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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 57, 8 March 1875, Page 4

The collection at the Wesleyan Church, at Wellington, on the Sunday evening, when the Rev. Charles Clark occupied the pulpit, and which was in aid of the Thorndon Weeleyfan Sunday School, amounted to £20 18s. A sub-postal district in the Province of Hawke's Bay has been named " Erewhon." The South Australian Government propose to give £80,000 towards education thia year. An Auckland telegram in the Lyttelton Times says tbat Mr Beckham, R.M., will shortly retire, and will be nominated to the Upper House. The Lyell Argus of the 28th instant reports that the Central Buller Company at their trial crushing passed only seventeen tons of etone through the machine. The result was 96ozs lOiwts of melted gold, being at the rate of s£ozs per ton. A committee has been formed in the Lyell district for the establishment of a lodge of Grood Templars. The meeting was held at Zalatown, and some practical jokers disturbed the proceedings by pouring a quantity of water through the roof of tbe building. This did not prevent an influential committee being formed. The Auckland correspondent of tbe Otago Daily Times writes that Sir George Grey makes a great sacrifice by coming forward as Superintendent. He is in receipt of a retired Colonial Governor's pension of £1000 per annum, and this becomes forfeited by his acceptance of any oflice of emolument. There is not a shadow of doubt about his teturn, probably unopposed. The Lyttelton Times of Thursday snyß that the reappearance of Sir George Grey in the political world, and the murmurs arising against Mr Yogel for the contempt which his silence in England is considered to imply, and the news that he is unable to negotiate loans as favorably as former loans, together with many other indications, forecast a change in the political atmosphere. A transaction at Riverton, Otago, is likely to lead to litigation. A Bank cle r k had a quantity of gold amalgam presented to him, which he bought, but owing to some mistake in the weights for calculation, the vendors were paid £100 more than they were entitled to. When the erroi was discovered a request was made for rectification, but the miners refused to refund. The matter is now in the hands of the policp. At Oamaru last week, in a case of severe epilepsy of some years standing, the patient, who was almost in arliculo mortis, recovered under novel treatment adopted as a last resort by Dr. Gleeson. The patient had been treated with all the ordinary remedies, but without effect, and finding tbat all tbe symptoms of approaching death were present, Dr. Gleeson determined to try the use of chloroform. On the first application symptoms of relief were immediately apparent, and after three or four careful applications the spasms entirely ceased, and the patient went into a sound sleep. From this time (says the North Otago Times) be steadily improved, and is now restored to health, and able to follow his usual employment. A letter from the Ohinemuri correspondent of the Southern Cross gives an interesting account of Mr O. Greegh's orchard, at Ohinemuri. The facts narrated Bhould be carefully pondered over by all country settlers. The whole area of land occupied as an orchard is less than 20 acres; and yet^ from this area of ground, which, probably, waa treated to a rough and ready method of culture, the fortunate proprietor netted last year no less tban £500. Tbia year, owing to a largely increased population in the district, his returns will be considerably increased. The hop plantations of England have been much increased during the past two years, and it is reported as probable that the area "in full bearing " will in another season have risen to the unprecedented amount of 67,000 or even 68,000 acres.