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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 232, 21 September 1876, Page 2

The Post of yesterday says:— There was a systematic whipping-up 6f members in the lobbies to-day, to discover how they stood affected towards IVtr Larnaeh's proposal that they should be paid £300 a year each. It . is understood that a majority are in favor of it. We suppose this is human nature. The average M.TI.R. cannot resist v.Qti-tV^a salary of £300 a year to himself.'" "

•< .-<V YV \ ■' ~ ~ ■■■■' \ itiXrelieti- local we (Post) noticed :;th^|Mr SiW.:d?ugeley had applied for j^post |fj Inspector b^Nuisaqces at |G-^|tow&|| jjjfe expressed . our ' ' entire 'belief in^4fi^-|^se^onT'n_ade;.% jMr Pugaley " that he could tell a'nuisance as well as any man in Greytovvn," bub we at the same time ventured to doubt whether he was quite up to the mark •of our Wellington Inspector, "vyho i'-coiildi snjeli a nuisance. 'two- miles off." Apparently this has riled " Silas," who has sent us the following telegram:— "I, Silas Pugsley," do hereby challenge Mr "Pilm^i;,. luspector of Nuisances, to smell him any distance from two to ten miles.—Silas Pugsley." Arrangements are being made hy which this novel and interesting match will come off presently in Wellington.

"A Hopeless Idiot" sends to the .drgus the following "crumb of com;fort for Ministerialists'' :—

"Sir George with wicked joy repeats: 'The Ministers have lost their scats-,' 'Twill doubtless be consoling, then, To know they're cherubim, not men."

Last evening (says the _V. Z Times of Saturday) shortly after six o'clock, ao accident occurred at the junction of 'tyie- Graiit\and Tinakori roads. A carriage' and' pair- belonging to Mr Son_er.vijle.were "-engaged to take Mrs J. E, Fitzgerald, with her son and daughter, up to Mr Levin's. In crossing' the'Tinakori-road to go into Grantroad* the' carriage 'went over the bauk into the ditch on the left-baud side. The horses after plunging t'ov some minutes succeeded iu throwing the carriage over on its side, so that oue of the windows took the position usually [pcpu^ted^b'y; the roof. Lights were procured, and several people having appeared on the scene, the horses were cut adrift ; aud, with a little difficulty, managed to extricate themselves, apparently uninjured, from the mud-aud-water-bath in which they had been indulging. Then the inmates of the carriage were assisted out of their in- ' voluntary imprisonment, wonderful .to say, unhurt, and even to all appearances quite composed, though rather puzzled at first on setting their feet on terra firma to know where they were. Yor the si?e of the province, Westland is the hiost prolific place iii the colony for. newspapers. Almost every poking little hole has its daily, weekly, or bi-weekly paper.. On the West Coast., if a locality possesses a smithy ,and a general store, it* is dubbed with 'the title of township, and as "soon as half-a J dozen shanties are added to the dignity of the place, then comes a newspaper tp cap it The new West Coast diggings — the Humera — with a population of a few hundreds, is going to have two daily papers shortly. The proprietary of the Grey lUver Argus are-about starting a paper, there, and Mr Walter Bishop, late* proprietor of the Greymouth Star, but at present on a visit here, leaves this for the new field with a plant to start a paper to be palled the Kumara Mail. How both journals are to exist is one of those things which "no fellah can understand." — Wellington Argus The New York Weekly Tribune receives from 8s to 20s per line for advertising, the latter price being for notices inserted among the news. The editors of tho Wairarapa papers like each other. This is what he of the Standard says to him ofjthe News Letter :— " Again the editor of the • News Letter has been (hoaxed by some heartless person, who told him that a cow had eaten the seat out of a pair of trowsers. The editor, thankful -for such' apiece of information, builds up a solemn local cautioning the public against cows. Had he warned his readers against goosey ganders instead he would have done them better service.

In these dull times (says the Star) a gentleman in one of our city counting houses has employed his spare momeuts in the following curious calculation :— The debt of New Zealand, which is estimated at £20,000,000, if taken in sovereigns and laid out before each other would extend for a distance of 276 miles, 1 furlong, 5 chains, 3 poles, 9 yards, and 4< inches! Or, if taken in sovereigns' again > and laid one on top of each, other, it would reach: the height of:j — 19 miles, 5 furlongs, 8 chains, 1 pole, l.yard, and 8 inches! — Je-ulius!

News' from the Islands states that Jubilee day was observed at Tonga with great rejoicing on the 28th Juue. A general holiday was proclaimed and a salute of 2L guns was .tired. King George addressed an assemblage of nearly 8000 Tongans, congratulating -thenrupon the progress in civilization and religion they had made in the past fifty years, and favorably contrasting thier stateof freedom and enlightenment with the slavery and ignorance of the neighboring islands. His Majesty concluded with these words, " I feel my heart burning in me with joy when I think what Tonga has accomplished since Mr Thomas came ; and also because the Lord has permitted me to see this,, the first jubilee of Tonga I shall certainly not see the nest, but I think if the leaves of the trees of Tonga and the soil of Tonga had mouths, they would shoot forth their thanks to God for what he has done for Tonga." Several other speakers, both Tongaus and Europeans, addressed the meeting. After this a grand supper was given, at which an immense quantity of pork, yams, and bread was consumed. In the evening an open-air bolotu was held, a service consisting of native songs and addresses. On the following morning SOO native ministers and class leaders sat down to a breakfast provided by the Rev S. W. Baker, the head of the mission. Tliis scene was photographed by Mr J. Davis of Sydney.

(For continuation of Newt see fourth page.)