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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 247, 9 October 1876, Page 2

Last Tuesday week the Waikato district was visited with a severe frost, which killed all the young potatoes. i Early strawberries were exhibited in the fruiterers shops ,in Auckland the week before last. A variety of earrings, made of Aberdeen granite, and elaborately finished and polished, have been lately imported by a Wellington jeweller. Fifty cross-bred wethers, (says an Auckland contemporary) which were found to be too fat for the butcher, were lately boiled down and yielded a ton of tallow, thus realising for their owner nearly £1 per head. The Dunedin. Saturday Advertiser says:— The rain poured in a perfect deluge the' other day on the property of the Hon Mr Stafford, at Stoke, near Nelson, while it ;was comparatively light in the neighborhood. Since then a spout of dirty water poured on Mr Stafford himself in the House of Representatives for about fifteen minutes, the discolored fluid having its fountain in the brain of the member for Auckland City East. This was all because the member for Timaru opposed the payment of £300 a-piece to the members for the session. The New Zealand lordlings had some pleasautry over a motion of the Hon Mr Robinson for papers connected with the Agent-Generalship. Colonel Brett likened the mover to a member of the animal kingdom called the chameleon. The Hon Mr Mantell said that it was a new fact in natural history that the Hon Mr Robinson should resemble any brute in creation. A correspondent writing us (Auckland Herald) from Wangarei, on Saturday last, states that the Waipu mailman informed him that " a real live large salmon was cast ashore on the Puakaka beach last week, and secured by the Maoris, who sold it to Mr UusselL" It seems exceedingly strange, though perhaps not incredible, that a salmon should be found so far north as the vicinity of Waipu, seeing that Port Chalmers is the only part of the East Coast of New Zealand at which any large fish of the British salmon species has been yet seen or caught. Arctic whalebone has been sold by auction in London at £850 per ton. Southern is worth £640. Mr Robert Stout, M.H.R., is an expensive adjunct to representative institutions. It was knowD that in order to send Home money to meet the engagements of the colony, the Imprest Supply Bill should be passed by both Houses last night, as ibe mail steamer for Melbourne leaves to-morrow. Accordingly, when some delay in passing the Bill occurred in the Lower House, the Legislative Council adjourned for half-an-hour and met again, as ihey thought, in time to receive and pass the Bill. As the gong sounded, summoning members of the Upper House, all difficulties as to the passage of the Bill through the House of Representatives had seemingly been got over, but Mr Stout rose at the moment aud so continued by talking to delay matters that the Legislative Council had to adjourn without considering the- Bill. The Government may get over the mafter, but should they have to delay the mail steamer, Mr Stout will have cost the country several hundreds of pounds. — N. Z. Times.