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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 262, 4 November 1874, Page 2

. The Otago Institute has nominated Professor Tyndall as an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute. A vessel freighted by the French Government was to sail on 29th July, from Bordeaux, with sixty women from different ihoujea of correction in France, who had expressed a will'ngness to contract marriages with convicts of New Caledonia. France fc eergainly doing its best to m»ka that colony the very hot-bed . of corruption. xTbe following export of sfeins took place from this Colony last year j—Rabbit skins 36,716, £1263; sheep skins, 105,4 6, £14,387; seal »kins. 1602, £1847; total value of skins £17,493. ' The Dunedin Guardian says that the police of the city will find it necessary to more carefully gnard the outskirts. Beveral cases of "sticking up»' have occurred in various outlying parts of Dunedin. The Pretty Jane, from Gisborne to Auckland, via Tauraoga, took shelter from a gale under White Island. Captain Ferandez says he hopes never to have occasion to go there again, as the wntpr is so deep that it is only jaßt possible to hold on andtho atmosphere so impregnated with' sulphur dust from the v«lc*ho, that it was very unpkasant in its effests on breathing. The complexion af every one of the crew is turned to a dull leaden hoe. The particles of dust were very irritating to the throat, and the color of the ships' paint is visibly turned. A curious discovery has lately been made by. a party of surveyors who were at work in the neighborhood of Palmerston (Wellington). Some few: miles from the township they came upon & piece of sculpture, if it may be termed^such, executed, in a .manner far superior -to anything of the kind previously believed to be the work of Maoris. The features, cut in the solid rock, are said to be inost'regular and natural, more especially the finger nails, which: display an acquaintance with the art of sculpture for which it is bard to account.'■'■ " ■>.: ■-.'■. ■.•:.. •i i A^exchangesays:—«lna leading article ihfjHawke'aßay Htrald innocently tells Us readers that it believes that immigration to this colony will be festered by tha introduction of trout into outrifent The author of this 4 brilliant thought says:—'There can be no doubt nanny men are greatly governed by their stomachs, and the prospect of havini as much variety of. food here as in England would undoubtedly be an attraction to a large number of desirable settler*.' The man who could conceive and bring forth such an 1 idea ' woulcl obtajn the first ,prizs for the worit conundrum'at any'contest, without a very vigorous exercise of imagination." : Ifthe Heathen Chinee is peculiar for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain (says the qretfmouth Star) he is no less aiagullr m his way of making money: in ground *hat would starve the European miner. We hava noticed lately that every Melbourne bourid boat has taken a number of these interesting copper-coLred Asiatics from our shores, and previous to their departure a visit is invariably paid by the emigrants to the Custom House for tbe purpose of paying duty on parcels of gold. They resolutely refuse to dipsose of their metal at the Banks, although *fef t V&***&>to* equal, to tba* obtainable In Melbourne, we asked one of these amiable rodrviduds whew? herwa* going She irt&er day, and he replied with child-like simplicity " Little splee in Melbourne, by em by aonie back/* From which we infer he was quite satisfied with the West Coast as a gold prodocing district. :; -it'rT A Tirpara; telegram dated 38th. 'October. ..W^-Thej/Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Show to-day was a brffliait: auc'eas., Nearly 2060 people wera present. There was a magnificent, display of home. Tbe sheep and pigs wera very good. The cattle were^few but excellent. The Canter- , bury and Ofago Association won the £50 Cap for neenrios, the fl2O cup for Leicester si Q£d tbe gold medal for the best merino raga. Mr Menlove, of Osmaru, ,wpn the_ £20' cup for* 3! horeeß, and the gold medal for draoght maree. J Mr' Te~sch'emsjcer*s' Talisman, by Traduce? won the gold medal for Soroughbredt- add* Mr CramobtV Marquis of Lprne the r,ten .guinea cup for the;be4»t entire. MrTsccred won the cattle cup; Mr Holland obtained,the gold medal for wheat. It was the best show ever held here. The horses were superior to j^bos^sbpwuatitliel^rUtchuWsho^ •"" ! Mr HoHoway has,.,been.interviewing; ttie MgChamje3;Natives,and thisis what Mr Ngakana ie .Wbanaunga said to him:—•« Welcome, Me Ho!lQWay,<the man from En^land-thW^an-g#r from that land we have all heard of to often, but have not seen. Come and see the people of this country, Come and see us who are troubled by there' Europeans whoTiaVe already Come. Who knows Whether, when yon come here, yon will behave yourself well to us? Who knows whether yon. will b£ as : favorably disposed to ns when: you arrive in numbers as at present. We are gratified that you are come here to see us. If what yon say is as good as what the Superintendent has said we. are satisfied, What often causes trouble between us and the: new mm is that' they do notaqderstand the customs we have derived frpui, our ancestors td; go freely into any house;, and they, tell ns to get away. Yon are welcome to coioe here, aqd to bring with you laws bftheQu^en, which,hire been set up fOTjlhe whote of ns.tlja Europeans aid £ha. Maoris, h" We N^es are looking anxiously as to the conduct of the Europeans. .This town of Shbrtjafid is the third in position of trie* »reat towtiav and we want to know what will be our position ss regards ourselves Hand the Etariipeens. <:i The Queen's son came here,and be did Dothing for- ufti:' r3Governor Bowen did somethings but as for the Queen's son he'did nothing. ' If yoti come 'and give ns plenty 1 dfmonisy for land we will be pleased lor ii \!> ■ «ffffcso, (■yjive.us plenty of money, and we will be well pleased,?' . \J?by, (his is - always theory $om the North., it is gatis-. factory to find the Maoris so readily,adopting, the customs and politics of their European neighbors. ' '. . \ - ] -■:■■■ iThftfiallarat Evening «Paf« writesj—Orders meat in Melbourne $p the, police at Bsllant^ that in future the-system pf prige distribution at enter|ainmßnts, as carried on fprhe?e some months past;, both at the Mechanics' Institute and •Theatre^Koyal (during lUbWdt at MadameiCora)/«haU no longar-batotorated, and that, it peeaisted in, actions should be instituted against offenders 1.