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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 4, 4 January 1877, Page 2

A Church Bazaar held at Greymouth last week realised nearly £500. The Christchurch Star says:— A paragraph, to the effect that a little girl was recently frightened to death in Canterbury by a boy playing a ghost, has been going the round of our contemporaries. The Canterbury referred to is not the lately abolished Province of that name, but the town in England. Girls here when they see a ghost do not die, but try to find out its business and learn the last scandal in the other world. We give the explanation because it is unfair both ways that any misconception should prevail in the matter. I Ingenious tradesmen in Marlboroagh send out their accounts on postal cards. People who have received them object to the plan. A lad in the employment of Messrs Lloyd Brothers, Broadford (sayslthe Australasian) was bitten yesterday on the left finger by a black snake, while engaged in bringing in firewood. He at once cut the finger off with an axe, and was immediately taken to Dr Purrier, who dressed the wound. He is now quite out of danger. "iEgles " is responsible for the following: — In a daily paper last week there was an advertisment for six donkeys— wanted, I may say, for New Zealand, where the commodity is scarce. In the course of the day the advertiser received a postal card to this effect:—" Apply to the Speaker, Parliament Houses. Rather a mulish lot. To be had cheap unless previously • withdrawn.' "