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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 60, 11 March 1878, Page 2

The following item 3of news arrived by the Suez mail :— The death of Sir Edward Creasy, late Chief Justice of Ceylon, has excited much regret.— The coffee crop of the coming season promises to be a good oue here. — Public attention is absorbed in the news from Europe day by day of the fresh developments of the Eastern question The feeling throughout India is strougly adverse to Russia, in whose word or promises it is felt not the slightest faith cau be placed.— The famine distress is rapidly disappearing now. Thanks to the subscribers in England and the colonies to the famine fund have been formally carried at a public meeting, over which the Duke of Buckingham presided.— The rumour that the Duke was likely to take Lord Carnarvon's place in the Cabinet was learned with great regret in Madras, whore his administration is very popular — The British ship Glenricht was burnt in the Indian Ocean on 28th November, The was bound from Sundcrland to Singapore, coal laden, and had several passengers ou board. The passengers and crew took to the boats, and after rcmaiuing in company for some time, they separated. The boat in charge of the chief officer steered for the Mauritius, a distance of 1900 miles and was picked up by the Italian barque Iquique. The Glenriclit had on thirty-five persons all told, including the caplain's wife aud two children. It is believed that the boat under the command of the captain has readied in safety. — An earthquake, with a. heavy swell of the sea, wna experienced at Manilla on the 12th January. — Locusts are committing great ravages in the districts of Leyle, Eaiavia, and throughtout the archipelago generally the heat and drought has been very severe, and much sickness has prevailed. — The price of rice is rising steadily. — There were some remarkably beavyfailures amongst mercantile iirnis last year. Iv Batavlu alone the losses are estimated at two and a-half million ■guilders.— On the Ist December a heavy shock of earthquake was experienced at Eatavia, and on the following day two heavy vertical shocks were also felt. — Advices from Acheen to 24th December state that there had been no warlike preparations there since Ist November. In the interior the cattle were dying in great numbers, and upwards of 12,000 carcases floated down the Acheen River during the month.of November.— The cholera has caused great mortality in the western division of Borneo.

Referring to " a strange guest at breakfast," the Canterbury Press says : — On Saturday morning, <is the steward of the Island Lily and some Chinamen, who were going in that vessel to the Chatham Islands, were having their breakfast in the cabin they were startled by a crash, of timber. The planks between them' and the half-deck were displaced and the hoofs of Clydesdale mare came down on the table in the middle of the breakfast equipage, The author of the disaster accompaniedlher gymuustic exhibition with a loud neigh, which rather scared the Mongols. Sad to say the table gave way, and the havoc amongst the crockery was worse than if the Island Lily had been in a heavy seaway for a month. It appeared that the mare in the hold hold had broken loose, and clambering over the cargo to the half-deck, had burst through into the cabin. There she was jammed, and the boards had to be cut away and the cargo shifted before the animal was got back into the hold, none the worse, we are glad to say, for her strange adventure.

The Pout of Thursday says:— It is now understood that the negotiations between Mr. Bunny and the Government re an appointment', for the former have finally fallen through. No vacaucy will thus occur in the case of the Wairarapa seat. Candidates had better therefore subside. There will be no seat to fight for..

At a recent sale of old wine in Bordeaux two bottles of Chateau Lafitte were sold to the proprietor of one of the Paris restaurants for 231 francs (£l2 8s) each. The wine was of the Comet year (1811), and had been purchased by : the seller a few years ago at the rate of £4 16s per bottle.

"Oxon," writes to the JV. Z. Times:— Sir. — - 1 notice that a " valued correspondent of the Grey liiver Argus says in reference to Sir George Grey's yisit to Hokitika that the Premier may say "veni, vedi, (sic) vici omues." For the instruction of " posterity " and in order to establish the correct quotation " for all time," may I be allowed to suggest that the correct reading should be " Veui, vidi, vendidi omnes."— Free translation : "I hare come, and seen, and sold the lot."

Juries occasionally return some remarkable verdicts, but the strangest of.all, perhaps (remarks the Seydney Morning Herald), is the following, which a Quirindi jury returned on the 12th ult., at the conclusion of an inquest on the body of a man who had died on the previous da}-. The jury found that " deceased died by the visitation of God, accelerated by drink and exposure." A Russian bulletin, issued after the capture of Plevna, notes the fact that the Turkish prisoners were paying for what they bought with rupees hearing the date of IS7B, and the effigy of Queen Victoria. The Times in publishing 4 the bulletin, acld9 a note in parenthesis " The money subscribed by Indian Mussulmans?"