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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 191, 11 September 1878, Page 2

A shark, seven feet long, has been captured in the beautiful Welsh river Dyssni, where it had been preying upon the salmon.

The San Francisco News letter says the banking wealth of New Zealand and the Australian colonies is £70,000,000, or about £35 per capita ; a proportion which is certainly extraordinary, and much beyond thafc of the United States. " The girls of our days are very badly educated," said one of the members of the committee on education tothe Bishop of Gloucester. " That caunot be deuied," retorted hi3 lordship. " However, there is one consolation, the boys never find it out." The Fiji Timea, of a recent date, states tha"fc gold haa been found in the Solomou Islands. It says the finder, who is au experienced Australian digger, and the prospector of the Palmer diggings, visited these isiauds with the intention of thoroughly examining them with the object of discovciing payable ground, either alluvial or iu reef. Overtaken by the pest of these islands, fever and ague, immediately on his arrival, he was prostrated for some time, bufc oft recovering he, nothing daunted, pursued his researches, and ultimately, with most flattering success, has struck on a reef, which proves to contain the precious mefcal in considerable abundaucc. Haviug given the reef a practical trial, he has taken a quantity of stone to the colonies to have ifc properly tested, aud to make arrangements for the successful working of this valuable property. Ellen Heeson, who was sentenced to' death at the Chester Winter Assizes for the murder of her mother and two children to obtain their life assurance, 13 still lying in gaol awaiting her confinement, after which she will be executed, unless Her Majesty is moved to grant a reprieve.