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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 8, 10 April 1878, Page 2

At a cricket match at Ngaruawahia the other day, Mr R. N. Cox performed the feat of bowliug three wickets with consecutive balls, and taking four wickets in one over. Subsequently the Ngaruawahia Club subscribed for a new belltopper, to be presented to the champion bowler. Talking of horses and heiresses (says " Atlas " in the World), it is reported that Baron Grant's palace at Kensington has been purchased by Mr Mackey, the American millionaire, whose magnificent fete iv Paris was recently described in the Woild. This gentlemau' income is popularly estimated at £300 per hour, or £5 per minute. He has a daughter. The attention of rising young statesmen is called to the above fact As conveying some idea of the advancement of Christchurch, we clip the following from one of onr recent exchanges :— Mr H. Marks is now-pushing forward the interior fittings of his splendid fruit shop, next the White Hart Hotel, and when his plans are completed the display will be unequalled in New Nealand. In the centre of the shop will be a large fountain, with a basin 10ft in diameter, and the water will be : broken into spray upou the principle of. the well known Chatsworth spray fountains. In ftthe evenings the lime light will be brought into constant use, and colored lensies will be employed to give an enriched effect to the fountain. The Bishop of Lichfield (Selwyn), formerly of New Zealand, is an advocate for funeral reform. An English paper., states that, in consecrating a cemetery at Longton, he spoke strongly in favor of funeral reform Nothing, he said, was more out of place than ostentation, pomp, and ceremony at the funeral of the dead, A feeling in favor of abolishing the unmeaning surroundings of ordinary funerals was growing in the country, aud he urged Christians to unite for the purpose of conducting interments at as little cost and with as little ceremony as possible. During the late heavy gale, a large heavily laden waggon was blown completely over, on the Rimutaka road, falling with the horses and driver over a considerable precipice. Mr. Harrison Ord performed the ceremony of baptism by immersion at the Wellington swimming Baths, on Friday morning, at 9 o'clock. There were seven candidates, and each was duly dipped by Mr. Ord, who offered up at the same time an extempore prayer. The ceremony was witnessed by a considerable number of spectators. The largest vessel afloat, the Great Eastern excepted, is now lying in the Alfred Dock, at Birkenhead. The Hooper, the property of the Hooper Telegraph Company, of London, was built at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1873, is an iron steamer, between 360 feet and 370 feet long, is 60 feet across, and has a depth of hold of about 40 feet. She was principally constructed for purposes of cable laying, and between the year in which she left the stocks and 1876 she successfully deposited eight submarine lies upo i the sea bottom, between Cuba and Santiago, Santa Cruz and Porto Rico, Demerara and Para, and various other points. . ftßuilt from a model designed to unite great spaciousness with seagoing capacity, the Hooper is flatbottomed, and has large iron storage cylinders of great depth and width ; while it is claimed for her that she exceeds the Great East ru iv carrying capacity, and is able "to go down to the sea" with a dead weight of cargo of something like 12,000 tons. Since 1876 the Hooper has been principally engaged in the India trade. Her last voyage was from New York, whence she ran to Liverpool in fifteen days with a cargo of about 7,800 tous, including 50,000 bushels of maize and 65,000 busheh of .wheat, as well as large quantities of cotton and flour. On her arrival in the Mersey it was found impossible, on account of her size, to dock the Hooper on the Liverpool side. She was therefore taken to Birkenhead, and will only enter a Liverpcol dock after she has been considerably lightened by unloading.