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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1878, Page 2

A Napier telegram says:— The sale of half the Arlington estate, cut up by the owner, Captain Newman, into town and country sections was a great success. The town sections were bid up to an average of £52 per acre. The land was bought fifteen years *j.go by Newman for 15s per acre, the Government upset price, lfc is believed that other large sheep farmers will now follow Captain Newman's example. Sir George Grey, accompanied by his private secretary and Mr Seymour George, left Wellington for Auckland in the Hinemoa- on Thursday evening. The object of Sir George Grey's visit to Auckland is to hold a second meeting with Tawhiao, the Maori King. | A little novelty in political terminology which is perhaps worth noticing (says the Pall Mull Gazette) has cropped up within the last few days. The Russian journals are beginning to talk of " Czargrad," meaning thereby the city which.the rest of the world knows as Constantinople. In two Russian newspapers of opposite opinions the new term occurs several times to-day. How long will ifc be before our own Russian journals take ifc up ? and how long before the professor! of language discovers in the existence of the world a new reason for transferring the city from the Sultan to the Czar ? It is stated in Sydney thafc. Tricketfc will send a challenge to America offering to row any sculler for the championship at Sydney, and wili give £150 for expenses if the match is to be for £500, and £300 if for £1000. A Napier telegram to thc Post says : — The rebel Te Kooti has assumed a new character, thafc of a miracle-worker and a healer of maladies. For many months past Maoris from the Poverty Bay and Wairoa (Hawke's Bay) districts, who were afflicted with disease, have made pilgrimages to Te Kooti's residence in the King Country, and, strange to say, have come back cured. Ifc is of very little use to tell a native thafc the sorcerer is practising on the credulity and superstition of people, when he can point to undoubted cases of cures. And so the fame of Te Kooti is rapidly spreading over the whole island, and the influence he is thereby obtaining is nofc likely to be less than when he led all the bloodthirsty scoundrels of his race to the massacre of English women and children. Those who know the natives best are watching this movement •with some anxiety. i

A shocking itccide'tit. is thus reported by thc Herald:^- During thS whole of yesterday &, st6ahi i tliresnirig-iiiachine -frrts engaged threshing wherft belonging to Mr Bollard. The nien wire employed iu tfie afternoon in what is known as "cleaning up," that is, {•emovibg tlie slacfc. wheat and Straw which had gathered about the hopper, when one of them , named John Richards, slipped into the hopper, where his foot was caught by the revolving drum' which drew in his leg, mutilating ifc dreadfully, up nearly to the groin. When the machine was stopped, and the Unfortunate man brobghfc from it and laid on the gfouiid, lfc Was Seen thafc the whole of the flesh of the leg was literally chopped into small pieces. A Rome correspondent of the Philadelphia Press gives an interesting account of the sanitary virtues of the eucalyptus (blue gum) tree. He says that the supposed place of the execution of St Paul, some two. miles outside the Wtilis df Rome; and on whicfi there has long beeu a monastery, was one of the most pestiferous spots in that malaria - affected atmosphere. Such was the mortality among the monks thafc for more than fifty years no one lived in the monastery. Now, by the careful management of some Trappists, a grove of the poison-absorbing eucalyptus tree has been raised to a great height, and for the last tbree years the monks have been able to live there with perfect impunity, and it is now as healthy as tbe Quirinal itself — the most salubrious sectiou of the city. One of the enterprises the Paris Exposition is bringing forward ia New York is the organisation of a company for the transportation of American visitors to Paris, and their accommodation after arrival there. The i enterprise embraces the construction of. an j immense hotel, to be know as the Continental, opposite the garden of the Tuilleries. The company propose to carry a passenger from New York to Paris and return, with board for one mouth at the hotel, for from 365d0J. to 480dol. in gold, the variation in price being due to the situation of fche room. Eor two persons occupying the same room, the price for transportation and board for one month to be 655d01. to 830d01., according to the situation of the room. These prices will include four meals a day, wine, gas and attendance. The holders of the tickets issued by the company wi'.l be entitled to a first-class passage by thc steamships of the Compagnie Generate Transatlantiuge, The return ticket by steamer will be good for one year. A correspondent of the Auckland Herald, visiting England after an absence of twentyfour years, writes from London : — What wonderful changes have taken place in Great Britain since March 28, 1854! The middle and the upper classes of the people have almost changed places; trade and its profits are annihilating family prestige and tradition ; the enormous increase in material wealth, and the vague speculations in intellectual research, threaten to overturn Faith and Hope as a creed. 0 pinions thafc then were only thought of have become articles of faith, and articles of faith are now merely matters of opinion. The colonies were then ruled from Downing-street or Exeter Hall. They are now virtually free, and at auy moment, if they so determine, may shake oif the badge of British rule and go iu for independence or federation. With all this excess of freedom of opinion and speech, leading men, even colonial statesmen, (excepting a Vogel and a Berry) are more cautious in action than they were. The danger seems to be in the extension of the suffrage, and the "little knowledge " that spurns the control of the daily press. We found the lower classes in London anxious for war in any form, but the men of business and capital, who are virtually the leaders of public opinion, did nofc encourage, the war feeling, and tbus the damage done to trade by the fear of war, and the long continued misunderstanding between the workmen and the employers has done, and continues to do, immense damage to the miues and workshops. Many of the Scotch and English collieries are shut up, manufactories of all sorts stopped, shipbuilding yards deserted, and works of every sort left unfinished. As already noticed, the new London Law Courts,; although the building has been going on for some three years, is not yefc two storyeshigh, arid it is said, fchafc the grass is growing on the unfinished walls. There are other buildings in London and many of the towns we visited in the same state. . On the river Clyde we counted over sixty iron vessels on the stocks in all stages of building, but the sound of a hammer was not heard. In Ireland, after visiting Cork, we proposed to see the Lakes of Killarney and Magillicuddie's Reeks, 'but there was a misunderstanding somewhere, and for some weeks all traffic was stopped. Tommy came home from school, and handed to his father the teacher's report on his progress during the month. " This is very unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a very small number of marks. Pm nofc all pleased with it." "I told the teacher you wouldn't be, but he wouldn't alter it."