The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURIDAY OCTOBER 25, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 257, 25 October 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURIDAY OCTOBER 25, 1873.

■!•>.! . J-HIA»D Coa-MUMICA-HO-? QOM-CITTBE.— A meeting of this committee is called for Tuesday evening next at half-past seven. ;1J -Dioce'san SYNOD.^-ihe' annual session of this synod will take place next week"' commencing on Wednesday. Bishop Harper/ the 'Pritriaie'bf New Zealand, wili preside. He is at present at Blen-. heim .on his way, ud hero overland, and is expected to arrive at Nelson on Tuesday. The synod will meet this year at the Masonic HaH; For rsmainder qf news see fourth page.

le Whiti, the great Maori prophet, | ml^, to have fallen, upon; the _am- . stumbling -block >as proved fatal to Dr Y -Cqmmisg. We - learn from a Taraniaki paper that his resurrection of tbe dead has mistake.: Since then some J wo.;or, tlirqp meetings have taken place, an3 the dead have not appeared. Tito r Koj-jvara at the Parmka meeting taunted -^ *^if ft-i-his non-fulfilled prophecy pretty severely,' and Te Whiti came off secondbest in the argoment. There is no, doubt ™Sk Whiti is falling very much in the estimation of the natives. Many have spoken ro -jpl i innr on their return this time as a fanatic and deceiver. Taurua, the chief of re- - $***&■ Otago prisoners, who has beeji/ 1 "S^^W*? 1 * 8 * b ? M» stay in Otago,^ ""trie-lib convince him of the advantages to be derived from roads and other im-i^ljrovertefats.'-Te WhititaWnted him with 31 Wing Snly- a returned .prisoner. Tnere ia no donbt thatTe Whiti is a shrewd and clever man, and may retain his influence 'fOveYMg own^ iinmediater people j out with ' tbe oat.iflers (who it one time believed so | _esS9fo*?^fePF°PMio powers) Te Whlti's influence is gone, and will only return ! when he brings their ancestors to life. — A most curious fact in relation to the r -Electric Telegraph is told in connection with the Bank of England. One Saturj|sW nigh* the folks at the Bank could not make thia balance come right by £100. This was 'a serious matter in that little f '-e-tablishment; not the cash, of course, bat tbe mistake in the arithmetic, for it occa-ItoHlß-W ft world of scrutiny. An error in Balancing has been known to keep a whole delegation of clerks from' each office at , n ;Worksome times through the whole night. "'A lute and cry was of- course made for this -5100, as if the old lady of Tbreadneedie woul^i be bankrupt withont it. luckily on Saturday morning^ a cle'r^ felt a sus- «--$?»». qf.the troth to, dart Jhrough.his mind quicker than any flash of the teie- . graph ilself. He told, the chief cashier on J: "l_r6hdsy morning thai perhaps the mistake might have occurred in packing some 2 boxescof specie. for the West Indies; which had been sent to Southampton for ship-. x¥ Q £h 01 - was immediately acted upon. Here was a race, lighto ing against steam with eight-and-forty hours .ya tart given. Instantly the wires asked whether such a vessel had left thß harbor. 5 " J^rWeighihg aiichor," was the answer. " Stop he'rl" frantically shouted the electric telegraph. It was done. " Have up on deck certain boxes marked so ; weigh : -ihem carefully." They were weighed, and one — the delinquent— was found to be ?:4flßfe.oae;;packet< of_ arhundrM sovereigns heavier than it ought to be. "Let; her '•,!£»" B V&, th e my^eripas . telegraphy The Wiest India folks were debited with £100, and the error.waa corrected without ever ._ looking into the boxes, or delfiying ;tha voyage an hour. Now that was doing business. ??N-„0popop, the corpulent banker, was 8 landing in Wall-street, one hot day in Au<4 wiping the servile drops from off r *fiirhrow; w wh.n a ragged. but sharp-eyed news-boy accosted him with, -' Pleas*?, sir, tell me the time." Coupon lugged out bis timepiece, and looking benignly down upon - his, .interlocutor, responded "Just two :oV«l6y_. w « A.II right, old buffer," said'the gainirt, gathering his legs together for a run; "you can Bell out for soap grease at three.'.'. The .insulted gentlehian raised his cane, and making a frantic rash fori his tormentor, nearly fell over a friend who was coming up the street. " Hallo, ?-.s?s#-*' VW* tbe matter? ".said the other. " Matter !" said Coupon, puffing - .with beet aod anger: "Why, one of these f taew-boye- asked me the time, and when I , Jjjrtd him two o'clock, the impudehi.Bcoun'h "l^-.W. I. might sell out for soap-greaaj. at three." ''.Don't be in such a hurry," was the malicious -response; "ifs only five > a_iinat-*.'!pasfr two; you'vfr got fifty-five minutes to do it in." ' ! i