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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 4 February 1873, Page 2

The Queenslander states that the Brisbane market has recently been supplied with a shipment of bacon and hams from Port Cooper, New Zealand, of really splendid quality, the whole of which has gone into consumption at full rates — viz., 14|d for cases of both, and 1 6d for hams alone. An amusing account of an incident which happened in an up-country hospital is given by a Hobart Town paper. A woman had committed suicide by cutting her neck with a razor. She labored under delirium tremens at the time, and that she might have proper attendance when in such a condition, she was remove J to the hospital. Just as she had passed through the first fitful sleep on her way to recovery, there happened to be a tall, woolly-headed convalescent negro, who, with long black, sinewy, shining arms, stretching this way and that, as the white of his eyes rolled to his work, polished the windows of the sick ward. As he grinned and " showed his ivory " at a pane upon which the stains were rather stubborn, " Mary," for so we call-her, happened to wake up with, at first, a vacant, brow-knitted kind of stare; , and then all of a sudden she sprang from under the hed-clothes, first with a shriek, and then yelling in the greatest terror, " Murder. ! " Oh my gracious heavens ! nurse ! help !

help ! I'm pot dead jet ! and he's come already ! " It iwas only a case of mistaken identity as;p r ur'. readers may guess, butf^re hardly fthiak that Mary will ever try ;tbe razors-edge again; ■':-