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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 4, 5 January 1876, Page 2

The children! attending the Wesleyatt Sunday; school are being well looked after; afc this, holiday season. On New Yearfs-, day they "were, treated toy a, picnic in the, Botanical Gardens, where games of all kinds amused them during the afternoon,, and a, capital i»£' was.' provided for thpm. ,' '. To-morrow .. nj£s t there is to be a. children's service ofl song jin the 'Wesleyan Church- to be interspersed! with readings. All are' invited 'to attend.' md. it is notified jthat. a collection, , will? Ke /made*. Js,£ -the close in aid of the school fibraty 'fund, to which worthy 'object should hot be wanting after such a 'service. .It willbe seen by reference io our 5 telegraphic news that the eleotion for the Egmont district has resulted in f »v6r of Major 7 Atkinson 'by a large majority. Mr Ivess, hi? opponent, is kno wh j hkFe as ,'a Pro vincial jGq'nnoiHpr, l 'and we feel; quite sure thattheretirel none in Nelson who will feel a pang of regret at his having failed to aecure a seat in the:H6us6 of Representatives. ' . The polling for the ,B,uller district where Dr. Henry opposes Mr O'Conor takes place to-day,\and%r tlie Motueka district to-morrow. In .neither of these 'places is the solemnity which, characterised the proceedings in the Waimea yesterday likely to be repeated. ' Arrangements, had been itaade for, conveying the Motuek.* ' -Valley poll for the Waimea election to Foxhill last night, but through, some ment they were not, carried into effect.. We are therefore unable to-day to give any further information regarding the state of .'_ the poll. The -samples of firebricks recently manufactured at the Brunner coalmine and sent to Melbourne have received favorable notice /from, the Vict6ria Iron Rolling Company. The manager states that, * having subjected them to various tests, no hesitation is felt in* pronouncing them equal, if not superior, to the best -English Stourbridge, .bricks. "" The following anecdote is related by a French journal iti reference tot the : present. Emperor .of Germany, when simply King of Prussia, and when he was travelling incognito > in Hungary in i 1864. ; In the vicinity of Treplitz tlje King encountered a _ Judge, * leisurely ' taking: his- walks ..abroad, smoking '.'atthe sfc'irieviime a clay pipe. - - "Wbo 1 are: you, my tnan?"'" Judge in the District Court," answered the Magistrate, not a little surprised, " Are you satisfied with your position?" .."Certainly." " Then I congratulate you. ? * The King was moving away, when the Judge asked him,:, "And jou, my man, who are you?" .The sovereign, .notaJittle. surprised, replied, •--' lam the King of Prussia;" The Judge, * not at all astonished, next demanded, "Are you. satisfied .with :your condition?" "Certainly," responded the King. " Then I-corigr'atulate you," added the Judge, with the most impassable air, and fluting the King,, continued : his promenade. .. *■-„- -',- -:A Kaikoura telegram in, the Marli borough Times of Dec. '29 says the ■ nomination . for the Cheviot district Hook place to-day. Mr Joseph '* Ward 1 !

was pronosed, by W^ Chapman and secondetpy % Gi&sbn.P^iLeoriard Harper AwasytproppsecU, Wi MrVlngles M^ Bpyl|y? ODh% show ofjhands^aveta very jlaf|e| majSirity to Ward. PA jioll was 4emand6^r|bn the 'Wniiaryßife^ , The Buller News understands that coal seams of grieat extent and value nave been discovered in the upper part .of Coal Creek,^ at the back of the Brunner Sinine. |an3 H /abouf fiye| miles *^distance fi-tfm f Cobd^h%ttarf. c two best are six and eight feet in thickness -res : p.ectively,.-.and_ ri^^^^ the Brunner coair The seams 1 crop ouTF in a A deep gorge Creek, and * have been traced for" a ' distance * w several chains sloping upwardsintothe^ v^cth great earnestness and f e'gularit^. T-he^ therefore\ entirely sel&draihihg. and will re*|iiire r * neither shafts^ punips, : or any other machinery for' itheir ;wofking f Thi .discovferorsll Messrs "Wallace, Rose, and Fowler, ot )Co^l> Creek, have secured a lease of land from the Nelson Government, 4103(8,; acres } inyexteht, 41$ .it is,.t|iejc t intention to form a company for the^ purppse.of laying do\yn ai tramway, and bringing ' the coal ! into tnar^e^ &i t; ka early : a date as possible. , The "Waiijarapa. , .races came off on Thursday ahd-Fri^ay last. '-L«dyi Grey : :^on: the. Maiden Plate, and Korari the Wairarapa Stakes, with Fishhook 3 second, "^and 'Premier thirds For the Produce! Stakes,L Scrip : was first; jand Jfor the Ladies' Purse, Fishhook. There were : Only "two starters, Fishhook and Korari, and, the letter, led for three , parts round -the -course, -when ? he ,D6lt,ed andf; threw his rider. Fishhook 7 aiso,- ; bolted, bii% hot throwing his7rider, : w'as , gof under. ( :co ( n^piand, and, came ' in' a^' .-winner. "The Dialfcnct'''Pla'<»\ ? yeir;W, Premier, 'and* : .tbe Hurdle Bace '~'-£q' v : Kangaroo, who came in with ; the lead' ,in the two first Seats! _' :, >;*' : ; l y' : \ *«• Mr Millar, Engineer-in-chief. 'of ,thi.,i ~Pro.vinpe„.jof ..JNelson, New Zealand, is getting up a series of highly illuminated 1 ahd^ maghificentry^ b r *suhd- volumes odrife taining photograbhs of men of the time (1875) resident in- tbe"Bfitish^^)r » jpther depet|dpn*pies'ipr.the Sopthern^ Hemisphere. * ThW photographs will consist iof Ithe jt diffeienj. . colbnies, members of Ministries, mayors, rtpwn clerks, &c. '< They are intended as| an illustrative .contribution tp { V>the Philadelphia Exhibition, and will be "spbseguently presented to* her Majesty the. Queeh'-^i^r^wJiDeGertibeipKllv ■» ; '- f w, '- America is tte paradise: of proiecitibn, ''_{ and Rhode Isllattdis the seal ipi some.of '• ; the most important of the highly protected cbttbn and wpollen factories r* of that country. What is the cbnditibii of that State, as described in a leading article in, the r New. York Herald— r iwhichris-hdt a- free-trade pape^^of'^the.^ ; 14th September P-^' : The*e aro humors of an impending strike and a general crash in Rhode Island. - In 'ho State in the Union are the relations! of capital and labor- so in^mately ,inierwo,ven*"o_? , Wb ; dependent op "^oli ; 'ot^/'^6teally ; "speaking, the' niill-Whers h ; kve & power equaV to ,. that of tte, barons of " the * . 'Middle Ages; and their operativegr are ' their vassals, compelled to do their : .bjdding , on all oHcasionsf Eabh town is a satrapy, owned by a Goddard', 5 a' Sprague, *a Lippett,/ or; Al Howard.^ They control not only their .tiiills but the machinery of the State ■ Government and the banks and other monied -institutions. Under; suph . chiefs the working : men; - fare ..badly, -'j Fully", p^ half of th£yoperati yes inthe factories are disfranchised. They are overworked, underpaid,, and underfedv> discontent is._the : natural outgrowth ', of,- a, system where .eyery thing: is, .-.made 16" subserve the .purposes' of a few pplifcical magnates:"' : And yet numbers 'of Wo misguided working menjot" this cojony '< accept^the guidance i'an'fi'.. leadership of 1 politi^iaps^^ho-ar^.aimihg at. the estab /T jishment in Victoria of a system whicli *" has born such evil fruit in America. Are thefe noVlessbnsto be learnddifromr contemporary events elsewhere ?—Melbourne Argus.' ■• r ..., -j. -...,