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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 262, 4 November 1872, Page 1

A correspondent of the Lyttelton Times suggests that, in the event of a separation of the two islands eventuating, the name of the Southern Island be South England, or Alexandria, with. Akaroa for the Seat of Government, as equally convenient for Dunedin and Christchurch. The proprietors of the Auckland Evening Star are threatened with another action for alleged libel by the directors of the Green Harp, for articles in reference to the death of Cazali. The solicitor's letter is published with the following reply; — " C. L. Joy, solicitor, Auckland." Sir — With very great respect for yourself, but most contemptuous defiance for your clients, we beg to invite you to proceed — Reed and Brett. Six thousand dollars' worth of window glass is to be used in a sew hotel at Chicago. A fourteen-year-old girl at Monroe* Wisconsin, has a bead four feet in circumference. A Chicago dry goods dealer advertises , "the moet alarming sacrifice since the days of Abraham and laaa c." The Chinese have a peculiar method of preserving grapes. A hale is cut in a ripe pumpkin, making the aperture large enough to admit the hand. In the inside, after being completely cleaned, the ripe grapes are placed, when the cover is. replaced, and pressed in firmely. The pumpkins are then kept in a cool place, and the grapes are said to retain their freshness for a year. The common field pumpkin is all that is wanted for the purpose. , A Woman named Bowers, who was being examined in a case heitrd at the . Civil Sittings of the Supreme Court in Hobart Town, on the 24th ultimo*, made a touching appeal to the domestic sympathies of the Solicitor-General. "Speak up, my good woman," said Mr. Adams, and Mrs. Bowers replied, "I am not a strong woman; you know what it is to have twins, and Tve had twins myself." This reply completely upset the gravity of the Bench, counsel, jury, and spectators, and the Solicitor-General seomed to enjoy it as much as any one. Balloon Parties in Paris. — Private ballooning js becoming very fashionable, and " balloon parties" are in vogue. Thie new pastime is undoubtedly owing to the invention of a M. Giffard, who can inflate a balloon, with poire hydrogen gas, as rapidly and as cheaiply as if filling a barrel with water. He manufactures the hydrogen bypassing a stream ol vapor over iron, which in oxydisbig the metal, liberates the hydrogen. A stream of oxide of carbon restores the iron, and fits it again for the steam. A gr^at many persons go to witness the Sim-pi's apparatus on the Champ de Mars. A Diver Attacked by Crabs and Lobsters. — A diver from Newcastle has been at work for some time paßt at the wreck of -floe ship British Prince, but little was d.one •'until last week on account of the ...stormy/ weather; The principal articles us yet '-recovered consist of chains, cables, >»nd otlier gearing, along with portions of brans railings, cabin fittings, ,;? s tindi;/other 'lig|it materials. When the inside fittings are got outj it is intended 4 tc^blow up tiie vessel^ with torpedoes. (^rabs and lobst ers have taken possession ' ;;>|jo^jthe ,;vessel, a nd one day last k week the I operations were suspended on account of lj§(tlsir|fi^ Thef British ;?-fine^ ;: ;irbn^ipper ship of* the Brd Febroaj y last for Calcutta, with ';•' -iOOO tons 'coals j and was . wrecked near .*;..'---wM^terwaif(iJi . gold; to , a .gentleman ia fefsfinaeriftD^:|M^