CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 299, 18 December 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor oj? the ♦ Evening Mail.' Sic— A paper waa pufc into tny hands yesterday headed "Nelson Secular Sociaty's Tracts." Under the title of " Questions for thought " followed twelve leading questions, betraying not only infidelity, but great weakness of intellect, for how caa the finite mind of man grasp the counsels and purposes of the One who made the said mind—" Shall the clay say to him that fashionefch it, What makest thou?"~-Isaiah xlv, 9. Is it not like a twenty-four hour clock discussing, as soon as it can strike, its freedom from, and independence of, the maker who formed it, and set it in motion. All who believe God are content to wait His time. " For we know in part, and we prophesy ia part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part ahall be done away. — 1 Cor. xiii., 9-10." The existence of such tract 3 only corroborates the Scripture in Psalm 53. "The fool hath said in his heart there ia no God."— l am, &c., A Reader of Scripture. December 17, 1877. To the Editor op the « Evening Mail.' Sir,— My attention having been directed to a letter which appeared in your last Thursday's issue, signed " Magiater et Diacipuli," allow me to say that I consider that, pending the result of the examination referred to, it \?a3 both uncalled for and injudicious. I am, &c., _________ Parent.

In one of his recent letters to the London Daily Telegraph the Melbourne correspondent of that journal says:— "A true picture of Melbourne society would be very laughable to some people. Everybody goes to Government House, of course, and the entree to the rooms of our Governor has long ceased to be any criterion of repectability. Perhaps the only men and women who can rightly claim tbe title of 'gentlefolks' are to be found among the middle ranks of the Civil Service, or at the humble dinner given by some police magistrate or warden of goldfields. A stray barrister, half-pay officer, or retired settler now and then spe&isa the old language and utters the old sentiments ; hut the welldressed mob which crowds the ballroom or the race-course, is composed of high bred importers of soft goods, haughty produce dealers, and noblesse of the counter, proud of their money and their business shrewdness. These people are mostly about forty years of age— that time of life, says some French wit, when men cease to be honest and women to be virtuous; but their sons and daughters are growing up, and form a class above them. Mr Anthony Trollope said some hard things of the Colonial girl; but he was really merciful in his censure. What shall be said of daughters who deny their fathers; and sons who, in the stalls of the theatre, speak of their mothers as • the square parties Jin the boxes?' A notable person in Melbourne just now is a young lady, the daughter of wealthy parents, who dresse3 herself like a man, and ia familiarly Known aa the ' JBoy-Grirl.' Not long ago two rich young gentlemen of the same class gave a prizefighter a gold belt studded with jewels. Harmless freaks, perhaps, for all concerned, but felfc to be quite questionable taste in an ' aristocracy.' If anything like luxury was displayed in the extravagance of the young men who have just buried the makers of their fortunes, one might look kindly on their errors, but they have no notion of anything jmore aesthetic than leering at a barmaid [or ' shouting ' champagne for a , bookmaker. Indeed some considerable meanness yet lurks beneath the surface of the Colonial mind, and the Melbourne money-lenders gay that the ' hardest nail ' they know is a native-bora aristocrat just come into his fortune." We take the enclosed morceau from the Rangitikei Advocate:—" We must apologise to our readers for the absence in our present issue of the usual editorial and local news, the editor having failed to put in an appearance. We shall endeavor, however, to put this department of our staff on a more satisfactory footing, and we trust any little shortcomings will be overlooked until this is accomplished." An up-country Australian paper put another case a little plainer, saying—" We haven't any leading article to-day because our editor is on the burst." An Auckland paper relates a singular circumstance which occurred there recently. The curator of the Acclimatisation Society's Gardens received instructions to capture some Prussian carp for distribution, and while one of his assistants was engaged in the work he observed a large eel spring forward and seize a carp sin. long by the head and kill him. The cci then caught the fish by the back and was dragging him into deeper water, when the man rescued the fish. This circumstance abundantly proves the necessity of the arrangements made by Mr J. q, Firtu for the protection of the aalmon ora lately distributed toy him in the northern and southern districts of this ■ province in building walls and closing them in with fine wire netting so as to protect the fish until able to take care of themselves. The carp being a sluggish, fish and very slow in it 3 movements when compared with the trout or salmon, would more readily become a prey to the eel. We (Manawatu Times) hear upon very good authority that Air James Fry, an English capitalist, lately arrived from the old country, has purchased an extensive block of bush land from the Fielding Corporation, which he purposes at once to settle upou and clear. Men of this stamp are a great acquisition, as it is not the mere purchase of the land, but the amount circulated through them in the labor market that so materially assists ia the prosperity of a district . The Wellington correspondent o£ the Wanganui Herald says:— "The Dolly Varden crew are hard at it on the extreme quiet. The cause is the Lyfcteltou Regatta on the Ist January. They are going in for the 4-oared whaleboat race, and a new boat is buildiug for them. She is a perfect beauty— about tho best thiug I have seen of Berg's build. They have had some hard nuts to crack in Ly ttelton, but I quite expect to see them pull it off." The husbands of Aleppo undergo a trying ordeal before they obtain their brides. Captain Burnaby, author of " A Ride to Khiva," while in Asia recently, had the ceremony described to him by a youug JJey from Aleppo. "A girl has, say, three lqvers," J said the Bey. " She takes three bits of liye charcoal from out of the fire; giving each of her lovers a piece, tells them to place it in the palms of their hauds. The fire burns through the skin, the tendons are laid bare J sometimes the amorous gentlemen will resist till the flesfyhas been burnt to the bone. Here one of two of them generally succumb to the torture j the man who resists the longest wins the lady." " Did you ever try it ?" « No," said the Bey, laughing. « I can get a wife withput any trouble, so I do not care about burning my fingers. We burn our fingures quite soon enough after marriage, as it is." The Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney News telegraph to that paper that a rumor was current in Melbourne of a rather startling nature; —"lt is to the effect that the boy who rode Waxy in the Cup race, has d : ed from the effect of his fall, but that before dying he made an astoundiug statement. He made a confession, it is alleged, in which he states he wa9 promised £ 1000 cash and £2 a week for jiifp by several leading bookmakers if he would run down SaWnaka and prevent him winning the Cup. Inquiries are I now being made." . I

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