The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 131, 3 June 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1878.

We are indebted to a correspondent for a very spirited translation from a Danish work, j descriptive of an incident of the Prusao- ' Danish war in 1864. We can recommend a perusal of it to our readers. An unfortunate similarity to Sullivan of Maungatapu notoriety appears to have been tlie cause of much annoyance to a man at present in the Napier district. Hunted off the West Coast, driven about from one spot to another, allowed no rest, and being in dread lest his life should be taken, the unfortunate man has at la9t, as our telegrams tell us, been compelled to implore the Government to send him out of the colony. Rather hard lines for an innocent man, whose only fault, as far as we know, is that Nature made him very like a notorious murderer. Another fearful shipping disaster is reported in our English telegrams to-day, a German ironclad, supposed to be the Kcenig William, which, at the time she was launched, was regarded as one of the finest vessels of her kind in the world, having collided with another of the same squadron, and gone down, the result being the loss of 382 lives. Tim, coupled with the loss of the Vanguard, which was due to the same cause, naturally giyes rise to the question whether these huge ships of war are not so unwieldy and difficult to manage that at close quarters they are, as far as a collision is concerned, as dangerous to a friend as to an enemy. A cuiious trap accident occurred yesterday morning at the hour when the streets were thronged with church goors. The driver of a cab was breaking in a young horse|when, at the corner of Hardy and Vanguard-streets near All Saints Church, it suddenly shied at some object, and, although well handled at the time, eventually rolled over into the ditch, which at that spot was some four feet in depth, taking with it the cab and driver. Fortunately neither man, horse, nor conveyance was in the least degree injured, and with the assistance of several willing hands the cab was soon restored to an upright position on the road. The Customs receipts for the week ending Saturday last amounted to £792 2s Sd. Thk Customs revenue for the month ending May 31st, 1878, amounted to £2992 lis 4d, made up asfollows:— Spirits, £862 10s 2d; Cigars, £45; Tobacco, £340 ss ; Wiue, £147 15s 8d; Beer, £20 19s od; Tea, £281 17s 3d; Coffee, £12 18s 3d; Sugar, £377 7s 6d; Goods by weight, £106 7s 3d; Ad valorem, £602 16s 8d; Other Duties, £34; Other Receipts, £110 13s 8d; Gold' Duty, *£50; total, £2992 lls 4d. Wur poison the sick with the liquors of commerce when a pure stimulant containing vegetable agents, which endow it with extraordinary alterative ~ and strengthening properties, which never excites and invariably affords relief, is just as easily procured. It the patient is weak or nervous, his kidneys, stomach, or bowels out of order, let

him have recourse to that safest, and pleasantest of regulating tonics, Udolpho Wolfe's Akomatic Schiedam Schnapps. — Advt. When Doctors differ, who shall decide? has often been asked, without a satisfactory solution of the question; but that difficulty is not removed, for unquestionably "Guor,laii's Great Indian Cukes" arc the most certain and unfailing tuedecines for the " thousand ills that flesh in heir to" that have yet been discovered. The testimonials given from old aud respected Colonists will convince the most sceptical of the truth of the assertion. They can be had of all Chemists, as also these invaluable medicines. Testimonial ~ Lyttelton, Sept. 7, 1877. Bear Sir,-— Having suffered for upwards of two yeais from chronic rheumatism, I was induced to try your Indian Mixture, and after takiug it for a week or two the disorder disappeared) and has not since troubled me— a period of nine months having now elapsed since taking the medicine. I have no hesitation in believing that the cure was effected by your medicine.— Yours truly, F. 11. Melville Walkbu.