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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 178, 30 July 1877, Page 2

xnere are at present no fewer than 115 prisoners in Lyttelton Gabl. - ' There is a candid man at Greertown. He thusly advertises in the Bay of Plenty. Times:—" A House and Allotment for Sale.— Who will buy a cheap house and one acre o£ ground next to Mr Earl's; a quiet family residence at Greertown? My reason for selling is— l can grow nothing; I have several times been beaten and bitten by dogs; my fowls have been stolen, and myself abused in my own house, aud threatened to be killedI can get no witnesses. Who will buy a cheap acre?— John Wadsworth." In the City Police Court, Dunedin, John M Laren was charged with having used language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace oue night recently. According to the report in the Times Constable Lyons said that the accused was delivering a speech at the Cargill monument. The subject of hia discourse was Mrs Reid's trial, and he had a large number of people about him. He said the jury was packed, that they were all Masons, and that their conduct was villainous and a disgrace to the community at large' He also called Mr Stout, counsel for Mrs Reid, by various abusive terms. The following is an extract from a report: recently laid on the table of the Assembly of * the manner in which railway mater3 were recently managed in Auckland :— « On one station on the Auckland and Mercer line a settler is charged 5d for sending a box of butter into town, but for the return of the box, empty, he is charged 2s 6d. A settler near Mercer sent to a chemist in Auckland * I for a half-crown bottle of medicine; he was charged carriage for this by rail, 2s 6d Mr Sobert Graham sent a sucking pig into town from Ellerslie, a distance of five miles ' for which he was charged ss, the price he would have had to pay as carriage for a score of fat hogs if he wanted to send them in. Mr Morrison took with him out by rail t) his farm on the Waikato a sporting dog and a valuable ram; for the former, he was charged 4s lid, for the latter, 5s 6d, the same carriage he would have had to pay for a score of sheep if he had been taking them Mr Martin, a settler, of Waikato, paid £5 12s 6d for carriage of 150 fencing posts from Drury to Mercer a distance of about twentyone miles." „-.

JTh& banking competition at Komara is .very keen, • Inhere are five banking institations represented in that small : settlement . I and so accommodating are they to their customers that they keep open "every nigbi to 10 o'clock, and on SaturdayNrometimes a couple of hours later. ; • ~-\ \ \ The Marlborough J^rpresHa "informed 'on | what it describes as the best authority, that I notwithstanding tha paragraph published to I the effect that the next Colonial Prize Eiriug would be held in the Lako District, Otago j it.is already settled that the next event will ;be held on the Wairau Plain. It is not aware whether Tua Marina or the Vernon range will be the exact site. Referring to the influx of members of -Parliament and their; households, the Wellington correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald quotes the following as a fact illus- i trating aoma of its effects :— A. gentlemaa offers to let his_house for the session to any member of Parliament for the nominal rent of 25 guineas a week. At present no mem- - -bec-has-offered-to pay this, small rent of £l 12 per month. The pare fact that such prices are asked Is a goo£ indication of the value of -smaller houses. • There should be no misgivings as to the J-pjqnetration of- the Alps of New Zealand by i railroad after what has been lately achieved in" America. The highest point yet attained ■byiany railroad in that country has been Reached on the summit of Laveta Pass, in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, by the south-westarn extension of the Denver and Bio Grande Railroad. Tha altitude of the summit is 93iOteet. In the language of the -country this it really the iron horse among the clouds. The We3t Coast; Times, speaking of Hokifcika, says :— « We have scarlet fever in avery street, medical men worked almost off their feet, by far the highest death rate in the whole Colony, and such an increase in the number of funerals as to lead to the opening of another establishment for the supply . of the ghastly requisites of those expensive ceremonies. Further, although we have no official information on the subject, ona medical man is said to have fifty cases of fever in his own practice, and another admits that not only are his cases more numerous than they were during last summer, but they are of a more.virulent type." , Thd Clarence hiver Examiner contains the following in reference to another race between Rush and Trickett :— " We are in a position to state it is the intention of Rush to row Trickett over again after he has succeeded in perfecting himself in the sliding seat. Mr Rush feels confident that the sliding seat is of the very greatest advantage in rowing, and that it is quite useless for any man to attempt to row on a fixed against a competitor in a sliding seat, if their strength and akill are at all equally matched. . Mr Rush has ordered two boats from Eng- , land, and on their arrival will proceed to • -'practice. .We are also informed by Mr Rush that he did nofc -discover the reason of his failure to use the sliding seat to advantage within a few days~~p'f the race. " It appears that it is neccesary, when using the sliding - seat to have the sculls at least three inches »■ longer than those used with a fixed seat ; but this was not known to our local sculler until it • was too late tq avail himself of the information." It is a curious thing to find a wreck due, not to the ship striking a rock, but to a rock striking the ship, yet this ia what seems to Jiave happened in the case of the iron-screw steamer Knight Templar, which, on February 23, off the Giilfof Tunis, seems to have been struck by a rock from a submarine volcano, while in 1,000 fathoms of water at a distance of ten miles from the nearest group of rocks. The shock was accompanied by a rumbling noise and by a seething of the sea into white foam all round the ship, and though the ship was not stopped in her course, she soon began to fill, and had to be steered to the island of Galita, where the captain had to run her on shore in a shallow place, which he accomplished within four hours of the submarine shock. When examined by divers, and subsequently in dock at Malta, it appeared that at a distance of about fifteen feet from the stem of the vessel some nine or ten feet had been torn out of her by something which crossed her course at right angles, and the ship had also been i strupk in a similar way on the after- part from the same direction, and a good part of her keel twisted. Mr William Coppin, exsurveyor to the Board of Trade, who gives us this account at length in The Times, is evidently quite satisfied that a rock driven ( through the sea by a submarine volcano had struck and wrecked the ship. \ The proprietors of the London Daily Teleqrapliig&ve £100 towards the fund for securing an annuity for the widow of the late George, Odgeir.