TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 258, 30 October 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Pur Gkevillb's Telegkaji Company"] PROVINCIAL. Wellington, October 28. The Australian Tresn Association has practically broken down, the Melbourne Argus and Sydney Morning Herald having only succeeded in raising £2,5i>0 out of the £10,000 rtquired to pay to Reuter. These two journals then endeavored to obtain a subsidy from the Government to make up the deficiency, but failed in doing so. October 29. It is rumored that Mr Vogel . will proceed to Australia to attend the conference on the Reciprocity Treaty. Auckland, October 29. A ship is signalled, supposed to be the Queen Bee, from London. The navvies have resumed work at 7s. per day of nine hours. The Herald and Thames Advertiser attack the Press A ssociation. The latter saya that it is so biassed in favor of Mr. Vogel, that nothing will be heard against him, while everything in his fav«r is scattered broadcast over the colony. October 30. The police are searching iu all directions for the late Directors of the Green Haip. They are supposed to have escaped in a schooner chartered for Australia, which left on Sunday last. Oamaru, October 29. An attempt has been made to destroy the Phosnix flour mill' by letting the .water-down to drive the mill while deserted. The attempt was unsuccessful, owing to the stones being securely fixed, Several tons of flour were damaged by the water getting into the building. Wanganui, October 30. The Supreme Court opened yesterday, with a light calendar. Kini, for horse stealing, was sentenced to twelve months imprisonmtnt. There was No Bill against M'Alellan for rape. Eunedin, October 30. Arrived : Cantabre from Mauritius, with 370 tons sugar for Lyttelton and Dunedin. The Architect and Eenaud left; Mauritius for Lyttleton on September 25.

The Wellington correspondence of the Wairarapa Standard writes :— On Saturday evening a sudden death surrounded by most painful circumstances occurred here. Ou the lOih instant the eldest daughter of Mr, C. B. Borlase (married to Dr. Norris) was confined of a little boy. Dr Norris about the same time became unwell and died on the .night of the 12th. Some friends in the house injudiciously told Mrs Norris of his death immediately, and the effect upon her may be imagined. She insisted on the dead body of her husband being brought into her bed-room and stood up by her bed-side, for her to see. . The scene was, I believe, something fearful. Kleptomania at Wanganui. — We r.e- r gret to hear this disease is again prevalent in Wanganui, and that upon the present occasion it has attracted the 1 weaker sex, the last time it appeared here the symptom was a desire for newspapers belonging to others, now it has assumed a different phase, vip. — -b, longing Aor choice plants. We have heard of several instances in which . flower gardens have been despoiled. . In one case, .the party took what she con? sidered to be a prize, bulb, but to her disappointment she found it was only an . onion. We may add th'at she bad the , honesty to return tt.~ r PFanganuiHerqlis.r, The Victorian Railway accounts for! the. year ending the 30th June last have been now 'finally wound up^ The :result is! is ' follows :-r-The revenue in round.numbers, is £639^000; and, the working ;expenses '4i per cent. On the Sandhurst and Echuca line the expenses are 43 per cent., on ■ the ■ Ballarat line '"^S v|pler;' r cent., on the North-Eaßtern v line,,s4 per-cent.,. aad. om the'Wiliiamstqw.nvyine^ ,Biv:per^b,ent; 'Or* /course, the total amount of working - ex.'■com pa'rati yely ''t|ii|ing|; Vand-,;«y,therefore;-::.th.e^ $ve]ragjß>;o^ 3sated i"! ■: i;; ; Ttie ' a^paire^^^ ji&e;|E3s||sg^

The fflarlborough Express learns that Mr. A. W. Scaife. .the travelling agent of the,' -Australian Mutual-Provident Society, has received proposals for over £8000 since hia lecture in Blenheim. . ' Dubing the whaling , season, Bradshaw : and Ellison's party, ot Port Chalmers, has realised d61718i : being the proceedsof oil taken from whales caught off the coast. ' Three claims' at Coal Creek Flat Otago, have, on three different occasions, had their amalgam stolen. The theft has been traced to a Chinaman, who lived 14 miles away. He has-been sentenced to nine month's imprisonment. Mk. Douglas, of Dunedin, has received an order from the A. S.N., Company, Sydney, for four of his boats, fitted with his patent boat-lowering apparatus. Mr. Douglas has secured another patent for the invention; At Hyde, the other day, we learn from the Mount Ida Chronicle, Mr. Warden -Robinson adjourned his Court, with a nnmber of applications still unheard, at three o'clock . in the morning, the Court having sat almost uninterruptedly from eleven^ a.in. the previous day. The Citizen Cricket Club in Dunedin recently .offered prizes for conundrums. In selecting the most deserving of the political ones, they found themselves placed in such ■ .difficulty that they decided' upon submitting two of them to the audience to be, judged;, The two., so submitted were as follows: — " Why can the present ministry date more anciently than any other ? Because it was formed under the Jewish dispensation. " «' Why did Mr. Stafford's Ministry fail to inspire confidence ? Because he turned out a fox, and trusted to a reed (Eeid) for support. The Cost of Litigation. — Under the heading judicial fees and fines, we find that there was collected last year the sum of £28,519. The principal part ot this sum accumlates from court fees, the floes representing a comparatively small amount. Roughly speaking, therefore, besides' paying their share in the shape of taxes towards judical salaries, &c, the colonists of New Zealand pay 2s 2d per head per annum for litigation. This would seem to point to the conclusion that we are a rather litigious kind of people; and when the large number of petty civil cases which are brought before the Courts are taken into account, this conclusion, is further strengthened. — Dunedin Star. The Otago Daily Times of 19th Oct. says : — With regard to Messrs. Brogdenand Son's Otago contracts, very good progress is, we understand, being now made on the Mataura line, and work is now going on over the first 21 miles. 47 •navvies, ! 17 of whom are married, are to arrive for Messrs. Brqgden, by the Bebington, which is daily expected at Wellington, , and on arrival will be transhipped to the Bluff, where an immigration barracks is being fitted up for their reception. There are now 220 men at work on the line. Good progress is also being made on the part of the Clutha railway in the Waihola district. - The New York Times says that it is authorised to offer a bet of l,ooOdols. on each state in the Union going for Grant, a deposit of 10,000dols. to be made. The New York News states that the lO.OOOdols. bet on the election of Greeley which has been anounced ,ia its columns ■ for several weeks, was taken at Saratago by a comibnation of men, A Scientific Revenge.— A truly scientific revenge was recently effected by a young chemist in Venice, named Orlondo Farnerini, upon a pair of lovers whose mutual passion had disturbed' the current of his own affections. He loved a young lady, but she' loved a young tailor better. Orlondo owed him money for clothes, and sent word that he would pay him, and make his betbrothed a present, if they would both come to his laboratory. They accepted the invitation, and were politely 1 received and slyly led in conversation to the subject of electricity, about which he had much to say,, both listening with astonishment, and. were quite delighted ■when;,;the professor proposed that ■ they should allow themselves to be electrified. He bade them give him their hands,, put the.one pole of a Kumkork apparatus between the girl's fingers and the other into the tailor's hand, and then joined the currents; A, terrible" cry broke from, the pair;of; ioyers j they fell tQ the grou nd^ in . convulsive fitsrih'eng greatest torment* but i farnerini only ','. laughed*- .; Th\e :%yrofyrT^ched^ beings. drew' ',; ' viHe''a^ %bJe]fflr^ of l'She ; 'mjgKty^ 'in ;>five;\minutes' ; t^i^ cprp&esv: v||eay^||||v|id^ztremes, especially th(^