ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 113, 12 May 1873, Page 2

ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

| . —*—o —■ ; There will be a total eclipse of the moon to-night, visible at NelßOn.-

,!■',',' '-.. VSmmmmmmmmmmmmemml^ i i The^¥eat; bl; walking 1)000^ miles in 1,000 hours,is about to be'attempted in Christchurch; Th^a^ of undertaking jsiin^.Mr'(^Wilson's.paddock, ;Madr*M^eet.J>: j'jHei^ iWednesdayjeye^ will, if th^fates are^prbpitious, accomplish hiß'taßkin's'weeks^6 days and _16 .hours from* that dateV^FeKW deliverance; 1/but^mustjvcahdidly speaking,

Mb VoGEt vl|ft the Manukau in the : Luna for.vVYeliingtqri^ on Friday morning 'last.' ■': |„a ■■'.; yy ■:*■'■' ' %■'.] The Press objects to land being granted . in Canterbury in aid of the construction of the proposed trunk railway to connect the Canterburyand Nelson lines. The Wellington,: •.papers contain the prospectus of the Albion Coal Company, which is being formed to work the Ngakawhao mine. It is proposed that the New Zealand Coal. Company, shall, amalgamate with the Albion, jand,; if this course be adopted, the lirst step, taken will be to purchase a suitable steamer of, sufficiently, light draught to enter, the. River, and convey, the coal across the bar to sbips lying at anchor in the Buller* and also to act as a tug for ths roadstead. With regard toi some objections which liaive been raised^to tbe double handling of the coal thus involved, it may be stated that tbis'system' ia in use at Newcastle and elsewhere without detriment. It is estimated that the Ngakawhao coal canbe shipped at the Buller at 15s. per ton, and probably can be supplied in Weir, lington at 303 ( ' — Post. . 's V *■'.* Salmon Ova.— The Canterbury Press of Wednesday last says :— " The Canterbury portion of iho ova' brought to Dunedin by the Oberon arrived in safety by the Alhambra yesterday afternoon. Mr Johnson infonns us that the consign-^ ment has arrived . in a thoroughly satisfactory condition, which, he considers is partly attributable to the care which was taken in opening the ice-boxeb not"' to injure the ova. Special instructions had been given* by Mr You!;' under whose supervision the ova had been packed in England, upon this point, and his injunctions had been carefully carried out. The success of the Jenterprise Jwill be more fully appreciated when it is remembered that the voyage of the Oberon from England was an unusually long one, 120 days, 100 days being considered the outside limit for the salmon ova to be imprisoned in the boxes," : The largest sale of. land ever made, to one person has,- an English , paper says, just been made by General Can* . to Mr George Grant, of London. The land coDsists of seventy sqaare miles, adjoining the t9rritory of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, abd will be let in i-krms to laborers who will emigrate from England next spring. Suitable houses will be erected on each lot.