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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 128, 1 June 1877, Page 2

Another mob of overland cattle from Nelson (says the Westport Times) passed through the town oh Thursday, en route for Mokibinui, a cheering sign of advancing settlement. The proceedings of the present Victorian ParlJament are not likely to be characterised by greater order and decency, or by a less amount of useless talk than its predecessor if the opinions expressed in the newspapers are to be depended upon. In a leader in the Australasian, in its issue of the 19th of May, we find the following:—" We cannot affect to be gratified by the result of Friday's elections. The issue goes very much to thin the ranks of the party of moderation and law and order, and to strengthen ;the hands of; the party of violence and class legislation. The effect of the popular verdict we cannot but regard as adverse to the best and most permanent interests of the colony, and as calculated materially to retard the return of the community to the safe and steady path of progress. In spite of one or two scattered victories by the representatives of free trade and equitable legislation, the net result is a triumph for the men who composed the * stonewall,' and who by their violence, their rowdyism, their disregard of constitutional principles, were the authors of the ;darkest and most discreditable page of our political history." "iEgles," who writes on the topics of the day ia a humorous manner, regards the new members from a different point of view, and a portion of his remarks is by no means inapplicable to some of our New Zealand representatives. He says.*—" I am sorry for the Hansard reporters. The object of Parliamentary speech-making not being to convince fellow-members by the force of argument, but rather to talk over the head of Parliament to the people beyond, it is clear that there will be no diminution of the perennial fountain of eloquence. The probabilities are all another way. . Given 86 members now against 78 previously, and we may confidently look for 10 per cent increase in the number of speeches." The South Australian Register, commenting upon the elections, says that disaster and degradation may be expected as much from the personnel as from the policy of the new Assembly. It is generally allowed that good old pure, unadulterated whisky is as wholesome a spirit as any manufactured, aud the best sample of Mitchell's Al Old Irish Whisky can be bad f(?om the agents, E. Buxton & Co., who receive regular shipmepts direct.— Jiivt Macbeth puzzled the doctor, when that practitioner reported to him that his lady was despondent and out of sorts, by asking him "Canst thou minister toa mind diseased?" a conundrum which the medical attendant was unable to solve. If the Scottish usurper were now alive to ask the same question, we should answer it in the affirmative. Cheerfulness, sound sleep and perfec). digestion are always attainable by using Unor.pno Wolfe's Schjeoam Abomatic Schnapps.— Advt.