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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 300, 19 December 1877, Page 2

For some weeks past the Maoris of the northern portion of the provincial district of Auckland have been actively engaged in shark-fishing, and appear to have mefc with a gratifying degree of success. Te Hemira and a party have caught no fewer than 1036 of the voracious scavengers— 436 off Mahurangi, and the remaining 600 at Ngatipairo, and they expect to get as raauy more this week. Paul Tuhaere's has been no less fortunate, for in two tides it secured 160 sharks off Wangaparoa, besides a large tiger shark, or, as it is known to the Maoris, a taniwha. The Orakei natives are now fishing at Kauri Point, where, it is anticipated their labors will meet with due reward. Te Keine's "sharking expedition to Skelly Beach, Kaipara, has ended very profitably, several hundred fish having been taken. They are to be dried and despatched to Alexandra. It has been calculated by Dr C. W. Siemens thai the Niagara Falls do as much work a3 266,000,000 tons of coal could do in a year at the rate of , four pounds per horse-power consumption of fuel in an hour. Dr Sieirens objects to so much force being wasted, and his proposition is that the water might be made to drive an electrical machine at the Falls, the current from which would travese a copper rod. He has calculated that a rod three inches in diameter would transmit 1000 horse-power as far as thirty miles, and that at the end the electricity would be U3ed to produce motion or light, the quantity of electricity being sufficient for about 250,000 candle-power. Mr Handley, of Wanganui, is a gentleman of excellent sense. In a recent speech at the New Plymouth agricultural show, he said "that their cattle were good; their horses very good; but the great feature of the day was the exhibition of ladies' hacks. He did not call it an exhibition of ladies' hacks, but an an exhibition of ladies. With that exhibition of ladies, and the stalwart young men he had seen at the show, there ought to be a generation rise up that would fear noboby. He only wished he was a single man." Any person o£ good taste, in that particular way, who has travelled through the Taranaki province, will candidly endorse Mr Handley's opinion with respect to the Taranaki ladies. For healthy, happy, and pleasant-tempered young ladies, handsome in form and pretty in face, there is no part of New Zealand beats Taranaki. Of course, it is couceded by us, for obvious reasons, that Wellington comes up to it.— Post. The Sydney Morning Herald says :— Major Richards, of the New South Wales VoUinteer Force, who has just retnrned from a trip to England, has brought out with him a match " Henry " rifle, which is quite a novelty in this part of the world. The stock is so made that when the " back " position is used for firing it will fit over the shoulder, and with a pad for the cheek, the rifle should be kept perfectly steady. When used in this position tho ordinary lock is used, but in the event of the shooting man preferring the " forward " position, there is a pistol grip with a trigger well forward, but working the same lock. This may seem a great innovation to most shooting-men ; but there is another matter that will strike them as still more extraordinary, viz., that the elevation and windage are both arranged by means of the foresight, and not the backsight, as is the case with most match rifles. The new rifle is one that will be very carefully scrutinised by all shooting men. If we may judge by the number of candidates for the matriculation examination in the University of Melbourne, it certainly seems to be flourishing. At the late examination there were no less than 597 candidates. In Melbourne alone there were 391. Of the whole number 114 were ladies. In Melbourne itself no leas than 89 sat dowu to the paper in the subject of Greek in one room, i.e., the new library of the University. There is another aspect of this matter, viz., if all or the majority of these young persons mean to live by learning, what on earth will they do with themselves ? The professions are all already vastly overdone. ' The London Daily Telegraph hasi the target daily circulation of any paper in the world. During the months of May and June last, the average published per day was nearly a quarter of a million copies. A Chicago fashionable clergyman has failed. Liabilities, 15,000 dollars; assets, twenty-two pairs of worked slippers, assorted sizes, fourteen dressing-gowns, thirty penwipers, two dozen fancy pin-cushions, nine watch-pockets, and seven cushions for easy chairs. " Teeth extracted for fifty cents and without pain a dollar," is the latest advertisment which has been appeared in San Francisco.

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