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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 139, 3 June 1876, Page 4

*- 0: Time lays his hand more gently on some people than on others. Tagliafico, the celebrated bass-singer, has lately been; making a tour through Italy. While strolling about Rome he was addressed by a stranger ' with a long white beard, and white hair falling over his shoulders,- He could hot recognise

him, and was surprised when the stranger said,- "Do you not remember me? lam Mario. I recognised you. at once?' For nearly 25 years Tagliafico and Mario sang together in operas, but it is some years' since i the celebrated tenor and bass had met each other. Mario lives at'Rbme, where be is much beloved. He is not very rich, but he has every comfort. Mario is a great connoisseur in art, and he will probably receive an appointment in the Adminis- ( ration, pf .the Arts, at Rome, where; he' b sure to be of service to his country. I Full particulars pf; the scheme, for/ ihe establishment of an aquarium by a company, with a capital pf ; £10,000, kre given in the Argus :—!* The object of. this company. is to provide in Melbourne an aquarium, on' a siterapplied for (near Prince's 1 bridge), 1 Worn the corporation. The principal features of the aquarium will be the exhibition , in their, natural condition, of the inhabitants and wonders of the deep which JBxist in endless variety on. the coasts, rivers, and seas of Australia. It is »l^6. 1 proposed to add a summer a*»d winter , garden, together with reading arid refreshment rooms. The building will he constructed as economically as possible, jconßistent with the requirements. The |centre or main saloon will be principally , of glass and iron, forming a ben'-, 'servfttory and- 'promenade, flunked oV_ jcachiside by corridors, containing the; 'deep-sea tanks." J Thirty-seven , magistrates sat on the {Bench. at .an annual licensing meeting jin Queensland lately. Some of the jcpuntry magistrates, .who ; were present jshowed unmistakeably that they were !so determined to. honestly and oonscien-, jtiously perform their duty oh that day, in the granting of; licenses— tto country j publicans at all events — that they had j evidently sampled all the' liquors at i every public-house on their way, ib j Brisbane—had, in fact, given themselves { an' unliminited "tasting order." One [applicant for a country publican's license : . was accused of not being a sober man', | whereupon a worshipful gentleman who had sampled the man's liquor that i morning,' assured 1 his brother magistrates, with a great manifestation of suppressed emotion, and, mueh twitching about the mouth and nose, that he \ « j cbu'd--- voushV -7— f*r •■— -thar— mansh—'l bein' — shober than— -p'fkly sober — an' keep-— best li'k'r .f'any— man w'thin— «. twenty miles o' Brisnum." The license was granted, of course^ upon unim-r peachable testimony; like this— but it was aclpse shave ! .'.' '"_" „' .// .. " ''""I* I '■•The ; -last'- mail from "England brings news of the suicide of Lieutenant Edga'^' j late of H.M.S. Rosario, who was well, I known in New Zealand, which he left, j for England about two years ago..' Tner inquest is thus reported. in the Tiineii- \—" Yesterday Mr Carter held an en- | quiry at the George and Dragon, Kingt ston Hill, touching the death of Mr Henry Ingle Edgar, 25, late SubLieu tenant. inj the Royal Navy, and son of Mr W. S. Edgar,. Coombe Warren, Kingston Hill. Miss Mary Shr'enbft I the' goyerqeßß in- the family, deposed ' that 60 Monday evening deceased went j into the school-room and lay down on ; the sofa. He seemed very restless, < going in arid out of the room several j times. At about twenty minutes past : 8, when he returned to the room, he I pulled a, revolver out of hia pocket. j She asked him to give it to her, but he 1 pushed her away, and put it into hie I right-hand breast ; pocket. She felt in 1 his : pocket for it, when he bent down ; his : head, withdrew, the pistol, and die- 1 charged it into his mouth. Albert Barnes, butler to Mr Edgar, stated that . at about'B o'clock, seeing; that deceased j was excited through drink, he advised ' him to go up into the -schoolroom to lie ; down. Mr . William Henry Roots, bf i Kingston, surgeon, deposed that death ; must have been instantaneous. The j deceased was easily affected by drink, i having injured bis head by falling down j the hold of a ship, and had a sunstroke"; ! Five weeks before his death he took j large doses of hydrate of chloral,' on ! account of suffering from sleeplessness. Verdict; « Suicide while of unsbuud I mind.*"'" - ■"•'. - ".,'. .:„.;,. :.'■ In reporting a great; Maori feast rej cently held' at Farawai, a correspondent ! of. the Auckland Star, says: — "When , the feast was properly opened, a gang of women came with high hats profusely trimmed with ribbon' :of different colors, wearing flounced skirts and black' 'dresses, headed by Big Emma carrying a greenstone mere r mere, Mar-, garet and Keritahariga with flags in their hands covered with bank-notes sewn to the flags. It is said these notes amounted to £200, and were given by

Rapana and Taipara to tbe feast. The women cried out jn loud voioes as they: came along theroadr !< This ir the gift' of Ngatimaru to Ngatipaoa,' waving the flags in the air that all might clearly see. A crowd of people ran to welcome the fair women with the flags, when they made their appearance before the Ngatipaoas. This was the sign thai all restrictions would be immediately withdrawn; here the half of the grog and eatables' were then re-opened to the visitors. It appears that attempts were made to stop the drinking by old Taipari'/ It' was a iona fide performance on his part, but I am sorry to say that the demeanor and hardened carlessness which character- ; ized the conduct of the mob throughout the meeting, led to mnoh disorder , fend British-like: conduct. ::Old.Rapana was called the 'Governor of the Feast and the head banker of Shoril^nd.' In; astonishment, the Ngatipaoa'beheld the Showers of money, and the packs of ,„ food of different, kinds standing in compact rows comp'leiely ooiupying tne ( ground. They said there, wa-,.. never iuch a feast of money and r fooji given; before.*' f C : : >'"/ :' >-■■■" -• ■';