TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 288, 3 December 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Pee Anglo- Austbauan Pkess Telegraph PROVINCIAL. WELLINGTON' Dec. 3.' The brig Gazelle dragge l h^r am lior ytt-terdav, and struck against the iaraiiaki;sighuy injuring her * U Warks. The v\e,iington Jockey Club have disqualified Peeress aud also Mackav, Meuora's juekey. Auckland December 3. Arrived: Success, from Levuka: ihe Fiji Times says that one of the ureen Harp ton- ! spn mora had gone to by d ney, arm ihe rest had •■ai ed in the Julia Price for tatuoa, en route for America. They offered ihe captain ot the Seagull a large sum to tike theui diiect io Cali lorn ia. ; . r y further disturbances have occurred at Sava The na'ives on the plantation of Messrs Brewer ami Joeke attempted to murder the over»etrs 'I'lie settlers rallied round ttiem, and a fight ensued, when one native was kiled and another wounded. Tlie rest were hahucufled and taken io Levuka ior trial. Dunedin, December 3. . A luavy rain fell yesterda- . \ ,-;■• The Hurdle race w^s won by Nigger easily, as all the rest tell — Maiden' Pi ate: May Morn, I; Pasquinttde, 2; Kate Kearney was scratched at. Andrew's Haudicap: W ild H >y, 1 ; Miss liing ' 2." - ■ • .'" ";•■- \ The average weekly export of timber 7 | from Hokitika is vow 100,000 leeti. ' Among the exhibits received at Reefton j from B-iattnau's ia a splendid sample ot coul taken from a seam of good thickness i and large extent, distant only a mile irom the reef's. The coal is of -excellent quality* \ | A very superior sample of < iron' atone ; has also been forwarded to.Reefton. Holloway's Pills are admirably adaptedv7fori cunng.uiseasbs incidental tOj'emales.... At vaHousf periods of jlifeswom',n aresu' jecc .to eoniplamis which require a peculiar nieaidue*: aha it~is how ; a demonstrable tact that, there; is none' so suitable j; as • Holloway 's pills. , i! .. i'oc^all .■; tlie jdebllitatiiVg-, disorders incidental to the. sex, and in every contingency peri ous ti> the life and health ut. vroipan — youthtul'Or aige'-* , uiai riei or jingle - this'great ' rigulaior and renovator ot tlie secretive organs and the nervous sy-ttem is an immediate cure, v Their purifyi gquaii ies render them iuvaluatilei ' to females »t all ages. They a«'e searching and cleansing, yet ; invigorating ;? a fewVidoscsI will 'spteJily remove ev'»ry sptcka of irregularity in ihe ,s.- stem, .and thereby establish*. healUi op a j souri'l ah& flrqi 1 b>»Bi>*. "'.''■ ' . ' '"'' ' d' \ # ■'&?* SHobfciwj^ Wndy det'e'roiin^d^'cttSe } of suicide •v'Was Canterbury. •• A- matf "ntfoiedf' Joseplil' Obarleß wWtb - had : been 'foFstiroe lt'irae 1 - pag| .. Hiving alone in a bousebn his jf*irm..;,A; lad named 7 HenderßOD,yooiic;*)g.i i |^a|« tl^ wiq|[o^|*'ai-^ : 7ealljj&i^ the /door/^aßibrokeiiloJeu^ whMf d Vlie^ufiSj * J y^;j_Eo^

fortbipaV^'"^ 1 '"^ 11 *' * ound suspended from the Tafterß by a rope; From < the lower'toomoi the Louse a sort of ladder staircase, - almost ' perpendicular, communicates v? ith a sort 1 of loft overhead, and he had apparently gone up this ladder, fastened the rope on to one of the beams of the roof, taken off his vest and boots, and haying tied the other end of the rope round his neck jumped straight l down. Tbe fall being very great, death must have been instantaneous. A document was found in his waistcoat pocket stating the reason for his committing the rash act, and also containing his will. An old resident in New Zealand, who ' has suffered by the action of rivers on their banks, suggests the following plan " to prevent, or lather to alter, the change in their course." He says : — " The plan I suggest is a log about 50 or 60 feet long anchored in the river by one end to a chain, connected to about six small anchors, the other end attached to a Spanish windlass on the shore for tbe purpose of altering the angle by takiDg in or Blackening off. My proposition is, that, as tbe rebound of the current is from angle to angle, by altering that angle above the required place, say even as far * as a mile, tbe rivers by this means might be guided .instead of restrained. When this appliance is no longer required it might be liberated, or removed, which is a great difficulty with fascines. My reason for using a number of small anchors is that their spread would hold firmer than one large one on account of the silt. It behoves a man to be careful how he repeats startling English news, even as rumour. Last Sunday evening a gentleman was disturbed at his devotions (whiskey hot ?) by the arrival of a note from a newspaper office. " Dear Sir,— l have traced to you the promulgation of a report that money in London had risen to 10 per cent., and that a political crisis had occurred. Would you oblige me by saying if this is authentic?" My friend could only say tbat what be had said was merely a repetition of the gossip of Collinsstreet. A few hours later he was aroused from the peaceful slumber of the just by a violent assault upon the door knocker. Thrusting his head from the window, he demanded the business of tbe aggressor. "Please, sir, I have come from the editor of tbe — about the private telegram." My friend's reply was more forcible than polite. It would probably have shocked Dr, Cairns. He bat up the rest of the night at a first-floor window, with a pail of water in readinesß for the next press messenger. And. he has since evinced extraordinary caution in saying anything which could be construed into the dissemination of news. — Australasian. What an Earthquake can do. — The Sydney Empire, in referring to the earthquake recently felt in New South Wales, says:— "lfc may be regarded as certain that the earthquake felt at Newcastle and at Jervis Bay, at Sydney, and Orange, extended over an area of not less than 150 miles in length and breadth — that is, 22,500 square miles. And if we take the Bolid cr Jet of tbe earth at twenty miles in thickness, which, according to scientific authorities, is certainly within the reality, it "follows tbat a mass of earth and rocks comprising 450,000 cubic miles, or 1,393,920,000,000 cubic yards of solid matter were moved by the bidden force which caused the vibration. These figures give but a very inadequate idea of the gigantic force to which the phenomenon observed by many of the inhabitants of this country on Friday evening are traceable. The earthquake which destroyed Lisbon was felt from the shores of Finland on one side to the St, Lawrence io America on the other, an area of 7,500,000 square miles; so tbat the mass of matter moved by the tremendous force which caused that catastrophe must have been more than 333 times the amount above stated — that is, over 464 trillions of cubic yards." " Justifiable Suicide.— -Is suicide ever justifiable ? A Pittsburgh paper states tbat a melancholy case of self-murder occurred near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The following schedule of misfortunes was found in; the victim's left boot: — "I married a widowr who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited her house very often, fell in love with my stepdaughter, and married . her. So ray father became Jmy son-in-law, and my stepdaughter my mother, because she was my father's wife. Some time afterwards aby Wife had a son— he was my fathers '. 7br.pihe.r-in-law...tfibdimy; uncle, for He was the brother xifv pay .ysfep-mothen' ■.■' My f^to**^ 7;clhUdiso& My wife was my grandmother, because■;sßfte^^ niyy wife's husband and grandchild at the same ppxte j^fid^aa jmelh'usband^ grandmother is hia grftn4ffttber,-r^B4:toy