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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 177, 24 July 1878, Page 2

The Rangitikei Advocate says : —On Friday, the up-train from Eeilding to M Halcombe took fifty-aeven minutes to do the journey, a little over eight miles. The rails had to be sanded at every ascent. Deficient engine-power and heavy loading caused the delay. The Thames Star has a paragraph about the dancing' assemblies of the natives at the Thames, and records the following incident, which occurred a few nights ago :— The Maori dance attracted on that occasion, and does generally, some pakehaa. One a benedict, was pirouetting with a good-lookini? half-caste, when just as he was engaged in that seductive part of the dance known to some M.C.'s as '• swinging partners," he was seized by the collar by his jealous spouse, and unceremoniously dragged from the room and the " gay and festive scene." The feelings of his dancing partner, however indignant, can scarcely be supposed to be equal to those of .his partner for lift, k ;

The Lyttelton Times of 9th July says :— Mr E. Dillon of Aniberley, has sold to Mr T. Walls, of Kaiapoi Island, a bay colt eighteen mouths old for J6150. It ia by Sir Walter Scott, dam, a Lord Glasgow mare, grand-dam, a Clydesdale Hero mare, the latter coming, we are informed, from some of the best blood in the old country. While driving herself the other day in her pony carriage at Malta, says the Whitehall Review, the Duchess of Edinburgh unfortunately ran over a child, who darted into the roadway in that sudden manner which there is no eluding, and of which all who drive have much and startling experience every day of there lives. The child was most severely injured, but, thanks to the promptitude and energy of the Duchess, its life {will in all probability be saved. Her Imperial Highuess at once lifted the urchin into her carriage and drove off to the doctor. The latter— a native of the island — being a stupid fellow, could not be made to understand the affair, though tried by the Duchess in English, French, and Russian successively. "Whoever heard of a doctor not knowing English or French ?" at last cried the Duchess with impatience. " And who ever heard of a Duchess knowing Maltese ?" retorted »7 medico ia his awn lingo (a barbarous miiture of Arabic, Coptic, and Italian), by some means comprehending what was said. H.I.H. was not, however, so easily defeated, and despatching messengers to both the iiinotaur and Defence, she obtained eventually the assistance of surgeons from both those warships, tiot satisfied with halfmeasures, however, the Duchess has not only sent her own medical man daily to the child, } but has also been most assiduous in calling herself and giving practical advice to the parents as to tUeit treatment of the patient, not forgetting to afford t n'e'm 1 both const&pt and substantial pecuniary assistance. t