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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 52, 1 March 1878, Page 2

A Wellington paper says:—The projected clicp sea fishery and iish smoking business has made a start. The cutter Margaret Sjollay returned to port yesterday. Captain Scones reports that the erection of the smokehouses at Port Gore is progressing rapidly ami he expects that one will be ready for use I his week. Some largo hauls of fish were made last Wednesday and Thursday chiefly herring, mackerel, and moki, win h were split, salted, and brought on to Wellington, the weather being too warm to keep them. The Margaret Scollay leaves again to-morrow for Port Gore. Osman Pasha arrived at Bucharest on 26th December. He occupies a suite of three rooms on the first floor of the Grand Hotel BroiEt. He is accompanied by his surgeon, who acts as interpreter, since Osman himself speaks nothing but Turkish. He has also several Ottoman attendants, besides the Russian Stas ofixcer whQ has charge of the

captive hero. A guard of honor paces up and down the corridor opening on Osman's apartments. No demonstrations were made on the arrival of the. party in Bucharest. The hour and minute of Os man's arrival here had been mentioned so often during the past week that people had ceased to credit the many announcements, aii'l, therefore, the general public knew nothing of the arrival until the distinguished guest was quietly ensconced in his apartments. When Osman reached the landing of the hotel, a little Roumanian girl stopped forward aud presented him with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. The tiny donor was lifted up by the physician of the Marshal, and the defender of Plevna hestowed a hearty kiss upon the lips of the little lady. Oamau appeared greatly touched by this incident, A Gisborne telegram to the Post gives the following particulars regarding Captain Reid's death : — Captain G. E. Reid, known as the father of Poverty Bay, died very suddenly on Saturday eveniug at seven o'clock. He had just returned from Auckland iv the best spirits, but after tea he felt slightly dizzy, aud called for a glass of rum. He suddenly exclaimed "My God, I'm dying," j and dropped down dead. The event has 1 caused a most profound sensation here, as nearly every settler and storekeeper can trace his success to Captain Reid's generous aid and ready purse. The funeral takes place to day, and every shop is closed. At the inquest a verdict was returned, that Captain Reid died from an appoplectic fit. He leaves a widow, but all the property goes to his nephews. It is supposed to be worth £200,000 at least. Commodore Vanderbilt's will is in court -after all. It appears that he left quite £20, j 000,000 worth of property behind him, aud accumulated £ 1 9,000,000 of it on his eldest son, of whom in his life he spoke with grimly humorous contempt, a habit he had about most people. The will seems reasonable enough, as the Commodore provided for all his children; but his second son and the daughters are disgusted, and relying on the reluclance of American juries to sanction inajorates, they resist grant of probate of the will. They will, however, compromise for £2,000,000. They allege undue influence, aud produce as their argument, that the commodore greatly despised his son, a proof of influence which will probably be too strong for even a New York jury. The lawyers are, however, greatly delighted, and the reporters are stretching and interviewing everybody concerned, Dot always in an app^eeiatory spirit. Mr. Vanderbilt sniffs and fidgets, and iv a man of nineteen millions the reporters do not like that at all. We have heard before now of dead men being poled at elections within a few degrees of the North, and for the matter of that, of men who never were born being put on the rolls, and voting too. Something of the kind is stated to have occurred at the West Melbourne election when Sir Bryan O'Loughlen beat Mr. Fraud's. At least the accusation made a very good electioneering squib. Another skit was amusingly rhymed in the following fashion : — Six hours shouting in the street Is jolly good fun and free ; There's lots to drink and plenty to eat, How good the Government be 1 Success to gammon and false pretence, Success to the Liberal crew, With Jive men's votes we can't succeed, -.Butrwe'll poll the dead men's too. For it's money he wants and money he'll have, If he howl till all is blue ; It's a member, sure, we'll make him to-day, And Attorney-General too.. In an article descriptive of the inevitable resqlts o! the crusade now being preached in Victoria against capital, the Hamilton Spectator of the 7th inst. writes :— " We hear on all sides of the abandonment of large buildings and other works that had been determined upon before the crisis. The Shire Councils are beginning to take the alarm, and ceasing to call for any more tenders for local works. Last month the Wannon Shire Council came to this decision, and we do not see that any local body could do otherwise, unless its revenues happened to be in an unusually flourishing state. This week the council of the Ararat shire, one of the largest shires in the colony, with an income of £14,000 a year, has found it necessary to adopt the same course. The president stated that, owing to the condition of anarchy into which the affairs of the state had drifted, they could not reckon with any certainty that the endowment would be available this year. The couucil, he observed, had now a credit balance of £1564, which would be all absorbed in paying for maintenance, whilst the working expenses would also have to be provided for. He felt a great reluctance to I become personally responsible for any large j amounts in the present state of political uncertainty, and he left it to the councillors to say whether they considered it prudent to carry out auy more improvements under existing circumstances. These views of the president were unanimously endorsed by the : councillors, and it was resolved to confine I operations to the maintenance of works already constructed, Last evening the Kowree Shire Council, in consideration of the aspect of political affairs, deemed it unadvisable to accept any of the tenders they had invited. 'I his makes the third shire in the Western district that has been compelled to stop public works for the reason stated. When we reflect that in all the older shires the extent of main roads to be kept in repair swallows up the greater portion of the income, we can come to no other conclusion than that many of them will have to throw up the charge of the main roads if anything happens to intercept the Govertment subsidy." The Boston Herald says that the most liberal man in New York city, and in America, and perhaps on the globe, is James Lennox. He has, for nearly forty years, given away hisfsurplus income, and as the latter increased with the advance iv real estate, his donations increased in a proportionate degree. It is said that they much exceeded those of G. Peabody's gifts.though the latter made more noise in the Press.