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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 178, 25 July 1878, Page 2

Concerning Dr. Bradford, whose arrest was mentioned in our recent telegrams from Victoria, the Dunediu Star says :-~lt will be remembered that about three years ago, while the resident surgeon of the Melbourne Hospital, he rau away with Miss Were, a Victorian heiress, aud a ward of the Court, whom he married immediately on his arrival in Wollington, and was thereafter adjudged guilty of contempt of Court by Judge Molesworth. He had occasion to visit Melbourne very recently, and has found himself within the grasp of the law. What the outcome of it will be remains to be seen. A later Melbourne telegram dated July 22 says :— Dr. Bradford still remains in gaol. On Saturday the case again came before the Court, when an affidavit was read from Dr. Bradford, explaining that bis hasty, marriage was due to the strong affection he felt for the young lady, aud to his being apprehensive that the opposition of oue of the guardians would have prevented the marriage (a view which he had since ascertained to be erroneous), and his ignorance that he was guilty of any contempt of Court. He denied that he was actuated by pecuniary motives in marrying the young lady, and stated that the settlement he had already signed iv New Zealand was made at the instance of the guardians of the young lady,and professed his willingness to execute any settlement that the Court might order. All the relatives of the young lady were stated to have expressed themselves satisfied, as they believed the marriage was a happy oue. His Honor said Dr. Bradford appeared to take a much lighter view of the offence than he (Judge Molesworth) did. He would himself prepare the minutes of the statement which the master was to prepare before Dr. Bradford could be released, and neither directly or indirectly would Dr. Bradford have any dealing with the property. The decision of the Court was reserved. Seventy British steamers at various ports have been selected to be commissioned as cruisers. One London firm, owning forty steamers, offered all of them to the Government. New York dealers state that they receive numerous letters from California, asking the price of arms. The impression is that hostilities are probable between the working men and the Chinese there.

Several deaths have occurred among the Fenian brotherhood near St. Albans, Vermont. It is believed that the Fenians in this part of the United States are organising. There haye 1/een some very heavy failures, at Liverpool. Recruiting still goes on rapidly in England. The Scotch coal-miners, notwithstanding the dulness of trade in England, demand an increase of six Shillings a week in their wages i Several Irish regiments have been transferred to English garrisons, and English troops have been sent to Ireland. The recent trial has ouly strengthened tbe Nihilists in Russia. The movement is extending. The West Coast Tiniest relates that a Chinaman whose name is unknown, was | sharp enough to get on the blind side of the ' Union Bank one dfly last week, tt appears that a small parcel of gold of an otiuce or two in weight had just beeu sold to the Bank wheu " Johu" entered to dispose of a similar lot The parcel first purchased was not emptied Jtrom the scales, and the gold buyer gave the second teVsbv the benefit-Id weight and value of the first parcel as" ?Mlr as his own. The Chinaman was too cute' to' posnt out the error hut quietly pocketed the full amount tendered him, and now Detective Browne has his own work cut out to discover his man. It is said that the '•' Heathen Chinee " and his mates hare since had a re-uniotij ttheh poultry and fan tan, together with the banking facilities of the colony, were most liberally discussed, the solemn meeting terminating on the muttial understanding of. " tio savee." One of the Celestial brethren is reported tb have saluted the detective officer with "i>one Brown," while another kept adding fo the aggravation by playing oil his banjo, " I know a bank"

There is a popular sayiug in the Brandenburg District, where Bismarck's family has been so many centuries at home, which attributes to the Bismarcks, as the characteristic saying of the bouse, the phrase "Noch lange nieht genug," ("Not near enough yet,") aud which expresses, we suppose, the popular conception of their tenacity of purpose, that they were not tired out of any plan they had formed by a reiterated failure or a pertinacious opposition which would have disheartened most of their compeers. There is a somewhat extravagant illustration of this characteristic in Bismarck's mild youthful days, if his biographer may be trusted. When studying "law at Berlin he had been more than once disappointed by a bootmaker, who did not send home his boots when they were promised. Accordingly when this next happpned a servant of the young jurist appeared at the bootmaker's at six in the morning with the simple question, "Are Herr Bismarck's boots ready?" When he was told they were not, he departed, but at ten minutes past six another servant appeared, with the same inquiry, and so at precise intervals of ten minutes it weut on all day, till by the evening the boots were finished and" sent home.

The San Francisco correspondent of the Otago XDa'.ly Times writes : " The kuights of the Red Branch, a Fenian organisation, were across the bay picnicking, and on their way steamed past a Russian corvette, wbich has been lying here a long time. The Irish national flag was flying, and it dipped, saluting the Russians, t|fi Irishmen cheering vociferously. The Russians returned the salute, manned yards, and cheered in return. A salute of 21 guns were fired. A sensational note of this was published, and the Russian captain hastened to disavow any political meaning iv the salute. It was a custom in the Russian navy to fire a salute at the close of the Easter season,"

The Marlborough Express of Saturday says: — Mr James Channiug, who is the working foreman or ganger over the hands employed at D'Urville's Island, was here yesterday, and we took the opportunity of ascertaining the progress of operations. He has six men under him, some of whom are engaged in getting timber, and the remainder work shafts in the mine. Since commencing operations they have made a horse track down to the beach, 90 chains long, erected a crosscut drive intended to intercept the lode 71 feet long. 0 f this there is 39ft of a cutting, and 42ft in the hill, and at nresent, judging from the angle of the dip, they are about 50ft from the main lode, which* they expect to reach in a fortnight. The cutting drive has been through easy rock which required timber, but not blasting. There is a reef within 10ft or 12ft from where they now are. and they have also traced another very good one for 500 yds in a southerly direction. There is every appearance of a permanent lode.