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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 66, 17 March 1877, Page 2

A, competent judge of theatrical matters estimates that' the 'Lipgards cleared fifteen hundred to two, thousand" pounds in NefcZealand. . J -'•"•■ -• • " Snyder,"~ih the Pdverty Bay Standard, asks — What is a moral victory? A few days back there was an election at Hawke's. Bay, when a Mr Sutton was returned at the headof the poll; one Mr Buchanan standing lower down. . That is *o say Mr Sutton gained the day and Mr Buchanan lost it. Then I ask what dde& Te Wanaiiga newspaper . mean by saying Mr Buchanan obtained a moral victory? It will no more give him a seat in the Assembly thaiiit would^iet me'a'glass of ale if I. told my landlord I intended '\o> pay him. with a moral sixpence., It is possible he might offei^me a moral glass of-ale, but there would be- very- little malt and hops;. in its composition.^lf J were, , putting up,,, .for a member of Parlirfnient t would nfuch rather not have a moral victory of the kind spoken of by Te Watiajigif, because I am jquite under thejmprejsioa jjhat no honorarium coes wi^ife,^.- wVjii"';:. ■;..:"•.-•.; :;^r;T ;■ . I

The Wellingtonians have been taking to heart the name given to their wooden metropolis by a member last session, N%The4 City" of Band boxes." Their most spiriteW citizen, Mr Walker Turnbull, has resolved toN efface this stigma by building hia new. warehouse of several storeys in brick. He;?is a brick hunself. to set $o good an\ example.-^ Saturday Advertiser. x>'*"*"\ ~-^\ \ "Atlas" writes in the World:— Despite the vast number and variety of Chhristmas annuals, it would appear that Christmas as a. jovial institution is gradually dying out. Turkeys are not so popular, neither is., plum pudding so digestible, as formerly. \There> ■ are no-ice and snow nowadays? and^Worse than all, I understand that the time-honored and ever-popular holly has broken down altogether. lam told • that there • are^so-f ew « red berries this year that in Covent Garden Market people are selling bogus berries at so "much a gross, with which the purchaser may give, the true Christmas flavor to his banch of greenery. " This is ternbie~news! " If things go on in this way we may live to see the time when the manufacture of mistletoe will be carried on by artificial flowermakers. An unfortunate manjamed^ohTrßuckloy (says a VVellington paper) has been taken into custody : bn suspicion of tuhacy{ There can [ be little o doubt of ,the .man being of unsound mind* to judge from:his eccentric conduct and ravings af ter-^eing placed in one of the cells. He gave the police a visit amount of information about ihimjelfhrand, his past history, together with hia plans for the future. But he was eyerything.by turns and nothing \img. . He stated fcmong other things that he tyaij of nobler origin, and retained certain rights conferred upon :all the members of his family by jtheir ancestors, Irish Kings, among those privileges T)eing one of a decidedly barbarous if kingly character, viz., that of cutting oft the lilnßa of enemies or offensive perpons, for which purpbse he confidentially informed "Detective Farrell he kept a ferocious butcher in his service at a salary of £500 a year. He also expressed his,intention of wiping New Zealand off the .maj) of the world with his forefinger, and alsp of starting.an .immigration,. agency in Victoria on his own account. > He wandered strangely, and seemed; to be troubWd in mind by the Martin Fountain,"' to which -he made many incoherent references, and' 1 concluded by expressing a desire to hang. Detective Farrell on the top of it to dry. He will be taken before the Magistrate in the morning, and in all probability committed to the Lunatic Asylum.