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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 36, 8 February 1876, Page 2

Kong Ah Kang, a Christianised Chinaman, has been preaching the gospel to large numbers of hist countrymen in Syduey, and has been accredited by Bishop Baker for similar, work on the Palmer. The inhabitants of a township not a hundred miles distant from Palmer. ton are.on tiptoe of expectation concerning the intended completion of a matrimonial engagement which is regarded as more than ordinarily . interesting. The bridegroom is over eighty summers and tbe bride-elect just turned three score and too. The Herald adds.that; this will not be the first occasion on whioh tbe parties have helped to tie the nuptial knot, as the bridegroom will find in his bride his third wife, and she will find in the bridegroom her fourthhusband. The Port Denison .arrespondent .of the South Australian Advertiser writes: " The distance is short between joy nnd sorrow, and mirth and mourning are never far apart; but we seldom find a lady a bride and widow within the short space of three weeks. Suoh, however, has been the case with Mrs Dr. Guy, Miss Pearce, the'daughter of tbe late Captain Pearce, came, out here by the last mail betrothed to Dr. Guy, our oolouial surgeon, and after tbe expiration of the usual seven clear days (for no one is permitted to marry here until after seven clear days) a large display of bunting at the Govern-, ment-bouse Jproclaimed that the happy event had taken place. Three weeks after the dootor was stretched on the bed of death, 4»nd Mrs Guy, a young lady of only nineteen, was a widow. For some time previous the doctor's manner was noticed to be eccentric, and be became violently excited over the merest trifle. On the night preceding his death be had been very much excited at a ball. In the morning he : tendered his resignation, and after , partaking of a cup of coffee, expired. As there was no medical gentleman to give evidence, the jury found themselves obliged to bring in an open verdict of " Found dead." Dr. Guy was a young man, and had been only twelve months in the Territory." The Sydney Town and Country.' Journal atate. that its .New Year's issue weighed cis tone,