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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 278, 22 November 1872, Page 2

Over £100 have been raised at Dunedin towards the fund for establishing a Ladies' Scholarship at the University. , Bells. — A peal of bells, which will be the first ever used in Canterbury, recently arrived iD Lyttelton from home in the Lady Jocelyn, They are for the Peebbleton Church. The Shasr Valley correspondent of the Tuapeka Times says :— "I am sorry to say that the truck system is^ carried on here in all it deformity." The Dunedin Star says : — That the Colonial Government do not intend to appoint a successor to the late Mr Brodie, who was Accountant in Bankruptcy. The appearance of tho first black " belltopper" in legitimate use at Abaura, is noticed in a late issue of the Grey River Argus as the first gleam of civilization in that part of the district. Coal. — Here is a practical hint to work our coal. The Napier Telegraph states that the last ton of coal, has been sold in Napier, and if householders run short before the bripantine Amherst arrives from Newcastle, New South Wales, thoy will have to use wood, if it can be procured. If not, chairs and tables must furnish the necessary fuel for cooking purposes. And this kind of thing must constantly recur so long as we are dependent upon New South Wales for coa!. Proposed Steel and Ikon Company. — A proposal to stare a company, to be called (be New Zealand Titanic Steel and Iron Company has been canvassed in Wellington during the past few days, and already a most encouraging list of subscribers to the proposal has been obtained. The prospectus states the amount .of capital to be not less £50,000, which it is proposed to raise by means of 5000 shares of £10 each. Careful calculations accompany the prospectus, and a description of the process to be adopted in the smelting operations, which is that advocated by Mr. E. M. Smith, is also appended. — Independent. Picton Railway. — We were agreeably surprised the other day on going over to Picton to notice how much the railway works were progressing; especially as we ' bad heard so many, and as we now know, absurd stories as to the standstill way in which Messrs. Brogden were alleged to be carrying out their contract. The first party we found at work in the swamp just past Shepherd's Hotel, at the Bush, while from Tua Marina to Picton there were parties at work at short intervals all the way. The embankments appear to a casual observer to be very narrow and unsubstantial at present, but these will increase and solidify as the work progresses. A very few weeks of favorable weather, and the traveller will have no difficulty in tracing the entire course of the line. — Express. Tiie Otago Times reports the death of Mr. George Green', well known there, and by repute at least, all over the colony, through his enormous land claims. Mr. Green came from t-ydney to New Zealand in 1838, be remained in the colony for about a year, and was chiefly at the Bluff during that time. It was on that occasion that he made his large purchases from the Maoris. These purchases were as follows: — Centre Island (off the Southland coast), 2000 acres for £20 10s; 20,000 acres, Stewart Island, £30 10s; 20,000 acres, Kowokapito Bay, £20 10s; 109 acres, Bluff Harbor, £15; 1,000,024 acres, Mistaken. Bay, " West Coast, £200. He had also made purchases of land at Catlin Kiver, and bought the Quarantine Island, in Otago Harbour. After leaving New Zealand, he went to Sydney. He commenced to prosecute his claims to these lands in 1840, being one of the first to submit his titles to the Government, but he could not geta Crowngranti He came back to New Zealand in 1858 or 1859 to; prosecute his claims, which he had all along been urging. He returned _to' Sydney, aDd again returned to ' New;;Zea-,; land in 1860, and has remained here ever since. No Crown grant or compensation of any sort was ever given him on account of these purchases till about, two years .ago, when he received SQOO acres, in two blocks of 2500 acres each. .( ■ ; "NiPSf/'-TrrWe think the chiefs fidutcet of drunkenness arising from the accepted customs would be the taking "nips"a£ odd hours of ; th© day ; and there are many reasons why this practice is on the increase. ; j The habit of ~using a stimulus ; as a spur to the over-taxed or jaded faculties is one that grows i an%e.~Z.ancc<. r; , «, { ■';A^^oJin i dne^f^fc<^^outhern:^6lS\ . ' in; th'e;Pnited"4S^^ .' careless, got; a;;seyere^ieiprinlind: ;frpm •"anUfEtogl^

a dollar; upon which the waiter said — "You're a reglar gen'leraan, sah; for if you 'blow us u& when we do wrongjv'yq'ii « give us)a dollar; when we do right;; but | there are some people who come'rhere, ; sab, mighty hard to please, and content temseives, when they go away, by saying • God Mess you, my colored brother, and elevate you in the scale of humanity,' .but never give a dollar to elevate us."