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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 32, 6 February 1875, Page 2

Sullivait. — Westport, says the Times, has just barely escaped a visit from this scoundrel, and may even yet wake up some morning to the unenviable notoriety of hpinoj \thn scene of his landing again ir^Wfw^ealarjd. It is a current topic of conversation that the captain of the schooner Alma was offered, previous to leaving Melbonrne for Westport, £50 to bring Sullivan as a passenger; so anxious are the Victorian police authorities to be rid of their charge. The offer was refused, so it appears, not from any compunctious visiting of conscience, or question as to right or propriety, in the minds of the skipper or owners of the vessel, but because of the mere incidental circumstance of passengers, or a passenger, being on board who the skipper wished to spare any possible annoyance. It is quite on the cards that the next craft from Victoria showing up off the Buller may have the murderer on board. It is not the manner among men who go down upon the sea in ships, more than among those who make their traffic on land, to refuse money. Sailing vessels trading to the West Coast from Melbourne offer the only present facilities to Victorian authorities for getting rid of Sullivan, and, as now shown, they are already alert to the opportunity. What will the people of the West Coast do in this emergency. Will they be content quietly to let him come. Will they make no protest against L is coming, no preparation, should he come, to give him the reception he deserves ? Let the electric wire ouce flash the message that Sullivan has landed oj the West Coast • and men throughout all New Zealand will wait with bated breath for response to the question, what have they done with him ?

Our telegrams the other day mentioned that tho Government have received no tidingsof Mr Vogel's arrival in England. His visit to London appears to be regarded with considerable general interest in quarters where colonial subjects are looked upon as important. The London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, in his remarks upon emigration, says: — "Mr Vogel's arrival is looked for with considerable interest, ac most English papers seem to regard him as the foremost man in the South in the present day, and as decidedly the most enterprising. Public opinion seems very murh divided on the merits of bis Polynesian scheme. Some of the dailies have given him encouragement, but the financial papers scarcely look at in the same way. The Economist has written strongly against it, remarks that no colonising company was ever made to pay, and warns New Zealand from burdening itself with such a project. Another paper says that the scheme would never receive the npproval ot the Home Government 'as engendering points of conflict with the United States' interests, and also a trade monopoly to New Zealand, and a possible hostile tariff to British manufactures.' The' Times, in an article of the 3rd instant, very laudatory of Mr Vogel's New Zealand career, after adverting to what he has done towards railway construction, immigration, &c, briefly alludes to the Polynesian project, and concludes by Baying — 'Whether thiß ambitiouß achievement is within the powers of New Zpaland in these days, when commercial monopolies have become impossible, may well be doubted; but if New Zealand continues to display the energy and self-reliance that are to be marked in her recent financial history, the commercial prize, for which her statesmen, suspicious, and wisely so so too, ot a too exclusive devotion to agriculture, are striving, will naturally and inevitably fall to her.' Mr Yogel cau scarcely regard the leading journal as antagonistic. His departure by the Melbouroe mail of the 6th inst. was telegraphed to London. 1 ' A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says : — " The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company seems to be in a > prosperous way, if one may judge from ' the quantities ol machinery, &c, sent from the Clyde by nearly every ship. Mr A. J. Burns informs me that the Nelson and City of Dunedin both took a considerable quantity of material of various kinds, as well as some more hands for the weaving department ; also, that the Oamaru, which sails in a few days, will have about 140 packages, besides -another family of workers for the dyeing department, and the plaut and other material for commencing indieo dyeing. This last named branch of industry has never yet been started either in Australia or New Zealand. This extensive export of machinery has been necessitated by the great and growing demand for the company's goods. I am glad to learn, however, that some of the machinery can now be made as cheaply and as well in Dunedin as in this country, so that the one local industry will encourage the other. Mr Uirich 1 , who, we believe, holds the appointment of Inspector of mines in Victoria, has been od a visit -br" inspection to the Taupeka and Waipori districts. He has pronounced favorably of the province as a natural field of gold, and has no doubt of deep leads being found at Wetherstone's and Waipori. The peop'e interested in the Tuapeka district will be highly gratified by the announcement, but would, we think, be better pleased, if Mr Uirich would pbibt.fdthe locality of the reefs instead of merely surmising their existence. Tnapeka ranks among our oldest goldfieldß, and there is not. an inch of the ground but has been thoroughly prospected years ago by men with both the practical and scientific knowledge possessed by Mr Uirich. There have been no greater mistakes made respecting the New Zealand goldfields than by men professing a geological knowledge of our auriferous strata. Dr Hector did not hesitate to declare that there would not be found any gold in the terraces of the West Coast of the Middle Island, and it has been in the terraces where the richest deposits have been 1 unearthed. Darkey's Terrace in the Nelson province, is a case in point. The fact is, that there are very few, if indeed any, distinct " leads " in. this colony as there are in Victoria, the whole of our auriferous country being patchy. Here a rich spot, and next to it on either side not the color of gold. Mr Uirich was only a few days at Tuapeka, and of course nothing was easier for him than to " pronounce." It pleased the people of Tuapeka, and raised Mr Uirich in their estimation, but'there was nothing more, nor. is it likely more will come of if. — Auckland Herald, The Paris correspondent of the Christcburch Press, writing of the political situation in France, says :— It would be Bimpler to have a Dictatorship at once, but even Dictators, like Stat|jpgm?are not forthcoming. The AProolwich Infant," aB Napoleon IV. is irreverently called here, has not the Btuff in him to govern a people tbat sees in a potentate nothing more than a man and a brother, and Prince Napoleon alleges that his cousin the Prince Imperial is a ninny. They say the best men are moulded out of faults, but the French believe in no such reform if applied to the Bonapartists. From the Port Louis Commercial Gazette, of November 2, we: take the following items of news from the Cape ; diamond-fields, extracted from the J

South African Mail of 16th October : — " A diamond of 237 carats has been found at the diamond-fields, and the Piamond News of October 6 says :— ' List week was remarkable for the number of large diamond's found, of from 50 up to 100 carats and upwards. None of them were white, however, or oven Cape white, and consequently, not very valuable.'' In reference to this 1 the E. P. Herald says : — « We yesterday saw the largest diamond yet found on the dry diggings. It was picked up by a native in the employ of Mr Schreiner, in the old De Beer's mine, on Tuesday pfternoon. It weighs 237 carats, and looks like two decanterstoppers rolled into one. It is, unfortunately, a little yellow, but it is free from flaw, and of good shape. It is a magnificent stone/ In a later edition the same paper says : — ' The owner writes us to the effect tbat our description of this diamond was misconstrued to mean that it was a double stone. He Bays that it is the most solid and undivided stone possible, that the owners estimate its value at £2,000, and that they have called it the Faith Diamond.' " An official in the Bavarian Telegraph Office has invented a wonderful apparatus by which not alone autographs, but signs and even portraits can be sent along the wires. The inventor is Herr Hencker, of Munich, and his "" Electro-maguetic Copying Apparatus," as he calls it, has been already secured hy a Frankfort banking firm. This apparatus, without the aid of a telegraphist, can transmit writing in different languages, signatures, portraits, plans, &c, to any distance with perfect resemblance to the original in all points. Among other exploits of this wonderful invention, it telegraphed the opening speech at the Singer's Festival, which took place lately, us printed surrounded by garlands of oaks and laurels; also bills of exchange, Government despatches in cypher, messages in Greek I and Hebrew letters, an arrest warrant with portrait of the person "wanted," and a map as used by generals in time of war, with the intended movements of the troops marked out upon it. An impression of the object, writing, drawing, &c, is taken in a prepared ink on \ a sort of silver paper, which is rolled ( on a revolving cylinder and forwarded to its destination without further visible aid. — British Export Mercantile Advertiser. Flogging (the Army and Navy Gazette cays) is abolished in the army, but it still flourishes in the navy. Five I naval cadets in the Brittania were flogged recently on the bare back for | "bullying and fagging." That these boyß bad been very naughty boys we I have no manner of doubt, but tbat " flogging them on the bare back " was the best remedy for making them good for the future we very much question. A thorough sound caning would probably not have be^n much amiss, but to degrade young g\ptlemen by exposing them to a coarser description of punishment was unwise. It is now about thirty years since the youngest admiral now on the list flogged a midshipman, and such an outcry was raised at the time which, it was supposed, would for ever have have prevented the recurrence of such an act ; but history has repeated itself with a vengeance, and five families instead of one will be " down " on the Admiralty. The ladies of New York, U.S., have earned the admiration of tbe sterner sex. The opening of the opera season there was signalised not so much by the triumphs of the singers, or tbe Splendid appearance of tbe theatre, as by tbe singular sight the female portion df the audience presented. Every female head appeared shorn of chignon, Vat, friz, and many other nameless similar contrivances The Graphic Says, and we can well believe it, the sight was exhilarating; heads were quietly and chastely glorified in natural hair alone, simplex munditiis. A flower, perhaps, and a ribbon here and there ; but the simple grace of flowing or plaited locks. Husbands rejoice at the change, however barbers and dealers in human hair deplore if.