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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 267, 9 November 1872, Page 5

I 1.. . .. — _— « An editor in Victoria says:— "The people in this region have become co virtuous and well-behaved, that it is impossible for us to make an interesting daily paper. We hear that a shipload of convicts is on the way to our virtuous port, and we look for greater activity io our local news department as soon as its passengers shall get fairly ashore." The Loudon corespondent of a provincial journal says that never, was the business of the horticulturist so flourishing as it is now. The demand of flowers is extraordinary, and the prices given for them amazing. Belgravian dinner-tables are now regular bowers of Tflowerß and ferns. . Ai. f£ recent dinner in Harley- ';: etreet (by nd ; means one of the most fashionable streets in London), tha flowers and desert cost £200, the peaches ale^e being; .twelve guiwoß a cloie»i ■Xy

Soothing . Syrtjps are said to kill 150,000 American infants annually. In Pakis, a child has died from hydrophobia, caused by a peck froih a hen which had been bitten by a mad dog. Cincinnatus lias been.outdone by King Cakobau, of Fiji, as witness the following paragraph froni a recent letter of tbe Levuka correspondent of the Southern Cross: — " The yam-planting season has been upon us for some time. In this healthful pursuit-— the tillage of the soil — his Majesty the King takes the most profound interest. The pleasure which he derives in leading on a band of aboriginal agriculturists is unbounded. The King arms himself with a light pole, about five feet in length", pointed at tho lower. end, and with this rude instrument overturns the soil."