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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 28 March 1873, Page 4

The rowdy- way in which the New South Wales Assembly conducts its business'is thus alluded to by writer in a Sydney paper :-— " Nothing is more striking about the present House than the querulousness and sharpness of tone pervading most of its proceedings. Elegance or humor, grace or vigor of thought or expression, no one expects; but at least one might have the ordinary manners of the commonest bar-parlor. Nowhere else aire men in the habit of screeching at each other like scolding women, or throwing oat charges, or worse still, base insinuations that anywhere else could have but the one result of a broken head or a pulled nose. There may be a good deal of reform needed in the constitution of both bur Houses, but as a preliminary step it would be, decidedly as well if hon. gentlemen were to practice their prentice hands in the reformation on their own manners." A New York Papee informs us that Brigham Young and his people are tired of the States, and contemplate another move. Their peculiarities are a source of discomfort te them, and they do not assimilate with American institutions. Palestine is said to be the new home of Mormah Church. The disciples of Joseph Smith would in Pelestine be in .the very cradle of polygamy,* and could indulge their ideas to their hearts' content. It is suggested that it would be an advantage if they could induce the Free-lovers, the Tammany-hall leaders, Erie-ring men, and several others, to emigrate with them, and make up a party to go to Jericho. There has been a great deal of talk here, writes a London correspondent, about the death by starvation of a gentleman who is described as having been " a consummate classical scholar, a profound mathematician, a man whose acquaintance witn the Roman, with our mercantile, and with, feudal law, was unrivalled; whose general knowledge was almost encyclopaedic — a perfect master of five languages; a man of family, a gentleman, and a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple." This gentleman, whose name was Haddy, died the other day at the Strand Workhouse, of literal starvation, four hours after he had been admitted; and now lies in a pauper's grave at Woking. There was no reason for his death by starvation but the simple one that, without any fault of his own, he found it impossible to earn a livelihood and was too proud to beg. What are we to do with our Bots ? Under this heading the San Francisco News Letter makes the following sensible remarks : — Every father ought to feel it a paramount duty that his son should, at a proper age, be set to some useful employment. The fact is, there is a monstrously absurd feeling up, not always openly expressed, it is true, that work is not just tbe respectable things for our sons to dp. It may be all very well for other people's children, but for ours, why, that alters the question. This nonsense must be got rid of. Nothing is more honorable than work — nothing more vicious than idleness. No doubt some of the causes are peculiar to our city, which go a great way towards making our boys the helpless young scapegraces that many of them are. Their parents too often live in hotels, boarding-houses, or in lodgings, where there are none of those home ties which in our States and cities, go far to produce a happy home circle. Without such surroundings, parents too often feel a sense of relief when their boys are •out of the way,' and are only too careless as to their whereabouts or their associates. Then our climate being as mild and genial as it is, there is not that incentive to active out-door exercises which prevails elsewhere. We know towns with less than half the population of San Francisco that could supply a hundred boat's crews of boys. How much better it would be for the moral and physical development of our boys if they were engaged pulling a stout oar on our lovely bay instead of standing at a corner grocery, sucking away at their cigars, a nuisance, aod a public eyesore ! Nine out of every ten of the young hoodlams one meets are smallchested, sallow-complexioned, and totally lacking the robustness and vigor of manly boys. With no true ambition, they seek only to exceed in things which it would be well that they knew nothing at all about. It is far from pleasant to look forward to the race of "emaciated, chestless, strengthless, vicious beings .that must inevitably be the result of the follies of these times. No problem to-day demands^ .' more earnest treament than the question, What are, we to do with our boys ? A Valparaiso Paper states that Cape Horn is tb l be --.rabticaliy^dciubled ho more. The difficultieis of sailing round, the Gape, .. and theidwigers of y:^^oii^m%^^i Straits of MgeM Cwitlii l^ the estabHslm steam tugs in the Straits, for Rowing vessels through the narrbw^channel, there-, b^nsiiring ; safety, and shortening the pas-

sage to the Pacific by at least a month's time. The Straits of Magellan will, in view of this .enterprise,;. be carefully surveyed anew, and its dangerous points will be fully marked. Mr Tbollope, in writing of the hot; springs of the North Island, says :— I travelled . through the whole . district, bathed in numerous natural warm baths, and just escaped being boiled alive in numberless hot springs. Before many , years have passed roads will be made, coaches and boats will, run, hotels will have been built, and these wonderful lakes will be the thronged resort of tourists. Roto Mahana is certainly a place of exquisite charms. All round the shores are hot jets of scalding -water, scalding steam — and, worse still — scalding mud. As you walk among them and hear stories of Maori girls and Maori old men who have been boiled alive, it is impossible to avoid the reflection that such a fate is open to yourself. I am told that on occasions some of these geysers rise to great altitudes, and I heard of one estimated at 300 feet when in full force. The jets were not doing their best when I visited them; I doubt whether I saw any water thrown 30. feet high. A hailstorm at Morang is described by the Bendigo correspondent of the Bendigo Advertiser s>& follows: — Whilst your correspondent and a friend were indulging in an after-dinner snooze they were surprised and indignant by being disturbed by what . we supposed to be throwing stones on the roof, first one and then another, bang, bang, they came as though the Russians had really arrived and commenced to storm our position. This surprise was greatly increased upon going to the door, for the heavens for a minute or so commenced to pour down a volley of hailstones, as all the mitrailleuses and chassepots in the, universe could not equal. Down they came in one vast descending'column, egged in shape and size exactly, and jagged and cornered, angled, but in such lumps that those only who witnessed it could believe it. All this continued for fifteen minutes. The roar of the elements will be \ understood from the fact that two storms met here and spent their fury upon us. The ' one from the south, midway between Axedale, and Sandhurst, and the other from Sandhurst, and the other from the direction of Kamarooka. When the contact between the two opposing forces took place the massive clouds whirled, and twisted, and writhed, and shot into and through each other, and the wide-spread flames illumined the darkened sky, and in close succession, the reports came from clouds not much higher up than the tops of the trees shook the earth." The large diamond found at the Cape diggings has arrived at Cape Town. It weighs 288J carats. The Cape Argus, of the 28th of January, says " that this enormous gem was displayed in the sideroom of the Commercial Exchange. In company with it, was also to be seen what is known as the c Fly Diamond,' so called from there being in the centre of the stone some black substance, which, if not actually a fly, is the exact likeness of one. The stone itself weighs 26% carats, and is of a very fair color, though considerably removed from being a diamond of the first water. The large 288| carat stone is straw-colored, and of a good shape, though the surface is slightly flawed. Its value is a matter of great uncertainty, as it will, perhaps, have to be cut down by one-half, though in weight it surpasses all known stones. The Koh-i-noor, we may remark, was originally 800 carats, but it has by cutting been reduced to 1021 carats. Mr Spadling,' the fortunate possessor of these stones, intends, shortly proceeding to England, and he contemplates exhibiting the diamonds subsequently at the Vienna Exhibition. " JEgles " writes in the Australasian. -— -There are occasional forecasts quite as curious as some considered big enough for the foundation of anew religious sect. Ou Saturday last an impulsive friend of mine was lunching with a party at the races, just before the start for the Autumn Handicap. A young lady said to my friend, "What horses are starting for this race? Show me your race-card Mr. Jones" (an assumed name, of course). After glancing (brightly) over the list of horses, the lady pointed to the name of one and said, '' That will be the winner. You had better .go and back \hira." His betting-book being in rather a mixed condition, Mr. Jones demurred. " Why do you fix on the Ace ?" he asked. "I cant tell you, " said the diviner. "I don't know why, but I feel' sure that he is-gping to win." The gallantry of Mr. Jones is proverbial. He could not disregard the oracle. He did.baok ,? The Ace " three "minutes be^ie,,theistar|er's s .fla < g; and within'ie'^mi^ ia winner of £30pi This is a really useful kind of prophecy, worth cultivating in the ~;Bpito^wWp;^

held at that place, at which, amongst the company present, were" three gentlemen who not. very long ogojwgre^residents .in Hokitika. The costumes of the visitors are described thus : — Mr Pat Comiskey (Spanish Muleteer); Captain Harry Spiiler (a Russian White Guirasser) ; and Mr Martin Spiiler represented Hokitika. The. problem -to be solved, says the West, Coast Times, ie howwas tbeirepresentatioii' of Hokitika made ? Nothing ttiat~we can conceive would answer the purpose. If Mr Spiiler appeared as a Maori, that would answer for all New Zealand, and, if 'as a miner, it, would ..apply to,any diggings^ Perhaps a hotelkeeper would |be more generic, as they abound more plentifully : here than any other genus. We confess we should very much like to know ' wherein we are so peculiar that the town could be represented in character by one man. , i , It is interesting to learn says the Pall Mall Gazette, that the efforts which have been made lately to increase the commercial products of Australia have been successful. Two of the colonies — Victoria and Queensland — are now able to bring into the market an appreciable quantity of native-grown sugar, extracted in- bne<instance from beetroot and in the other from cane. There 'appears, also, to be little doubt that almost every semitropical plant may be cultivated in some part of the province of Queensland. The coffee plant already covers several acres _ in the neighborhood of Townsville, and^aa - the tea shrub grows luxuriantly in the botanical gardens at Brisbane, there ,is no reason why it should not be cultivated generally and with a view to trade in other districts in the . same latitude. The colonists themselves are looking forward, to a time when rice and indigo will rank f among the chief; products of Australia, and are more anxious to' promote the growth of such staples than to discover fresh goldfields where rthe fortunes;, of. a^ few may be made, but the intersts of the many are not likely to be. advanced. An interesting discovery has, says a contemporary,' it is stated, has been made lately by an Italian. He has hit upon a method by which nerves may be tuned like harp strings, and brought into harmony with each other. ;His< theory is that nervous systems, like musical instruments, are all liable to change of tone, and this change is of little importance if all the nerves change together, as by attention to diet and temperature the evil may be corrected en masse, but when, owing,; to accident or uneven wear, the general harmony of the nerves is destroyed, a disconnected action is the result, and a special mode of treatment is required, of which be professes to possess the key. He calls himself a " nerve-tuner, " and contracts to keep nerves in. order by the month or year. There seems to be no reason "why people should not take lessons in "nervetuning," and, like violin performers, acquire themselves the tuning art. Some nerves, like fiddles, want tuning each time they are used, and if every mas and woman could become relaxed, the world would be saved a vast .amount of trouble, for it cannot be denied, that the principle sufferers from nervous disorders are not those who immediately labor under them, but their friends and acquaintances. The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser of January 7, says: — v East Saturday, the ' people of Mr John Cummins' Dancb, at Koolua, received a first-class sensation in the shape of a waif from the sea. While the. men were engaged in •fisn'ing at the < edge of the reef, they observed far out to seaward, a dark object moving landward over, the waves, which looked like a man's head. By-and-by as it drew nearer, the object was seen to be a large dog. Chosing a good landing place, aside from the breakers, the animal came* ashore on a sand beach, and after giving "himself a good shake, sat down and' looked inquiringly about. He was a nearly full-grown Newfoundland. The natives soon made friends with the stranger^ and subsequently i took him to Mr Cummins, who has him now at his place. The question is, where did this waif on the ocean; come' frcTm ? He was firs t seen far ou t to I; seaward, apparently coming from the trackless ocean wilds, No vessel is known to have recently passed within many miles of where he was seen. How long can such a dog live in the* sea, without fresh water. rt Perhapssome gallant ship has gone suddenly „down\; .at sea, .carrying with her .5 all! her .wealth ¥ of human life and leaving none but this dumb witness, who cannot tell the tale."

Hollo-way's Ointment; and >Pi 7/» effect wonderful ; cures of 'bad" legs and .old wounds'. If^ these medicines be used according to the directions I which- are wrapped roundeach. pot and box," there is'nowoiind, bad leg, or ulcerous sore, however ' obsstinate, thai; wiU'fnot yield to "their curative properties;- Thousands of person's who had been 1 patients in hospitals, under the care of eminent surgeons, without deriving the, least benefit, have been cured by Holloway's Ointment, and Pills, when othet remedies and treatment had signally failed. ' 'For glandular' swellings, tumors, scurvyi any diseases of itbe i skin there is no medicine that can .bemused with so ' good an effect. , Though i potent foi* good, it is powerless for' harm ; and I though the cure effected is rapid, it is also com- ; plete ahd permanent. 757