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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 130, 24 May 1876, Page 2

j j _'--"'-*• " In IKauganui r.-theyfrhfiyft,,taken ytp prbsecuting' smalfrboys;; for c.fishing yoffy the WhaTves-on Sundays. ~ '<■■'■• "•/''■''■[ JThefManx Legislaturei has passed an atnencleci' liquor law, under" which °"any . publican:>:wjbq; supplies drink to a habitual drunkard after receiving notice from the latter's wife not to do so, becomes liable'to aZfine' of;£lo.X AA--; :\' • In framing the English? budget provision has always^to be Z™*de in leap. yeafcfor an increased^. natibhal ekpendi-* ture; consequent .--upon Jhe .extra,., day's .pay.tbr'themilisai'y. ' - '■-:■ I ,-•;-.-.- - . Thie Glasgow^'Corporation has invested in gasworks/ - They have 400,; miles of ; pipes j ; 317,500 meters, and 1300 workmen; and 1650 msions qf eubic'feetf of gas 7 were regisat'tne worka- during last year. -

.-v - i Qrjlers ,<have^ . gi^en new ! I boirtfra%t)ie built ki, Sheorriess for the : Bla4?he,§ recently; on jFthe f Austrian* i statioi, aj^a cosfcpf £4i3QO. lA £ i , A^theeti tig of j delegates from various^ v he|ji\ held to protest against the conductfof sshe Government Actuary, by reason of his refusing to register societies, on the ground that the regulated scale of paynecessary average. |- iAji^ugV ' th^pgl of Alfred Andersbn has been proved in Melbourne, "be- " queathing his mother £2300, it is de Murska intend to move the Supreme Court for the recovery ef £1800— -the amount of her money of which Anderson became pdsaelsed "afew marriage. - LVT>" '| >f "fT j A good deal of gpsaip is-going dn^aa - ,3 as tpph^wilissucceed|Mr TJWer-secretary7-Tne nanfes^o^Melsrs c dßnowles and Gisborne are mentioned, | ahd even Mr Ebenezer Epx, in a spirit of wagger^.no doubKT "lt%i Sjiid "thai, j should MtfEpxbe mado ? ftriider-Sect^ tiry, Mr|&iiloii wdulcly jstepf intor^is bjjots aaj|js3ir Julius secretaryi|~i^ori """"""" V• j '" J j j Ono of pjktif Southlandj squatt ershasy set to worjklfto clear hla- rxuiA-itciM the rabbit /pest. On thejz Nantwob t d station, Hbcsnini, there -are five n#n, and eightjr~7dpgs pm plowed in rabbit' hunting, arid tho daily average slaughter isj 250. AA Aff.y-A_^A..j j Some ideay.of- the. severity of , the snow storm which -caused the railway apcident Jat Rip ton may be formed from the fact 'that at Cheltenham a large iron 'church was literally^ crushed tjy thejheavy weight of the snow upon the -roof causing the walls to collapse. -■a j The Archbishop. 6f Rbeitas" hjis „rfcj< ceived a letter 1 informing him^that Mine* GJ-overnment has voted a sum -of--2jQOo,QQO(frsncs; tp^be - applied yto o th^ restoration of the cathedral of that,, city, one of the finest buildings trf? the G-othic style now extant in France. It . ,is th,fcre that the kings of France have, from time immemorial, been anointedV | A very singular-jcir^jisnst^nce^(says* .-{the G. R. ArgiUij 'happened to 'Mr v Andrew Jackson, who, in bringing -oyer" a j mob of sheep from Christchurch ■ t6Hokitika, managed to get to this side ot *thrcf ' TsifJP * : ' withoiit "Crbssihig"*th!it river. The sheep $vere »left jon-, the t * Christchurch side^f'tlie $!aipo,|when, Athe flood came down, and passing furthest© th.e ■-, Christchurch r side, left r the' mbfr on -%%*>* Hokitika eside of <theriver, thus saving Mr Jackspn- a f conrsiderable amount of trbuble. v The Taipp,riye^is,not always sp acpoinmo.-.. dating as this, as the accident's to the' coaches „prpye. [We can call to mind "a, similar^ihstdhce of a ; party of i travel- ■ lers riding from Nelson to the Wairau by way of tbe Top House arriving at theirLdestihatibn without (crossing the; Wairau river, they having camped on -the Manuka Island a night, during ■'wjhiclr-the river rose andf {changed its course ifrom the channel Phi. the right tp that on the left bank of the island.]