AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[The following telegrams reached us too late for publication yesterday.] LATEST UNPUBLISHED. Melbourne, January 9. — The case of E. B. Young, the manager ot the Castlemaine Bank, is to be heard to-morrow at the Melbourne City Court. Mr Yogel and the other delegates leave for Sydney by the next mail steamer. New Zealand wheat sa; oats selling freely at 3s 3d. The market is bare of New Zealand oats, which would bring 3s sd. The new crops prevent the prices of grain, advancing. Any change that may occur during the next two months will have a downward tendency. Prime Victoria wheat, 5s 9d. Sydney, January 9. — Work was resumed at the Lambtoa colliery to-day. Messrs Hous, Holt, Allen, and Duncan are appointed a Council of Education. For continuation of news see fourth page.

It is considered as somewhat remarkable (says the Star) that the most unhealthy part of Dunedin is the highest. All medical evidence points to this anomaly. While the flats, with tbeir low and foetid swamps, are free, from low fever and influenza, the residents on the hill-sides abutting on the Town Belt have been frequently attacked by both. There has already been provided for the great native meeting at Maungatawhiri 1000 kits of dried fish (chiefly shark), 60 head of fat cattle, 400 sheep, and 600 pigs. The natives will no doubt roanßge to keep the talk agoing until the food is consumed. The meeting will probably then disperse without haying accomplished anything of importance. At tbe Ohinemuri races a dispute arose between a Maori and a Pakeha respecting the, hire of a horse. The former tried to pull the European off the horse, and the man retaliated by striking his aggressor over the head with a riding whip. The native then procured a gun and fired at the European, fortunately without hitting him. The Maori was at once disarmed and thrashed by, men belonging to his tribe. The Auckland Star says: — There' are many things of interest -in the • Acclimatisation Society's garden at present well worth a visit, especially the silver pheasants and birds, and the various botanical plants. During a recent visit we observed particularly several Indian and China tea-plants growing out of doors, and ' looking far healthier than others which had been confined to the greenhouse. Sporting. — After the settling on the Auckland races, the following matches were offered to be made by backers of Mr Walters's horses. They are still open to make them if the terms suit Mr Atkinson, namely — The money is ready to be staked at the Occidental Hotel. Peeress to give Black Eagle 1 stone for two miles, in a moDth, for £500 a side. Three matches — Yatterina v. Black Eagle, 100 80vs each; J£ mile even weight; 2 or 3 miles, Black Eagle to give Yatterina 71bs; in a week or fortnight. Volunteers. — The Sir George Grey Cadets returned from their holidays at Kawau, after a week most agreeably passed at the ex-Governor's beautiful grounds. Their time at the Kawau seems to have been judiciously divided between drill, bathing, hunting, swimming, boating, and fishing. Sir George Grey expressed him- v .elf highly satisfied with the general conduct of the boys, and their proficiency and activity in tbeir exercise?. The boys also are full of their Kawau exploits, and are detailing them with soldier-like gusto. — Auckland Star. A very singular explanation is given by Mr Todd, the head of the telegraph department in South Australia of the cause of the frequent interruptions in the overland line. It was thought by tbe uninitiated that it was due in no small degree to tbe wooden poles employed having either given way by floods, or to having been struck and destroyed by lightning. Nothing of the kind, however. It bas invaria bly been on that portion of the Hue where iron poles are employed that damage has occurred. The lightning, Mr Todd says, has struck the insulators and smashed the iron pillars, and he is now engaged in finding how means may be adopted to prevent this destruction. This admission will take many persons by surprise who have been expecting that the replacement of wooden posts by iron ones would make the transcontinental telegraph line a work of permanent construction. An expedition to fix the exact locality of the Garden of Eden is spoken of in America. The Fiji cannibals call a roasted man " long pig." One of the chiefs has helped to eat 100 of these "long pigs." An American paper laconically notifies a fire thus : — " Kemp's brewery, with 35,000 gallons of lager, went up in a fiery chariot at Dubuque last week. A Dresden manufacturer recently had a jubilee in honour of the fiftieth thousand of sewing machines produced in bis own factory. One of the Siamese twins is again reported to be seriously ill. The two brothers in the late Presidental struggle were opposed to each other, Chang fancy- '• ing Greeley, and Eng wishing to vote for ! Grant. ' 'A Tornado in Osceola, Arkansas, a village of about 300 , inhabitants, recently either blew down or unroofed every house i school, and church in the village. Trees were carriedY by the wind like straws; cattle, sheep, and mules were blown about the streets,, and becoming wild with fright ran helter skelter in all directions. Fences were torn into kindling wood, houses torn entirely from their foundations and roofs and parts of roofs were whirling in the air, like autumn leaves. Eighteen persons were either filled, or b^ly^wnunded. „: ; , , The ßev W. iU Hall, late \< student of Mr Spurgeon's College, has, resigned the

pastorate of the Baptist Church at Ryde. In his farewell Bermon he said : — " In leaving you I shall be leaving the Baptist persuasion. I have never, baptised any of you,' and Ido not regret that it has been so. . . . There are as good Christians who have never been immersed as those who have followed that mode. . . . We are beginning to see that the water of baptism is not the great essential ; and that baptism cannot be, as it is often miscalled, a profession of faith, for then ought the candidate to baptise himself. The only baptism it is important to undergo is i the baptism of the Holy Spirit." Interview with a Noted Robber. — Madame de Bauffremont bad returned from a party at two o'clock one morning, and having dismissed her woman, she settled herself to read and write up her journal by tbe fire. A strange noise in the wide chimney startled her, and while she was wondering what it could be, down tumbled a cloud of soot and a swallow's nest, and an armed man in the midst of it, who staggered forward into the room, scattering the burning logs from the hearth right and left as he did so' on the carpet. Madame de Bauffrement was too much startled to utter a cry or call her husband, asleep in an adjoining room. The unknown took the tongs and replaced the logs on the hearth, pushed back the smaller pieces with his foot, and bowing to the Marquise, asked to whom be had tbe honor of speaking. "Monsieur, I am Madame de, Bauffremont, but as I do uot know you at all, as you do not look like a thief, and are so kindly careful of my carpet, I cannot guess why you bave come down the chimney into my room in the middle of the night." " Madame, I had no intention of doing so. Would you kindly accompany me as far as the house door ? " he added, drawing a pistol from his belt, aud taking up a lighted candle. Madame de Bauffremont began to object, but the intruder was peremptory. " Be so kind as to make baste," said he briefly; "we shall go together, and you will order the porter to let me out. Put on your mantle" (she was shivering with terror), "it is extraordinary cold." They went down tbe long galleries aod staircases; Madame de Bauffremont sank down in the porter's lodge, faint with fear both for what had happened and what stories would be spread by her astonished porter, who let the stranger out as ordered. A hand tapped at his window, and a voice cried out, "M. le Suise, I have been chased some miles over tbe roofs to-night bf tbe police. Bo not go and tell your master any stories against Madame de Bauffremont, or you have Cartouche to deal with — besides, the post will bring news of me the day after to-morrow," The trembling Marquise hurried back to tell her story to her husband, who declared that she had had the nightmare; but the porter could bear witness to the fact, and there shortly arrived a respectful and apologetic letter from Cartouche, with safe conducts for ail her family. There came also a little box, containing a valuable diamond. M. de Bauffremont had it sold, and gave the profitß to the poor, "Every one behaved admirably in this affair/ remarks Mdmme. de Froullay. Decidedly, Cartouche must have studied the treatise on " La Civilite puerile et honnete." It is a pity that he could not bequeath the tradition of good breeding among tbe thieves and brutal cbaffeurs of a later day. — Women of the last days oj Old France.