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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 265, 7 November 1874, Page 2

f*■ | ow i c '^f)y Jtfn read the jP a f§\Ji|jf e never aay^joy thing that i.snyl^^^on't^^^pf c are sure lb^ soon near of it.^iTJniowever, once in * a while, we happen to say a good thing, we never hear of that. We pay a man a hundred compliments and give him a . do«n jwjfs, m?£e _apee£hea for him,. fen public platforms make him appear '" something brilliant, and he takes it all ■a9-*-U:ibiAtB to iiia-gwatoe33,-aad he.,, never thinks it does him any good. Bu^|Jf p^ 0 h^ppetiedf JbT^yFl^i^&tihis/ jnai^dqn t like, or aoyibing he imagines a reftgetionr^on'-hisr-charanteivsee-'iiow" quick he geT^n^d;aoll f flajrel ¥p ab<|uT it. All ouf 'taraaeeilairQ duipchalkedl up against us ; but we never apparently gat credit for what good we do."_

Speaking of theßollar bar at present, the Westport Times a*yn, " A Melbourrie, steamer* might with perfect ease steam across , the . bar—a r iday ,<tf jlw # 6 : B »B.Wf. r^^l»ourfl« skipper, , stra,pg<% fc the coast, brought in, under, .sail; his craft of 189 tons register. If she had ; beejtypf SOOtgnß ths ibwQuldlhavßl been just as safe." „ „ , . , . ..,, With -.regard, f to(:|be;,«p,e|ition ; for casing ;the , Qpunci) together recently/ circulated through the province, the ?^y; R fP^ r ' f! r i7** :#J a ••7-" 4 c >*pg?, in the individual composition ;ol the r^oBs|b|o regult q|ihe meeting of the , Coancii, r ,,bu^thaf/W^l.c|epenjd a e^^rel r upon fibs groWds Umt raeyr be aUegel for a want of confidence in the present office-hWderi^d' 0 ffe^ote thef dia r be able to mntce, J^^t,, i^o ,|change ii -4he-p«r^»««^^^the^EKeoutive',oah .curipli^ pre^ijpa^ defects of the system under which "the Government of the Protinee is now adminiitereJVan'd W \k =^^^lipfeia^as"^mc^^Banytß!n^THi^ reqaires nmending. Nelaoa has .a Superintendent who is so only in name. Whether hia interpretation iof '■ his position under th& Executive Act be corre^^ ,or sot.it iaiapp»^eftft<tha|[ ( sMf v Curtis haa iv irlualiy < > abnegated" hrn highest functions, arid has hsndad over the Govefnment of the Province hand and. foot: to the Executive." ■: :•■' By the last mail steamer from Melbourne there left for England a young man nanredj Henry .Satjivaoi whorvaf recently working in a wood yard' al' Geelong for Bs. per week. Al home a nie*.)UUe fortune of £18,000 awaits him. A man named Fairgravea,while scoff* libg : with another man io DonellinJ bit a portion of his ear off. The /instruments at the Sydney. Observatory indicated the velocity of the gale on September 8 at 88 milea an hour, being five miles more than had ever been previously recorded. Female' convicta are rnsde to blast and pound rock in St. Louis. The rights of women are being gradually recognised everywhere, Mrs Harris suggests that perhaps one reason why Hibernian domestics never pay attention to what you say to ttfem is because they're out of 'Erin." " Oregon comes proudly to the front with a girl who refused eight offers of marriage iff two clays, aos would save done even better than that had there been time. If a. bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, it is not leas true that a thorn in the bush is worth two in the hand. Two 'subaltern officers were occoaoq guard at Gibraltar, when one of them (ell down a; precipice four hundred feet high, and was killed. Usually in the guard reports there is a note, '» N. 8., nothing extraordinary since the gdardmounting." This was duly entered by the fcurviyjng officer, Whe.n>ithoJ accident was discovered, the brigademajor indignantly asked for. an expta^ nation. " Weel, sir," replied the officer (a Scotchman), "I dinna think there's anything extraordinary" 7 va if ; awa ; if he'd faun doon a precipice four huDdceU feetihigfa, and no, been\ killed* I 1 pbould ha'e thought it very extraordinary and wad ha'e nut it. aooo in a&Hsatt * ' H "