Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 256, 24 October 1873, Page 4

The valae of the principle of life > assurance has received a special illustration In the case of the death of the late Mr •Andrew Fleming, reotor of the Invercargil grammar school, who assured in the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £1000. xhe policy of the deceased _1? 8 ~9?. -MM' e _. n >°re.*haii six months dnration, the second v payment only, having been made "after the commencement of the 111---„,floss, whjchj terminated in death. The first piece of flannel made in Australia was exhibited at the Ballarat Woollen Company's office last month. *■"'* The. following amueing rctttme of the descriptions of the Shah of Persia given by the : German newspapers has been compiled by the Madras Atketueum :— " The Shah is corpalent, thin, of a noble, tho- ,, roughly vulgar mienj tall, very short, and : -wears a black, remarkably variegated, entirely yellow uniform. His eyes are dim and fiery. He observes acutely, looks on everything with indifference, and wears ;: gold spectacles made of steel. He is al- ~ moat entirely bald, and a conical cap of cloih constantly covers his luxuriant falling hair. He drinks madeira and champagne exclusively, and lets nothing pass his li pa but, water. Gentle as he is, he took great pleasure in the roaring of the iC ] beasts at the Zoological Gardens, and rejoiced with his native cruelty at the bou-,-x quets presented to him there. He likes notning but a voluptuous table and the ballet, and came to Europe only in the f, interest of Mb people to learn the progress of civilisation. Towards the ladies he is." ; J In general very gallant, severe, tender, and u wild. He is 42 years of age, born> in „ 1843, and has been already a quarter of a .! century on the Persian throne, the orna- '••- ment of which he has beeome in this short -1 P? 1 ! 0 ? of n " reign, and in which xit has ,V Been^ impossible for him to gain the love c-of bis people." A contemporary writes as follows :— A .writer in the 1 Pall Mall Gazette tells us d that in a short time half Europe will be out in New Zealand doing the hot springs, • and studying the manners and customs of the antipodes. What jolly time's we shall have, and serwusly speaking, the thing is i .quite on the cards. These pink and white terraced fountains that now lie in solitary loveliness, are destined at no distant day play. a very important parfc in the future of these islands; Once let it be understood that, the grand tour is incomplete without our boiling springs, and we shall . advance tt pas de geant. In this particu.'.JH/Md? w© can defy competition. Our ' ' : r Southern Alps are grand, but the heights * of the Himalayas are grander; 1 Our lakes ■ -have a thousand rivals, our earthquakes, "although sufficiently startling for a novice, , ; are wanting, aa yet at least, in the elements most esteemed by sensation seekers; Chili or Peru can beat us hollow. But our bubbling fountains, our cold, tepid and boiling natural baths, our marble terraces, I 1 sculptured by nature's band, and altogether passing lovely, where shall we* find their They stand withouta peer. t- Wea'thY fashion, and rank, invalids, artists, and men of .letters, shall yet come from all parts of the world and do homage to their j 3 marvellous beauty. . j It is very seldom the columns of a newspaper are devoted to what concerns the gentler half of humanity. We hope, however, to pee some colonial champion spring up on behalf of the iadiesj advocate their social rights as ably as has been done by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. At the Man T laion-hoQse banquet, Mr Lowe, in proposing "The Lady Mayoress," said that, as a firm believer in the perfectability of the human race," he apprehended that in the time of that perfection, which he hoped to see shortly realised, such ban- ' que^ as .the present would be conducted 1 iip^n different principles to those which -now prevail. The speeches at present go Jon hour after hour, and everything that is. said relates only to one-half, and that by far the worst and, least attractive half of our species. We talk of the army, and navy, of the House of Lords, and the Hodse of > Commons, 1 as if there was nothing in the world but the men to be spoken of, w until the fag-end of the eventW.^"Bufc? Mr Lowe, continued, "in, iha time of perfection I anticipate, the, towt of the House of Lords will no doubt by somebody rising to give the corresponding, toast of the House of Ladien; and when the House of Commons is proposed 4: WIH -probably alternate with another Assembly designated by an equally euphonious name. While the orator extols the ;«f ln y»> '7?b i will also have some ladies praised for the admirable manner in which MM* manage the domestic ccmmis'sariafe, a'nd whence navy has been eulogised, tbew . will be those who will say how much finer » sight a handsome and richly- decked woman,: with two or three beautiful daughters, sailing into a ball-room is than yoariwsr ironclads.",— -J^ffraW.