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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 81, 7 April 1877, Page 2

A v evy praiseworthy piece of work was undertaken yesterday by about 150 men belonging to the Eomau Catholic congregations of this city. A working bee, composed of willing hands to the number iudicated above, proceeded to the cemetery and cleared it of the accumulations of weeds and rubbbish which for some time past hare rendered it anything but an inviting scene. By 1 p.'plock the work was complete, and the cemetery is now, u spot which, if not very lively in its associations, may yet impart some interesting reminiscences from the fact that the remains of many Peninsular and other heroes lie there. — Wellington. Argus. Two men, within a few days of each other have met their deaths in Duuedin by having been <' rail in " by the police as drunk, when really suftering, not from liquor, but disease The one was the proprietor of the Turkish Laths in ])unedin, who died during the night in the lock-up, as was proved by medical examination, from disease of the brain; the other, a carter, was delivering coals when he iell down in a fit, and could not he aroused Beyond the fact that he fell down there was nothing towarrant the p esumption that he had been drinking, yet an hour or tsvq afterwards he was taken to the 'ock-up'and treated as a " dead drunk " till morning. It was then round tbat he was still unconscious, and ho was taken to the Hospital, where, in defiance of croton oil, he never rallied, but died. The post mortem showed that death was the result of apoplexy. A Dunedin telegram, dated March 28th says:— lbe settling between the bookmakers and the public has been o.ily partially satis, factory, for while the former were at their posts to a man, tl o latter did not muster in strong force, an.d many were hewailipg thenmisplaced confidence. Captain Boyt.on has accomplished the feat o£ swimming down the Po from Turin to lerrara, a distance of 800 miles.

Hop-growing ( says the Wairarapa"Standard) is a local industry -which'jdeserves liiore attenciou than it receives in the Wairarapa; Our brewers have to obtain supplies from Nelson when ifc is patent that' hop3 can be grown asl well in our own neighborhood;? Mrs Curch has this, season "picked;, looqlbs at : Papawai, which she has disposed of to Mr IT.' V. Smith, of Greytown. Iu quality they are equal to the Nelson bops, and the price paid is 6d per lb, is, we believe, remunerative to the grower. A correspondent, signing ; himself. " An,Identity," has written to the Otago Guardian: denying that J. G. S. Grant ever had any connection with the Otago High School, and offering £10 to Mr Grant if anyone but himself can give written or verbal testimony that he was. To this Mr Grant replies:—" I am not surprised at this; for every right human or divine, claimed by me, has been denied in Otago. However, it is beneath my personal dignity to hold tin argument with a person who is ashamed of his name. I will not quarrel with a shadow." Whether in honor of Easter Sunday, or with the view of staving off the smallpox invasion with which their countrymen at Port Chalmers are infected, some of the Chinese in the city held a grand feast yesterday. A spring cart was drawn up opposite the Arcade with a heavy load of Chinese luxuries. Several bags >yere unloaded, supposed to be filled with potatoes and vegetables, but the astonishmsnt of tbe onlookers may be imagined when they found the potatoes to be little white dishes of boiled rice, the [supposed cabbages roast chicken, and Brussels spouts neither, more nor less than the sweet lemon and .peppermint-flavored Passover cakea with which John Chinaman in his happy moments is wont to propitiate his chief Joss— namely, h« digestive apparatus. An attempt was made to discover whether the feast was in honor of the China* man who recently hanged himself and released himself from his creditors, or if it was really a festival to celebrate the arrival of the latest epidemic from the Celestial Empire at the Heads; but to all inquiries John only shook his head mournfully aud was silent. — Otago Guardian. In some portions of Franco every landowner is compelled to plant two saplings for every tree he cuts down.