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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 64, 16 March 1875, Page 2

Naval Brigade. — A general meeting of the members of this brigade is advertised for Friday evening next, Lady Barkly. — Several alterations, for information regarding which we refer our readers to the advertisement, have been made in the time table for the week of the Lidy Barkly. She will not leave here for Motueka until to-morrow afternoon, instead of to-day, as previously advertised, A Prolific Vine.— Max Adeler, whose experiences in (he culture of the grape vine we published the olher day> should have tried what he could do in this particular line in Nelson,' where he would probably have met with greater success, provided he took care to socure the proper kind of vine. We were ehovfD to-day one of the finest displays of grapes we have seen on the gnble end of Mr Gorrie's house, in Bridgestreet, where, in a space of about 36 square feet, there were no less than 106 bunches, estimated to average a pound weight each. The root of the vine is in Mr Smith's garden, at the back of Messrs Curtis Brothers' warehouse, and a branch has been conveyed through Mr Grorrb's kitchen, and trained to the wall where this fine display of fruit is to be seen. The Hop Trade. — We are glad to see that hops are figuring conspicuously in the list of exports from Nelson. The Ladybird, which Bailed for the South yesterday, took no less than 32 bales of the present season's crop, and we understand that considerably more are soon to follow. The following is the latest from the Palmer : — The Maryborough Chronicle reports :■—" Mr T. Cooke, lute proprietor of the Ariadne Hotel, returned to town from the Normanby (Palmer) diggings by the Western. He does not give a very flourishing account of the diggings. A day never passes in Cooktown without there being, on an average, one or two deaths. He has known six or seven to occur in a day from sun-stroke or low fever. Of a party of eight New Zonlanders travelling behind Cocke, three died between Cooktown and the diggings. Plenly of men on the diggings are gettiDg nothing, and others woikiug Jor two pennyweights a day. No 'sinking' has been discovered yet, the work being ,

confined to 'gully raking.' Water was plentiful (November 30) ; the price of rations moderate for the place: — Flour, Is; beef, Is (bone included); sugar, Is 43; tea, 3a 6d; dried apples, 2s; rice, Is 4d; preserved potatoes, 2s. Horses cheap, from £15 to £20, including new pack saddles, worth alone, say £5 each. Good mules fetched from £20 to £25, with pack saddles. Roads very passable ; no bad crossing-place in dry weather. Tn the wet season, of course, it would be impossible to travel. Cooke estimates that one hundred men are returniug to thirty who go up." A novel cure for cancer is the subject of the following paragraph furnished by the Advertiser's Port Wakefield correspondent: — " Mr Smart, a farmer, residing at the Six Mile, near Port Wakefield, has been suffering from a cancer for more than four years. When it first made its appearance on the edge of the right shoulder blade, it was only the size of a pea, but it soon spread i Is root?, until it attained almost the size of a five-shilling piece, and raised in the centre. It had a livid appearance, and was constantly discharging, producing loss of appetite, and reducing the sufferer to a mere skeleton. It so unfitted Mr Smart for work, that he was compelled to relinquish his farm iv favor of his sod. For eorae time Mrs Smart triad Bates's salve and other ointments, but without any improvement. She then applied Bimply wet cloths, which produced a slight improvement. In November last, a letter appeared in the Methodist Journal, from an officer iv California, who stated that three of his family connections and two friends of his had been cured of severe cancers by the application of the yoke of an egg, beat up with as much salt as would form a paste, or ointment, and dressed twice a Mrs Smart having seen the prescription, resoived at onco to try it, and in three days she saw an improvement. Tho cancer gradually diminished in size, the discharge ceased, and today (Februery), which is not three months from the commencement, there is scarcely a vestige of the cancer left, and Mr Smart is now as well and active as ever. Feeling thankful for the great benefit he has derived from so simple a remedy, he is desirous that others should give it a trial." — Adelaide pnper.