastened to the keys of the organ which fires them, and rings every bell in the city at the same time. ' The room covers about four acres, bat every thing is managed with the most perfect order, your ticket has the number of your chair marked on it, and you are handed in without the slightest crush. I have not seen a drunken maa in the city. The Americans are great in doing big things, and this is their great success. In any way you take it, it is a great thing, and has done more towards settling the Alabama question than the Arbitrators. The reception of the Queen's band was something beyond all description, that of all the National bands, was. good, but there was a depth of feeling in that fearful outburst of enthusiasm on their appearance that vras wanting in all the rest. It was as though the whole people felt and said, "Let all bygones by forgotten." It seemed like the reconciliation and meeting of old enemies. It was looked upon as a com* pliment from the Queen on behalf of the British nation, and was received in that spirit. Old men were seen to weep with joy, fifty thousand handkerchiefs were waved, and when the band, in magnificent taste, struck up " Yankee Doodle," the scene was something awful. There probably never was such a burst of feeling. The grandest things done, to my mind, have been the " Anvil Chorus," and the French " National Hymn." Just imagine 20,000 people and instruments, a,n organ blown by steam, some hundreds of men with anvils, and cannon marking time — that is if you can. . The blank telegraphic forms printed for the Government by Mr. John Bellows, of Gloucester, now amount in number to 300,000 weekly, or 15,600,000 in the year; involving the use of forty-two tons of paper in the twelvemonth. The paper used is a strange composite, made of palm leaves, Esparto grass, and bright oat straw.