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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 144, 9 June 1876, Page 2

About 27,000 tons coal were raiaed at and sent away, from the Kawakawa coal mine, Auckland, during last year..;" The Italian immigrants remaining in Wellington ; are to be forwarded to Jackson Bay settlement in a day or two. With a population of 360,000 or 370,000 souls, there are 34 daily, papers^ in addition to tri-weekly, bi-weekly, and weekly publications, in New Zealand." f'y J? A Jff i 'A* RusselV telegram <•' says :~4-Captain^ Fuller, of the whaler Milton, reports having taken 600 barrels of sperm oil since leaving here last June. On the 4th of May, ; one of. .his bdat-steerers was drowned, being knocked outof-the' boat by a whale.* He also saw the Magellan ;Cloud, she being then; eleven . days out from her*, all well. The Lyttelton Times urges the appointment pf a Royal Commission* to inquire into the question- of the financial position of the Priendly,. ( Societies of .this colony, so as to determine the question now at issue between many of theni and the Government Actuary as to the sufficiency of their scale of contributions. v The Town Council of Greymouth . has gone in for a singular investment;, The Star says:— The Town Band is now defunct, the Council having bought theirinstruments for £20, which amount' will.be handed over to the. Hospital. The instruments are 27' jn number, and originally cost £147, besides £30 worth. of music. ; Councillor Hamilton, in -pro** . posing that the instruments should be bought, stated that by this means 1 the Council could give jthe property to some responsible person who would undertake the formation of a band; . and ip^ tbe event of disagreement -they couldi step in and take theni back. . By this means the town never be yrifchoutj a band. \ .-.JJ. Two paragraphs 7 from tho Post) of 7 Friday last show the comparative usesmade of the Suez and San. FirariciStto, mails. They are as follows':— Thei out*; ward English mail via Suez, despatched * this afternoon by the s.s. Ar awa^>' con** sisted of 388 letters, 9i newspapers, and 3 book packets, via Southampton ; letters,. _. newspapers, and 4* bookpackets via'! Brindisiir-rTha outward? English and American maila via San Francisco, despatched, by .the a.s. A,us-„ tralia this afternoon^' comprised thej following:— For' America,. 27^ ; fetters, 197, newspapers, and,^lo boot- packets; for Europe, 4214 letters, 25^2 Newspapers, and, .104 book-packets. .. f TotaL< 4691 letters,- 2839 newspapers, and 114 book-packets. A lawyer examining a witness asked what was his occupation. He waa told that he was. a wiae merchant. Lawyer': Were-you ever in aDy other business ?~ Witness (after some hesitation): I was some years ago a shoemaker. Lawyer : Oh, then, probably you are the original "sherry cobbler." . . * 7Jf A good anecdote has lately cosaed the ocean, of ah American girl who ' was playing croquet in Eogland last summer. " What a , horrid . soratoji V' said she, indignantly, when her mallet, failed in its duty, and she mieeed her shot.; " Oh, my dear..'' said English cousin, " you Bhould pot use such slang ex. i presßjons,"^ Wh^tßli^ l ldihaye.'flal4.?» j

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