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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 241, 2 October 1876, Page 2

It is understood (says the Post) that the House will be asked to sanctiou the payment of a bonus of £50 to each of the Hansard reporters for the present session, in addition to their ordinary salary. This proposal will be made in consequence of the e?tra length of the session, and the enormous enhanced work thus thrown upon the Hansard staff.

A private telegram from Dunedin states that the scene at the meeting after the cayenne pepper had been thrown about amongst the people was highly ludicrous. The spectacle of two thousand pocket handkerchiefs out all at once, and two thousand all coughing and sneezing at the same time, was intensely grotesque,

A, few days ago a man named Hugh Eae was arrested in Nelson on a charge of refusing to obey a summons issued at Onehunga charging him with sly grog selling, brought before the Uesident Magistrate, and remanded to Onehunga. The following particulars of the case are from the Auckland Star:— ln the E.M. Court to-day, Hugh Eae, proprietor of the " G-ood Templar Hotel" Onebunga, next Manukau Hotel, was charged, on the information of _ Sergeant Greene, with selling whiskey on the 13th instant, he not being duly licensed so to do. Eae did not appear, but proof of the service of the sutnmous was given. The evidence of P. M' Govern and Herbert Jones, members of the Armed Constabulary, who were then temporarily staying at the Templar Hotel, as it would seem, unknown to the landlord, was taken, and was most conclusive. Eae was fined in the full penalty £50. The same defendant was further charged with selling certain quantities of beer and whiskey on the 14th instant, and the evidence in this ease being equally conclusive he was fined in a further sum of £50. Eae was further charged with a third similar offence, and proof of the service of the summons being given,. Sub-Inspector Pardy applied for a warrant for Eae for disobeying the summons, which was granted. It is rumored that Eae has bolted to the South to manage Good Templar hotels there. For the sake of Temperance it is to be hoped he will find other names for his sly grog shops. Despite the large amount of work to be got through, there is a growing impression that the session will close in less than three weeks. A large number of hon members are eager to be off home, and so strong is this desire that it will be impossible to induce them to stay much louger at their Parliamentary duties. The Government expect to pass the Counties Bill, then there will be a scramble through the estimates, and the session will towards the end collapse very suddenly. Heaveu grant that these predictions may be realised. — Post.

Mr Thomas Bullivant, a Christchurch contractor, is advertising for twelve plasterers at twelve shillings per day for that city.

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