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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 173, 4 August 1874, Page 2

The s.s. Tararua, which sailed on Tuesday (says the Australasian J, took away a very fine lot of young draught stock, shipped by Messrs Fleming and Had ley, of Oaraaru, Otago. Some yearlings by Muir Lad were greatly admired, as were also a couple by Conqueror. One of the colts by Muir Lad, " Mor ley's Fancy," out of Miss Patterson, was a very fine animal, and it is said realised the highest price ever paid for a colt of his age iu Victoria. The colt was not intended for sale, nor would his. owner have parted with him except to go out of the colony. Beattie's Conqueror, the sire of Miss Hegarty and Lias o' Gowrie, has been recently sold for 703 guineas. He is one of the best stallions ever brought to this colony by David Nisbet. This shipment comprises a lot of very high first-class draught stock, the choicest lot, probably, that has ever left the port. It is stated that Rochfort will publish La Lanterne in London. Professor Macgregor, of Ediuburgh, who has opened a theological class in New College for young ladies, had the pleasure of meeting 200 of the fair sex when he delivered his introductory lecture. All thb Difference. — It is now discovered that the account of the " balloon " that was found in a tree in South Africa, and supposed to have travelled southward from France during the Franco-German war, is founded on a typographical error. Tho word should have been printed " baboon." The Latest Definition.— When two persons get married in North Carolina, they are thereafter said to be I " Siamesgd." j