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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 191, 3 August 1876, Page 2

Negotiations were set on foot ia "Wellington the other day for an amalgamation of the De Murska and Simonsen companies, bat the arrangements could not be carried out. Under the heading "Civilised Zealanders," and "Friends from the Cannibal Islea among us," a Kentucky paper has the following:— '* There are some visitors here from New Zealand, who aregoests of Hon, Speed P. Goodloe and lady. They have been among the cannibals and know all about them They are worth ten million of dollars, which they have made among the Zealanders. They fiud this blue-grass laud the most admirable, and their friends are glad to see them. Mr John Harding (of Napier), his wife and daughter, compose the party, and they are most welcome to the State and io social circles. It is incumbent upon our citizens and people to extend to them every mark of courtesy, and we know they will do so. If we do not go to Zealand, it is at least pleasant to have Zealanders come to us, and especially when they come in the refined shape they do vindicating the true character of American ideas. Tha Rev. Charles Clark has been giving four farewell lectures at the Town Hall, Melbourne, at million prices, viz., Is to all portions of tbe hall. It is reported that his annual income by lectures now exceeds £2000. A man named Day, who lives on his selection near Hay, New South Wales (says the Standard), has come io for a sum which is variously stated to be from £30,000 to £120,000. Information reached him last week to the effect that be was heir-at-law to an immense fortune, and we have been assured that the latter sum named is the correct one. The new Sultan is said to have only given £2,500 for his Sultana, formerly a Circassian slave. This indicates a spirit of meanness which augurs well for the future political economy of Turkey. Ou one announcement of this tact in Constantinople, common men's wires dropped sixty per cent, and poor husbands who had bought on a margin lost all their stock. One slave dealer who had been selling short on seraglios has accumulated a colossal fortuue, enough to fit out hundreds of poses plastiques exhibitions. We clip the following from the G. R. Argus:— Ho meet the chance of the Lotteries Bill becoming law before the advertised time of drawing his sweep, Mr Tonks, of the Albion Hotel, has determined to draw it with as many subscribers as can be obtained, and to pay prizes pro rata. The drawing will come off ou the evening following the third reading of the Bill in the Lower House. This in all probability will be the only sweep that can be drawn, as through the Metropolitan Race coming off fully two months before the Melbourne Cup a larger and earlier demand has been made for chances. What need of immigration when such paragraphs are to be found in our colonial papers as the following which appeared in a recent issue of the Auckland Star: — "The fruitfulness of the dames of Newmarket has lately been the subject of much remark, not to say admiration. We have heard ot five cases of twins within the last fortnight." The following romantic story has been going the rounds. If not true, it is at least interesting : — The leading partner of a well known and very wealthy firm of London solicitors while j enjoying an evening at a theatre was | smitten with the charms of a certain j lady of the corps de ballet. Something happened. The rich lawyer, not | over young himself, but with intentions j strictly honorable, obtained an introduction to the fascinating coryphee, and very soon the acquaintance ended in marriage—--he over sixty, she under twenty. The handsome girl belonged to a humble family of eleven children, and by one of those outbreaks of generosity which elderly solicitors so rarely commit he has undertaken to support the whole batch of them. The new wife, too, must be fitted for a position " unto which she was not born," and the doting husband bad accordingly engaged masters of "all the accomplishments" to give her lessons. The solicitor occupies a splendid mansion in the We6t-end, and employs half-a-dozen servants to minister to his wants. On certain days the ex-ballet girl, seated in an elegantly - appointed carriage, drives her pair of ponies far away from the West-end to her mother's abode in Street — an event which produces

no small sensation among tho gossips in that humble neighborhood. From what is stated, the lady ia worthy of the good fortune which has so unexpectedly fallen to her lot. Holmes remarks on the wonderful provisions of nature that there ie not even left a narrow crevice uuder a flat rock without a thin black bug prepared by Providence to fill it. It's the same way when vacancies occur in official positions. Mr Carleton haa written a letter to the JSf. Z. Herald ia which he lays down the two following propositions aa promioent articles of his political creed. " I believe that the. two men who have most injured the colony (politically speaking) are that brotherly pair, par nobile fraalrum, Grey and Vogel; the first from his advent, ia destroyiug the political morality of the colony, preparing its easy fall before the tempter.; the second in his appeal to the baser passion of cupidity in a scheme for sacrificing the future to the present, " bring money into the country;" — in plain English, putting money into pockets; in Parliamentary language — overwhelming the colony with a debt, which posterity may pay if it can. But if, on the other hand, Vogel thinks proper, with the plain assent of what you call "the people," to destroy what I believe to be the most fertile oasis of jobbery, — the Provincial Government, — to smoke out some nine or ten wasps' nests, I am unable to see why I should be debarred from giving what support I caD, so far as that, at all events." Referring to the negotiation of the Four Million Loan, the Premier in one of his speeches said, "Whatever honorable gentlemen may think, I venture to say that no one could have consulted those in London who wore able to form an opinion on the subject without koowing that the negotiation of that Four Million Loan for a Colony so smail ns this was a magnificent operation. And, Sir, there is no question that the success of the operatiou waa due to my own personal exertions. When I think of all the agony I endured through this negotiation — when I think of the way ia which I had to be c-irried from place to place to reach Loudon at all, and how, after having been coufined to the house for several weeks I had at considerable risk to go iuto the cit)', to conduct this negotiation — when I think of ths success of that negotiation, and of the calumuies which have been uttered respecting me, I coma to the conclusion that it is a very poor office to serve a Government — a very poor thing to do a public duty."