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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 142, 14 June 1873, Page 4

iwbfi-b. prefer the most bigoted Presbyterian teaching to secnlarism.-MBiSHor '^Mc«A»r.y..'x"--y- y -;,•„•;,.'. -y-yyX . Tto American national debt is being . : ..piddi'' jrt ; .^tlie; . niifai'' of 2 dolt "50 cents a Umihut^x-X.yr, t ff fypff^ '■' ,' -.'-, * ffXy'p The London Times contained lately an „-• advertisement of a desirable estate : ; fo*X sale id the island of ADglesy, It .-de^y : cribed as lying, in thie parishes of Llanbeulan, Llantraisaint, Llandabseint, Llari- : fairmathafarneit^fpenti aeth, - Llanddyfian, Amlwch, Llandyfrydog, and Llaneilian." ff Snowballing.— -On the 3rd February yupWards of; 600 students! of -Trinity College, DabHn, commenced snowballing the passengers^ across Lincoln's- place, opposite X tite college medical School. - policb ? :-:■■ ybaying "■. mustered in *force, { charged the students. Sticks and stones were freely used, and after a short and sharp combat, yXih^ f police XrStired ;with . two prisoners. The fltudeota then salied out, rescued: the prisohere, then retired behind the gates of they medical school, and 'dispersed. X "

! A Floating WBECK.-**-The Ckarlesiqn Herald of Saturday last says:— Profound, though suppressed agitation, was excited in the breasts of a select few of our townspeople upon Wednesday last, occasioned by the sighting off port, and io mid-ocean, ■: of what appeared to be a vessel floating bottom upwards,: Long and anxious 'glances were turned towards the said object; eyes and eye-glasses of various | description Were strained; it being difficult, however, to obtain the proper focuß for these. This difficulty having at last been overcome, fingers were -found to tremble too palpably with long sustained and ever increasing excitement to permit pf the steady fixture of the. glass so as to bring the floating object properly within com- - pass. Nothing else, however, could be made of it but a wreck— -a floating vessel bottom upwards; but a fresh discovery by one exicted individual made the affair still more tbrilliDg-— he could, they could, everybody could perceive plainly what had escaped;' his, theirs and everybody else's eyes until that moment-— horror ! a figure standing on the wreck signalling for help. Intensely raged the excitement now; but just as it was about to burst — just as each of the spectators was about to throw his coat .off (presumably) and dive in to the rescue, the spell was gently broken by a phlegmatic individual who bad unperceived joined the ring, and who unconscious of anything startling occurring, remarked, most unconcernedly, " bcT~won- : dered what Riley would take for his wharf as it floated." The company without ■ further remark dispersed. It turned out that the " vessel bottom upwards " was only a wharf wreck from the Buller, and "the figure" a corner pile Which still held its own through, ail difficulties. The good folks of Brighton likewise rose an excitement over, the same object which was only quelled by a reassuring telegram fo the above effect. -■- ' A Melbourne correspondent of the Miner writes* — The rascal who would rob a bazaar opened to afford assistance to a sick children's hospital would rob a church, pickj* judge's pocket, cheat a policeman, garotte a priest, or sell hia family in all probability for any sum that a school of anatomy would give him, yet some mean Wretch of that character has actually purloined a number of valuable articles from the bazaar, and there is unfortunately no clue to lead to his detection. I say " his" detection, but the presumption is that the thief is a woman, who has thus disgraced herself and humanity. - ' ' Ths Inglewood Advertiser, 25 April; reports that a fine nugget was'y obtained onWednesday last' by a well-known Berlin miner named Archibald Gray. The piece was unearthed in John's grass paddpck, > near the schoolhouee, only 3 feet from the surface, and weighed 93ozs lldwts 6grs. After being cleaned it was said to have lopt slightly over 1 dwt, proving the purity of the lump, which was bought by Ri/Nw Williams, of the post office store, for & sum of over £480. Mr Gray appears, to be; particularly fortunate,, having oh tne Ist of April last year, in the same paddock, obtaihed a nugget weighing 180bze, and wpr th over £700. ff f.Xf ff'f ?• A Noble Young- Man in Indianopolis recently determined to abandon the use of tobacco. Hei -was told that iced drinks would diminish his hankering for the weed. So, on the first day he drank three gallons of iced water, and still feeling a desire to smoke, he added two quarts of cold buttermilk. He went to bed with the cheerful; conviction r^hat he had' conquered his craving, and so he had. The next day he did not desire' to emoke at all, for the -simple X^pasp'n^ tbat ' ha\yrjtit v dead; The iced wfttpf, 4he iceid, bqttermilk, i he abandonment ; of bis cigar, and - two doctors who were called in' consolation, proved too much for the nobla yoting man. ' ' „ Why is a kippered herring like a celebrated English poet ?-— Because it's a dried'un (Dryden).— -Tfifiy. -, ff.;