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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 196, 19 August 1874, Page 2

We (Express) regret to learn that the Yen. Archdeacon Butt sustained a severe accident on Wednesday last. It appears that he was iv the act of closing tbe gate after him at a house where he had been paying a visit at Spring. Creek, when the saddle turned round with him, and he fell to the ground considerably hurt. As no person saw hira fall, it was some time before bhe could make himself heard, t obtain aesistynce. We bfii'' v knee is somemhat twisted aud 80ra j ned finenTent reSUlt '" tem P<™7 «o*-' Captain Hart wbo htel died /rom injuries receded on board the steamer Beautiful dtar> has , eft 8 widow and lour lit, j 8 girls, the youngest only a few morifchsoid. nT A w maru te{e g rai a informs us that Mr W. A. Chapman and Miss Ada Bonmfon gave an entertainment there on Thursday last with immense success. Mr Adams, tbe immigration agent for the province ot Otago, is said to have had instructions to procure 200 young women for a Nothing factory in I Dunedin. He bad refused 300 appli- f cants as emigrants on accoant of %h*i- t being unsuitable. »* " Prom a trout recea% I Palmerston, Otago, tha - caught at ber of 16,530 ova »* enormous numFrom §$h y ..ero taken. , tons, of -'^^ano to 7th July, 8329 That)** oione were crushed at the ♦* ..es, which yielded 10,6320z. of D oid. The increase, when compared with the previous month, being 2815 tons in stone, and 322305. in gold. A member of the police force has been detailed for the purpose of enforcing in Hokitika the provisions of the Females Employment Protection Act, carried through the Assembly last : year by Mr Bradshaw. By it, shop and factory girls, dressmakers, &0., are prohibited from working more than eight hours a day, but it has not been regarded at all hitherto in Hokitika. It will in future be strictly insisted on. The Assembly of California has , j passed a BUI requiring ail miners to j keep in good . order and operation two shafts of ingress and egress, means of ventilation sufficient to give each miner 230 fact of pure air each minate, keeping hoisting machinery in good order, landoversaars of mines to be deemed guilty of manslaughter death otMur^ jfrota want of attentioa to ite prOTisioas^ -^yy%yy^yy% Wyyy^&M^^fi

■ i 7 .Th?7iV^^J^^ *1 The service*/ cf^r^feSn^Mi^ 3 Telegraph TDepartment^vw^; ro fer r^ to somewhat handsomely iu 7 tbe7 He-use' i when,: in committee of sapplyj Ttfcia. estimates for the department were under discussion. Reference was made to his discovery of a system of telegraphy, known os the duplex, by which messages could be sent simultaneously Aa opposite direcf ions by one wire; and to the fact that it is now in successful on a wire of the Cook Strait cible. It was pointed out that the discovery practically doubled the valuo of the cable, and was therefore of very great advantage, pecuniarily, to ihe colony. The obvious wish of the members was that Mr Lemon's discovery thould not paes unrecognised, and the hon, member for Nelaon (Mr Lackie) remarked that if Mr Lemon had chosen to patent bis invention or discovery, it would have been worth a large sum of money to him. Mr Yogel highly complimented Mr Lemon, not o&ly for the admirable state of his department, but for the devotion to the service which he showed. He mentioned, however, that the transmission of messsges on what was known as tbe duplex system had been investigated and brought into practice in other countries, though to Mr Lemon the credit was due of having worked out the system on a plan of his own. When the estimates for the department were presented, said Mr Yogel, he had suggested to Mr Lemon that an increase of salary should be proposed for him. Mr Lemon, however said he did not wish such a proposition to he made, as be bad received an increase of salary last year. The feeliug of the House, however, was that Mr Lemon was inadequately paid as compared With other heads of departments, and that his discovery of a mode of duplex telegraghy should be recongised in a substantial manner. Mr Yogel, therefore promised to place a sum on the •Supplementary Estimates. The Premier also stated lhat a special recognition of Mr Lemon's service^ to which the Cabinet had agreed, should be appended to the annual report of the department. The active habit? of children prove that occupation is a necessity with moat of thenc. They love to be busy, even about nothing, still more to be usefully employed. With some children it is a strongly "* developed necessity, and if not turned to good account will be productive of evil thus veryfying the old adage that > idleness is the mother of mischief." Chijdren should be encouraged or if indolently disinclined to ir, should be disciplined into performing ior themselves every little office relative to the toilet which they are capable of performing. They should keep their own clothes and other possessions io neat order, aud fetch for themselves whatever they want ; in short, they should learn to be aa independent of others as possible, fitting them alike to make good use of prosperity, and to meet with fortitude any reverse of fortuue that" may. befall them, We know of no rank, however exalted, iv which such a system would not prove beneficial. ?A Japanese writer, in describing Europeans, says :~ Jealousy is au unknown passion among them; and ''so much affection subsists between »»' aud wife that it is quite a <"• aD H immon "' .' . - .!■' I ill .', .tf" _ - - ■ If