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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 90, 16 April 1874, Page 2

Tbe English Woekmbn. — "Of course," says a London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, " there is a great outcry against the workmen, but their immediate reply is, that the country is free, and that any -one who thinks their work too liberally remunerated, is at liberty to engage in it himself. No doubt a large proportion of the enhanced receipts of the working class have gone in drink, bat it is gratifying to find that something very considerable has been spent more wisely. The colliers are beginniug even to buy articles of comfort, pianos, &c. Yesterday, in a stationer's shop, I noticed a number of neat sixpenny volumes laid out on tho counter. The proprietor told me that the colliers were his chief customers for these, and to add to my wonder, he informed me the one in greatest demand was the "Etiquette of tbe Ball Room." This is always being asked for, either as tbe " etiquate " or the otiquitty." A popular movement seems setting in also towards literary pursuits, and a rough-looking lad entering the shop, and apparently connecting the ideas of cream aud eggs, asked for a packet of " new laid envelopes^" The proprietor gave him a packet of* blu^ laid, and chanced it being right. The Pluto Massacre. —At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on the 27th ultimo, Waina and Swatea, two South Fea Islanders, were indicted for having, on the 20th May, 1873, murdered Thomas Hart, master of the Pluto. John Collins, a senman on board the vessel, gave evidence respecting ths wreck of the Pluto on Ewen Island, tn

the south-west of Caledonia, and the arrival of a crew in a boat at the Mary Island. The surf washed the boat ashore, and several natives then waded out to it. The two prisoners were among them, and they all set about plundering the boat. The male had previously been shot in the heart by en arrow, and had fallen overboard. One of the natives— not either of the prisoners—stripped the captain and Collins ; and another native, who died while being brought up in the Dido, struck the captain on the head with bis tomahawk. The captain fell upon the deck and died in about three-quarters of an hour afterwards. He had two toroohawk wounds in the back, besides the one op> the head, and had several arrows io/ms body. His left eye was also knocked out. The. other seaman, whose nome was Sttipe, killel himself to avoid falling into the hands of the natives. Collins was tßken on shore and lived there for three months and a-half. until the Dido arrived at the island. The two prisoners were on board the long boat when the captain was killed. The prisoners cut the body of the captain up after he was dead. They had pre-/ vioualy struck him with arrows fronf the shore. Mr Windoyer submitted that the Court had no jurisdiction in the case, ioaemucb a3 the alleged offence had been committed by foreigners in a foreign country, and they were therefore not amenable to the law of another country. It was not committed on board of a British ship on the high seap, as the boat was not a British ship in the proper acceptation of the term,and it was on shore, and not on tbe high seas. His Honor said he was of opiniou that the prosecution must fail. Thero was no authority which had decided that a boat was a ship, and he was of opinion that a judge should not extend the law beyond the point to which it had hitherto been carried. Had the boat been duly registered, and bad it sailed from any port on a voyage, it might then be held to be a ship ; but Buch was not the case. He held that the prosecution must fail because the boat at the time of the killing of the captain was on shore at the island, and wa3 in a foreign country, and the offence was not therefore within the jurisdiction of any other country. The jury then,

bjr bis Honor's direction, found a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoners were ordered to be discharged.

A gentleman who arrived in Hokitika Oil Thursday reports the damage done to the Christchurch road as follows, and estimates the cost of restoration at between £7000 and £8000:--Above Walter Ray's two bridges have been , washed away bodily, together with/ ftbout a mile of tho road, and this being in the Gorge will cost a heavy sum/to put it in a passable condition. Betwien the 43rd and 45th mile-posts the road is entirely washed away, no trace of it remaining. At the 40th mile/post, sixty chains of the road are gone!'' and' the 35th milo-post half a mile pi the road is completely washed away/ Mr Jackson's; house was completely hashed away, with all its coulents, afad the family narrowly escaped with; their lives. The Teremakau dot? run i where the house stood. At the Rmgiriri t^re is no trace of the road lor two miles. The Argus of Saturday says :— The late flood appears to have had greater effect upon the river itself tha i upon ' any previous occasion, in fact lavigation up-river has been, rendered {impossible for the coal barges. At the reaches where the barges were formerly towed by horses there is deep! water, and the main channel nearer Grejlmouth has split in three, none of which is favorable for laden boats. In other places on the Nejson sides of the river, the terrace has slipt down, entirely obliterating the towing-path. The temporary result of this state of things is that there is no coal in town for the steamers, and but little chance ( f any for a few days, unless a party sent up yesterday in a cargo boat to explore tbe fords and channels succeed in fin ling a practicable route for the coal barjes. The timber on a block of land bf ten square miles, in the Kaihu distrijpt has been sold by the native owners tp the Union Sash and Door Company, at Auckland, for thj? sum of £2050. \ Tbe,d<fcoveryi&as been made, says Jjlflk Ydss Courier, that the words> "You horrid butcher, Orton, biggest rascal here," constitute the anagram of '♦Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborpe, Baronet." " , Brain- work requires. more food than hand-work. According to careful esti-/ mates, three hours of hard study wear/ ~<*ut the body more than a whole day of severe physical labor. Brain workers, therefore, require a more liberal suppl j and richer food than manual laborers. To Set TLB Disputes. — Shoi t settlements make long friendship i. (ancing of accounts ia ure preventive of it - >ns. And in cases ( f Brstanding, all thb manners ever written so complete as thb Christian ethics — "If spass against thee, go ; between .thee and him Personal and prompt ween parties, witbmicatio'o with others, c greater part of the Is which disgrace cjv\tohup. -- Bake y' lur Oder; then strain md »h a siev£; to ev< ry add half a pint of chili, own vinegar, an oui cc half an ounce of garlic ed), a quarter of fan tit and white pepner. ill every ingrediehi is liv through a sieve. To tbe mixture add the lemons. Boil agaii >to >f cream and bottle it. t obtainable lime ji ice ■"■'■'■' ' — — » mmm