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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 170, 16 August 1878, Page 2

Mr Saunders (says the N.Z. Tines) caused considerable merriment iv the House of Kepresentatives during the course of a very excellent speech made by that hon. member on the Electoral Bill. Speaking against the admission of women as members of the House, he asked hon. members to picture to themselves the sight of a woman getting up in their midst to address the Assembly. He believed his friend on the right (Mr Fox) would be so intoxicated on the occasion that even if she talked the greatest rubbish that was ever uttered in the House, the hon. member for Wanganui would cheer her to the echo; and if she proposed to give publicans compensation for shutting up their houses, he believed Mr Fox would support her. Loud laughter followed the prognostications of the bon. member for Cheviot. Mr Bowen dealt a hard hit at Dr. Wallis. The hon. member for Kaiapoi said he had too great a respect for women to speak of them so patronizingly as the hon. member for Auckland City West had done on the recent occasion. It was known that the hon. member for that constituency intended to address the House on women's rights, and it was supposed he would have createdsome excitemeut; but what was the^result ? When Dr. Wallis rose to make his speech there were two ladies iv the gallery, and when he finished speaking there were none ! — N. Z. Times. The Otago Daily Times has an article on the success of the public works policy. The Tunes says: " While numerous telegrams are being sent by cable to Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues to congratulate him on his recent triumphs, it would not, we think, be an ungraceful or inappropriate thing if Dunedin congratulated Sir Julius Yogel in a similar fashion on the occasion of the first successful through journey by rail between Christchurch and Dunedin, which will mark an important era in the history of the public works in New Zealaud. It was a bold even a dangerous policy, so also was Lord Beaconsfield's. Success in (both cases has justified the venture, and each iv his degree is entitled to gratitude from those whom he has thus benefited. Sir Julius by his bold and successful policy has given mauy a citizeu to the state, and if he has himself withdrawn from our midst, he is representing us ably at Home, and doing as much to further the interests of the Colony as if he were amongst us. Although many of the acts of his political career are open to criticism, aud he owes something of the final success which has attended his scheme to the restraints of a powerful Opposition, and the aid of such colleagues as Mr Richardson, we can afford to adinife that the one public man who has given the greatest stimulus to the material prosperity of the Colony as a whole is Sir Julius Yogel." Who is the Count ? Under the heading " A hiut to the Count" the following letter appeared in the Post of Wednesday : — Sir, — On proceeding to my office this morning I was rather startled in meetiug a young lady of considerable personal attractions, rushing to her place of business like a hunted deer, but on looking back I discovered a carrotyheaded belltopper swell following close to her heels. I hope the young lady will acquaiut her friends of such conduct, and that they will have a reckoning with this invader of female sanctity in our public streets, and count up his wrong-doings in a satisfactory wanner with him.

Itseems that the Chinese can lay claim to the invention of the telephone, for Chin-Hoo, writing in the Pehin Gazette, says that Kung-lro-Whing invented the telephone or thunthsien in the year 978— probably the string telephone.

The death is announced at Paris of the widow of flaniienlftUU, the founder of homeeopathy, at the age of 78. SVorti the roll of the pre9eut American Congress" If ilppWra that 339 of its members nre lawyers, 1& are bankers, 17 merchants, ■|5 are journalists,- 20 are J>hy&idmi3, 5 arc scfldril telphers.- and 12 are farmers.

It is said that Cardinal C«lle» has offered to dse his Influence against the Home Eiiles If if/c tirit?sh Government will permit the establishißetit.Of ft ifontaii Catholic IXnvrcrsity in Ireland.

Count Bfasilewsfci, regarded as the richest man 1 it! liussiri, and who had for many years pUsst enjoyed an insorwe of sitiif&flß@5 i tiif&flB@ nrobles a year, died at '{it. Petersburg latel}', at the age of ninety two.

Three white whales about 13ft long have been safely imported from Quebec, and are distributed between the Westminster, Maudiestery and Stockport Aquariums. I'ilC Boston, United States, city authorities imported" 40,000 tulips for the Public Garden, at n cost cyf £167".

O'oiODtft Kice, inventor of the trowel bayonet, who witnessd tfte operations around Plevna, says that American arms made by private Companies are considered the best in Europe. A irtdf iv Texas saw an advertisement in a New York papev of an opium cure. She sent ftfr it; took ft, arid died iv convulsions in less thdii iit\ hottt.

The Gree'lc C/bUreTl in Eiissia has given rise to a new sect, called " Purifiers." it recognises the woman as the head of the family and requires every husband to confess iiis sirisj every week to his wife.

The! English Government recently ordered 200 electric lights of Messrs Siemaus of Berlin, for use at" sea to detect approaching torpedo boats. A imgget worth XI OOO has been found four inches below the surface at Buuiuyong, Yictorin.

Sir Moses Montefiore, the great Hebrew philanthropist, is now ninety-live years old, but still hale and vigorous, and devoted to the great object of his life— the restoration of Jerusaienl.

In Miss Burdett-Cout!?)' home of working women in England, a woman cafl get excellent board and lodging for 5s 3d per week.

There is a wide spread famine in Morocco, Africa; Tile Sultan has repaired, hare-footed, to ihe mostjue, to pray for rafn. A check upon trie Olilrtese 1 Jrt Queensland, an Act was passed limiting the number of passengers, and taxing each oue jCIo. Then the miners' right was raised to £3. Kow no Chinaman is to work on a goldfield untii three yeafci after its diseoyery. At the tial'arat Police Court, Mrs Ursula Bush, bettef fen Own rts Madame Cora, was charged with estubiishiflg a scheme by which prizes were gained. Through some informality the case was dismissed.

"Should women have more political aucl social privileges than they at present enjoy?" was the question (says the I'osfy at the meeting of the Wellington Literary Association last night. The members — the greater portion of whom we believe are bachelors, and therefore have no " better halves " to call them to account— decided by a majority in the negative.