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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 105, 22 April 1876, Page 2

Bi , , On an average, only one passenger per day travels by a Taamanian railway company's express train going at rate of 23 miles an hour. The public s evidently doubt its safety. ,', ; The garland placed round ; the neck ' of the Prince of Wales at the conclusion; of the fe,te, given to his ltoyal {Highness .; at Lucknow, by the Talookdars, the. other day, was valued at 7000 rupees. ?• Mr Cuthbertson, late M.H.R., has ; written to one of tbe Southland papera a criticism on Mr Macandrew's manifesto. He characterises the Superintendent's letter as being " neither more nor less than an attempt to mislead the . public by a series of misrepresentations of the effect of abolition." Petty robberies are getting frequent in Wellington. On Saturday evening last, Messrs. Turnbull's stores were broken into, and a quantity of goods oarried away. Another gang visited the schooner Hannah Barrett lying at tbe wharf, and carried off a quantity of artioles belonging to (he master and crew. ..':;•" The London correspondent of the' Auckland Star writes : — There 1 is rather a good epigram going the rounds i apropos of Mr Disraeli's lately created batch of peers, He has elevated Protestants and Roman Catholics, but not a single Jew. There is a rumor indeed that Sir Nathaniel Rothschild, who is an old friend and near neighbor of Mr Disraeli, and a Liberal to boot, will he amongst the next batch, but in the'' meantime none of the honors have ) fallen upon Mr Disraeli's nation. So somebody has smartly said — Iq his gazette of peers brand new Ben has not put a single Jew, y _ Which plainly shows that in this case -; The Jews are not the " chosen race." •