MR. LUCKIE AND THE MAIL SERVICE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 199, 19 August 1873, Page 2

MR. LUCKIE AND THE MAIL SERVICE.

To THE EDITOB OF THE NELSON EVENING MAIL, Sir — Circumstances arise occasionally, which demand prompt action. Such circumstances have arisen, and the electors of the city ought to act promptly. Thß confidence which I and many others reposed in Mr Luckie, has been rudely dispelled. During the present session of Parliament he baa ou two occasions shown that the welfare of Auckland is dearer to him than that of hia constituents. He showed his utter disregard for the welfare of Nelson, prominently, by voting against the Cook Strait Mail Service. At the time of election Mr Luckie requested the electors not to condemn him unheard; well Sir, he had the opportunity of being heard, but he was eiient. What do you, Sir, argue from this silence? My opinion is that Mr Luckie tacitly admits the fact of his conduct being indefensible —-that he has sold us ! It is reported that Mr Luckie told those gentlemen who called upon him for au explanation: " My vote would not alter the result." Such an argument is weak and foolish to a degree — aye it is too flimsy even to gull the people of the sleepy hollow. On Tuesday last Mr Luckie said publicly : — " If you are not satisfied with me say bo, and I will go to-morrow." (The latter part of that sentence is rather ambiguous, I presume however that it had no reference to the steamer, which was to leave the following day, but that the word resign might fairly be substituted for that of "go "). Since those words were spoken, facts have transpired which cause us to be dissatisfied with our representative. We should therefore act upon the above, and tell Mr Luckie that he has lost our confidence, asking him at the same time to resign his seat. It is said that Mr Luckie has great influence with the Ministry. If bo, all the worse for us, if it is to be used to our prejudice, In conclusion, I trust that steps will be taken to give us that amount of fair representation to which we are justly entitled. I am, &c, H. A. L. j Nelson, Augußt 16.

A case of practical joking recently formed the subject of enquiry in the Hoki-j tika Police Court, where a Mr Robert: Whale sued a Mr Robert Walker for £lOj damages, for having put some cowhengej down plaintiffs back. From the evidence: it appeared that plaintiff and defendant; were at a public meeting. Defendant took hold of plaintiff's collar, remarking! that the coat plaintiff was wearing was not fit for the weather, and immediately upon that plaintiff felt a most intolerable itching, which only got worse on scratching or rubbing the part. He had to go to a doctor to get relief. Defendant denied; that he had put any stuff whatever on plaintiff, but refused to be sworn. His Worship said that though defendant might be guiltless of the act imputed to him, it was clear be knew who did it, and accordingly judgment was given for £2 and costs. " Sntdeb" says:— -I don't like children, and that is why I do have such an attachment for perambulators. They kill off more of the infant population in the same time than were the number of slain during the Franco-Prussian war. If I had a child that I didn't care for, I should buy a perambulator and hire a lazy nurse-girl. I would have the child put inside the machine, and direct the maid to trundle along the thoroughfares were there were the largest number of drapers shops for her to stop and stare at. I should see that the child was naked from its ancles to well above its knees, and that it had no covering to its arms and neck, Then I should tell the girl to take the little kidling out at 1 1 o'clock in the morning and bring it back at dinner-time. This would be the means of chilling its blood, and after a few trials would produce lung disease, inflammation of the chest, or diarrhoea, or something of the kind, and I know I should save the expense of that child's education to say nothing of the cost of boots and nourishment. It's a splendid receipt for nipping infant life in the bud. A doctor tells me, and he knowß a thing or two does that skilled man, that perambulators, as used in Auckland, are worth fto him as much as finds his wife in dresses of the latest fashion, pays the expense of house keep, and enables him to maintain in his establishment a boy in buttons to open the door. If any one wants to kill a child he, or she, as the case may happen, needn't mind about the time of year. Winter perambulating will carry off anything from six months to four years with one disease, aad summer with another. It may be calculated on that a properly perambulated child during the dog-days will go off by sun-stroke, brain fever, or in a fit. Perambulators are to the medical profession what scoria footpaths are to bootmakers, no end of a means of making money. A Michigan girl, who is lame, has red hair and no teeth, lately drew a 700 dollar farm at a gift concert, and now all the bachelor farmers thereabout call her " beautiful being " — she used to be called Toothless Brick-top, A member of the United States Congress got out this sentence: — " Mr Speaker, the generality of mankind in general are disposed to exercise oppression on the generality of mankind in general," wheo he was pulled down to his seat by a friend, with the remark, " You'd better stop; you are coming out of the same hole as you went in at." A sensational case of "self-suspen-sion," accompanied by unlooked-for results, occurred (cays the Talbot Leader) a few days ago, not a hundred miles from M'Callum's Creek. A farmer, well-known for his preference for stimulants, and his tenderness (?) to his wife, took it into his head to hang himself. This he effected, and had just commenced to " dangle," when the partner of his bed and board discovered his position. In the excitement consequent upon the unexpected eight she seized hold of his legs, and pulled him so forcibly that the rope broke, and down he came before the vital spark had ceased to flicker. Whether the husband or the wife has the most cause for congratulation is a question upon which the neighbors are divided. Painful Case. — A melancholy fracas has occurred at Indianapolis owing to an actor being bitten by a dog. It seems that there is an actor there of such exquisite proportions that he is known as the Apollo Belvidere. He was walking in the streets the other day, and exciting universal admiration by the magnificent proportions of his limbs, when he accidentally stepped on the tail of a terrier dog, who bit the actor severely in the calf of the leg. The wounded man, however, stalked on, apparently unconscious of the injury he had received, until a bystander called his attention to the circumstance. He immediately stopped, and the spectators to their horror saw flowing from the wound— -not a drop of blood— but a thin stream of sawdust. The incident was mentioned with kindly regret by one of the local papers. This annoyed the actor excessively, and announcing his intention to chastise the editor, he proceeded to the office of that gentleman to carry out his intention; but the muscles of his arms proved as little formidable as the calves of his legs, and after a short struggle he was ignominiously kicked by the editor out of the room. It is understood he contemplates retirement from the stage for a time. — Orchestra.

A Melbourne paper tells the following anecdote:— A lady in Collins-street the other day had occasion to withdraw from her furs an exceptionally fair and wellshaped hand. "What a perfect hand," whispered Susceptible to his companion ; | " never saw so beautiful a hand before." " I held a prettier last night," Baid Quatrevignt — " the four aces at poker." Bbigham Young's 117 children have been learning to sing, " Father, dear father, come home," one singing the solo while the other 116 join in the chorus, until each has successively given a tug at their father's domestic affections. The chorus tears Brigham's tender vitals to flinders. — American Paper. A Western musical critic thus speaks of a prima donna ; — " She had, and we suppose still retains, a magnificent voice for a fog whistle. Its compass was perfectly surprising. She would shake the chandelier with a wild whoop that made every man instinctively feel for his scalp, and followed it up with a roar that would shame a bassoon." The Parson's Sausages. — A minister in one of our churches while on his way to preach a funeral sermon in the country, called to see one of his members, an old widow lady, who lives near the road where he was travelling. The old lady had just been making sausages, and she felt very proud of them— they were so plump, round, and sweet. Of course she insisted on her minister taking some links i home to his family. He objected on account of not having his portmanteau along with him. The objection was soon overruled, and the old lady, after wrapping them up in a rag, carefully placed a bundle in the preacher's overcoat. Thus equipped he started for the funeral. While attending the solemn ceremonies of the grave, some hungry dogs scented the sausages, and were not long in tracking them to the pockets of the good man's overcoat. Of course this was a great annoyance, and he was several times under the necessity of kicking the whelps away. The obsequies of the grave completed, the minister and congregation repassed to the church, where the funeral discourse was to be preached. After the sermon was finished, tke minister halted to make some remark to his congregation, when a brother who wished to have an appointment given out, ascended the steps of the pulpit, and gave the minister's coat a hitch to get his attention. The divine, thinking it a dog having 'designs upon his pocket, raised his foot, gave a sudden kick, and sent the good brother sprawling down the steps. " You will excuse me brethren and sisters," said the minister confusedly, and without looking at the work he had just done, " for I could not avoid it. I had sausages in my pocket, and that dog has been trying to grab them ever since he came upon the premises."-— San Fran- , cisco News Letter.