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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 322, 3 December 1875, Page 2

The N. Z. Times says :— lt is mwlerstood that the New Zealand Steajn Shipping Company will run an excursion steamer to Nelson at Christmas, starting about the 24th inst. This will afford a capital opportunity for holiday makera to enjoy a delightful trip. The natives of tha Wanganui district have determined to be represented at the Philadelphia Exhibition. They have just forwarded to the New Zealand Commissioners a collection of weapons, including spears, battle axes (wooden), Tarahas, and meres, many of which are excellent specimens, and some possess histories of no little interest. There are also some paddles, and in a case which had not been opened this morning there was a miscellaneous assortment of ancient Maori manufactures. The weapons were in most instances very handsomely carved and highly ornamented with feathers, after the manner the Maoris of*4he olden time delighted in. — Post. In reference to the coming elections/ the Wananga gives the following advice to its Maori readers : — MakeJno promises whatever. Failing to ootain increased Maori representation in the House, it behoves you to obtain, through Europeans wiwm you may support, jthat influence^Sir Donald .^Milieal^and his followers precluded you possessing. - Hear clearly, ahA let the/ man you hear be worthy of d^dence, what form the candidate's inwSßded action will take towards promoting the welfare of the Maori people. He addresses by advertisement Europeans' in their own language expounding bto .views ; if he considers your voteswaiuaible, make him do so in your language. jWe will to £he best et our ability keep f, careful watch over the addresses of ihe candidates throughout the island, and will give our readers the result of ■ our inquiries from time to time, so that the chiefs and the people shall be able to judge who are the most suitable men, and vote accordingly. Mr_.Moody, one of the candidates foi( the representation of the City of "Wei- 1 , lington, has published the following* peculiar address in reply to some remarks regarding his candidature which appeared in the Evening Post: — " To the electors of the City of Wellington— Gentlemen—That pink of. perfection in scurrility, « Jock o' th.c .Fotifsskys lam j a * contemptible ■candid^fe/^ £nd his very reference to me proves he is daft. Men of sense never refer to anything beneath their notice. But ' Jocc Veil knows that I shall be at the head ofthe poll, and to earn his paltry pay endeavors to find a peg on which to hang his hatful o.f abuse. He would lead you to believe that I am put forward/ by Pearce and Hunter to split; vote/ Then as a forlorn hope he thinks tb.£t you will not throw your votes away on a ' man like Moody"' Now, Moddy is (in his own estimation,, of \ course) a tnanlike^man, such as 'Jock' never will be. Moody never yet betrayed his order; never yet asked a favor from any man ; never will; never yet cringed and toadied to any Superintendent, Pro-/ vincial. Secretary, newspaper proprietor^ or nuf other ' body politic or corporate.' Moody fears no person's malice. He stands on his own merits, small though they" are. He has no private ends to serve, as *saw doctoring * pays better than politics; but just now he is under the influence of a ' commonplace and vulgar political agitation mania, 1 which can only be eradicated by returning him as M.H.R. for the City of Welling-/ ton. — I am, gentlemen, yours obedi^ ently, C. Moody." ■ 7 The Auckland papers notice the death of Mr William IVhite, who arrived at Hokianga, in connection with the Wesleyan Missions, in 1829. He died at the ripe age of eighty-four. For many years previous to his death he had .devoted himself to secular pursuits. There are three candidates for the^ East Coast district of the North Island, namely, Mr Kelly, the sitting mendser! Colonel Harrinj ton, and Maihj, an influential native who counts oh tie Maori votes, ca 'efully' cultivated by European pohti tfans, to carry the election. iJJfefe ( hinemutu correspondent of tmßay o r Plenty Times gives the following: — Mr Maihi, the native candidate, is confident p£ t success, and has asked Sir George Grey not to come/ forward ftp the East Coast, as lie (#fr George) would be too formidable a candidate to oppose. Maihi is/confident that he will successfully 'contest the election against Kelly and others. The Sydney Morning Herald states that Mr Audley Coote, who returned from London by the Cyphrenes, is said to have conducted in England and France the necessary preliminaries for a cable between Cape Morton, in Queensland, and New Caledonia. It is also reported that the promoters of this cable contemplate another from New Caledonia to the Fijia, and that it ia expected that the Imperial Grovernment will grant a subsidy for the latter undertaking,

A shocking story comes from Paris : The Princess Domenica-Clarelli was left a widow with two eons, and the elder died. Almost crazy with sorrow, the Princess was ready to fight the men who brought the coffin, and protested they should nofc carry away the boy. Iq an interval of calm the younger brother, left alone with tho body and the coffin, resolved to cheat •he men and heip his mother to keep Domaniea. He hid the corpse in a closet, and got in the coffin himself. He was carried to the church without discovery; but at the church, nearly suffocated, he groaned, and the coffin was opened, bufc he died in a little while. Now the mother is dead. AH this jn Paris only the o'her day.

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