THE WEEK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 83, 5 April 1873, Page 2

THE WE E K

To readers of English telegrams the last week has been productive of some confusion, as in addition to the San Francisco mail summary, there have been no less tban three arrivals of Australian steamers with cablegrams — I don't like the word, but like many other disagreeable things it forces itself upon you. The Ladybird arrives with English news up to the 23rd March, then comes the Nebraska with a summary dating only to tbe sth of the same month, and telling us of occurrences of which we knew five or six weeks ago. In the same paper, in which her news appears we find that the Wonga Wonga has arrived with English dates to the 25 ih, and before we haye had time to unravel this mass of information that lies before us like a tangled ball of twine without beginning or end, down comes the Alhambra, telling us what took place in London last Thursday week, and repeating a good deal of what we had heard by way of Auckland. Then, to add to our troubles, we have the Australian telegrams, which give in detail the news of the receipt of certain telegraphic despatches from the Secretary of Slate for the Colonies, of the sending of which we had already been informed, also iD detail, by the cablegrams-tbat wretched word once again. At the close of this, telegraphically speaking, trying week, I feel all the symptoms tbat the doctors would tell you might be expected in a man who had gone: to bed after a hearty supper of underdone pastry and semi-cooked pork. 'Everything is in a jumble. Earl Kimberley and Mr Gladstone are having a row over a shepherd who has been murdered at a sheep station in New South Wales, in consequence of his declining to attend the demonstration in honor of Sir George Bowen who disapproved of the Irish University Bill because it would interfere with intercolonial free trade, in spite of which wheat is weak in San Francisco, a circumstance, however, which does not interfere with the Spanish Cortes selling half-chests of tea at 16 farthings, or prevent the Khivan expedition carrying out , its original design of re-placing Napoleon on the French throne and thus putting an end to the liabilities incurred by the London and Liverpool Insurance Company in consequence. of Smyrna being partially devoured by a tidal wave. When I undertook ; some time ago to furnish a weekly summary of events, I had no idea that I should eyer be called upon to write an abstract oi all that had taken place in Europe, Asia, Africa, aud America within that period, in addition to our own local matters, so that on the whole, on re-reading the above lines, I rather flatter myself that I have fully mastered the' subject with which I had tp deal. One little circumstance in connection with the confusion of ideas occasioned by the Euglish mail being anticipated by some weeks, by the telegraph is worth relating. I was talking to a friend the other day in the vicinity of a bookseller's shop a few hours after the arrival of the 'Suez .'mail; "•'- In. the window was a poster advertising a new monthly journal, and among the items to which was accorded the honor of extra large print, was " Funeratof Napoleon.*? "By Jove," exclaimed. my friend, who had begun to look ' upon the death of Louis' Napoleon as a matter of history, 'Ms young Napoleon ..dead.?' " .Forgetting that the y mail^news pf .,'ttie u death of the great French Emperor had only j ust reached , us,? he was v nder toe impression that" Napoleon'Vmust mean the Prince IcQperial. * i I like reading adyertte^ of* them you pccag ionaljy^e^with very . •original ideas, in .■•>ing.7_ .-^ day, I came across: the following ? whioh at least has the: merit of * ho velty ;— V ToTthe

single young men of Ngaruawahia.— A single young lady begs respectfully to inform the slngle^y-dung' men6f",Ngaruawa-'hia:-;ithaV-vif any those young men build heir- a neat little cottage, she -will be most; happy to;* set up; a washing establishment on the latest and most improved principles. Each young man must bring and take away his own clothes, and also supply his own soap aDd soda." I do trust that this young lady has met with the support her enterprise deserves. I think she bas an eye to business, for at the end. of her neatly-worded invitation is the notification, "Payments, to he made ia advance." In the cause of cleanliness we must all hope that she may do well atid prosper. But there is no occasion to look outside our own borders for advertising peculiarities. "A Gala Day" is to be held by the Oddfellows in the Waimea district the week after next, which is to be brought to a conclusion by a dinner, • For remainder of news, see fourth page.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills, — Eor bad legs, bad breasts, scorbutic and scrofulous sores, this is an infallible specific. ' The loud expressions of earnest gratitude made by thousands who have experienced its unrivalled power over the.se complaints, and who have been raised from prostrate helplessness and a condition loathsome to themselves and others, render it quite unnecessary to enlarged in this place upon its ordinary virtues. Tiie parts affected should be bathed with lukewarm water, and when the pores are thereby opened, the Ointment * should be well rubbed in, at, least twice -a day. It is always advisable to take Holloway's Pills in these disorders, as the action of the Ointment is thereby wonderfully assisted. The Pills check lever, purify the blood, and eject all morbid matter engendered by diseases. 865

" to which all respectable persona are invited." Of course it is highly desirable, when you sit down in front of a sucking pig, that all around you should be "respectable persons," but I think, the advertisement should havefgone a little further and stated what is to be the test of respectability, and who are to be the judges. The question here propounded is one that is not easily soived. I shall look forward to that dinner with some degree of curiosity if I am fortunate enough to be invited. A really good hater is ajman for whom one must entertain a certain amount of respect, if so be that his hatred is carried out iv an open and declared manner, but when a man wreaks his spite by smashing church windows on a dark night, I think that most people will agree with me that he is beneath contempt. A writer in an Auckland paper, in describing his impressions of Nelson receutly remarked': — " Nelson is a clean orderly little place, where, Isbould think, people never do anything very striking, good or bad." I should like this "chiei" who has been taking notes amongst us to take a drive with ma to the church at Waimea West and see the damage done there last Saturday night. I think he would go away with the impression that in this " clean, orderly little place" there exists as mean, despicable a blackguard, as is to be found in the whole colony. I hope that the perpetrator of this cowardly act may read these remarks,, and if so he may comfort himself with the assurance that they accurately represent the opinion entertained of him by every member of the community. Summer dresses are being carefully packed away in drawers and trunks, and chilly people are beginning to grumble at tbe vagaries of the thermometer which has altogether deserted 75 in the shade, and, at an early hour in the morning, has run down to a low figure of which it should be positively ashamed at this season of the year. One comfort, however, I, for one, do most certainly derive from the sudden change in tbe temperature. It bothers my mortal enemies, the flies. I see one on the table before me, which, I have no doubt, has pitched on my nose some hundreds of times during the past summer, and in the pride of his strength and activity skilfully evaded all my savage attempts to crush him, but there he now lies on the broad of his back appealingly raising his tiny feet with which he has so often tickled me into a temper, but he gets no help from me. I look at him with an air of satisfaction and think— You have had your day my fine fellow, now mine has come. F.