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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 14 May 1878, Page 2

Some of the Auckland people ars very indignant with the action of the naval officers who recently ordered ao auctioneer to haul down a St. George's Ensign, which wai flying on his premises, unde. threat of sending a party ashore to do it if he refused. The Star thinki it a pity the order was complied witb, so ss to see whether the officers would have dared to carry out their threat. A young man named Nash, who ii said to have connections in Wellington, wai recently discovered in a deserted home at Palmerston, Manawatu, in a starving condition. He had erysipelas, and stated that he had crawled to the house to die. The constable who found him and the Palmerston people have been very kind to the poor fellow, and under the judiciom medical treatment he is now receiving it is likeiy he will pull through. It seetns that he was three days without food. Under tbe heading " Sent empty away " the Christchurch Press publishes the following paragraph:— At last an iustance has been afforded by a Minister of a deputation scut away without a promise. Ahd this actually occurred at Aucklaud I At Coromandel a large prospecting tunuel is being driven, aud the company prosecuting the work has exhausted its means. A deputation, therefore, waited upon a Minister, asa matter of course, and pointed out to him how necessary the tunnel was to the welfare of the district, and how proper it would be for the Government to co-operate in carrying it out. It is scarcely credible, but we have the word of an Auckland paper for it that the Minister, Mr Sheehan, replied that ;" the Government had no money to devote to purposes of this sort." What has Coromandel done that it should furnish the one instance of a deputation sent away absolutely without' hope? Are there very ftw electors there? Our telegraphic news from England recently announced the appointment of the Rer W. Maclagan, M.A., of St. Mary's Parish Church, Kensington, to the vacant bishopric of Lichfield. Air Maclaggan ii a well-kuown clergyman who has made his mark in London, both as a mission preacher and as a parochial organiser. He succeeded Archdeacon Sinclair iv the vicarage of St Mary'i, Kensington. He is said to be a very eloquent and persuasive preacher. A Buenos Ayres telegram to the Press Agency sayi :— The Irish iheep farmers are rapidly becoming a large, important and wealthy community. The Gorernment is behaving in the most liberal manner to all immigrants. They have land giren them, and are housed and looked after on their arrival. The importance of immigration is fully recognised here. The city is healthy ; the drainage works were begun on too elaborate a scale, snd are unfortunately stopped, for want of fuuda. They are on a' scale of magnificence suitable for cities like London and Paris, but quite beyond the means of Buenoi Ayres Of course they will be puihed through ln course of time, but meanwhile we are in great fear of a repetition of the terrible yellow fever of 1870. During the month of December last, the National Labor Office found employment for 1255 immigrants; 706 of them as farmers 278 for city work; 3 19, are sheep farmers, and the remainder to different colonies and plantations on the Paraua River and in the interior. Most of the immigrauts are ; ltaliani, next Spanish* Erench, Germans, Swiss,lrish, and Euglish. There are three English newspapers in tbis city. The Standard, devoted to the Irish sheep-farming interests, "is thoroughly Irish. The Herald is edited by an American, and is a very conservative and cautious paper. The Seuthtin Cross, edited by an Irish priest, is what might be expected iv consequence. The city is interested by tramways in every direction, and all parts of it are thoroughly accessible. The President is deservedly very popular. The English community here is Philo-Turkiih, but the native Argentines favor the Russians. We learn with plea sure that the Eucalypti Extract is finding acceptance in high circles. Not long ago very flattering, testimony was received from the national scientific institution of Germany, relative to the uses ahd efficacy of the extract, and now Messrs Sander and Sons are favoured with a communication from the King of Italy, through the Consulgeneral in Melbourne, who sayi : — The forwarded parcel of the Extractof the Eucalyptus gave great satisfaction to Her Majesty, 'my august Sovereign , and now lam entrused through the Minister for Foreign Affairs with the agreeable charge of expressing to you His Majesty's thanks. With such a recommendation as this, we cannot doubt but that Mess'i Sander and : Sou's manuf acture will receive greater attention from scientific bodies, and will be more largely used by all classes of the community. We are convinced of this, that if given a fair trial, the extract will always prove successful for whatever it is recommended, of which we have had abundant evidence; and another important fact in proof of its beneficial effects is that the sale hos been rapid in all its parts of Victoria,, in many parts of New South Wales, and New Zealand, and grateful testimonials have flooded in from all parts We have not the slightest doubt that Messrs Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract will, ere long, obtain a world-wide fame, equal, if not auperior, to Holloway's pills. It is now on a fair way to this, as agencies have been established all over the Australian colonies, New Zealand, America, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. — Bendigo Evening News. ; : i During the hearing of a case at Reefton, Brown v. Bank of New Zealand a claim of £187 10s as damages arising out of an alleged illegal sale of shares in the Vulcan Company (says the Grey River Argus), it transpired that the manager of tbe bank at Reefton had been jointly interested with the plaintiff in certain shares, and his Honor Judge Weiton mentioned that in his' opinion it was matter for regret that bank agents should enter jointly into ventures with bank customers. Fever and ague prevail from January to April in New Guinea, rendering migration for those months necessary, especially to Europeans.

At the Wellington R.M. Court on Friday, •' William O'Connor, charged with attempting ; to poison William Light, proprietor of Barrett's Hotel, was committed to take his trial at tho next Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court. Bail was fixed, prisoner in £1000, and two sureties of £500 each. A barmaid, named Minnie O'Brien, was employed by a hotelkeeper in Dunedin named Tondut. Mrs Tondut accused the girl of stealing balf-a-crown, forcibly searched her pockets, and prevented her leaving the house The girl raised a civil fiction for damages, claiming £200. The jury awarded her £5) a verdict which, of course, carried all costs. The English surgeons who were taken prisoners by the Russians at Kamarli were shamefully treated, and compelled to march on foot for days, although havi ;g their own hcrses, and were prodded with bayonets to make them move faster. They were insulted by the Russians, both soldiers and officers, and only obtained their release through the interference of Colonel Blunt, Consul at Adrianople. They blame General Gourko as the principal cause. The Grand Duke Nicholas expressed great indignation at their treatment, and proJHi?«dl tbat the offenders will be punished. The London correspondent di the Melbourne Atgvs states that Mr Allsop has recently given the large sum of £8000 for two cows, and adds: — " The idea' of £4000 for a shorthorn rather takes one's breath away. Each of ite progeny, no doubt, will be a golden calf; but. suppose it should have none! Tbe same gentleman, in the same " deal," purchased, three heifers foi* £3500. The Auckland Star is down upon anything like swindling in connection iriih racing. It says :— The action of ali clubs shoald) be uniformly such that owners who enter into a dishonest conspiracy -with bookmakers to defraud the public will learn that it will be a ruinous matter for them, from a sporting point of view, if they are fonnd out, and that no one connected with the affair will meet with any mercy. There is another point connected with turf abuses which is worth noting. Bookmakers, and not owners, are, it ; is well known, at the bottom of nine out of ten swindles ; and we really cannot see why they should always get off scot free. They not merely tempt the owner from the path of virtue, but generally make a ; great deal, more out of the transaction -than he does. It is therefore only fair that they should share the punishment. We are convinced that if some of these sharp gentry were warned off ' respectable courses a most salutary effect might be, produced. It would not be very difficult for stewards to drop on the right ones, for in epite of all precautions they are tolerably well known, and but little evidence would suffice in most cases. Perhaps after two or three leaders of the ring had been severely dealt witb, the remainder would reconsider some of their ways— if not for tbe sake of honor and honesty, for more selfish motives. A correspondent writes to the Otago Daily Times : — " The present break in the telegraphic communication with Europe has { suggested to me the possibility, not only of ' such an accident happening immediately on the outbreak of hostilities — should such occur— but also of that accident being the result of , human agency. It. would not be difficult over the long stretch of wire reaching from the Australian capital to Batavia or India to produce, a break, or a series of breaks, that would effectually prevent our receipt of intelligence of the declaration of war for such a period as would enable fast armed steamers from Petropaulowski, or even nearer, to make a sudden descent on the colonies before we were aware of our peril. It is such a course as I would take if I was Emperor of Russia, and wished to wound England in her vulnerable parts. I do not write this- as an alarmist, but merely to sbow the need that there should be no delay in urging forward preparations for defence, and to direct attention to how little the thousands of miles of exposed wire and cable' are to be depended on to give us information of the actual bursting of the thunder-cloud." The idea of "shields" for infantry advancing to a frontal attack every now and again crops up (says an English paper), and in these days of rapid firing, wheu a whole regiment may be shot down in s few minutes the notion is worth entertaining. . A very ingenious apparatus of- this kind has been invented by Mr Herbert Miller. The shield is of bullet-proof steel, swinging on the axletree of two light wheels, containing four loopholes. Ita entire weight is about 150lbs. Two front-rank men, laying their hands upon the axletree, push it before them, their ■ rifles being placed in a rack in the shield. Then two rear-rank men follow closely, rifle in hand, heing protected as well as the front- ; rank men : frpm direct fire. When the " com- . mence firing" is sounded, the two front-rank men take their rifles from the racks, and, in the old kneeling position, fire through two loopholes in the middle of the shield. The rear-rank men fire throu-jh the upper loopholes, the whole two files being in the position of a double rank firing with "front rank knealing." »-mJmi"J LUM-W.«— aie—jj^ _l_',«m„Lj j.» jr ..wwa