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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 7 January 1878, Page 2

: The Sportsman says tbat by the victory: o£ Jongleur, and the circumstance of Gladia getting a place in the Cambridgeshire,. it is computed that the Frenchmen take something like £60,000 out of the English ring. A miser named Farrell, aged 65, has been found dead in his bed in Dublin. In a drawer in It's room were found £82 in gold, and deposits for shares in railway and miaing companies to the amount of £17,735. Good man, you must always relate the facts clearly and truthfully to your lawyer. It is his business to mix them ap and lie. We (Post) wonder. whether there is any truth in the statement that has gained currency to the effect that Major Atkinson will be opposed for Egmout. by Mr Sherwood, chairman of the Patea County Council, at the next election. Mr Sherwood is a friend and former supporter of Mr Ballance, and it is uot unlikely that the latter may have suggested ln's coming forward iv the iufcerest of Sir George Grey's party. The Taranaki Hesatd says :— " On Boxing Day a Maori named Whakatau, about tweuty years of age, shot himself through the head, in the vicinity of hi 3 whare, at Kaipukemike, It is supposed that the native committed the rash act through grief at the loss of his little girl, who died about half an hour previous to to the suicide." The Home JSeivs says :— Mr Toller; applied to the Consistojy Court for a faculty to remove the body of a young lady named Anne Josephine V. Smith from Kensal Green Cemetery to New Zealand. Recently she had come to England with her parents from Dunedin, Otago, on a visit, and died near Westbourne Park, and had been buried in one of the catacombs at Kensal Green and marked " for removal." The father of the young lady had given his consent to the removal of the remains to New j Zealand, but had afterwards withdrawn it j and he was now on his voyage to New Zea- \ land. The family had contributed to the erection of S, t, Barnabas Church afr-Dunedin, and the young lady had selected a spot for her burial, aud before she died in London implored her mother to carry out her wishes and to have her removed for iriterraeut. The mother wished to return" to New Zealand arid convey the remains of her child' to Qtago. The learned Ghan,eelJor ggja ne graui; the application, notwithstanding that the father bad objected to the removal, on au affidavit that the youpg lady was of age apd had died, intestate and without property.

A special telegram to the Dunedin Star dated Queenstown, December 28th, says :— " Mr Manders arrived last evening, and was met at the jetty with groans from a large namber of persons, besides receiving the cold shoulder from his old friends. His -effigy was burnt after being paraded through the town." - Tasmania possesses a bowler --.of terrific power in young Bailey, a brother of the Mr Bailey who is one of the combined team shortly to play iv New Zealaud. " Like his brother," says the Hobart Town Mercury, "young Bailey shines as a trundler. His pitch is good, his delivery easy, his pace '-terrific ; and ou Saturday, in the match Orielton v. Clarence, he cut a piece out of Braithwaite's finger, bowled the sole clean out of Quinn's boot, cut Grant's temple severed the heel of Young's understanding, and blackened both of Rowland's eyes by his terrible shooters." It would be interesting to know if the following story, which appears in a contemporary, is " founded on fact," and if so, who -is the hero? The captain of an intercolonial ; steamer is in the habit of urging a very sad case of distress upon the notice of his passengers. A widow once in affluence, but now reduced, in delicate health, with a very large family of helples children, is in want of the barest necessaries of life. Some :people, he tells his passengers, as he takes out his subscription list, and buttonholes them one by one in his own cabin, give much and some give little, but it is such a bad case that he hardly ever gets an absolute ref ussl. , He has got as high as £5, hut he. does not ' disdain a paltry five shillings. A gentleman, who lately subscribed to the poor widow, went to the theatre on the night he reached his destination. There he saw the captain sitting in tha stalls with a fine lookiug but showily dressed woman. He asked one of the natives if he knew who the captain's friend was. The native smiled meaningly "Did the captain ask you for a subscription coming over?" "Yes," was the answer "I g a le.I c ., a l rifle -" "Well," said the native, "that's the widow." ■ ;