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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 163, 12 July 1877, Page 2

The Post ot Monday says: -None of the tenders lately [received by, the Government for the postal services by sea, between Wellington and Kaikoura,and Nelson and Golden Bay have been accepted. These services are being carried on by a monthly arrangement." The' Marlborough learn that owing to the fall fin ttia r vW e of flax ■ fibre;/ Robinscra'a null •■ which 24 hahds has"ceased Working this week." ""' As throwing a little light on the way road contracts have been worked in times goasr by, we may relate a little anecdote whi<jlt : came to our knowledge the otlter day. A-'' man who has been working on; a iceitain road* not a. thousand miles from^velockdeclared*that he had passed under ao many names that he never knew what name to answer to if & *} yon r e apoke to him aDoufi road contracts. ■^-Marlodrougk^ Express. "-.!'■ >*r _The petition to the Hon. the Native Minister, soliciting that the Lakes 'didtrjot" may be selected as the site for the Colonial " Prize- Mring,; has elicited a favorably ris-? ponse, conditionally upon Parliament making ' the usual vote; for Colonial Prize Firing H condition, considering the warlike state 'of f P™E?f J* 4 *** almost amounts £0 .a 1 certain^C It is understood that if the event does take place>aapot near. LakeHaye?, Between tha* and Queenstown, will probably be selected certainly one of the finest and. most ,beauti^ ful districts in the colony.^ Cromwell /correspondent of Otago DaiZy-Tjme*. 'V J Th§.elaipis of a gentleman; rejoicing in-the-name of Silas Pugsley to represent the ? fef #? l -& s to e S Qt Wairarapa in, tbe .House of'Representativea appear to 'have met^ '''with but ppo£ appreciation. The News Letter says .-—His candidature caused fun in Grey*°wn. ,;4.-fouc-wheeled. vehicle, which looked as if it could lay d claim tb'MSehrt the° oldest in the district, all plastered over with placards bearing the words " Vote for Pugs-ley-the Workman's Friend," was drawn up before the Rising Sun Hotel, a horse was put in front of the pole, as if the pair of a threehorse team had been taken out, the animal was bestraddled by an individual with a dress that, would have, drawn general attention at the most grotesque of fancy dress balls, and- the candidate ; waa -seated on 'a' chair on top of the coach. A considerable crowd accompanied the affair through the town, Ultimately, . Silas, .was soused in_-a horse-trough, and dried by having a small bag of flour thrown over him. : : .; ' ]: The following' somewhat apocryphal aci \ count of the career of his mare Black Bess" appears in Mr Wilson's circus advertisern'e'ritr m the iMelbourne papers :— The mare Black Bess is a thoroughbred, and half-aister to the celebrated racer Lurline; was purchased by Mr Wdson in Christchurcb, New Zealand "? and was declared, by her owners to be sol vicious as made her, unfit for use. lugiK. days.from .the date of purchasa MrKingsleym^le her perfojm the part of Black BesaX before an immense audience, who' wereia. expectation every moment of her showing her vicious propensities, but so well did she perform her part that after the death scene and carried: shoulder bigb, feigning death! Mr Kmgsley was recalled by aninihusiastic assembly into the arena. Never -was-the power man has' over that noble animal, the horse, so well appreciated. : . One of those: incidents pecu iar to 'the life of <a whaler which almost puts one in mind of many of th^piefcures of this exciting life: where a boat's cre.w.is seen tossed in the air and the hardy seamen shown ' floundering about on the briny, occurred on Sunday last at Kaikoura to one of Mr W. Keenan's boat's crews while out in quest of one of these leviathans of the deep. It appears that tgr.oX boat's crews started to attack the whale which proved bo_b_large and fierce, and succeeded in making fast to their prize.- but one of the boats was very soon afterwards capsized, all the gearing being likewise lost, and it was only' with the greatest difficulty that the crew Succeeded i n getting into tbe other boat, which then cut and run for it, after losing a quantity of gearing. The men wfer'e no doubt very glad to get safely away from the ; awkward enemy they had encountered.— I'ress The Chinese in the United States number 108JO0O. Tbey all came from Hongkong