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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 173, 19 July 1878, Page 2

Six thousand persons nave been attacked with measles at Lyons, Francs.

The following account of the stranding of the steamer Result at Karamea from the pen of Mr C. Broad appears in the Westport Times i— v We missed the entrance and came ashore half a mile Westport side of Karamea. Heavy scaß Were breaking over us for four hours. A. Stitt and Mrs G. J. Cooper Avere battened down iv the cabin. Shrimpton and I stood the brunt on the deck. We were at last ' piled up' on the beach, and no prospect of the Result getting off except by launching, which will take some weeks. The overland track is reported . impassable for us. One river to ford 2i times, tip to the waist or higher. We have therefore got Mr Jennings, the District Surveyor, to send one of liis men through; a man who ventures to swim rivers, and is fleet of foot, King by name, and Shrimpton has telegraphed to the Secretary of the Post Office, to direct Edwards' next boat to call in for us. In the 'meantime we are grateful for our preservation, and are all right, with the exception of cold from exposure. It wa9 a fearful night and very heavy sea and surf. Captain Eiley behaved splendidly. lam sorry for him, as he is not insured, and even if he should succeed in launching the steamer, i fear the bumping she has received has damaged her hull. I tell Shrirapton this : is oue of the « Results' of having a 'Jonah' aboard. Shrimpton and I took refuge in the water closet which had a door, and to prevent the water coming up the aperture, which it did like a fountain, we caught an empty cask, which was floating about on the deck, upended it on the aperture, and Shrimpton pluckily sat on the top to keep it down. I ' don't want to see the Karamea auy more, if t once get out of it. We have not got warm or dry yet.'* ( The Rev F. G. Rawson, of New Plymouth, writes as follows to the Taranaki Herald-.— " I wish publicly to protest against the perfectly unnecessary instance of Sabbath breaking the Prime Minister caused to be prepetrated here on Sunday. Rewi's people come down here expressing their readiness to accept the Christian religion again; and to show them how we houour. the rules of that religion we take them an excursion by train on Sunday, from Waitara to town, from town to Inglewood, aud back to Waitara; and then, after thus publicly showing how little Aye care for His laws, we expect God's blessing on the negotiations now taking place between the two races. If this is an instance of Sir George Grey's policy, the sooner he ceases to rule this country the better, say I." A Canterbury paper speaks thu3 of the anti sparrow campaign :— The determination of the farmers of the northern district to rid themselves of the sparrows is at present being carried into effect by the Avholesale poisoning that is going on. In the several instances in which poisoned wheat has been properly treated and spread out, the death rate among the feathered pests must have been very gratifying to the farmers. The success has been considerable, and on many farms the dead sparrows are numbered by scores. In the Kaiapoi, Flaxton, and Eyreton districts the plan followed has been to distribute the poison to be mixed by each farmer. At Woodend the whole of the wheat Avas steeped on Monday in the strychnine, and after drying, is to be distributed. At the Mandeville Plains a similar plan will be followed. At Rangiora a public meeting, in reference to the question, is convened by some of the leading farmers. It is stated that the birds prove very destructive to the growing grain as it commences to sprout, and a second raid will be made on the sparrows which survive the present crisis Canon Farrar says GlasgoAV is the most drunken city in the most drunken country in the Avoiid. ' Among the English aristocracy Earl Granville ranks as the best linguist; he is a mast er of twenty languages.