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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 53, 2 March 1878, Page 2

About 8000 shares in the Goldeu Point Gold Mining Company in Queen Charlotte's Sound have been already applied for. Nearly all these applications are from Wellington, as there haa not yet .heen time to receive letters from the north and south, aud the directors therefore anticipate receiving applications for far more than the 10,000 shares to be allotted. Mr Nicholls, the mine nianager, is at Golden Point making arrangements for getting the mine into active operation afc the earliest date possible.— Post. The followiug curious advertisement appears in Mie Daylesford Mercury of the 6th in t :— «' Notice— A meeting of the married ladies of Daylesford is convened for Friday ufternoon, nfc 4 o'clock, at the Market House, for the purpose of forming a committee to scour the town for inform *tion as to tho doings of tlieir respective husbands, and for the further propagation— not of the Gospel —but of scaudal, aud to elect an honorary secretary." Tlie following is styled the latest idea in rabbit-killing: -A settler on the banks of Jacob's River, in Southland, having secured a rabbit alive, tied a small flask of gunpowder to its tail, haviug first put an ignited fuse into the end of the flask. He then stopped up all fche holes of a burrow bufc one, into which bunny was let loose. This hole was then closed up. In a few miuutes a loud explosion took place, and whon tho burrow was examined, a largo number of rabbits were found dead. During the progress of a recent thunderstorm at Geelong (Victoria), three of the instruments in the telegraph office (states the Gcelowj Advertiser) sustained great d 'image. The electric fluid entered the ollico, aud, running down tho wires, defied the lightning arrokor, aud buried itself jn tlio relays of two Instruments, and burst them Tho spirals of the arrcstor. were completely fused, and the red hofc wire fell on to the table aud burnt the wood. About the same time the telegraph wires on tlie side of the Ballarat live of railway, near fche Ocean Child Hotel, at West Geelong, were damaged, The insulators aud the iron sockets in which they rested were knocked, in some instances, fully fifty or sixty yards. In all five poles were damaged, but two of them appeared to have received the full force of the lightning, and there was hardly anything left of them| the ground being strewn with splinters. The damage done in the telegraph office is estimated at between and .€3O.

A writer in the Porerty Bay Standard has the following :—" I notice the valentine season is at hand, and that they run greatly on ugly women with some spiteful poetry below. I have asked sellers of valentines who are the principal buyers, and they tell me that women arc. They say it is seldom a man buys an offensive valentine to address to a female. Pcmalcs, they think on the whole, have a good deal of hatred in their hearts towards their own sex. The valentine seller says he does not know why it should be so, but he rather thinks women can't help it. There is nothing pleased them so much as to see one who has been up in the world have a tumble down.