The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 240, 9 October 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 1874.

Sale of New Season's Teas.tA sale ofthe. damaged portion of the iWSjß'L^i.^/,^ " M : a y '' from-,Foo Chow, consigned to ' Messrs Sclantiers and Co , will be held by Messrs Sharp ,4nd>P|cpriQglt6.itnorrow. A number ofm/packages advertised for sale hate received but very slight iojury, and an opportunity will thus be afforded of 'Wakingsoniß" cheap purehaseßr"" " • It is gratifying to find that direct importations of tea, rice, and other Chinese produce have been commenced to Nelson. Messrs Davis & Co. have receive^ advices of the 1 sailing of; a ship JVqm China, which' is expected jto arrive here during the current month. Wbaf'ar^'neVconterits may be learned on reference to our advertising columns. The Mikado, with the San Francisco mail; arrived)at Auckland at midnight. The most important item of news to be found among her telegrams ia that which refers to the annexation of Fiji, which was to have been formally ceded to Great Britain yesterday. Kkttett versus O' Conor. —An action for detinue will be brought in the Besident Magistrate's Court, on Monday morning, at 11 o'clock, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover possession of a certain document alleged to have been taken from him by the defendant. Statements made upon oath will now take the place of rumors, and the public will have on ' opportunity of deciding which was the' more correct of- the two versions of this strange affur that have been laid before them. The following strange epitaph appears on one of the gravestones in the Hokiiika Cemetery. It is certainly an anomaly as emanating from the friends of anyone deceased :— " Memoria in iEiernia of Ellen, second daughter of X.hpmas and Christina Newhouse, of 'Preston, tanijasbirrV England, pasßed into everlasting rest, 10th day of September, 1873, aged fifty-three years, caused by a cancer, aud inflicted upon her, 7th day of Jaunary, 1872, by a ..person the law denominated her husband. For this brutality she 1 sought justice in vain at tlio R.M.C., H." J Several .verses of poetry .than, foiiowni], i ending with "His demouial ruffian soul is indelibly branded with the terrors of the state, justice yet for the sister dear our lives ami souls we evt;r consecrate " The Hfkitiki Leader of tbe 20th ultimo says that this extraortiinary epitaph was removed by tho Borough Council as trustees of the cemetery. It is still in the possession of (hat body, and there is, we hear, a possibility of proceedings being taken 'against thtf person fabo' pat ft" tip."

A lady in Grey mouth is reported by the Grey Star to have engaged one of the new arrivals as a general servant, who, the first day, at dinner sent up potatoes in their skins.' The mistress explained to the help that she would need to conform to the customs of the country and peel the vegetables before boiling, but to the lady's great surprise her servant exclaimed — " Spile the praties ! Is-it ;' niver~rd lave first." And she was as good as her word, and there is now a vacancy for a plain cook in the.houae of our friend. Since Mr Yogel announced to his constituent's of Auckland City East at the Choral Hall that he would entrust the preparation of the North Island new Constitution Bill to some barrister of colonial reputation, who is to visit each Road District in the colony, and .consult with every chairman of a Road Board, the question has been asked who is the barrister of colonial reputation |to be employed. We have so many eminent barristers, or barristers considered eminent, in either island that any guess made as to the " who" would be a very wild one indeed. Our Wellington evening contemporary, writing on the subject, goes oo to say ; — " Rumor mentions (he name of Mr. W.i S. Moorhouae bb the barrister of colonial reputation referred to. Whoever it ia will no doubt have a very pleasant tour during the summer months, but his note-book will be a curiosity, and we not envy him his task when he sits down to digest the suggestions made, and to embody them in the bill. There is one thing all the chairmen will be pretty unanimous about, and that is in the necessity for getting money to spend. Beyond this the advice tendered to a certain historical person and his son in reference to an ass will but faintly represent the character of the suggestions which r.will be made s It is certainly a rioyel jwayj, df framing a ; Constitutional: Act'" which the Premier has bit upon, but ' perhaps it is as good a way as any other, It will be rather expensive and utterly unproductive of results."