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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 194, 17 August 1877, Page 2

. The « Vagrant" writes in the A". ZX'Vimes: , On Saturday nightalady went intoa butcher's shop on Lambton Quay, looked about her at the meat, put her hand in her pocket, tqok. out a knotted handkerchief, qnknotted it cried " I liave lost thirty shillings,*" and incontinently fainted. Being restored. "and much attention paid her. she explained fchat she had logt the sovereign and half sovereign with which she had: started , to make her Saturday night's purchases. It. is unnecessary to add that she wa9 at once trusted with a fine joint of beef, which she wa3 to call aud pay for on Monday. She left. In a few minutes she went into a grocer's near at hand, and got a supply of tea, sugar cheese, and other matters, having previously gone through a performance siimMr to that ' to which she treated the butcher. She men- ! tioned that she had last been at the dealer's in meat, and when she left, the grocer, ont of sheer pity, went there in hopes of recovering her loss for her. As the result of the conversation which ensued,, neither the butcher nor the grocer hope' to be paid for 1 their goods. ■ ' ' ' • : The House (says the N. Z. Times) got into a merry mood during the discussion on the Impowering Bill on Friday, afternoon. Mr Reader Wood wanted to know why the House should be called upon to deal with fences and ditches and pounds. : The great questions of finance and similar matters" should engage their attention. Mr Wason,' as a country member, said such questions ' as fencing and impounding were more important than many political questions, and Mr Hursthouse went tbe " whole hog" by saying his constituents did not care a button about the' finances of the colony so long as they had good impounding laws. Mr Fisher " cracked " his joko by saying he thought the measure veiy necessary, but there was an important omission ia that it did not provide for the impounding of gentlemen who strayed from the Opposition pastures to the Ministerial grounds, like the mover of the second reading of the Bill had done. Mr Stout admired the Bill because it provided that the cattle impounded should be fed at a certain hour. He presumed this was to secure that uniformity so often talked of, and no doubt the fact of the whole of the cattle in the colony feeding at one time would be a remarkable phase of our national life and spirit | .In speaking to the second reading of the Native Land Court Bill, Mr Hone Nahe betrayed an acquaintance with the doings in the old world. He said he would sopuer see the lands of the natives taken from thera by the Russians or the Turks than by the Government of the colony.

The following ia from the Post of Tuesday :•—lt is said that the present delay in .winging meters political to an issue has ; raised the strongest feeling of impatience on the part of some of the more impetuous .members of the Opposition^ Mr Rees is, • held back hy the coolerheaded members of-his party, while Sir G - Grey has, only by much persuasion, been prevented from prematurely precipitating affairs by tabling a direct resolution of "No Confidence." The. following are additional particulars ; regarding ehe late bank robbery/at Kumara: —Hogg and Browu were' sleeping in the bank at the time. Hogg heard a noise, and saw a man going out of the bauk door, and ■ fired «i revolver at him, but the-man escaped although he dropped most of the booty, between £3000 and £4000, mostly gold dust There was blood on the gold bag. About £400 in notes are missing. The burglar must have secreted himself in the bank during fcUe evening, when the bank is open for l-pold buying;, he-had been under the bed, and •'got the keys from the agent's clothes during .itheiinghfc to open the safe. He would have *got= away, with I*thi-.bootyl *thi-.booty but; for Hogg's The Oamai v Mail is rather rough on Mr Mahders, M fH R. Our contemporary says:— It is stated that the woman Margaret M'Kean who.lately Caused Mir Mauders, for a time td c^fc on one side the heavy responsibilities attachable to a representative of the people in the Parliament of our adopted land, purposes following the hon. gentleman to Wellington^ Shejs evidently determined to ' "".£ er, Mr Zanders ashamed of himself. Wdl she succeed? Wefchiuk not. _ The-Palmerston Times says that the Shag Point coal mine is .on fire. It has been found necessary, 16 is stated, to close the shafts in orde. to exclude the air from the mine. We have not been able fco obtain any additional particulars, but trust that the proprietors Will soon be able to extinguish the flames and res jme ordinary operations.