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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 168, 17 July 1874, Page 2

The dearth of teaching power continues in Otago. Last week's Gazette invites applications for no leas than c.even vacancies in public schools. A young East Indian boy, named -- : Woah Uzwera, has Ueeu charged in the Chnstchurch Court with wilfulk placing atones on therailway. Redid so % immediately before a tr.vu came up at the rate of from thirty- five to forty in ilea an hour, and his excuse for his conduct, when arrested, was au extraordinary one. Detective Walker, in his evidence, said:— l arrested the boy. this morning on the warrant produced. I went to Bum ham and saw the boy at his father's house. I asked him why ba went behind the gorse fence for to^ hide, and he said because he would like to see a good smas-h. I said how would. _ you like your father to have been in the train, and he said that would have been bad. In reply to bis Worship, tbe boy said that he was only pluyinj;, and wished to tee a* smash." Sir Cracroft Wilson asked the boy if . he knew what "smash "meant, but he did not seem to understpud the meaning of tbe word. The boy was about six years of age. In reply to Sir Cracroft WilsoD, the father of the boy again stated tbat he beat the hoy very severely, immediately . after he had been told that he had placed stones on the line. Sir Cracroft Wilson asked the father what security he could give that the boy would not ' be guilty of this offence again, j^o. \ replied in the metaphor of hia langua^ef * "If he does, lam your victim." The witness also, said he was aware of the enormity of the offence, and that loss of life might have resulted. Iv reply to his Wor..hip,^he father of the lad-said • he would not wly enter into a bond to pay £20 tharth/ offence should not occur again, J» if it did, he (his Worship) midffnlso v hang him." 'J he necessary bo/w was entered juto, and the boy was discharged. A story frcm the sea, as full of horror as any we remember, reaches us from Calcutta. The Arracan/ coal ship, bound from Shields to Bombay, waa ' found at sea. One of the boats, containing three men and two boys, was picked up in the Arabian Sea on the 20th March, having been thirty-two days in the Indian Oceau. with only ten days supplies. On the 9th March the last bit of bread was ate, and the last drop of fresh water drank. Yet from then, ' till the 20th March, eleven days the/ survived. They chewed lead to moisten their throats, tbey tried to eat their boota and jelly fish, and in* » delirium sought to kill one another inviting death, Blood from wounds io a ' fray was eagerly drunk, but when thi/ frenzy pasaed, tho men would shake hands and kiss each other. Lots were cast, and n boy in tho boat doomed to t be killed; but this the mate, who acte^ throughout most resolutely, prevented. Altogether it is an awful story. — Homeward Mail. It is announced that the Jesuits have left their chief establishment in Rome, and only four or five priests now remain. Freemasonry is apparently making great strides in Britain. A Home paper says there are 153 Freemasons in the present British Parliament—fiftyfive iv the Lords, and ninefy-eight in tbe Commons.

An arrangement is being carried out \ in Dublin for connecting all the public clocks, as well as many which belong „ to private^indi^iduals, with electric wires, and keeping them regulated by means of s electricity. A largo numbee of public bodies and others have agreed to carry out tbe scheme. Horace Greely thus hits the nail on tbe head :— « lt it strange how closely men read the paper. We never say anything that any body don't iiko bat we are sure to hear of it. If, however; ooceiaa while- we^happeo. tor aay a % good thing, we never hear of that. We pay ji man, a Jiuud&d! com^imenta, and give him a dozen puffs, make speech? r for him, and out Of Wo&hsical harrapguea made; ion pnblic platforms make him_ appear -like something - T brilliant, and ho never thinks H dees him any. good. But if wei heppen to say things this man don't like, O P i anything heimagines is a reflection on his character, see how quick he geld- mad flares up about; Hi : m All our misdeeds are duly calked, against as; that we * never apparently get credit for what good we do." > -■'■'>' : > ; "*- ■ :.•:.*■-.