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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 241, 8 November 1876, Page 4

The Proprietor of the Coromandel Mail has beta connected with an infinite variety of trades during his coloniul wanderings, and his experience in any particular branch of business is often turned to good account. in hia present capacity aa editor. 'JLhe bake; 8 have recently raised the price of bread one penny. " Bnyder " bag beea a baker, and knows a thing or two in that Hue. He j*oes into calculations on tie subject to show that the takers of Coromanilel, by the present charge for bread, clear a profit of 80 per cent, and atrongly recommends householders to buka their own bread. A correspondent recently furnished the Argus with the following "lip" for the Canterbury races : — l< It may be in the recollection of many of our readers that a tew months ago a Bishop in England a tew days before one of the great races preached from the text ' Beware of Controversy? and at the said race a horse uained Controversy woo. It may also have attracted the notice of some of our readers that last Sunday evening a high church dignitary in this town warned his hearers to beware or the advance of a certain dangerous Fallacy which was fast gaining ground iu -peopled opinious. Thuse who have have studied the eutrieß lor the Canterbury races will be struck wilh the similarity of tho warnings thus issued,"' . The followiog description of a visit to Cooktown is taken from a: letter received by a gentleman in Melbourne :. — "A stranger unacquainted with the many miseries of CooktowCj coming suddenly from the most populated part of the Oi^gingfl, would think the day of reamreciion bad arrived, ali the men looking as ghosi-like and supernatural. You cannot find a middle-condition man on the diggings, aU being so thin that bones actually protrude through their skin ; in fACt, although I have been in the army, and almost every country in the world, I never came across such wretched-looking people, nor yet lived in eucha wretched country as the north of Queensland."