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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 203, 23 August 1873, Page 4

One of the most stupendous feats of/ newspaper enterprise that ever occurred,/ must be credited to the New York Herald in connection with the Vienna Exhibition! Bather than be defeated by their energetic! rival the Tribune, the manager of tha Herald gave orders to their correspondent! Mr Edmund Yates, to "spare no expense.? Ho carried out his instruction. Thp Tribune, in order to steal a march on the Herald, telegraphed to Queen9town, ao / that " the copy " could go on by boat. Mr Yates telegraphed right through, and tbje charge for the message amounted to thle nice little sum of 2,000 guineas. Grenyille, R.I , nan't be a paradise far a destitute and sick stranger to enter inti. Three weeks ago such a poor unfortunajo made his appearance there, and was ordered to leave by an officer, as he was "hungry, moneyless, dirty, and had ope band useless from having been frost bitten." So he dragged himself away into a swamp and died. He was worth holding an fnqueefc on, however; and so the inquest was held, and after a number of the most substantial citizens had sat upon him it was discovered that he had died of sraall-pax ! Verily he had his revenge, if it was n*t a sweet one. I What a study for the philosopher bag been afforded by the native gathering! in Wanganui, says the Wanganui Hermd. Greyheaded and tatooed old men, withered beldams "auld and droll," lusty younW lads and lassies, and mothers with little * queer-faced black-eyed specimens of humanity clinging to them, have harangued, squabbled, made love, and played the Jew's harp until the atmosphere has become impregnated, with Maoridom, and the very streets have had a drunken dissipated look, ntterly at varience with their usually quiet and orderly ' aspect. The judges of tbe Native Lands Court must be lineally descended from Job to enable them to sit and wade through the mass of conflicting statements of opposing claimants. Day. . after day have the walls of the runanga house echoed to the pleadings of garrulous natives, who, on the strength of having had a great-grandfather killed and eaten on some particular spot, and whose sister's aunt's uncle's mother's cousin, fished, planted, or committed some frightful atrocity, laid claims to tracts of country that in the hands of the Government would support in comfort hundreds and thousands of industrious settlers who are only waiting for an opportunity to cast in their lot with us. \ -, '"•'• V *"\