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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 93, 6 April 1876, Page 2

-Concerning the reported intended visit of one of the Rothschilds to this colony, the Auckland Herald remarks :■" —The acqairitance of a capitalist, who'can write a cheque "off the reel" for four millions sterling in payment of the Khedive's Suez Canal shares, and who. has vested interests in nearly every Go- : vernment loan in the civilised world, is : . worth courting. Possibly Baron Rbths- | child will be lionised and feted on his . visit, and as the family ■- have the credit of always having an eye to the main chance, there is a probability of his . negotiating in His' -'tbur . across tho '! American continent for the r purchase/; of the Californian quicksilver mines, in _ order to again secure the monopoly in "that mineral. Verily his. ; advent to New Zealand may influence our gold mining operations and scrip market. Like Micawber waiting for something to turn up, we shall watch for the arrival of the billionaire with interest. ... The ketch Pearl, owned by an Auckland tradesman, has returned from her second pearl trade cruise in the; South Seas, after an absence of three, month's, with a cargo valued at £2000. An extraordinary incident occurred at the Wellington Theatre the other | evening. A gentleriian was sittingconversing ;in the dress ' circle ; when suddenly he felt something running up the leg of his trousers quickly, and on shaking. his leg out jumped a largerat. The circumstance occasioned not a little merriment to those who saw it, but the, gentleman lost his composure for a. few minute?. A man sinking a well at New Plymouth the other day lit hispipe in it,, causing the gas to ignite, which burnt, him severely. ■ . '; Greorge Lewis, a. shepherd, and son' of one of the best shorthand writers in Eugland, has died in Adelaide gaol from apoplexy caused by drink. : . To a Host of Correspondents.— You* are all wrong. The Khedive's act in. selling to England his shares in the canal ,is one of self- preservation — -in fact the reverse of Suez^cidal.— -Punch, '<__ A swimming match, for which there are 250 entries, is to take! place at the Dunedin swimming baths. Mr Peter Farrell, Clerk of the RM. Court, Tokomairiro, occasionally treats his hearers to a, " bull " worthy of a son of Erin (say's the Bruce ■ Herald) f In the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday a suitor applied to the . clerk to place his case at the , bottom of the list. "Tt" can't be done," said' Mr Farrell; "sure there are thirty four at ; the bottom of the list now."