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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 221, 18 September 1877, Page 2

To pour liquid fire down one's throat in the shape of fiery, adulterated, unmedicated spirits, is to commit allow suicide. When . your flagging energies require to be rein-, fororced, use that safest, [purest, and most invigorating of stimulants, indorsed by the most distinguished chemists, physicians and clergymen — Udolpho Wolfe's Schibdam Abomatic Schnapps, It is the only spirittuous invigorant and corrective which does not over excite the brain.— Advfe. •i' " 1 •'" Vi 1 _i

The following letter has been addressed by His Excellency the Governor to the captains of the Wellington ; Fire Brigades:— "Gentlemen— Having been present at the fire on Lambton Quay last night, I cannot refrain from expressing to you riiy admiration of the conduct of the Fire Brigades. I have frequently been present at fires in America and elsewhere, and I can safely say that I never saw firemen act with greater promptitude, coolness," order, " and ' courage than the men under your command did last night. The arduous duties which you have voluntarily imposed upou yourselves are of vital importance to the inhabitants of any town, and especially so in a city like Wellington, which is chiefly constructed of wood; and I think it only just that I should avail ; myself of this opportunity of conveying to , you, and through you to the men under your command, my appreciation of the efficiency to which you. haye attained, and of the great j promptitude wifch which the Brigadea upon | all occasions turn out. on the first alarm of < fire. — I have the honor to be, gentlemen, | your most obedient servant, Normanby.'^qfgg ; The Lyttelton Times strongly condemns the leniency of the Resident Magistrate in the recent case against Samuel Needham. ' After referring to all the circumstances it says:— "Mr Mellish somewhat euphemistically called it « aggravated assault,' but it was an attempt to commit the worst crime of which mankind is capable -a crime of an inexpressible, hideous, and revolting character, a crime repellant to tha most sacred fselings of human nature, and an outrage on even its most primitive instincts. Moreover, j the evidence established clearly that the attempt to commit this crime would have been successful but for the interference of a third party. Six months' imprisonment and tha exaction of a paltry security from the savage who made that attempt is a mockery of justice. Here, then, we have a discretionary power exercised in defiance of the rules laid down for the guidance of magistrates. The case was made out prima facie. The penalty in the power of the magistrate to inflict was inadequate to tha crime. The prisoner was entitled to noremissionof hardship, and his ultimate conviction for the grave charge on which he was brought up was not a matter for the magistrate's consideration. That tho case was not sent for trial appears a most extraordinary and unaccountable error of judgment which has caused a most lamentable failure of justice. It ia unfortunate that on the same day a miserable outcast woman should have been, for drunkenness and a trifling indecency, sent to gaol for twelve months, a period twice as long as tha term of imprisonment iuflicted on Needham for a foul and brutal crime. If the public gains the impression that suitors who go into the Magistrate's Court with money enough to retain high legal talent, get a different measure of justice from those who do not, the result will be deplorable, but not surprising. Mr Mell(sh will have to ascribe it to his mistakenly lenient method of dealing with one Qf the grossest outrages that has ever come under his notice." Probably a good deal more will be heard yet about those two unlucky Government, steamers. The curious fact that the Hinemoa was laid up just at the time when she would have been useful in bringing up the members, but would have diverted their passage money from the Union Company's coffers, excited a good deal of very strong comment, jjnd pow the Stella is receiving her share of invidious attention. People are beginning to ask whether it is necessary to keep an expensive steamer running almost daily to aud fro between Wellington and The Brothers, parrying each time two or three pieces of wood oi' other material for the lighthouse, or if it ia absolutely essential that a letterto the lighthouse keeper at Mana should be conveyed in such a very costly manner as by a special steamer. — Post. The latest new bonnet, writes the Loudon correspondent of the Auckland Star is a caution. It is an imitation of the German military helmet, without the spike, the result being cunningly contrived by means of tulle, flowers, &c. I hear ifc is to be all the go, and it is certainly an amazing contrast to the Duohess of Devonshire style, which prevailed last year. The only vestige of a brim is to be found in the peak, which affords a little shade to the eye?. Of course I need not say that to a pretty face' everything and anything is becoming, but the worst of these fashions is that every woman persists in following them out to the utmost, regardless of her natural advantages or the opposite. The following ominous particulars are given by a London correspondent of an American paper, who writes to New York, under date 6th July, in regard to the naval and military preparations of the Britsh Government:— "l have just visited Woolwich arsenal and found the authorities there ready to despatch an army corps at 24 hours' notice. AH war material is in perfect readiness for sliipmeut, even baggage waggons and harness are laid out for issue." Suuday afc Home. Mamma: "Jack, there arc teu commandments you have to keep. If you took a thing that wasn't yours you'd break a commandment." Jack (remembering about ten little niggers): "And then there'd be mac."— Punch. Some men are good because goodness pays best; some are. good for— nothing. "Man," says Victor Hugo, M wa s the conundrum of the eighteenth century, woman is the conundrum of tho nineteenth century," American editor adds, " We can't guess her, but will never give her up. No, never.