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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 39, 14 February 1874, Page 2

- The Wellington, 4 Post* says:— Would the anticipation of vaccination be a preventive of drunkenness? We fear even anticipated amputation scarcely would be efficacious, but we caution those gentlemen who are in the habit of receiving BeDtences of " ss, or 24 hours," that by the 94th Clause of the Public Health Act, 1872, which; is to be strictly enforced, every person received into the prison must be vaccinated inatanter. The Clause says,, 'j Every gaoler of a prison shall cause all inmates thereof to be vaccinated immediately on their entrance, unless they shall produce sufficient evidence of a previous successful vaccination within five years, and unless in the opinion of a duly qualified medical man the operation would be attended with danger to such person." ; The London correspondent of the Melbourne 'Age' mentions that "a strange story comes from Natal, no less than the discovery among the branches of a tree of a mysterious-looking and almost; shapeless object, when examined, turned out to be the remains of one of the French balloons sent out during the siege with despatches by the Government of Paris. The despatches have, it is said, been forwarded to France. If the story be true, and not a mere hoax, its adventures throw new light upon atmospheric currents," :