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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 109, 7 May 1873, Page 4

An Otago contemporary says:—Partridges appear to thrive well in this province. In a paddock in the Palmerstoti district no less than three or four coveys, or about forty birds, were recently observed. A correspondent, writing about the partridges, says tbey manage to escape the hawks better than was expected. Last month was the busiest tbat the employes at the Christchurch goods shed have yet had. No less than 3000 loads of goods were sent and received during that time, giviDg an average of about 144^ loads per day. This does not comprise coal or timber, but only imported goods, grain &c. A Farewell Dinner was given to Mr J. R. Sel wyn, the new Bishop of Melanesia, son of the Bishop of Lichfield, at St. .James's Hotel, on the 28th January, by 6ome old Cantabs and rowing men, on the eve of his departure to Polynesia. A church plate-service was also presented. Mr Selwyn rowed in tbe Eton Eight two years. He won the Paris twice at Cambridge and once at Henley, with R. A. Kinglake, and rowed in the 64 Cambridge as stroke. The Wellington Independent says :— Considerable competition exists in the cab business of this city, and perhaps profits are sometimes curtailed, but that is no reason why the public should be asked to ride in rattletraps, drawn by brokenkneednrats, " Gothic steeds, " and driven by boys. Yet all this may be seen any day on the beach. American girls need not be ashamed of themselves as long as such advertisements as this appear in the London Lancet. Wanted a respectable and responsible female attendant for a young lady addicted to intemperance. The 27ew Zealand Herald says, that Colonel Haultaia is mentioned as the probable successor to the Hon. Dr. Pollen in the office of General* Government Agent in Auckland. Mbs. G Leech is in the full practice of her profession as a medical adviser in Christchurch. Fevers, neuralgia, diabetes and diarrhoea, are announced as the specialities in which her treatment excels. — Independent. A WoNDEBFUL Stoby. — A wonderful story comes from Paris. A German professor — the nationality is to be noted — begged two condemned Communists named Dodu and Brun, from M. Thiers, in order that be might, as a scientific experiment, kill them and bring them to life again at the end of three months after death. His plan was to inject solution of calx in the system, by which decomposition was to be prevented ; and according to his theory the patient might be revived, not only at the end of three months, but of 300 years, according to desire. In the presence of medical men and public functionaries, the professor, having administered chloroform to each of the men, injected the solution, and then bled them till they died. The corpses were then dessicated by the heat of furnaces till they shrivelled, and till the skin became yellow, like leather. In this state they remained in a moderate temperature for the prescribed three months, and the process of revivification began, by injecting the blood of two healthy laborers, and by the application of the ,galvanic battery. The process completely failed in the case of Dodu. But in that of Brun the result was, to say the least, surprising. First the opaque eyeballs rolled ia their yellow sockets, the jsmacles-began to twitch, the heart to beat; and at last, after 14 hoursnf treatment, Brun spoke,- rose from the table, swallowed a bowl: of beef tea and several ounces brandy, and audibly grumbled of soreness in his limbs and of pain in the regions tbat had rested on the table. He is now alive and well in Switzerland, under the -assumed name, of Fourbe, while a post mortem examination showed that fatty degeneration of the hear t. had prevented the ; revival of Dodu. So anyone who wishes to see how the world looks ; a hundred :;years hence has only to apply solution of calx and, to lea vp- word when he \U -. tojybe called. It is singular that the history of so important A sciebtiflcldiscoV^ should ha ve reached us y ia^e w York and fe .Loinsyijle ,;Geqrgiar^y^^|ias , oyerjtbodvfe ;-knows£:itfe is ';.- il&ld^m^ {always; to)fc:fo^ ation about everything, 7 - more* particularly i^inexpUcaple: aon»Bn^^^ , y;;^-;-;r;^;c. p\ ppy