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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 33, 7 February 1877, Page 4

The legality of selling packets of lolliea with cheap jewellery in them, as an inducement for (he public to buy, waa lately tried in London ; and on its being proved that in no case was more than the value of the money paid given in exchange, the bench at Bow-street dismissed the complaint. But in Melbourne the lolly packet gambling is taking the place of the suppressed Cbiuese banks. In one of the arcades a Bbop openly advertises that purchasers of a shilling's worth of Jollies run a chance of getting sums ranging from a sovereign down to a threepenny bit in these parcels ; and the consquence ia that people whose taste for swee's was given up years ago have gone into lollies as a substitute for fan-tan. This is bad, but the worst retnuins behind. "Atticus" in the Leader says: — I have been informad, on creditble authority, that the gamesters when, they find no money in their packets, reveDge themselves by eating the lollies, so that this new form of vice is calculated to destroy soul and body alike. It is clearly a case for the interference of (he police. The gambling may be injurious, there can be no doubt about the action of of. the. lolliea,. The Bombay Gazette publishes an account, suplied by a correspondent, of the death aqd burial of. the Rajah Cundasamy, who departed this life at Hyderabad on the 14th ult. The Rajah Cundasamy held a confidential position of no less importance than that of intermediary between the British Government and the Government of the Nizam. The day before he died, the rajih was converted into a sunyasee, or recluse, thereby eschewing the pomps and vanities of the world for the life of a faqueer. Althouh the rejab had held this high position he did not belong to a high caste, and the mourners attended his funeral are described as a rabble largely oom posed of persons the;: wprae -..(or; ...drink. Twenty or thirty horses led the way, followed by a large number of men, among whom were a number of low caste women who performed a series of antics to the music half-a-dozen tom-toms: Then caaae an elephant surrounded -by a host of people with, umbrellas. This part of the ceremony seema at first to have puzzled the writer of the narrative, but he soon discovered that these people, instead of affecting a sorrow which they knew not, were simply engaged in picking up pieces of silver, thrown amongst them by mourners on the back of the elephant. The corpse came next iv the calavacade, but instead. of being carried on a bier, common ■amoDg the Hindoos, it %as borne on a gorgeously decorated open palanquin, such as is is ordinarily used at a wedding. The body was placed in a sitting posture, propped up with pillows, and it scarcely requires an effort of the imagination to realise the ghastly scene, as with open eyes, gleaming teeth, and bare cheat the remains were carried through the streets of the city. r