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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 260, 2 November 1877, Page 2

The Napier Telegraph says: — The Hawke's Bay boiling-down works have closed for the season, and the last lot of sheep boiled down were from Riverslea consisting of 2,430 sheep, which yielded the splended return of 58tons, lcwt, Oqi-s 211bs of tallow, being an average of 53Jtt)3 per head. The skins, fellmongered, yielded sft per head scoured wool. The Evening Mail, New York, gives a list of forty-eight fire insurance companies that have suspended in the United States during the present year, up to August ; among them are thirteen mutual companies. The Wellington correspondent of the Oaruaru Mail telegraphs: — On Saturday Mr James Mackay was, by the unanimous vote of the club committee, expelled from the club on account of his conduct in the horsewhipping case, and subsequently boasting of it. On Sunday Sir E. Douglas, who is & personal friend of Mr Mackay invited him to dine at Bellamy's. This caused great indignation. The House Committee met this morning to forbid Mr Mackay to enter the portions of the building appropriated by the House for members. I A Napier telegram to the Post says :— A case of suicide occured at Ormond, J Poverty Bay. The victim was a young woman aged 20, named Bella llissett. She was married and her husband having deserted her at Napier, she went out as a servant lately. She has been a servant at Chandos' Hotel, Ormond. In thia establishment unfortunately, there was a barman who attracted Bella. On Wednesday last the infatuated couple quarrelled, and Bella declared her determination to put ;an endlto her existence rather than live a life of unhappines3 with her adorer. On the evening of the same day a quarrel occured, and Bella was observed to leave the hotel and go in the direction of the Waipaoa River. As she did not return, it began to be suspected that she had put her threat into execution, and on the following morning the river wbs searched, aud her body was found in water only five feet deep. The body of the unfortunate girl was taken to the hotel, and the jury returned a verdict of felo de se. Mr Stout is thus summed up by the Wellington correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald: — Mr Stout came to Parliament with a great flourish of trumpets. His maiden speech — against abolition — was & great success; but last session his fame was on the decline, and this year has almost evaporated. He talks on every subject, and he talks for hours at a time. Talk, increasing talk, has ruined him. Members are positively beginning to hate the sound of his voice, and many walk out when he rises. The old French proverb Toujours perdriz certainly applies to him. In Dunedinit is much the same; people are beginning to weary of him. At every political meeting he talks, at every temperance meeting he lectures, at every mechanio's institute he delivers an oration, at every dinner or banquet he monopolises mnch time. Day after day the papers are full of his speeches, his doings or his articles. However clever, learned, and fluent a talker a man may be, people soon grow tired of listening. Mr Stout, too, has copied Mr Rees' manner; he talks to his political opponents as though they were felons in the dock; he accuses them of dishonesty, treachery, and lying; he sneers at their speeches and sets himself up as the incarnation of immaculate purity. It is a great, a very great, pity. When he entered Parliament he had everything in his favor. He was young, hard working, well educated, a good effective speaker, a ready debater; as law lecturer in the Otago University he had learned much of the highest branches of the science of law; he had the ball at his feet; with care, quietness, a moderate amount ofreticence, aud a gentlemanly feeling, he might some day have been the most powerful man in New Zealand. He seems to have no influence over any of his friends, and even his political foes are beginning to learn the fact that his most telliupspeeches are really harmless. ° J

Small boy, on tiptoe, to his companions : S°P y°" r noise » aU of you." Companions: 'Hallo, Tommy, what's the matter?" Small boy. « We're got a new baby ; its very weak and tired ; walked all the way from heaven la s t night ; you mustn't be kicking up a row round here now. Some ladies in a German town I was once visiting ( a ays a writer in Truth), wishing to raise £200 for a charitable purpose, accomplished the task by asking their male friends to save the small pieces they cut off their cigars previous to lighting. The idea took, and soon it became fashionable to carefully preserve these small atoms of tobacco until they accumulated to a considerable number, when they were transmitted to their fair collectors, and ultimately sold to the snuff manufacturers. Everything possible is being done to hush up the unfortunate results of the march from Aldershot to Windsor and back for the review ordered last week by the Queen. From the division of a little more than 14,000 troops more than 660 fell out unable to march. This is the number of authenticated cases, and does not include the men who rode on baggage wagons, bread wagons, and otber transport vehicles. If I thought any good would be derived from concealing this, I would hold my tongue; but it is far better that the nation should know of what stuff its one solitary division is composed; and I hope that the reports of the medical officers upon the condition of the men ou their return to Aldershot will be asked for in Parliament. If all that I hear is true, the production of these reports would burst the bubble of "successful recruiting" so often floated before our eyes. — "Atlas " in the World.