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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 73, 14 March 1876, Page 2

At the Wanganui races last week the principal event, the Wanganui Stakes of £60, was won by Mr Jackson's Opawa. A line four-oar batswing was landed at Wellington, the other day from the Arawata. She was built by Mr James Melbourne, to the order of tbe Gisborne Rowing Club, and will be forwarded i to Poverty Bay by first steamer.

Referring to the newly-appointed Chief Surveyor for the Province of Nelson, the West Coast Times of tte 2nd instant says :—-" Another of the earließt settlers of Hokitika takes his departure by steamer on Friday. We refer to Mr. J. S. Browning, who has been so long connected wilh the Survey Department of Westland. Mr. Browning, as our readers are already aware, takes charge of the same department in Nelson province. During his lengthened residence here, not only has Mr. Browning had his full share of the work in his own department aa a provincial officer, which he has at all times performed to the fullest satisfaction, but he has undertaken and executed other duties as a citizen, which will oause his departure to be regretted by many." Protesting against the useless news sent by cable from Australia, the Lyttelton Times says :— We are actually expected to publish as important news , the faot that one member of the Victorian Legislature called another an adjective scoundrel, and threatened to do something unpleasant to his head. Now we hold that the cable is not a basket in which the dirty linen of Australia can be sent over here for public washing. As that can very well be done at home, we must protest against having to pay for the operation here. Besides the gentlemen of the Press Agenoy should know that our own Parliament is about to meet, and they ought to keep these shocking examples \ out of sight as much as possible. Some students fixed up a ghost and placed it on the staircase of a country newspaper office the otber night, and then retired and awaited developments. One ot the editors came along, and didn't get frightened. He disrobed it, and now wears a guinea pair of pantaloons, a fifteen shilling vest, a five and twenty shilling pair of boots, and a guinea hat, wbite one of the students goes about without a veßt, and another roams around through the least frequented streets, wearing a very ancient pair of inexpressibles and an old " deerstalker " hat. The growing wealth of Liverpool and of its citizens is exemplified by the sums bequeathed by some of the leading men of the town who died during the past twelve months. It will be seen from the following list that the legacies of eight of these gentlemen represent in the aggregate upwards of £4,000,000 :— Robertson Gladstone, £350,000; Jas. Houghton, £500,000; Richard Houghton, £500,000; Charles Turner, M.P., £700,000; James Tyrer, £200,000; R. L. Jones, £350,000; J. J. Rowe, £400,000; H. Dawson, £1,500,000. A gay and festive youth named Warren Smith, aged 12 years, enlivened the inhabitants of Pipitea-street yesterday by endeavoring to cut his throat with a piece of glass, and not succeeding, took to the water with a view of drowning himself. The appearance of Constable Fleming on the scene, however, put all thoughts of suicide out of his head, and on returning to dry land he was taken to the police station. This morning he was fined 10s or 48 hours in default, on a charge of drunkenness. It is to be hoped that the child, who is certainly a "shingle short," will be looked after by the authorities. — A rgus. The Titanic Steel Company is in the toils. Hitherto it has been regarded by the shareholders as an extensive "call" collecting association, but they did believe — although they paid up arrears under protest, and after many a hard legal fight — that when the capital was all in something good would come of it. Now, however, we learn that orders have been dispatched to Tara-. naki to pay ofF all the bands, and that a meeting bf shareholders is to be held on the 22nd inst., to dispose of this black sand white elephant. It is ju ilantly predicted that the meeting will be stormy. — Argus. Prom the Tablet we learn that in the course of a recent sermon Bishop Moran took occasion to allude to a paragraph whicb appeared in one of the Dunedin papers a short time since, and in which it was stated that a Roman Catholic man had said in the Dunedin Police Court that he did not consider his oath binding since he had been sworn upon a Protestant Bible. His Lordship said this circumstance, which he hoped wasnottrue, had made him feel ashamed, because of the gross ignorance displayed by the man in question; the essence of an oath consisted in calling God to witness, and the manner of doing this had nothing to say in the matter. The man was bound to swear and his oath was binding. A fire broke out afc the Ellerslie Hotel, Auckland, a few days ago, through the sun's rays converging in a focus through a water bottle, igniting a toilet cover. The fire was discoyered early, and was extinguished without much damage. The Hue of i©ute of the Ngakawhau railway has already assumed a somewhat lively appearance. Stores are going up hither and thither, others are in prospect, and competition for the most likely prospective sites runs high. There are four bakeries, some in use, others ready for tbe first batch, one of them being near the Ngakawhau coal mines in prospect of supplying hungry miners with the staff of life. We wonder how long its proprietor will have to wait for his customers. Rumor says not long, as the Albiou Company will commence operations with all speed .—*Bull4r New, ,