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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 301, 5 September 1874, Page 4

The smuggler still has an existence, says the Melbourne Telegraph in a recent issue. He lurks not in caves, it. is true, but dweils in a detached villa at St. Kilda. He pulls no boat at night-time, in dread of'breakers aod guardspen, but comes into town instead, at 10 o\jl6ck in the morning, behind a pair of fast steppers. Instead of running a lugger be passes false entries. There was a dash of romance abbot the smuggler of old, and his adventures when put on the boards used to bring, the house down. An audience was taken captive by the blood-and-thunder villain, who certainly . preyed upon the revenue but who scorned a meanness. But tbe modern .representative is but a miserable fellow. He has dropped the broadsword and wears . broadcloth j he is found not defying the breeze i and the billow, but in devout attendance at church and synagogue ; he does not put his life in jeopardy, but he causes other men to peri( tbeir souls by foreswearing themselves. He concocts a sham invoice, and orders his clerk to call his Maker to witness that it is a genuine one whereby he saves 25, or even 45 per cent, of tbe Customs, dues which reputable tracers have to pay in full Then does the smuggler smile, and sell his goods readily and cheaply, and perhaps sends a handsome dbnotion to the charities, and is praised by all men. This practice, Mr Murray Smith" doctored, in Parliament yesterday, ia not uncommon in Melbourne. According to the Commissioner of Customs, who knows still more about the matter, it is most common, and some of the best firms in the city engage in it. The exiatence of the smuggler in shoals was admjtted in the Assetably lately— and leading merchants were present— and the' only question discussed was how to deal, with the offender when be is detected.

A type-writing machine has been -patented at America, that, if successful, will rank as one of tbe principal inventions of the day. The type-writer ,is about the^iae of an ordinary aewiog- • machine and,, is worked with keys similar to piano keys. It is claimed that an expert can write with it readily sixty words a minute. Any person, it is said, with only two weeks practice, can write with it faster than with a pen. It can also « manifold" or write two to twenty copies at once, whenever desired.

M. Lartigue, a French; gentleman, who by. an ingenious appHcatioj, of electricity, enables locomotives of express trains to whistle, independent of the engineer, when passing signal posts, has applied the same automatic arrange! ment to another useful end, that of the train putting itself in motion by an electric current the semaphore signals, so that the train announces its departure from one station to that which it intenda to stop at, telegraphing at the same time when il shall arrive.

HoUowatfs Ointment and PUlt effect wnoder.ul curea ol ba. legs aud.old wounds. If these medicines be used according to the t!Tn?l Vi ?? h a / c Wra ?P ed arottn - each pot and box, there is no wound, b*d leg, or S ?'_£ ore how^ er . ob «in»te,that will not yield to their curmve properties. Thousands of people who had been patient, iv hospSa! under the care of eminent surgeons, withou denviDg the least benefit, have been'cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pilh, w i !en other remedies and treatment had signally failed v£% glandular swelliug., tumora, scurvy, auv dieses of the skin there is no medicine itiat eau be used with so good an ef.ee.; Though pottntfor gjod, it is powerless for harm • ' ani though the curd effected is rapid, it U also complete and permanent. 2?4l

SUBSCRIPTIONS in AID 01 the WIDOW and o_-PJiA.fß.of tbe . late Richard Savagb, who waa recently killed by an accident at the fort, will be thankiully received by the P__ov___c_a_ Tkbasobbb, Nelson: Mr. w.c. Wixnir-s, Ironmonger, and Messrs. T«^_f« & So^ B «Mge-«teee» ; or the Rev. John Sm__u_, Wakeflaid, U47