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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 34, 8 February 1877, Page 2

Referring to the loss of a portion of the last San Francisco mail, the Satuidau AdeerUser suggests that if the .Frisco route destroys our mail bags it should get the sack. * A Dunedin paper says:—" As a reminiscence of the polishing off the Otago cricketers got in Canterbury, they have been further taken off at Christchurch in a photograph 'c group. This is treating their defeat in a light manner." Iv reference to the man Messiter, whojhaa been arrested for stealing letters from". he Pofct Office, the Timaru correspondent of the Zyttelton'Times t says:— ■" Frank Messiter was formerly postmaster at Rakaia (Canterbury) '■■ and afterwards employed at the Telegraph Office here. He boarded at the Club Hotel. On leaving, the landlord detained his box for money due. Months afterwards, Mrs McLe lan, the landlady, in moving the box, io .md it contained about 2UO letters, add.c *ed to various people here and in Englar d. All tie letters are supposed to have br-en received by Messiter at Rakaia. Some we.c registered. Oyer 24,0Q0 Masons were made in. North America during last year, and the whole number of affiliated Masons on the Continent at this time exceeds 600,000. £ Drunkeness has so greatly increased in Nottingham that the magistrates have de- ; termined to ascertain from drunkards the name of the publican who last supplied them with liqror. Mr Jan.es Pollard, carver, of Melbourne, has discovered a method of raising photographs pictures in the form and character of medal lio is.. He has obtained a patent. The St Louis Courier Journal tells of an ; impecunious tramp thereaway, who offered a cancelled postage stamp for sale at a high p ee as a sacred relic, declaring that it was from one of St Paul's letters to the Corinthians. This is a hard whiter.

"The, Lima, penitentiary has been found comfortable byf Chin.se prisoners detained there. An intercepted ' letwsr,\f rpm one of them to a fellow-countryman employed upon a fejm,l contained this information and adv 4?« ": Httlowork here, plenty of us not doing anything, ahd N lots of chow-chowi-Kill your master and come here."