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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 261, 3 November 1877, Page 2

We take the following from the Truth -.— " Three Bashi Bazonks the other day, in their wanderings, came across the body of a Russian soldier. They determined to bury it, and were on the point of placing it in a hurriedly dug grave, when the Russian came to his senses, and, observing their intentions, remarked that he was not dead. They looked at him for a few .moments, when one of them observed: Really, you Russians are such horrid liars, that it is impossible to believe anything you say. We found you here dead, so you must be buried," and they buried him. The Paria correspondent of a contemporary writes.— A hideous dwarf named Dtipont has been sentenced to death for killiug his wife, as a butcher would a sheep. People are enquiring how the wretch can be guillotined, seeing that his head ia down between his shonlders. Roch, the executioner, satisfies doubts; one of his assistants will pull forward the head, when under the knife, and another will draw back the body. The condemned has only one favor to demand of Marshal MacMahon; to grant him two hours liberty to slay his mother-in-law, who has been the cause of all his misfortunes. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes—" I adrise some of your farmers and gardeners who find things slack, to go in for roses growiug, and make attar of roses. The war has caused the destruction of the gardens of the rose-farmers in Bulgaria, and attar is going up ia the market. Messrs Pieasa and Lubin are in despair, aud are wildly calling upon the world in general to supply them with roses. Delay not, then, but at once^ plant roses. Dr. Piesse says there is £80,000 to be made out of it." Snow to the depth of 6iu fell in Reefton during Monday week last— a circumstance which (saya the Times) cannot fail to have a most ruinous effect upon the early operattonsof farmers and gardeners. It is said that on tha Ajax hill snow fell to a depth or 2zt. Thare is a great amount of truth in the following remarks made by the Poverty Bay Standard:—" We cannot at times help asking ourselves as we hand our war telegrams to the printer, whether what cost3 so much money conveys the sort of information which makes the war now raging in the East intelligible. Does one in ten of our readers know why Russia invaded Turkey with its vast armies? With the aid of good maps and assisted by the kind of cablegrams which come to hand has one in fifty been able to follow the progress of the war? ;We greatly doubt it. Take the great bulk of readers who casually glance over the ' War Intelligence ' column and ask them the reason for so many bloody battles. Would they be able to answer? We rather think not. We know in common with other conductors of newspapers that the cost of these cablegrams is to a very long degree money thrown away. But then people insist upon having them, and will not wait for the reprint of a well and accurately written account published in a leading English paper, and communicated by correspondents, who write in view of the battle fields. Were we to publish ,four or five columns of carefully prepared war news extracted from the London Times or Daily Telegraph on the arrival of the English mail subscribers would not read it. They would tell us the news was stale, and they had known weeks before from a cablegram of three or four Hues, tha same occurrence which occupies a whole column in a London journal."