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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 245, 6 October 1876, Page 2

Hon members apparently do not see the end of the session yet, as a number of them have lately been working hard'?, at a lawn tennis ground at the back of' the buildings. The way some of them have, taken off their coats, handled rakes, and pulled about heavy rollers has astonished some of the public. — Argut. The Auckl&nd Herald regrets to learn that Sir George Araey* although residing at Torquay, one of the most salubri -us places in" England, does not. enjoy good health, and consequently purposes to return to New Zealand at no distant day. The Auckland Herald, in connection with the New Guinea Mission, publishes a letter from the Rev George Brown, the pioneer missionary to the Duke of York Island and- adjacent islands. The following is an extract: — " I have explored a long line of coast on New Britain, from a point about twelve miles beyond Cape Palliser right down to Man, Island. We have beeu twice round Cape Palliser ; the other parts we have often visited. There is a large population on all that coast, and they seem quite friendly. By the way, the natives here are most positive in their assertions that there is a race of men with tails at a place called Kalili, quite close to where we were. They say that they are dwarfs, and that the tail, which they represent as being hard and stiff", is ah extension of the spinal bone, and that if the people wish to sit down they must first dig a hole to receive this caudal appendage. They guite scout the assertion that they must be monkeys. They ask, 'Do monkeys talk? or make taro plantations? or fight with spears, as these i men do? I tell the tale as it is told to ' me. 1 shall be most happy to be intro- ! duced to one of them, and have pfomised ; no end of good things to anyone who will secure me that honor." A Maori feast, at . which , thousands are expected to be present, will shortly* be held at "Wairoa, Hawke's Bay;i Native grievances will form prolific subjects fop the display of native eloquence on this occasion. ' ' ' The Napier Telegraph states that the Hon W. Fox was to leave England last month for New Zealand, and is ex- : pected to come out by the San Francisco route. ln reporting the sitting, ■• of the Supreme Court, the Post says:— His Honor took his seat on the Bench at ten o'clock. On doing so, his Honor referred to his having received a written, communication, the nature of which he considered it .to be. his duty to make public. .The communication had, duriug the sitting of the Court on the previous day, been handed to the officer, of the court, and he could not receive; such communications without making them public. The gist of this written statement was that the writer had commuriiV cated with the Government as to his (the Judge's) treatment of him, and that he was not aware of any misconduct on his part justifying such hostility on the Judge's part. Any such state--ment, that he had been hostile to a practitioner of the court, in the administration of the law, not in one case only, but habitually, would be dealt with in the proper manned At present he had no legal knowledge as to the writer of the letter,, but the Registrar of the Court should ascertain, and obtain evidence, so that : the person, whoever 1 Be was, would '3 attend l ' aud answer before the Court foV^hfrf fcoti* tempt.

-■ ■£-. v .-■''N. 1, ' ' S y i -:-\ V'. -. '£-„\ vA-A. ' ~ [The H^ald says that a brqod of -yojuig &n U s, hatched about tjjjvp weeks agcj, ai*e;now to be seen at! ,_ Bl|ersli^^r4ensf"Y,y':- ; Y. \-'.' A \.-- The latest item regarding the existence of salmon iu the Derwent is as follows:— Mr Daniel Hailes, of Kangaroo Point, is said by the Hobart Town Mercury, to have caught a fiue specimen, of. the real salmon. salar. inside the bay near Bellerive. The instrument used in effecting the capture was a gftib-allr 'Thel-al'moti measured twelve iuches iu, circumference at its thickest part, ; and weighed nearly 91bs. The -following is from the Taranaki Budget:— Oat of a small piece of metal run from the Henui furnace, Master Henry Hooker, an apprentice of Mr Henry Street's, wheelwright, has made a small chisel, about five inches long. Although the metal is direct from the furoace the chisel carries an edge on it which cuts like a knife. Mr Viviau yesterday, large as has been his experience in iron, expressed himself astounded at the wonderfully rich Equality of the metal, as shown in the piece put' through the lathe, The chisel •is another example. Huug by a string : .the chisel rings like steel, and" yet it is ..what may be called simple pig iron. -A. „-PJi.e Belfast Weekly News has an ■ \* r .!! c J e , on fc^ e Katikati settlement in ■" 'the province, but does not seem to think much of affairs in New Zealand as a whole. It says :— New Zealand is, no doubt, a fine colony, on the whole the best our countrymen who must emigrate , u . ld^ ele cfc ; but it is not all a Kati-->vsi"!,' y^s Government hesitates about doing 'anything for the idle, starving people whom it has bought from their native soil ; but the same Government, as a correspondent, quoting from au Auckland paper, informs us, does not hesitate to spend £800 in the encouragement 0 f a Maori feast at Para wai, the chief characteristics of which were drunkenness, indecent dances, aud immorality, y ;encouraged by native preachers. To keep the Maoris feastjing, and the immigrant Irish fasting, is not very praiseworthy ou the part of the G-oyerument, and ought, to teach ;our people to stay.at home, and work at home. ' ;. The following letter from a lady appeared in the, Wellington Argus the day; after Mr Wakefield made his ! apology to the' House:— " "Dear Mr Editor--! wish to briqg before you a breach of the privileges of our sex! It has always been oue of our dearest .privileges 'this- session to hear that dear ;darl|ng member" for Geraldine speak.' WVhave gone to the gallery in crowds to listen to his mellifluous tones, and he has always, darling that he is, been so considerate, never speakiug when our gallery was empty, but always . waiting for our presence, and looking to us for inspiration and approval. The breach of privilege I complain of, is tliat he should have made that beautiful apologv at a time when we were all taking repose, and when only a iew sleepy members were there, to. listen. If he had only told us as usual, that he was going to speak, we should all have been there to have encouraged and pitied him. Really' l wouder at his being ,'ao ungallant.—Tour afflicted, Bella.'' A farmer living a few miles from Medesto recently tried the experiment of planting potatoes and covering them with a deep bed of straw to protect them from frost. He first ploughed (he ground and placed the seed potatoes on top of the loose earth, covering them with a deep bed of rotted straw from the top of his stack. He now has a good crop of ea/!y new potatoes, which he could have raised in no other way. — Alta California.