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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 109, 10 May 1877, Page 4

Social assemblies are popular at the Kumars, as elsewhere. A writer in tbe Kutnara Times remarks — That grand

institution the Bellman invites gentlemen occasionally to "trip it on the light fantastic toe," but judging by the noise made at danoea the gentlemen aforesaid cover their light fantastic toes with hob-nailed boots. We all of us (says « Atlas ") know the impecunions gentlemen who in three weeks will come iuto some property, but who, in the interval, woald be glad of a ten pound note. This is, I am assured on excellent authority, tie exact condition of the Khedive, who, a , few days ago, summoned the heads of all the leading firms in Egpyt, explained that unless he could get an immediate advance the smash-up inevitable, and extracted a handsome subscription of one thousand pounds from each firm. Egypt believes in Goschen. The Glasgow Corporation has just increased the salary of its town clerk to £3500 per annum. This is nearly £300 a year more than the salary of the Lord Advocate of Scotland; £1500 ayear more than the salaries of the President of the Board of Trade, and the President of the Local Government Board; it exceeds by a similar amount the salaries of the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer and Auditor-General; the Chairman of Customs, the Chairman of Inland Revenue, and it is £1000 a year more than the emoluments of the Postmaster-General.