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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 211, 28 August 1876, Page 2

; A contemporary states that swarma of starlings are to be met with ia the Southern districts, between, Mqsgiel and ' Tokotnairiro, .''They fly ia !flbcks v ,numbering,hundreds. Five' gas retorts, (says the G. li. Argus) manufactured by the Bmnner Mine Company from fireclay are now on the wharf awaiting shipment for Nelson for' use in the gasworks of that city.. They appear to be well made, and reflect great credit upon the Mr Elliott, who, we understand, constructed them with his own hands. The New, Zealand; Times says that - Sir'o;. Grey is going to England immediately after the session to bring under the notice of the British Government the injury caused to the people of the colony by the Vdgel administration. It is more likely he will go into political retirement, as he is much incensed by his deposition from the leadership. The Auckland Star says : — We are sorry to learn that the wreckers, infamous in the records of British shipwrecks, have imitators in this province, whose rapacity only requires' oppor r tunity for more full development. After Mr H. Roe's cutter Williamette went ashore at the Manukau Heads, the crew, under the direction of Mr Roes exerted themselves at great personal risk and exposure in saving what cargo they could. They succeeded ia taking out a good deal of jstuff, which was deposited on the shore, and believing that no one would add plunder, to the other misfortunes arising from the occurrence, the men thought they might safely leave the salvage unprotected for the night, while they went in search of food and shelter. Upon returning ;in the morning, however, they found the whole of the "goods stolen; the best blocks cut out of the riggings and, everything that was worth : taking and could be conveniently removed, carried off. Prom traces discovered in one gully near the flagstaff, it is believed the plunder went in that direction. This disreputable act has cast a stigma upon the whole of the settlers in the district, who should take measures to discover the perpetrator and bring him to justice, in order to purge the district of the odium resulting from the disgraceful and unmanly offence. Mr Wishart, mate of the barque Kate, of Dundee, in a letter to a relative, gives an account of the fearful ravages of yellow fever amongst English crewa at Rio Janeiro. The Kate lost four of her crew. Mr ./Wisharfc says the seamen all around them weredying. Two hundred English sailors had died in the hospital, besides many other seamen of different nationalities. Some ships had lost all their hands. There were three captains and obe mate dead belonging to vessels lying next the Kate. One of those little episodes, which never fail to make some stir ia the neighborhood where they happen, or to set the gossips a-tattling, occurred the other day at Switzers. A young man and his sweetheart, a girl of scarcely seventeen summers, finding circumstances taking an adverse turn as regarded their affaire de cceur, eloped, came to Invercargill, and the girl's father, who had previously given the young man permission to marry hia daughter, issued a warrant for the ' young man's arrest on a charge of abduction. Accordingly, young Lochinvar was arrested at the Mataura, whither he had gone with his " fair Ellen," and was brought before Mr M'Culioch, by whom he was remanded to Switzers. He is a respectable young fellow, and unless the girl's father is a very foolish man, he will quietly allow the twain to become one flesh ia the old orthodox ff&hion,-*Ezehange,

...;, A gentleman who has been; long :feßide : ut J'tb thQ: colony, I and who has jyijsited: almost; every part of \JNW'Zea£ 4 M n d| make|rihe:Mlowing x eii|ious statefgenf to ti& a £| 0 tg order in which »lpras v%Jd^n^%|oidibg to\the v richness of tfie soil around thStn aud their other natural resources :—Christchurch 1, Invercargill 2, Wanganui 3, ■Napier 4, Dunedin 5. Auckland he ,-has a very j)oor opinion q£ and hesays , ;^has nothing to make*. aUiyjng from. ; He ia also of opinion that in the course'" of time the towns will actually rank in the order named.— Southland ::sPi7B<?*. : , The Lyell Argus ius produced a /MaadeW 1 * V Here it ia verbatim et liter alum :— " Uphold the Right. 'Saturday ~ 15^ Juff "1876;" We " door know anything about Politics and we are not like some of our brother Editors; we done profess to know everything; But this much we do know. that be ; are through their neglect driving our beat men out of the district, men take up land, deposit their money; and then have to wait till doonw day for a Surveyor. The least a Paternal Government can do, is to forward to these cp6fidibg.b,ejngß, a^Oopy of The Budget, .or. of v the Four Million Loan. Or any other, lighb' reading matter they may ! ;haVe on hand: v Jiist to while away the titrie till Sir. Julius can go home (in a Special train) to bring out A Boy, to . ve Xf Mr! .if ww'.' 1 * x While there are numerous instances of small passions, there are undoubtedly many genuine cases of heartfelt attachment. Such was that of a young scion I of a wealthy house in New York for an who has recently acted at •.WaUai&^Tlieatre. She wns paid court to by this young gentleman, who loved her devotedly, but his father, who entertained an absurd prejudice against the stage and its people, interposed his authority and forbade his marrying Mias B — — . She was not oniy lovely : but a high-spirited girl, and. she thought it best to accept an engagement abroad. This she did,' but her admirer, who was prevented from following her by the knowledge that his income would oease the moment be manifested euch an intention, became so despondent that he 'committed '.suicide. His brother was bo affected by his loss jthat he look. Ma own life, and the mother 'soon afterwards died of grief. This triple tragedy did: not afoot the stern fattier,' who- lives on, childless and widowed, environed by luxury and steeped in. a senseless prejudice. Which is the happier,; think you, this forlorn old man or the object of bis unfortunate son's choice, who well married,- — with an assured position, and a devoted husband — wins equal esteem and admiration ? — Mw York Illustrated Weekly. t . ■ The timaru Herald which is sup posed to support the interests of Mr Stafford, almost direotly states tbnt hb is working really to unseat the Ministry. In a recent article that journal says: — The Ministry have only been hb (Mr Stafford's) instruments for a long time past; and when they have done their work, or are incapable of rendering him further the services he requires of them, it is only fit that he should throw them out of his way as an artificer lays aside his worn-out tools. Has aoyone ever believed that v the member for Timaru has been: keeping Sir Julius Yogel and hia feeble companions 1 in- power for the last three years from any admiration for them or confidence in them? Not a bit of it. He baa in reality been making use of his enemies to shape his own ends. They have played the cat to bis monkey, and : have been compelled to pull the chestnut Abolition out of the hot fire of party politics. Of Course they fiWe burnt their paws in the operation; but. he cares little for that) since he is in the comfortable positiou of having acquired through their agency what he could only have obtained, with infinite i.p'aips himself. Who could, pity them either were he now to leave them to their fate? They have had (he reward which they bargained for in a prolongation of their tenure of peace and power until now, and they cannot complain if they meet with no further consideration." Lapland mothers are not it the habit of staying at home with their babies. The Laps are a very religious people, and take long journeys to hear their pastors. As soon as the family arrive at the little wooden church, and the.rein> deer are secured the father shovels a snug little bed in the snow, and the mother wraps the baby in skins and deposits it. therein. "Then the father piles the snow around it, and the dog is set on guard, while the parents go decorously into the church. Often as many as thirty babies may be seen laid away in the snow about a church. The Rev Henry Ward Beecher's salary has been fixed for this year at £4,000. Last year his congregation presented him with £20,000 to cover the cost of defending the Tilton suit.

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Referring to the prospects of the mines at Reef too, the Times says :~ "It is not, we think, too much to say that the gold yield of the district from ; this to Christmas next will average from four thousand to four thousand &ye hundred ounces of gold per month, and this with rather more than the ordinary certainty attaching to quartz mining that it will be lasting." CBp'ain W. R. Kennedy, R. N., hes just published bis Sporting Adventures in the Pacific, and in this book occurs the following recipe, which it is stated was found upon the person of the proprietor of a Californian drinking saloon: — "For whiskey — Ten gallons of kerosene, three lb. of potash, one ounce of strychnine, mixel with soft water. If gin is required, quantum sufficit of oil of juniper .'' I The London Echo of June 21st Says of John Seddons, a Northumbrian pitman:— " This amiable inhabitant of the carboniferous districts is blessed with a Quiver full of arrows. Thirteen children in all have been born to him, but, unlike ..Mr. (Grins of infanticidal renown,he'cried 1 ' for .more. A 1 bfiker's dozen ':. was not enough for John Seddonß, who, fae are very unneceßsaHly : told, 'was very fond of children.' . Accordingly tie proceeded to add to his family in a <nanner which, among the countrymen Of Buxton and Wilberforoe, must receive the severest condemafttion. On one of Mr Seddons* few- visits to the upper world he was sauntering along the highway, accompanied by his faithful « dawg.' He there encountered \& female tramp,' whose whole worldly possession was a small but grimmy infant, which took the ' fancy ' of the pitman. The preliminaries to the transaction were . brief, and the purchase,of the youthful Brifon still more jprosaic. « Now, hinny, dee ye want lo sell your bairn ?' was the salutation of our subterranean friend. •1M gi c ye sixpence foV 'Here ye are, then,' was the reply. Whereupon Mr Sedr dona -shouldered the new addition to his family, and the mother pocketed the coin. The transaction in human stock completed, at the very moderate figure of about a half-penny per pound. \he purchaser and the vendor went iheir Beparate ways. A fortuight has elapsed since the bargain was made. Seddons hrn, the infant, and appears well naitisfied with his purchase, while nothing further has been seen of its unnatural mother. What Mrs Seddone thinks of her share in the transaction, we have yet to learn. It is just possible that a fourteenth addition to her already numerous flock—even at the cost of what Mr Mantalini would have called ' the demnition email sum of sixpeace'—may not be altogether agreeable to her feelings. In the meantime, pending the issue of a third 'Slave Circular,' the history of John Seddons', jof West Rainton, labt transaction may be carefully recorded."