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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 206, 22 August 1876, Page 2

The "Wellington papers look on it in this light :— During the twelve hours' stay, of the. mail steamer City of NewYork in that port, she took on hoard 300 tons of coal, seven live bullocks, 36 sheep, 1500 lbs dressed butchers' meat, two dozen turkeys, and sis dozen fowls. The total sum spent by the ship during her short stay was no less than £800 in cash.

■• Ifc:is stated iby the^ Si/dney HefaiU :tuafc; Md|l<j jenny-. Clarisy who, since .sh^teft qiii? shores, < Vs. made- a tour thf6^gh GHiaal^ud ijjkpari- ending with a series ofbi;illiaQtlyl^cceS3ful,c6acerl;B. at San Francisco, intends to pay a flying visit to these colonies en route for Europe, and may be expected in Sydney by the next San Francisco mail. ■■ r It;ia stated by the Otago Daily Times that au ex-member of the ''Assembly who has left for the Home coua J?J, boasted before, leaving that he. was going to invest £60,000 in the purchase of his ancestral halls. "We wonder who that lucky ex-member is. A correspondent of a Wellington contemporary complains bitterly of the damage done to individuals, windows, domestic animals, fowls, &c, by catapult^ in the use of which the youth of that town appear to be such adepts, iie urges, the. adoption of severe measures for the suppression of the !' dangerous game," and concludes his letter as follows :— " It is bad enough to have dogs, cats, fowls, &c, killed or maimed, or windows broken by the 'patapult.' but ifc is scarcely worth while to wait until some unfortuuate mdmdual, 'say a child, has been seriously injured by this thoughtless and vicious practice, without making some attempt to pat an end to it." The new skating riuk opened in the Avenue de i'lnaperatrice, Puris, is a gigantic afiSir, capable of acoommodating 10,000 persous. Let ladies beware of " lacing back," " strapping up," or whatever the correct tQtpx is, their dresses too tightly ; at lea^t when they go to Court. At one of^'the Queen's Drawing-rooms a iady, aftur executing a most low and loyal bow to her Majesty, found herself quite unable to " get straight " again, and actually had to be helped into an upright position.

A new commercial term has been lately coined in Australia, and legalised considerably by a. portion of the Press. Borrowing for public works is designated •' Vogelism," the Premier of the New Zaaland being considered the most ascteflsive negotiator of loaas in any of of the Antipodean colonies. A gentleman travelling in Scotland says in a letter to his friend in Viginia: — "I will now tell you of two youag women who, disappointed in marriage, and being ituinaate, revealed their minds to each' other, and resolved to live as man and wife in some place where they were not known. They drew lots to decide who should be the man. The one on whom it fell assumed the name of James Han. They then set out on their journey, and at last came to Epping, leased a house there, and. kept an irinj each performing the duties belonging to. his or her station. They gained a good deal of money, were well respected, and lived together thirty-one years, until at last the wife died, when the discovery was made. James Han Berved in all the offices ot the place, except constable, and was to have been churchwarden if the discovery had not been made."

A melancholy story of fallen gentility is recorded iv Australia. A strolling miustrel named Frank Ralph died in the train at Bendigo,andat the inquest it was disclosed that Ralph's wife, lately deceased,, .was of no mean origin, being the daughter of a bona fide earl in. jEngland. She used to accoinpauy her' erratic and somewhat dissipated husband in his itiheraut minstrelsy, and eing in a clear, cultivated Boprauo to his cornopean accompaniment. Such exquisite harmony did they produce— and often was it heard in Sandhurst— that many persons in no wiaa accustomed to. loiter in the street at the sound of music, would stand still and listen as long as the melody lasted. Two years ago the fair vocalist died at Sandhurst of tubercular consumption; and. now the husband, who has a military reputation, it appears, has. also succumbed to the adversity of life.

Hollowat'3 Pills and Ointment.— Influenza Coughs, and Colds— ln diseases of the throat and cheat, ever prevalent in our changeable climate, nothing so spaedily relieves, or ao certain cures as these inestimable remedies These disorders are too often neglected at their commencement or are injudiciously treated, and in either case disastious consequences, result: Whatever the condition of the patient, Holloway'a remedies will restore if recovery be possible ; they will retard the alarming symptohiß till the blood is purified when nature Will consummate the cure, gradually restoring strength and vital Bervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloway's preparations, tone is conferred, first on the stomach and by it on the system generally. Thou wnds of persons have testified that by the' use of these remedies alone they have been restored to health atcer every other means had failed, 2 534

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