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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 160, 4 July 1873, Page 2

The Provincial Secretary of Canterbury staled the other day thata' :'7Drunkard:s. Ward " was in course of erection, and would shortly be ready f^pecupatjoniY|TJ7 One of the first converts of Melanesia George Tarawai l?y name, has ..been ad-; ... thitted, at Auckland, to priest's orders' "jib nthe-.e.hurcb^i^pglaTid;rxox^7'7 AA \ The American postoflice authorities - htfve" giVeh ['; ntotice"; Chat/ all letters ahd p4per;S forvAußtraliai..fcir.. the fajgre raiist be sent via England. , People who believe the current stories ..-aboiiit (lntelligent] ddg^ 7wi.1l Or^adl ;wi|th pleasure tbat a lost dog in Norfolk, havibg seen his mastePe^aifveHisement in one of v the local prints r .promptly went home, 7 ' r . , I3^OBASBT-.Towi?[ ,h^s N a, n,ew. .Bqiniater, in;,, the-^erspn^ot the-^Rey/MKjIleU,. ,^J?o, at an inaugural meeting the other day spoke thus:-?-" As to his impressions of Hobart Town, he spoke of its beautiful surround--iDgs, which had impressed him favorably,' bnt he felt unfavorably impressed with 7 some of tho Ministers he had seen; he 7 did not allude to, .any of those present..*? He had seen some of them wearing i!e"raarkably^long^coatrtails,, pyrious -collars, "aud unusually broad-brimtried hats, and theiSe "things had notpieased him. ! He hope«l_ an^ .trusted ..that., ,tbo£e presenirr would rise above the religion of coat-tails aud collars, and adhere to the glorious - old-fashioned -religion, -with -all Us- blessed- . ness. •;. We shallXsoon have ocean pignal stations — telegrams meeting a captain in mid ocean, warning_him which .way the wind is blowing a few hundred^Knileß ahead of him. At sea as on land, all over the there will -soon- be a ' sim.ultapeous knowledge of where the storms are, and what course they at' 6; taking. It is not thought, to be at all beyond the resources ' 6f--tb"eX age/.to have floating stations in-."*, deep water secured by submerged buoys'' and conhecfed-With '"aFcable. Whether "" these will ever '.be converted into mids pqe^n post-offices. . to sa.v.e..the r double yoya'ge many~ letter-bags' take," we will uptii hazard an opinion, but insurers of ocean : ; .freights" wiir&ot be 1 long'satisfied-wi'thoutx, the meaps of protecting by a storm signal,'., vesselsrthat r would .otherwise cbe rrushing-* to destruction. j '