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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 92, 20 April 1877, Page 2

As a convincing .prooif bf how the sport ofl cowrsing is progressing iu.tfiq Ajigtralasiani colonies, the ' Aijc' -ijuote'S' the 'fact ' th-tt' Mr. Isaac Burrill, a well-known trainer of do"-s' . in the Ballaratldistrict.we-ii; to* Wv? Zealand* iri the Arawata, : acca'iiipanied by fourteen' selected greyho^nds .f ron) Mr _seuiamin Hep,j hum's celebrated .kennel, .", . I l 'At the last-- _lio\v .of , the 'Timaru^ Agric^l-! tural Association a J hedg6-'cuttihgnaachi,ne of; Oam-iru manuf detiire ;wfts' exhibited; ' %d ' .awarded a'prizei "'lt •was'bought byjth'e' lleSvj Zealand and 'Austriili'ih'L-Jnd "Cbmpaify, attd ! another has since been constructed for the Totara station.,. ,A. public trial of it has been.; made, and has resulted- most sitisfact'orilyj An eye-witpess •• of its performance**! i thus" vrjtpsMo thg Times -XV. Xt gives :.mo great pleasure to say. that' as far as the .machine itself is concernod'l considec at a*greaf success, doing its work thoroughly .and efficiently. The difficulty to contend with is the guiding of the horses in a straight line, and when this is overcome I believe wp have a machine that will dress our hedges .in as thorough a manner as it can be accomplished by the hand. I have no doubt that When the horses becoire more accustomed to the work, and the driver has had more practice, tho pi-eseiffc existing difficulty of -the' guiding will be in a great measure overcome." " "The Loafer jh the Street" writes as folr .lows in. the Forempst among warriors in the crusade against the demon Drink'is Mr Fox. It is sometimes my pleasing duty to run over files of colonial papers, and on those occasions I genorally come across Mr Fox reasoning on temperance and judgment to come ou the drinkers. In a speech recently made by him at Wah'gahui, Mr Fox was very hard on the medical profession and the fourth estate. He observed that it wa.** very hard to get at the real cause of a man's death if alcohol were at all repponsible for it. The doctors, 'the coroner's -juries, the • newspapers were all very careful not to attribute it to liquor. "If. a maij,??*, said Mv - 'Fox, "comes out ot a 'public house 'drunk, and gets drowued in a ditch, the jury get out of the difficulty by a verdict of , «; Asphyxia,' and the papers wind up with a reference to deceased being much lamented by a largo .circle o*f friends. ' English papers please copy.?.' .There is an amount of information conveyed n the above remarks-'a^ startling to me as it will probably be to the coroner's juries, the doctors, and the editors. .

. w The Christchurch Press saJjS— There Sbipmfjrt by tKe?|.s. ]iki lingtoi-b yesterd%. It" coasted M OTei dqtakeys* Mho jsJ&wed %fpkvere £%oro\&fr bred, by tfi#int§S§e opfa\ofshey &ayeds $f e, MP r i#& M? in *W lav mm coirfl m^fe*ence_i|hy^)wtfp tab\cco aP chicoj^ \»fi*^'small fa|!r,d_»se ro^TPenl^^e.Sto^ ado, Melbourne. A stream or water passethrough the farm and dams have been made so that the lower portion of the ground is well-watered, and the props will look healthy in the driest season of the year. In the preparatio^of the groundlthe AroprfetctSTbayif th'e^exgei-tse was very!gr|ati^t aga for his trouble he expects to realise over £600 for tobacco alone this season. fashionably. The strong winter wind met hQE-and the scant pattern of her dress in the ifadne prevented the long steps necessary to face ifc, successfully. She rather lost ground * *A__«'s_ch-'i- life,**- .he^muriiHirfld^^-fcly^to: herself, "So we poor mortals face a sea of troubles, but go drifting with the tied-back evermore." Preaching on a recent Sunday evening at the Scotch Church, Piccadilly, London, on " Our Safety; or, England the Tarshjsb?o*4' Prophecy," Dr Lumming said that from Whatever quarter they looked in EuropeJtßere were the elements to be seen of an earthquake that would shake the nations to their -VeT*y-*depths. PwHilsfc other countries would be smitten Englaifd would be spared. She was-the chosen |iason of God, and had a grand -and prosperous _Sl;ure before her. In any ooming conflicting nation might be chastane'dVbut it wdtildle for her purification. She would ke^nlrifeel the rude blasts a^fthe(tlSm-{i[est?*; butso^long as she remained a God-fearing natiofjfshe had nothing to fear. England was the T^renwh of prophecy raenUdhed in Ezekfel, s|Rl.Jfer the prophet to be a^KndLof promise c|argfd with a great mis-•SPP-a-SwJhe restoration of the Jews. Ifc was destined to be ji^yerous and powerful unto '[tKo^ud of time^ Its future would be unprecedented in theTHstory of nations. Wc^earn from Sabrta|a Springs that one of theTLelles of that pface has had a difficult operaJ;ioj^.performe_>jipon her ears for the purpc-jse^of; reduci|gm%hem to the ordinary size of such appendages. The lady is accomplished! and pleasing to all who meet her, but up to this time she has suffered great aunoyanc^jfrom the fact that her ears were far beyond the proper dimensions. No arfc of the hair-dresser or milliner could be employed successfully in hiding this deformity, and she resolved to go to New York and have them cut down. She consulted with a jsk iJ__d„siirgeon, and, refusing to take chloroform, suffered bravely white undergTrag-lne operation.;,.. The surgeon believes that the ears wilLhe vall.^righ^ agifihlwftnid a few , Herald.. ■■• „./'*'•' .:'. % Abjfo_;a; . tee^uago^says .-; £ha,.Auckland r «/^/.we L jpubJ.ished,,aip^agrapbiito the effect that a gentleman in India had recently diedjintestate^lea^ing ,no limraediat--} iieirs, and whose estate is' said to Tie" koTfh \ ■^•MO.OOO, ft w^^ a-prizc should be looked, after byit____rge family of O-Keefe-s. In reply-to that paragraph -we have received: the ; subjoined letter; which is so umque-m its varied originally that we do not.pcesume tsaiteriorcorrectclt, but prefer printing ifc exactlyas'-' it; emanated jfrom tlie pen of this scion of the great 0 __eefe family--"Opotik, April 9th r 1877.— T0 the Editor! of the HeteldSoi J*, wish'to Correctja errer mi your valuble "jurnul,* the name ofi O'Keeffe spelth wrong- th-it Gentleman tha. left the estate In. Indie lam-one: of [his heirs, Csent' my -Clamc * Severe! -weeks ago; fold aj nother in-Stephen Green Imblun. ; Aife 1 ydn aware that- bravk name of i O'Keeffe Fougtfci side by side with Bryin Boiroimbe at Cluaih-' tapf For his County and Reiligen like Many other brave men Yous truly, M. M O ? K*EEFPE." ' ' " ' . '.- A miner named ' Hassett, forking in a claim at t;he3 Big Dam Westland, was discovered .lying dead*; having <mdehfly been 1 • smofcheW;^ a fclfeof earth. r The unfortu-naie^eceased-was^.'hatterJand^waa engaged! m'slnicnlg.-He'wd^ast setn fttive on Saturday last, and probably met hvith hia sad fate 1 oq .-that day. ; The itfost painful circumstance connected with the accidkfc is that only a small qnaiftity-of earth covered thdbody, ao' that if deceasedjiad;been working .withia; mateit is probable his life would _av&%eei-t aved. ' .' ."* '. ""- *" j j x ; '

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