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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 45, 20 February 1873, Page 2

tj- — — i i Ii ssst Six columns of the New Zealand Government Gazette are occupied with the names of clergymen licensed under the Marriage Act to celebrate marriages. The proportion of clergymen to those who married in 1872 gives about three marriages to each clergyman, which certainly leaves tbem little to do in this department of ther clerical responsibilities. Savings Banks.— The best of all provident institutions, beyond any dispute, is the Savings Bank. There is a "sweet simplicity " attached to it, which belongs to no one other of a kindred nature. A man out of his profits or his wages pays in five or ten shillings, or whatever sum, smaller or larger it may be, to bis credit. It is entered in his little pass-book, and he feels at the instant tbat there is so much to the good put by against the day of his need. He pays iu another instalment, and this is so much to the better. He walks more erect in the consciousness that he is providing for a "rainy day." That which he has he desires to add to : and so from week to week, or from month to month, he finds he is accumulating quite a nest-egg. The money would have burned in his pocket. He would have parted with it for things he now finds he can very well dispense with. While he is toiling, or sleeping, or refreshing himself, his savings are bearing interest, and so he becomes provident, and, being provident, he feels independent and happy. He increases his exertions to save, and he finds that once the trial is made, it is not, after all, so difficult of accomplishment. To put money in a money-box:, or in an old tea-pot, concealed a.way, or between the ticking of a mattress is mere hoarding. It is not saving in the true sense of the word. It is, besides,. not safe. It stares one in the face ; and it is too-convenient. An impulse to spend, and it is gone. It carries no interest. But the Savings Bank requires some little time and some little forms to be gone through before the money can be withdrawn, and this admits of thought and reflection. The prudent wife says, " Dont ! We can do without. Keep the money where it is." And the man keeps it. He is not so ready to lend to the first applicant who appeals to him. The half-pints of beer and the "nips'? he thought so essential to his comfort, he now finds he can dispense witb, and experiences not tbe slightest inconvenience/ He feels, in fact, that he is the better for being without, and he says as . much. There is the pass-book snug in the drawer, or beneath the lid of the cheet. Should it be stolen, it will be' found of no use io: any one but the owner. Thousands have blessed the institution , of the Savings Bank. Not one has cursed it.-— Herald.

tique, Dr Burns, who thought she should be kept in quarantine for & longer period, has resigned. yi 'itf ■■■;. 'Yy: Wellington, February 20. The non-arrival of the Suez mail is owiDg to ■': -the mail steamer leaving Galle later thin usual, Tbe farewell ball to the Governor, takes place to-night. A meeting of the directors of the Coal Company was held yesterday when it was resolved to send home to purchase a steamer of about 250 or 300 tons, and meanwhile to charter or purchase steamers or sailing vessels of about 200 tons. The prospectus wiil shortly be issued. Sixteen hundred shares are applied for. Brogden's tender for the Brunner railway goes in to -day. The Independent says there is little doubt that the chief ground of attack against the Ministry next session will be the management of immigration. A block of Ngakawhau coal, weighing two cwt,, was received by the Taranaki, and placed ia the museum. Auckland, February 20. The barque Lion, bound for .Adelaide, timber laden, has been totally wrecked at Whaugapoa, Crew saved. Christchurch, February 20. A large sale of station properties was held yesterday, wben good prices were realised. Buyers from all parts of the colony attended. A trial of the Malvern Hills coal has proved satisfactory. It is rumored that a Company will be formed ac once to work it. Dunedin, February 20. The Defence Ofiice has ordered ten men instead of seven to be sent from here to the colonial firing at Government expense. Pobt Chalmers, February 20. Arrived, yesterday, Albion from Bluff. The Charlotte Gladstone is ordered to be kept in quarantine till Friday. Measles have broken „out on board. New Plymouth, February 20* The Eon. D. McLean has arranged the purchase of 18,000 acres of land. Wanganui, February 20. A grand national steeplechase club has been formed. Gkahamstown, February 20. Whangamatu will probably be gazetted part of the Hawaki Goldfields, if not payable, the miners threaten to rush Ohinemuri.

Several interesting experiments :were tried on a recent afterhbbn on Tynemouth : Long Sands by an American gentleman, who went out in a strong sea, and to a j large extent walked on the water. He j was encased/ in a light India rubber dress, - •which was put over his ordinary attire; It was inflated. He was tossed about, on the hugh seas like a football, but wrought his way out from the Long Sands and back in a remarkable manner. His feats were witnessed by the officers and many gentlemen of the Tynemouth Life Brigade, and by the captains of the Tynemouth and Shields lifeboats. A most wonderful instance of re-anima-tion has been exciting tbe attention .of the people of Quebec City. The Mercury says: — "A young lady of thiscity...Mdlle B e,.aged 16, and who was on the point of being married — -was lately seized with a severe attack of typhoid fever, and on Tuesday evening sank so low as to have been considered dead. According to custom, the room was put into funeral order, and the undertaker was sent for, when, lp! just as he was drawing his measure from his pocket to calculate the length of her coffin, to his utter amazement the supposed dead girl sat up erect in ber bed. With great presence of mind he threw a handkerchief over her eyes to prevent her seeing tbe change her bedroom * had undergone till the parents removed the extra lights and hangings around; soon afterwards the girl asked for food of which she partook mors heartily than before, and she is since doing well."