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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 260, 1 November 1872, Page 1

There was a Volunteer review and sbarnfight at Auckland last week. About 400 men first paraded in Albert Barracks; then they proceeded to the Domain, where they besieged a hut, which did duty for a redoubt. The affair went off very well. The Hawkers Bay Herald says : — A circumstance well worth taking a note of by our runholders, came to our knowledge a day or two ago. A sheep farmer resident in this province, the quality of whose wool was well known to the London buyers, had occasioo, owing to alterations in his business arrangements, to change his brand; the familiar mark being no longer recognised, the wool fell 4d. per 11>. in consequence. The Sacramento Bee, editorial of the 12th ult. says : — The grain crop is so vast that there are neither cars nor steamers sufficient to carry it on to San Francisco, nor, when there, are there ocean vessels enough to carry it away. This obliges capitalists in* the grain trade to erect granaries at eligible points, and thus Friedlander has built an extensive one at Lirermore, another in the San Joaquin Valley, and a ponderous one is being finished at the mouth of the Salinas Valley; An average of 700 tons of wheat per day arrive at Oakland by rail, while at Vallejo ships are being .loaded .as fast , as the trains can carry the grain to them. Hotels:— Of all the hotels in the world the very oddest ia a lonely one in California, on the road between San Jose and Santa Cruz. Imagine ten immense trees \ standing-few fee| apart and hollow inside; ;' .rtibeßer : i'ate.:;;the^tiotel,^'neat,; : . :breezy<, and '■■ : -y^oittajb tic. '^■Tnetlarges t Vlree vei , dispensed the thiDgthutbitethandstiogetb.

All about the tree is a garden of flowers and evergreens. The drawing-room is & bower of red wood, evergreens and madrona branches. For bedchambers there are nine great hollow tress, whitewashed and papered, and having doors cut to fit the holes. Literature Gnds a plane in a leaning stump, dubbed the " library. " If it were not for that same haunt of Bacchus, it is certain that the guests of these forest establishments would feel like nothing so much as dryads. The Suez Canal, among its other curiosities, presents the traveller with the extraordinary spectacle of vast flights of fish, which at times suddenly appear in the vicinity of the vessel and as suddenly disappear. " .ZEgles," in the Australasian, says: — "The telegraph-offices, despite th^e cafe exercised, sometimes'puzzle the receivers of. messages. For instance, when a firm received a missive from a bachelor friend, that he couldn't come along as arranged, beiDg detained by c nursing business,' there was a little flutter of excitement to know what possible connection he could have with business of that kind. The message actually sent pleaded « pressing,' not nursing, occupation. Again, an Indian firm in the brewing trade (for they brewpale ale in India now, as well as drink it) received this message — ' How's Lieut. Southampton ?25 Bombay. ' The firm did'nt know how the lieutenant was, nor who he was. In wasn't in their way to be anxious about the condition of any of Her Majesty's fighting subjects. Now what will it be supposed was the message really sent to these brewers ? ♦ Hops left Southampton 25th per Bombay. '" Steong Measures. — The Australasian makes the following comments on the news received a short time since of therevolution in Peru : — "They have a very decisive way of making a change of government in Peru. The fickle character of Australian politics is often brought forward against us, but at any rate we effect our changes in a milder manner than the communities on the other side of the South Pacific. News was brought us the other day of a Ministerial crisis which had just taken place in Peru. The Government of the President had in some way forfeited the support of a strong party, so, instead of proposing a vote of want of confidence, and calmly debating it for a month, as we did at the beginning of the present session, or with speeches of several hours' length, as they have just done in New Zealand, they seize the President, put him in gaol, and afterwards murder him. After all, it is found that the Government party is the strongest, a fact which is shown in the manner familiar to the Peruvians, by its being able to defeat the opposition, " rip open the body " of its leader, shoot his brother, and drag the two bodies through the streets. Under these auspicious circumstances a new Ministry is formed, and the overwhelming defeat of the opposite party is celebrated by the public burning of the bodies of the two brothers in the plaza of the capital." What shall we do with our Gold? — Mr. Thomas Hankey, writing in the Economist, expresses his opinion that the time has arrived for taking stock of the largely increased production of gold in the world. I believe, he says, that during the last ten years the export of gold, exclusive of gold coin, from the Australian colonies has not been less than about 1 7,000,0000z., or equal to £68,000,000, and the gold coin exported from the same colonies would add about £20,000,000, making a total of - not far short of £90,000,000. Nor do I believe it would be disputed that the export from the Australian colonies, during the previous ten years—say, from 1853' to 1862— was at least equal to that during the past ten years ending the 31st December last; if so, the total export of gold from, the Australian colonies since the first discoveries of gold cannot have been much less than £170,000,000 to £180,000,000, and if the export from California during the like period has been only £120,0000,000, we have a gross total of not less than £300,000,000 of gold added to thejstock of gold in the world since 1852-53. I have only reckoned the gold produced in Australia and California j the production of gold in other parts of the world previous to 1852 was considered, I believe, to be equal to from £3,000,000 to £5,000,000 value annually ; if we only reckon it at three millions, there will have, been a farther addition of £60,000,000, so as to make a grand total of at least £360,000,000 and possibly considerably more, to the gold, already in the world before the discoveries of gold in California and Australia. ":•■ 7 '.;, ' ; .-. :: '' 7^7;.-. '■ '^V ; ->' i . . A Philadelphia' paper declares that half the servant girls in ihfit ; place are drunk-;