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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 115, 15 May 1874, Page 2

Tbo engagement of Mr Adams, the emigration agent for Otago in Great Britain, is for a period of two years, at £500 per annum and travelling expenses. He has been instructed by the Superintendent to endeavour to fill up the new steamers of the Dunedin Harbor Company with suitable immigrants. Good Templarißm has been made compulsory during the last week or so in most places along the Buller road. The irregularity of traffic bas caused many of the vendors of "hard stuff" to run completely out of supplies. It is said tbat instead of receiving the usual salutation of "good day, floe weather," each passer by has been summarily asked if he had a " nip" in his pocket. Westport Times. The Cooktown Herald says : — " We can back Cooktown against creation for thunderstorms. Tuesday evening one of full growth passed ove^the town, and white it lasted it was . -a caution.' For six hours the storm lasted. The lightning was most vivid, the thunder shaking the town to its centre. Torrents of rain fell, — Over 1500 men have been camped in town for the last week waiting for flour. For that time all the stores bave been out of stock of this necessary article, and of course it would have been madness for men to have started without it On Thursday the smull supply held by the bakers was all used up, and we bad the pleasant prospect of living on salt junk, mutton chops, or ( American hash,' till a supply arrived." ' -• . . I

" Ticbbornia'? is the latest parlor pastime. It ia a game for a family circle. You are supposed to think of some old mutual friend, at that time absent, then take pencil and paper, and, in a given time, jot down his personal appearance, and every little noticaatfie peculiarity. When tbis is done, these little biographies are massed, and an average struck, the amusement being to see what contradictory descriptions will be given ; how different even marked characteristics appear when seen from diverse points of view, and how utterly/ irreconcilable the general bulk of ihetn are, one with another, although by clever manipulation, results not totally at variance may be Btruck from tbe most. A