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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 274, 14 November 1873, Page 2

With regard to the harvest prospects in Canterbury, the Press reports:-***- 5 ' Judging from the accounts we hear from the country districts, the next harvest wilt be a most bountiful one. From,, all: quarters we hear of the most promising appearance of the crops, and also of the, increased breadth of : land under cultivation. Wheat has J been sown moat extensively, and as a rule is looking veryweH, although on some of the heavy land it has suffered from too much wet." ' It would seem fr6m Tthe following extract from the Auckland Herald that thero has been considerable 'excitement in that province over the election of a Superintendent : — lf may be mentioned as con-

vinciog proof of the all-absorbing nature of the Saperintendency election, that we did, not receive more than sixty letters on thb, day of the poll. On other days the aver-~ age rtrn was from under three hundred and eighty, to under two thousand. When ' the editor's room' was -> cleared.. yesterday; morning of election correspondence, it was estimated that there was paper sufficient on which to print an entire edition of ; ;the Encyclopaedia Brltannica . ; ; f, Or> making another estimate, it was 'ascertained; within a decimal fraction that the pages placed side by side wou id cover an area of five acres, providing the ground was well manured and under careful cultivation. For a, fortnight previous to the election we bad to employ four experts, who relieved each other at half-hour intervals through the ; day and ;night, to decipher bad writing, and several polyglot dictionaries to correct; deficient spelling. Our sub-editor complained that he had bebecome quite demoralised by being compelled to read the strong language employed by opponents of candidates. These became so impressed upon his mind to the exclusion of all other matter, that he would go home and send the wife he adores into swoons by calling her a political miscreant, a political mendacious im-' postor, and one who would sell her ownpolitical birthright for a political mess of pottage. The North Otago Times .■.•-writes as follows upon the prospects 'of the crops in that district:---"'The crops, on the plain, especially wheat, this year, 1 will be very poor," so said, the other day, one of the farmers of that district. And why so? Partly, perhaps, because of the cold, damp spring, which has caused the spring-sown grain to be almost starved, but more, wb think, because of the system of farming carried on in the district. " System-" wei said, but want of system would have been a better expression of our meaning. Year after year white crops are taken off the land — than which none is finer in New Zealand for grain production— but ho manure is returned to it, and .no, land hr the world will stand this constant squeezing without exhaustion. We look forward to the future of the district with some alarm , because we cannot fail to see that thousands of acres are being ruined,' rendered absolutely unproductive, by the fatally exhaustive system of constantcropping without the return,^ malnuring^ to the soil of the necessary elements to the growth of cereal or other root crops. ': : l :■'■'•• yy ■■'■■ :. \- „ :.X,. ■ ; On last Monday morning, says a. writer in the Australasian, a friend asked me whether I was acquainted with a connexion of his by marriage, whose death he had just noticed in the obituary column of the Home News. Within a few hours I again met my friend iii Collins-street letters had meantime been delivered, and he had received intelligence of; a bequest to his wife of £17,000, the testator being the person whom he had mentioned to me in the forenoon. An instance of the profitable management of an infant's estate under the supervision of fthe Equity Court, is mentioned by the' Argus, About nineteen years ago a Mr Anderson died, leaving two 'sops,: both infants, the eldest being only two years of age. His property consisted of a third share in a station, in which he had (put £1,000. The estate was brought into court to have it legally administered, iand \ owing to thejudicious management of the administrator and the receiver, : it now amounts to £50,000, invested in mortgages of Government debentures. One;of the children died young, and the other came of age a few months ago. He is at present residing in Scotland, but on an application an order was made for putting him in possession of his estate. ! The Australasian of October 25, says:— There was a great gathering of wool buyers, growers, and others interested in the trade, at Messrs R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s warehouses on Wednesday to witness the opening sale of the season. Enormous quantities of wool are now stored oh the various floors of the buildings, and the extensive additions which have recently been made to the warehouses have evidently not been completed a day too soon. A considerable proportion of the wool which is stored consists of clips from Riverioa, embraefng most of the best known brands from the Murray, Edward, Billabong, and Murrumbidgee. At the commencement of the sale, Mr Dodgshun, on behalf of the buyers, referred to the question of allowance for draft, which has fora long time past been a subject of agitation in London on the part of the wool-growers, who consider it an allowance which ought not to be made, the tare allowed for the woolpack being deemed sufficient. The brokers here, in deference to the wishers of the; growers, sold last season without' this allowance, and the buyers did not object,, but they now contend that, as the allowance is still made ia London, it is only fair that it should also be conceded in the colony. The brokers

hoWever were' not prepared concession and resort'tdithe -bid ; syiteH without first comtflbnibatirig ' with tfteß principals; the growers; anil ob thb uh'deJ| ptanding that steps should be taken atdtiM !*o .brlngaho. matter, befom-iiha^tojKeS !_ the sale proceeded with spirit, the biddings .being very anwiia^do,;T^ unusually large for an_opening sale. J included 7435 7 bales, 'df I wfcitih .dvefc 3GG§ bales ! wef fr sold n .ai < sa^sfaclory * H pricej i Particulars of the various lots and prfla pbtained wiU^fbund m"bur;^ojo^Je^» Iy© read? ybf -what proimses <fe f he%h| biggest booK'W We world. It is So^'l process df "minufaetiure .ib -l&ris]' *n.l wi contain, the ; jnames al]. thftfinhabijfa^^ Alsace and Lorraine who have iormaUproclaimed; their wish $&* remain Frencl subjects^ ' j 'The list is-^yi t to ,cpn}pnrji 380,000 names. One huna^red!anl:twea6y five compqsitqrs ( h^ve^beenremplpyed ot the work during the last three months It; ,is printing on; seven pEesses t ;aii.dt|i( volume will include; 13, 163 'pp>; A^aiua ble:/w6rk-/ntijdb&ht, : ba¥ii<)t l cie which would; wistitb; rbad thrbul^aij.b'sitte^ Thebiric^ltftidn: bf 'Eondbn < iibwspabe«i is'stated; upon .n^h, l ;^uWbVity a ; to f be } i folioy-s copies; StandardiMG^m^TDeimfNdw^ 9O;09O^ Em, W$G&? Times, Thb^prbiqg an^:bvJßnin|pa^ra together, give [a sum total dajlyS s6^o(so.,;:;'*^ Protection of Ybuth.-^Propnofor/B-rbar strong fences' rbund' yboiig » lrees, while they v leave" apd 1 forests to take their chance. , Perqajit not the immoral to „he twisted at for the want ofiguchyprbtectioarasiiiriifl i in your power to afford*'* 'X ymimbhu 0;i7. : ■j :^^btgS^g ;^^|g^^ a cosmopolitan cause are tfcre^^ibViMr of moral enthusiasm respectively^ appropriate to three successive "'Stages' of ;ira^ar { ibro* gross, and't D by;^£^ to idolatrous; worship,, churehrf^ihigVmd moral culture; whichtare thff -cefitrbl of three stages of '■ ?ireii* ibtnj 0 hlstb&rl— : < 7 a ' sTymlm?? ?.vi}ii.'«::;l $\\ • ■•■'.- --; The Am.ericen;pfiper^s^a|^ is already chbse^ )f: foiJthe)Jig?e^iS^fDational Exhibition of '1876, *and- that 'da it will be bre'cted- the;;l^ yet devoted to a sjm{|*|r, feared that the Cupiom-hofts^{ ft d*4ties 'imay prevent many; pe^sohs-f rom Jeshibielng/ ie has been re i solvdd ,,^ha^^^^ ley ied . on { arifcicle^^ unless they are sold in VAmejeibaeWx' The .Lqndbn cbrresp#^ writes :---*ijregret<tO)Bay;tha^.'rthe;frailway accident epidemic has set'4-d^ severity, the rate for the lai^t^lnio'atDi'^tla! and big, being asppt yppe j! ,^. l^y,,v / f^he : Wigan upset was fatal t to ll pasaengeri?, • $ir John (Anson b^ing r 'ii&mong^st'*Mlie| number; .while the next's'eriQii^;jwrg cpn- ; sisted in ,an excursjpn J^^^ bisected by aifish train afe' right n angle,! rto it, the driver of tha latter pt^ttrngiott Kail ; steam pqjr^|io^a y'jtb v^ bafif ' c^gh6 through jthe .-• ! exc'ursjbmstsV ; \)' i 4L^i j^jitjbis- .. he succeeded, kijiing spine, ( five or six. That railway . .accidents should happ^o-, under our system of perpetual overwork is easy to be understood^ *Jfiu6^w-fiy they should always happen in such numbers &( this tmie'W the year Is W mystery*;'' --^"i A\ The following by > the,VjS'ajn; ijinaniaa ' Tribune- :~- It is :? ;a iwell*4owii fa# that; hor^ea tb^|/^bvej;ph(ief ? servejt inf|; cavalry cpjjgs' wi^^^s' i^vj§i^gJo^. ears at the QalbpSrfche bugle- and en^avqi--to take their place jin j the a ratals bf ''the ' squadron 1 whence.^ thh^ wefl-knbwnl f lsbiod l proceeds.. fee Ting 1( p?-;a ,somewjna i^aim,i* 5 . lar charaptgsr, must . have atjimatedaionce celehratad - Tasmanian >;!buahrahgßrJ, JiiwhO' witnessed th9 r perfprm^nqe..Qf Jhe * Lass $?■ Lancash,!^ *:^pm.thb pffcbf our theatre thb other evening. In ths. New South WaW scene,; where MpQabeam K [the« b^shrapger/' hotly pursued by a baiidvbfifdigg'erf, 'half-ioi starved, and ..with his, clothes jifill torn, rushes into the presence J of "Rath, and asks for arms' andl mbneyy&he i ex-bandit i v gazed upon, thb stage representative of his 1 ' late 'profession,' with^a contemptuous eye, and sne^rihgiy4x<^atn\^d/^ c !^ou , re a pretty bushranger; why"; don't you steal the 'arras,^ .did 1 Martin ,Cash,/onge the, 'tcj^rpr jof^'j|'isnsai?»is?ii< but mow /a reapectable farmer Wsidiftgiafi? Gleqorchy.*' -' : ?;i - I ' s '; l y l r ' :,! ' „ i?i.i<.., i -• >■■"'*■ '•:*'■>'' _!vi ",-f i-l-.. .';?<:.. .-:>y<yyy» -rji uii-imt ->i i&-v Theffoilowing.i^ yarn". Is-puWißhadaojaif Victorian paper:*^' l6*is' believed-l>y 'thasQ 1 ' whb'have resided^' a^ Echdcaf du^itfg.^ha 7 height of sumuier^th^tj^hjef;^ is . np^hlaej^ in the world- like nit , -fer. |fleas# and jnaa.; amusing story is ;tdld aboutPfifeem. ** «? Some^ time bac^ : a" rail w'ay*o^clal"al[i^llti'bl ! 'i^o||g^ removed frbm^jthpi^|str^c^ ( o& t tUe ground' that the ifleas i were anbearabie, and their; attacks would be injurious to his health. Hia^eqtf esPwaa iieeh^^uVas n£jj£vssi. terminetl,to prove that Ke'iiaa'tol^ Wj ? .rath, § lamp, went flea-hunting, ( and, tojthe of an hoar or two chad filled;, sized malchbos^ with these bosom oom-ii