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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 166, 15 July 1874, Page 2

The Ballarat Courier hai been informed that a fortune of £30,000 has fallen to the lot of one of the workmen in a Ballarat -foundry. He received the news by the mail, and immediately commenced drinking, was found iu the gutter, and finished the night in the lock-up. The following is a gem from the Parliamentary report in tbe Sydney Morning Herald. Mr Robertson, referring to the Colonial Secretary, Mr Parkes used the following language, to which no particular objection seemed to be made:— After the manner in which the hon gentleman had addressed the Houae to-night they might think it necessary to compel him to go to the country. They were ready to go to to the country and let them go, for that was the uroper remedy for their present trouble. (Hear, hear.) It was no use talking like a lot of fishfags at each other across the table. The hon gentleman went out of his way to blackguard the hon member for Camden, whose boots he was not fit to clean. The hon member had not the courage to remain in the house while he was speaking, but was forced to run away. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and cowardly, sneaking, snivelling, cringing hound could not stand fire, but slunk out of tho chamber! He listened to the hon hound's abuse, but the hon now sneaked away. [ Attention called to the state of the House, and a quorum was formed.] The hon member the Premier, who had delivered himself of the grossest falsehood that had ever fallen from tha lips of any snivelling whining fellow, now ran away. [Attention was called as to the state of tbe House, and a quorum formed,] If there tvere any truth iu tbis boasting irapoatc-r ho would go to the country. (Opposition cheers.) Tha New Yovh Tribune says : — " It is always pleasant to read of rewards given to good actions, aud so we note I that which hath come to a gentleman of the timely name of Blossom. Tis now many years ago — more than twenty — that thia Blossom, blooming in Washington, wooed to the ways of uprightness and eelf-respect a young man to whom wine was a familiar demon. Blossom took him from the roadside mud, Blossom gave him a pleasant home, Blossom counselled him, and at last reformed him entirely. Then the

young man went to the West— which was the eminently proper thing to do —and disappeared for ev.r frcm the sight of Blossom. But Blossom was not forgotten. A few months ago he saw a newepaper advertisement inquiring his address, and, bavin]; responded, was informed that the young man he had reformed was dead, and had left him a small remembrance of 1,000,000 dollars— all his prop ft rty. It's 'this sort of anecdote that preserves the journalists' belief in human nature, and his hope for the continued existence of Sunday-school literature. The number of Post Office Savings Banks io the colony increased from 46 in 1867 to 97 in 1873; the number of deposits from 6977 to 39.223; and the amounts deposited from £96,372 to £580,542 in the same period. The interest, had increased from £1241 5s to £20,106 16_ lOd. The excess of revenue for 1873 to the Government in this department amounted to £6,193 The accumulations in the various savings banks in the colony speak more for the general prosperity and thrift of the masses than «ny other index we could point to.~-_.Vcw Zealand Timos The " Anslo-Australian," in the European Mail, writes :— " Great numbers of people — the very bone and sinew of the island population — are on the eve of leaving Skye in search of more smiling homes and greater material comfort in the settlements of New Zealand. The reason of this exodus is given in laoguago which Lowlanders may be apt to pronounce strained and exaggerated, but which there is only too good {.round for believing is little more than fairly descriptive of tho actual etate of affairs A correspondent characterises the island as gradually becoming an intolerable place for human beings to live in, Owing to the frightfully gloomy and stormy weather that prevails continually during the summer nnd winter, spring and autumn, the very wealthiest can have no earthly pleasure in living in Skye. Beyond question, Skye and the Hebrides generally are subject to the heaviest raitfall known iu this quarter of the world; but if people were comfortable otherwise, they could survive the showers, even if they lived under the shadow of the storm-worn Cuchullios. It is the absence of physical comfort, and tbe presence of misery which renders the gloom oppressive beyond endurance. The common people have enormous rents, to pay for their wretched holdings, upon which they endure life, but never enjoy it; and ofl which they can hardly secure any corn crops but in a half-rotten condition, owing to the rainy state of the harvests. Uuder these circumstances a large number are about to emigrate to New Zealand." At Fenton, in the Staffordshire Potteries, two men who had been drinking together quarreled, aud adjourned to a field to fight. They fought " dog fashion"— i.e., with their teeth. One of them had his under lip bitten cleun off, and received other serious injuries. He liea ia the North Staffordshfre Infirmary in a precarious condition. The other man bas absconded. Several companions witnessed the combat, but did nothing to stop it.

Information, somewhat plainly put, \ is thus given to the writers of letters to - newspapers, by the New Zealand^ Herald; tbe information being supplied directly t> a correspondent to tbat ?$■ journal, Mr F. S. Peppercoroe :— f. Your letter ia in type, aud will be -*V inserted at our convenience. It ia not ; . usual for correspondents to dictate to : ; 1 the editors of journals tbe date when 1 their commjmicationa shall appear ; nor is it likely the insertion of your communication will be at all hastened by such a letter as youra of y. sterday _. date in reference thereto. It was y o ' ur i pleasure to send the correspondence j ; it is ours to determine the date of ita appearance, if it goes in at; all." The followiug advertisement appears ' in a London paper :-.«« Wanted, ' in ; a ' priests large family, iu the west of ' England, a strong, hard-working, intelligent woman, over 30, to cook and ' manage a dairy, single-handed. Must be a good church-woman, an early - riser, and not object to Australian meat."