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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 217, 13 September 1877, Page 2

-*£__■_____________«____ i .1,, i, .i. -1111 I 111 iggJMa^-rr-^ ■■ The till in Messrs Gilmer Brothers Hotel, Reefton, was robbed on Thursday highfc 'or Friday morning, and a sura of something over £100 in notes and cash taken away. A man named Harry Smith, the manager, has been arrested on suspicion. In tha coarse of a very powerful and slashing speech (says the Post) Mr Wakefield dubbed tha hon member for Napier (Captain Russ .11) with a patronymic, which will stick to him as long as he sits in tho House. Referring to the fact Jfchat Captain Russell's voice was never heard save, when the Opposition attacked and exposed tha Hawke's Bay land transactions, he said the action of the hon and gallant member put bim irresistibly in mind of a certain class of shooting galleries. You might hang, and bang, and bang again, bufc unle_s yoii struck the little black mark in the centre, th er& was no result. Bufc when you did hit the bull'seye, a little wooden soldier jumped out, and present? d his mimic gun at you. So, when the bull's-eye of the Hawke's Bay land transactions, was hifcj the hon member for Napier immediately jumped up, and presented hia mimic gun. When Mr Wakefield went on to speak of Captain Russell as " the hon and gallant little wooden soldier," the hit did not tend to allay the laughter of the House. ' About a fortnight ago we reported that an accident had happened on " The Brothers " and that the Kennedy had conveyed Dr Bradford from Wellington to.fchafc rocky island. The particulars of the t accidenfc are given by the Argus as followst-Alt appears from Dr Bradford's account that on the 28th ult. two men, named Gilpin and Wilson, a lighthouse keeper and:carpenterire_pec_ively, were descending on a truck which was used for the purpose of hoisting stores from the bottom to the top of the island, .Vf hea by some Accident the rope carried aw&y!; • Wilson, the carpenter, oh ascertaining what had happened, flung himself off the fctiuck,.fout on eooiing to the ground his head came in contact with several large boulders, cutting it severely and rendering him insensible A The othei* man held onto the truck until ifc came in contact with the buffers afc the bottom used for stopping it, and of course waa thrown amongst the rocke by the violence of the concussion. On being picked up ifc was found that his thigh was broken. Wilson', wounds not being morejthan flesh deep, Dr Bradford considered ifc unnecessary fco remove him from the island; bufc he brought his other patient, Gilpin, back with him to Welliueten. When the Stella first arrived off the island the surf was found too heavy to allow of Mr Gilpin being shipped, and sjhe consequently up Tory Channel and anchored, awaiting a favorable turn ofthe weather. After two attempts the wounded man was ultimately embarked, when the Stella immediately steered for fchiaporfc; The story is an old one in Otago (says the "Vagrant" in the JV. Z. Mail) bufc being reminded of It by an old Otago friend, I am tempted to repeat it. Mr Kauldkail had put on Mr Hotbrose's run 3000 sheep on terms as to increase and profits on the wool. Both gentlemen being pillars of the kirk, Kauldkail never inquired about his sheep for three years. At the end of that time he arrived at his friend's homestead one Sabbath night too late for tea, but just in time for family prayers. Weary as he was, he might have been excused for not paying particular attention to Hotbrose's exortations, but self-interest soon compelled him to he an attentive listener. Hotbrose began afc once to pray that his dear fellow-worker Kauldkail, might be strengthened! nnder the afflictions which Providence had sent upon him, which involved the death of all lambs born of his sheep, and the subsequent loss of _ the sheep under a Scab Act. At the same time Providence was thanked for the peculiar manifestation of its bounties which enabled each of Hotbrose's ewes to bear two lambs, and all tha lambs to survive

, The Grey River Argus understands that a case Will shortly be heard in the Divorce Court that will surprise raany persons here, ra which extraordinary disclosures will be made. The parties interested were residing here for sometime and were well known, but'the petitioner is now in, Christchurch The respondent (who by the by is the mother; of a family of daughters) is somewhere in the North Island, and the corespondent is at present on the East Coast of the Middle Island. «< The petitions sent fco Her Majasty for au extension of Sir Hercules Robinson's term of office as Governor of New South Wales were duly presented to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who (says the Sydney Herald ) in the course of a despatch to Sir Hercules Robinson, observes*.— « l request that you will inform the memorialists that their petitions have been laid before the Queen, and that Her Majesty is gratified to observe the well-merited appreciation of your services to which they bear witness, bnt that it is necessary that Her Masjesty advisers should hold themselves absolutely free to tender such advice to the Queen as may permit of the employment of an experienced Governor in any place in which the requirements of the moment may appear to render his services most valuable ; and therefore it is not possible to decide in advance in what portion of Her Majesty' dominions it may be of advantage for any officer to be employed. A fire occurred as Forest Hill, Southland, which should act as a warning to smokers At about 6 a«m. George Mellican went into the barn of his employer, Mr Thomas M'Lean, to obtain feed for the horses, and shortly after he left, the place was seen to be on fire. The stable adjoined the barn, and both buildings, with most of .heir contents, were destroyed. The buildings were uninsured. The other property destroyed comprised three tons of hay, 200 bushels of oats, agricultural implements, and other things, the loss being about £200. R is said that thereis no doubt that a pipe Mellican was smoking close to the hay iv the barn was the cause of the fire. The London correspondent of the Melbpurne Argus writes:— Any anecdote relating to science is always welcome, and especially if ifc is connected with the electric telegraph. Two friends of mine—A and B— were asked to dine with C the other day^ but were not quite certain whether it was a bachelor party or otherwise. If Mira C was at home, they would have to appear in evening clothes (which they hated), and B deputed A to discover this. He did so, and telegraphed to B, " You must wear a tail coat." Struck by the brevity of the communication, the young lady at the telegraph office inquired, " Is that att, sir?" Poor A, who is very bashful, was horrified, and hastily added, " and your other evening clothes." The Lahore Civil and Military Gazette makes the statement that:—" The Prince of j Wales' Aiiatralian tour is definitely fixed for J 1878. His Royal Highness will leave Engj land in the September of tbat year, accompanied by the Princess, and after visiting Australia and New Zealand, will return by way of the United States. It is well known that this was a pet scheme of the late Prince Consort, who was extremely anxious that the heir to the Crown of Great Britain should personally visit all his dominions before his accession to the throne. It is probable that the.Priuce will find this tour a more agreeable Bnd enjoyable one than his Indian tonr, which is said to have bored him, so irksome was restraint upon his movements, and the consciousness of being expected to pose perpetually, as a model Christian ruler, an idealised impersonation of every English ruler." European Russia, according to an official report, contains 200,000 wolves, and in 1875 they -killed 161 : persons, whereas in 1849, 1850, and 1851 the average deaths were 125. 108^000 cattle and other live stock are annually destroyed, besides poultry and dogs, the former being the usual diet of young wolves. The total loss is estimated at 15,000,000 roubles per annum, and the loss in Siberia must be very considerable, especially to reindeer.

' sovereign rights. They were 1 the neoeasary and immediate results of the independence and integrity of the Ottoman empire The ordinary state of things under Turkish rule, those relations between the Sultan and his subjects with which the Powers of Europe pledged them- - selves not to meddle, are simply a lasting state of 'Bulgarian atrocities.' Only it is not often that so many ars done' at one time, or in one place, as Isrere done in particular timea and plaoea last year." The character of the Administration and? Government at Constantinople, is painted by is unsparing pencil of Mr Freeman withall the vividness and force of truthful history. He says :— .' The Turk promises anything, but* he does nothing. His tyranny gets, worse and worse because it has become the tyranny, not so much of the Sultans themselves, as ot a gang of men about- them. ... It has been in the days of pretended reform that the last st. ge of oppression has been reached, Every chance, every hope, has passed away from the oppressed people since all the power hue come in our own day into the hands of a corrupt King — as tbe Americans call it — atConstantinople. Tbese men have carried centralisation to its extreme point and with centralisation corruption, oppression, evil of every kind have reached their height. A gang of men who in any other land wouli find their way to tbe gaol or the gallows rule the Ottoman Empire. It is worth while to see who these men are. A man who inherits power from his forefathers, if he bas the faults, will also commonly have aome of the virtue, of high birth ; he will understand the feelings which are expres-ed in the phrase ' noble $83 oblige..* A man who. has risen from a low estate to a great one by his own merits is tbe noblest sight on earth. But tbe men who form the ring at Constantinople belong to neither of these classes. The man who has risen from a low estate to a great one by vile means, the man who has bought the place by bribes, the slave who has risen by craft and cringing, <■ the wretch who has risen . by tha viler path which Christians tongues are forbidden tq speak of, but wbich is the Turk*2 surest path to power, in such men as these the lowest and basest form of. human nature is reached. And such men as these rule as pleasure Over Sonth - Eastern Europe. Barbarians at heart, false, cruel, fou!, as any of the old Turks, but without any of the higher qualities of the old Turka these men have picked up just, enough of the outward show of civilisation to; deceive those who do not look below the surface. Tbey meet the Ministers of civilised powers on equal terms ; they wear European olothes ; '.hay talk an European tongue, and are spoken of as 'Excellency' and 'Highness.' The wretched beings called Sultans are thrust aside as may be thought goodfit the moment; but the relations between the Sultan and his subjects, the relations with which, at the treaty, of Paris, the Christian powers bound themselves not to interfere, go on everywhere in full force,"