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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 219, 13 September 1872, Page 2

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The ■ (Dmeo has- 1 been chartered .toi,briog back the Telegraph Construction party. •; ! • Wheat is unsettled in consequent of the 'Californian newi.^liur, country, £13, town,

I # : wt|afou;i t^(^rman immigrant*! Wth|#nWbu>g|?t#l« a contributor| to Press. "I'm glad they have come, but what they are pomp to do until they have acquired some slight, know- . ledge ? of < the^English -language, I , don t know.. A raan'wiieß^lje^gageaa^ vant, expects when be says, ce-this^that , the domestic ,wiH;do;:iit;.:b.ut if be cao't understand, bow are they going to get slong ? .1 Any.matron -engaging a. Teutonic servant will be deprived orV the lnestimaH Me privilege of 'giving her fits on all; bc.-Asions, until the said domestic has picked u>k? of ■ the / capahi.li.tKis; of the Enili# (female) tongue, > the amount pnblislbi by your extemporary ■ I observe that- a •■ m«C I^ d couple, armed with five or six childrorf* walkad §00 miles to jpin! the sbip at Ham%>'£.: Tbere - ; U some.fafyh left, yet in thjs. world, and I i arri proud to think that ibe, fame' oi<our '. 'agricultural institutions has reached, ancT is at'last being proper^appreciated Ott,4fre> Russian frontier. I know some m>n>, how-?:: eVer, that Vould 'walk 800 miles to get a'way^frbm N>ew Zealand. : • ;. ; , Cisco.^-Sir , .1. (1. , Wilson, p.]S., ' in >; bis; speech', in'ih.e. «-P"se, dunng the late' debate )?av,e en Int'eVestrog !.p'ccpfln|', of ; a recent trtp to }WlaJjd by tlse '- Webb .line ! of{"6teamer^ ;]HavfD< arrived^ af Hopp- | lulu by thV^eva3ai,./^^s i jyef.e/ ; "?f^^ i J^, > : "informed that'we were tolbß^fansanip^^ ito a^tejaraer whose registered ninne isf ->the -••. I "Moses' -^aylor^^'^t ;^hJeh : North sad §o&th Pa'ci^by fee 'rTaine oH "The Kbllirfg MogegJ' N \ we' had,,; been nearly two. "days, in Honolulu, .this ' vessel made its' app'earaWe, 'and^w/e';.' I.earnt - that one of:, her. boilers. had.. burst,;, killing t two eagl^eers god fou,r~ stokers, 'ah?" tbat she had .come- on ! 03^ b.oljef. Qf course, we' all felt very indiguant, but we very §6on Jfound we were in America. No inquest wpp jbejd upon the dea'tbp nor any inquiry inaae ; upon wjijclr we remonstrated, aud said £here must be some inquiry hefpfft we pou|d gp pn board. A , deputation.; tbe. American " gentleman jp ; autbor|ty, but bp.told us that we had nio business to inquire bow ♦hese men had been" killed, and that the '•- . % ' ' read^ on Thursday, and vessel woutu „„_ j • - c general that we must -.go Dy- f 'nw. • -__ impression was that nobody would go on r board, b.ut we were not to be done in. this way, and Dr. Featherstpn . joip.ed us in a remonstrance." The honorable gentleman having read this,, went on. to, say :r—; { ; In the meantime qur luggage was, thrown;. on the pier at 'Honolulu, and vs;e s had> to re--move it at our own, expense to the 'Moses Taylor.'? . That remonstrance certainly made an impression on the authorities, and they did appoint two English engineers to examine the state of >, the. vessel. /The result of the inquiry was,, that after the repairs were done, if no,. more, than 71bs. pressure p,er square inch, were , put. on, we might hope to reach San Frandsco without danger. Well^ the . passengers, were , all very indignant. .Wq.. all. knew. that; 7lbs. pressure, per inch meant about, six miles an hour, and as wti had paid L n handsome sum for our passages, we ;Wer.Q npt very well satisfied. Ultimately, however, we ; went on board; but. one, passenger, who was the agent of Messrs; Webb and Co., declared solemnly that he would , not ha,ve done so had he not been their, .agentl, The boilers of this ship had been in use sixteen years.. American boilers' are, as a rule-— I speak under correction — made 76? thinner plate irpnthari Englisb boilers. 'Six years are quits long enough: to .keep American boilers, and eight years are about a fair length of time to keep Eng^sb ones in a steamer, but this wretched; boat lrad oeC" steaming oftf the American coast for' 1 sixteen ..years." ,*.- f >>'■/, ■>;."■>;.''( tl AiL ! yawned a bachelor, "this world is but a gloomy prison!" "To those in solitary confinement," added a witty youne