Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 111, 18 April 1876, Page 2

We learn from the West Coast Times that the first shipment of smoked fish from the Jackson's Bay Fishing Company is expected to reach Hokitika by th<? Waipara next week. The Manager reports favorably of the prospects of tho Company aud with more regular communication, this new enterprise Bhould become a profitable one to the shareholders". Now that the smokehouse hns been erected, aDd the appliances in the way of boats and lines have beeu augmented, it is expected tbat about a ton of fish per month will be exported from the Bay. The head master of Wesley College, Melbourne, says an exchange, has been fined £5 and costs for flogging a , boy who was found guilty of breaking a neighbor's window, and then seeking to escape punishment by persistent lying. Tbe conduct of the father who prosecuted, and of the Justice of the Peace who heard the case and gave judgment, is very naturally aud properly regarded by the public with indignation and diegust, while that of Mr Andrew, tbe head master, has called forth au address of sympathy and commendation from the principals of the various educational establishments ot Melbourne. [tt is now stated that the Justice's decision has been reversed on appeal 1

The Otago Dally Times has an article on the recent correspondence between Sir George Grey and Sir I Julius Vogel. Tbe following two sentences form the key-note :— " We really do not koow whiclrof tho two to bo most disgusted with, Sir Julius or Sir George. If the first telegraphs in the flashy style of the bead man in a thieves' den, the latter is so interminably diffuse, so fussy and so absurd iu his argument, that we soon lose all sympathy with him." (For continuation of News see fourth paye.)