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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 66, 18 March 1875, Page 2

We find the following in the Ly'telton Times of the 9th instant : — Mr and Mra Hoskine, after completing a month's engagement ih Auckland, will proceed to Dunedin, appearing there early next month. In Auckland they have been playing up to the present time to large auJience3, and received a perfeot ovation on the openiug night in ' Tbo j Jealous Wife' and 'The Serious Family.' In the meantime, Mr Hoskins is organising a thoroughly efficient company for the South. Dinners lead to dinners. A banquet has lately taken place where Fiimio, the eminent publisher, presented a sirloin of lion, a leg and heart of the same animal, artistically cooked, that is disguised; the flesh, though firm and close-grained, could not be ranked higher than with that from the hcrse; the heart was not at all " tender/ but rather tough. "Out of the cater hath come forth meat," but not of a nature to justify the opening of a, special butcher's shop, or tho formation of a philanthropic joint-stock scciety to encourage, the consumption of a delicacy. An Auckland paper says tbat the new iron sailing ship Timaru, has just left Glasgow for New Zealand, carrying in the hold a huge wooden box, some 12 feet Equate, in which aro between 30 and 40 tons of ice in solid blocks. Buried right in the centre of this ice-house are deposited some 50 boxes, each one foot cube. Each box is fitted with trays; ■ in these trays are now nesting over 200,000 salmon eggs. The eggs are co packed that they cauuot touch one another; each egg rests on and ia surroun led by spagnum moss, carefully coll cted for the purpose. It ia expected that the Timaru will arrive in New Zealand about the end of March, and there is every reason to hope that the ice in the ice-house will remain unmelted all this time. In his address to the electors of Rangitikei, Mr W. 11. Watt says— '• Though I have, like your late member, been a consistent supporter of Provincial Institutions ever since their introduction, and done my best to make them the means of advancing the prosperity and good government, of the colony, I am quite prepared to admit that tha many changes which have occurred have rendered them no longer applicable to tho circumstances of the North Island. I frankly accept the resolutions of the House of Representatives on the eulject passed last session as representing the general voice of the colony, and I am prepared lo give the government my support. in carrying these resolutions iuto effect." An Auckland telegram to the Post sajs: —"A young Jack Shepherd, named Patrick Molloy, waa brought before the Police Court on Saturday for the sixth time, charged with running away from the training ship at Kohemarama. This youngßter about a fortnight ago received a sentence of seven days' imprisonment for tlie same offence, and while at gaol had managed to get out, and gave the authorities no end of trouble. He had only beeu back at the ship a few days when he again esenped by swimming out to sco, and lauding ou the other side of the bay. He was r.iught again next day. Hi'b father promised to contribute towards his support if the authorities could only keep him on the ship." The following interesting notice ap pears in the Wakatip Mail .-—"Public notice. — I beg to it: form those persons who havo taken a fancy to the flavor of

the fruit io my garden, that one piece of fruit on overy tree is poisoned with strychnine. Of course I know the poisoned fruit ; othera don't. — Rich* inond Beetham." * A man named John Rogers was brought before the magistrate in Canterbury for ill-treating and beatiuc his wife. Prisoner said that his wife's family was the cause of all the un- | pleasantness that bad occurred. His Worship s I suppose her family did not make you beat your wife, and I don't think you would have done it if she was able to defend herself. Accused, smilingly : No, I should not. His Worship : You would not have dared to strike her if she had been a man. Accused, still smiling : No. His Worship : No, you would have been 100 great a coward, A thing that would strike a woman cannot be called a maD, and I only wish the law permitted me io deal with you as you deserve. You are worse than a coward. You Grst beat your wife, and then come here and laugh over it. Accused, now evidently sobered down : I did uot laugh at what I have done, your Worship. It is only a smiling way I have. (Laughter.) His Worship : I shall order you to find securities of the peaco for twelve mouths — yourself in £50, and two others in £25 each; or in, default, to be imprisoned for one month, with hard labor. The population of New Zealand is steadily increasing, thanks to the Immigration and Public Works policy. On the 31st of Deoember, 1874, the total of the European population wnß estimated at 340,900. The population at the close of 1873 was 295,945, showing an increase in the last twelve months of 44,951, In round numbers, the population of New Zsaland was increased by fifty thousand people last year, being largely in excess of the whole Maori people. — Times. (For remainder of News nee. fourth page.)