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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 247, 16 October 1872, Page 4

It is by no means creditable to this honesty of candidates for election to Parliament that a country journal, the Mary~ borough Advertiser , writes a long paragraph in celebration of the fact, which it speaks of as "an unprecedented event in our experience of electioneering," that it had received payment of an advertising account by return post. " This," says the Advertiser, "is a new sensation ! The amount was indeed small, but a little with promptitude is better than a great deal with extended procrastination. Ie is a popular delusion that election times are profitable to newspapers. Our experience of them has been extra toil, petulance from . excited candidates, ill-manners from excited partisans, and — bad debts. The Legislature in its wily wisdom has made all. expenses connected with elections debts of honor. Well, there is plenty of honorin words. Plenty of honorables — they are all honorable men. But many practise dishonesty. Two members we sued in the County Court pleaded the Electoral Act in bar of payment. On three occasions, when proceedings were initiated, we received letters from the defendants' solicitors informing us that they had received instructions to plead the same Act, aud advising us to put up with the loss at once, and not increase the amount by the costs of law. On two other occasions the defeated candidates quietly sailed for New Zealand, and although one of them shortly afterwards recovered a valuable landed estate in that colony which had been subject to litigation, he had no honor left— at least none to throw away on a printer. And he hadbeen high up on the honor list, in the front-rank, a Minister of the Crown /for; the Colony of Victoria in several administrations." Our contemporary promises to ' give sketches of a few "Heads of the 1^ People in their Character of Parliamentary Pickpockets." And these are the men who" aspire to makeourlawa, and some of whom actually do so ! — Australasians How to'Dwaef a TowN.-^Horace-Greeley presents the following as a sure means of destroying the prosperity of the 7 most promising .town; "Jf you want to keep a town from thriving, don't put op any more buildings than you can conveniently occupy yourself. If you gho&ld acciden tally: have;^.an-empty- building, ;andj any K onV&^ times the value of itL - Demand a: Sihylpck price i; for ; every^ spot tof ground that- GpdF haßr|jiven f f^ i iP'.«'iM:«''i&J!J- V r '.t«;-^K*^-.' f «>«fti>V«.',VM£f« ■<-■'. '-lyre.;' i 1 business iinanjseeklhgdja^ home •; Lob^at .ejr^^ej^omf i^^

man. Go abroad for wares rather than deal with those who, seek to,, dp business in your midst. , Fail, to advertise or in any other way to support "your paper, """bo" that people abroad may not know whether any business is going oh in that town or not. Wrap yourself up within yourselves with a coat of impervious selfishness. " There is no more effectual way to retard the growth of a town than actions like those enumerated, and there are people in every town who are pursuing,- the same course every day of their lives, and to whom tlie above remarks are respectfully offered for their consideration. . Australian Telegraph. — With the Australasian of the sth instant there Js published an interesting map of the Australian telegraph system, showing the lines of each colony, the overland route from Adelaide to Port Darwin, and its relation to the general telegraph system of Europe and the Eastern, Hemisphere. The main line which connects the: various colonies with Port Darwin is 4733 miles in length, and may be traced as follows : — From Port Darwin to Adelaide, 1600 miles ; Adelaide to Melbourne, 570 milesj Melbourne to Sydney, 580 miles ;• Sydney to Brisbane, 555 miles ; from Brisbane it stretches away up the north-eastern coast" to Norman too, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, a distance of 1428 miles. Iv addition to this there is another direct line from Adelaide across to Sydney, extending over 800 miles. Between Port Darwin and Falmouth there are 11,348 miles of wire, 10,044 of which are submarine, and 11304 land wire. The longest stretch of cable is from Bombay to Aden, a distance of 1662 miles, the next, from Aden to Suez, which is 1349 miles. From Port Darwin, to Banjoewang, in Java, the distance \a 1030 miles. It is between these two points that the accident has happened to the cable, and when this is remedied, as it is expected will shortly be the case, the whole of the Australian colonies will be placed in telegraphic communication with Europe, Asia, | Africa, and America, and, with the assistance of steam, New Zealand may look to receive Weekly instalments of news from all parts of the civilised world. Latent Smallpox. — In the year 1799 several cases of smallpox, occured in the | town of Hoosick Falls, and a dwelling ! near the village was used as a pest-house. Seventy years afterwards the house (having been occupied all that time as a dwell- j ing, with no case of smallpox or unusual sickness) ' was repaired. One of the workmen employed on the repairs was taken down by a disease which proved to be malignant smallpox, to. which he had been not otherwise exposed than by working on this old pest-house.— .^mmcftrt Paper. The governor and surgeon of the Liverpool G-aol^ in accordance with instructions from the visiting justices, reported recently on the use of Australian preserved meat in the prison. The report j (we learn from the Liverpool Daily Post) \ was to the effect that the meat had been used three days a week, during the past ten months, and that it was found to be invariably sound and wholesome. In reply to a question, it was stated that the use of the preserved meat would effect a saving of about £400 a year. ; The JRappel thus reports an execution: — "Yesterday morning, at five minutes to five o'clock, a man was killed. TLtat man bad also killed. And to prove to him what a horrible, execrable, and monstrous thing murder iBJ the; killed him. The man had murdered a girl of the streets. If, instead, of, strangling a.girLhe bad strangled a republican and shot down women and children on the boulevards, the judges would have pronounced justice in his favour, and; the priests 1 would have blessed him. Bnt he assassinated, only a girl,: and he was guillotined. This was the first performance of the new executioner in Paris. He did.his. work decently. This is what is called an example. Such is our, progress." „ : ■.-.-,.■., ; » JOLLY. • We read ofthe* awful "- young ladjr ■ Who's in such an * awful " way. She lives with her,-',' awful ?.' father In an " awful '? .grand stone house, r And is sometimes- ""a* wftiily " frightened .By seeing an "awful "mouse.. ; „, :It iz the little things ov this life that plague us. •■' •. ;.■..:■■ -"•;•. :•' ■■-■•■■^ -. -\ ! " Vill; Tyoii " -flake;; Buinding? ',' iaid .a (^ernia,n;J t .^e^tiiUerJ^tbV>i ; tae^'jwhile. . stjand^g^ar^^avern, nA* I-doriS 'iifijaro if; J T do,?iwasthe. reply i- '^Yell,< den flet us dake tfwalg;*^, <\- : :[-'^vf\ r :! .y^'r not walk, "but "can ' '^ii^'apd-i jays, :dirjact|yi when its father comes in, "Qome "Al'yen, >een>jfasenVaflk£/^ra^^ • .'•] Ay kip^evtho^Hflj^ja,^ ;with his left \ hand, :{i bu$ f "that he misaesshis