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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 208, 1 October 1878, Page 2

The Hunt Club bounds have arrived safely in Christchurch. The Lyttelton Twins says :— " The season just closed has been the most successful the Club has had since it was started, for there has been more legitimate hunting, with larger fields, than in any previous year. The runs in Otago were particularly noticeable from the fact that four ladies followed in every hunt, and in the words of a prominent sportsman, ' Straigbter or better riding I have never witnessed, even in Ireland, where the women in some cases are as good over country as many of the men.' " The Legislative Council Chamber (says the N. Z Times) is now crowded, and if the necessity for rewarding political partisans by giving them, as Sir George Grey happily said, " salaries for life," should still exist, it will be necessary to enlarge the building. When Eewi and Tawhiao come in, next year, with the other gentlemen who are naturally expectants of honor, " having done so much for the party," there will be a complete block of wealth and intelligence. Two honorable gentlemen whom the call of the Council or a sense of public duty have recently brought up, have been accommodated, and may be seen located, on the floor of the Chamber, whilst occasional " jumping " shows the precarious tenure of other seats. The following telegrams are published in the Sydney papers : — "Newcastle, Sept. 12. Captain Allen, harbor-master at Newcastle, received a telegram from Cardwell this morning, reporting that the cutter Riser, Captain C. H. Walsh, had been wrecked on King's Reef, situated about 70 miles to the northward of Towusville, and that all the crew had been murdered by the natives. The bodies had been found, and were buried on the spot." — "Brisbane, September 12. The following telegram has been received by the Colonial Treasurer : ' Cardwell, Sept. 12. Mr Sub-Inspector Johnstone reports finding the bodies of two men in a native oven on mainland, opposite King's Reef. The skulls were smashed in, and the bodies partly roasted. Parts of the flesh are absent, and the features are not recognisable. One is supposed to be six feet high, and has dark hair mixed with grey; the other is of medium size, with light brown hair and sandy whiskers. From papers found in the native camp in proximity to the bodies there can be little doubt that these ara the remains of the crew of the wrecked Riser, found on King's Reef. An inquiry will be held to-day.' " The Post of Thursday says ;— A Maori woman named Te Oha yesterday sent a dres3 to be washed to two women, named Eliza Broughton and Marian Bradford, both wellknown to the police. About an hour afterward Te Oha remembered that she had left her purse, containing £22 in notes, in the pocket of the dress, and she at once proceeded to the house occupied by Brouphton find Bradford, in Wingdeld-street. She

there found the hv& f \ washerwomen, ",,iy?o£ 'pfr tlie if.oor (lead crunk. Th i 2 piirso "was tneve) but seven £1 notes hud been abstracted. Subsequently £5 of the missing money was recovered by Mr E. Baker and Sergeant Smith, Under the bending '\An,UHn}annerly committee" the fihri^bhrhli ■/¥«.« says ,•— -T'l'e •JMtj'Jt\ci b:.' Lb iinscress or one or the upcountry schools having given offence to the committee-, they held an inquiry at which she was present. Slip appears to .have been fp annoyed at the way, jiiey conducted, tljemfelves, upipn the|Occasipn, ,that slip jqsi,qlftaV forwarded bbv i-e^'im'U-yH ■<! t'i» J?«src\ of .Education. She considered that in the hold ing of this inquiry the committee were altogether too free and easy, and among other of their peccadilloes, they filled the room in which the inquiry w»s beKl with tobacco riiioke. '!'<> silch a Way of doing business she naturally took exception. Hence her, resignation. , i, ,j- . „ .. ( . A^novel prize is to be offered at tile fortiicoiuMig shb.v In connection with the Otago Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association, viz., for the best kept farm of not less than 100 and not more than 300 asres. £5 5s is offered as a first prize for the above. The following summary of a recent discussion in the House is from the Christchurch Fress ox Friday last :— "Mr Kees rose soleniuly with a copy of the Wellington Chronicle in his hang s and said he was about £o read a letter copied in that paper from the Kangitikei Advocate. — a letter the authorship of which was attributed to Mr Fox, and which was a disgrace to auy member of the House. If Mr Fox was the author, he ventured to say no other member of the House would have so far degraded himself. —Mr Bowen here wauted to know whether a mere paragraph in a newspaper could be considered matter of privilege, but the Speaker said he could not tell until it was read.— Mr Kees then went on to say that Mr Bowen should have read the article before interrupting him under inspiration from Mr Fox himself. -If the paragraph did not bear the stamp of miud from which it emanated, he did not know the meaning of the English language. Whereat Mr llursthouse in a tone which was meant to be cuttingly sarcastic, exclaimed "Hear, hear. 1 ' — Mr Kees then amidst shouts of laughter, read the following paragraph -—"There is going to be another public demonstration at the opening of the Great Northern Railway as far as Featherstone. We shall again show how we can eat and drink. I assure you that to hungry men accustomed to only two meals a day, like some political loafers who find their way j into legislative bodies, those great feeds are matters of no small congratulation. At one sittiug they have an opportunity of swallowing as many turkeys, meat pies, and jellies and custards as would fill a pastrycook's shop, -while the sparkling wines, on which Ballance cruelly seeks to impose an additional duty, must be a most agreeable substitute for the pints of colonial beer with which they are accustomed to assuage their continual thirst, at the cost of any friend who will do the shouting " If that paragraph meant anything, it meant that members of the House were loafers. The House should not allow its character to be aspersed by one of its own members, who had just now set up in the character of purist. He would move—" That the name of the author be demanded from the printer, and published in the Kangitikei Advocate.— The AttorneyGeneral quoted from Mr Fox's speech on Dr Wallis last session, in which Mr Fox said it was the foulest and falsest allegation ever passed on a member of any Assembly, and said the same language was applicable to the present case, lie suggested the withdrawal of the motion. — Mr Sheehan snid there was ro use in falling out with the Press. They would be sure to get the worst of it. In one paper it was said he had made a noisy speech which ought to have been accompanied with pipes of tobacco and pints of beer. He considered the speech not a very bad one, and he questioned whether pipes, tobacco, and beer might not be used with advantage in the House. Knickerbocker had described how Dutch Councillors met in solemn conclave with pipes, tobacco, and pints of beer on the table, and there was a very small amount of talk as compared with the New Zealand Parliament As for himself he rather enjoyed these paragraphs, and if they kept on for twenty years it would not influence him. —Mr Rees withdrew his motion. During the discussion Mr Foxpreserved a grave silence, and never moved a muscle of his countenance. Mr Reeves, M.11.R. (says the Chronicle) had a drop too much this morning— that is, he walked into a certaiu hotel, and not perceiving the cellar lid to be open, he went feet foremost into the depths below with the result that he sprained his wrist and got a severe shaking and a knock on the head. Under the heading " Terpsichore v. Legislation," the Chronicle has the following paragraph, evidently having reference to a ball recently given at Government House: — In the small hours of the morning while the House was in Committee on the Land Tax Bill, Mr Seymour, arrayed in all the glory of evening costume and displaying an ample field of white shirt front— emblematical of spotless purity — wanted to report progress because there was a thin house, and being anxious no doubt to repair to the halls of dazzling light. Mr Shrimski, who was attired in plain everyday garments, awoke to the stern call of legislative duty, and in a voice feeble from the fatigues of debate wanted to know whose fault it was that there was a thin House, when some hon members liked gyrating ou the light fantastic toe better than attending to the business of the country. Mr Seymour and several other members looked guilt-stricken at thi3 reference to their proclivities, and subsided back into attitudes of despairing resignation, and the debate proceeded. A strange crime, presumably prompted by jealousy, has been committed at Tours, where, in a room in the Caillere street, the body of a woman, 35 years of age, named Adele Millet, separated from her husband, was found. The room was in the greatest, disorder, the bed was upset, the vases were shattered to pieces, and iv the centre of the room lay the body completely naked, but without any visible sign of violence. A doctor who was called in, however, noticed that the tongue protruded, and he then ascertained that the poor woman had actually been embraced by some one of Herculean strength, there being no less than 24 fractures on the upper part of her body. Caught in such a terrible embrace the poor woman must have died at once. The actual motive of the crime is not yet known, nor is the author of it caught, but jealousy is suspected The London Spectator, referring to the Australian cricketers, says:— "Our visitors have reaped golden opinions all round, and if report speaks correctly, they have reaped something else that is golden. We have heard it calculated that each man wlil net £1500 as the result. We know nothing whatever about the correctness of this calculation, but we can heartily say that we wish these sturdy and clever fellows no worse fortune. It is generally understood that auri sacra fames had nothing to do with the trip which they so pluckily made, and it cannot be denied that this consideration renders the marked pecuniary success of their expedition all the more gratifyiug." During their atay in England the Australians played 36 matches, of which they won no fewer than 18, and only lost 8, the remaining 10 being unfinished through want of time to pipy them out. Probably half of these would have terminated ja favour of tho Australians.

. ..Somnambulism is beCo'tning.rery, dangerous? Only the Mher day a father lulled his child while walking in sleep. 3SW we hear from Henley how a young woman of the neighborhood got up in her sleep a few night ago, and, takipg a „carvjng-kn,jfe from the kitchen, went, lo!thc.'fowl : hou,so,, wliere she cut off tile hwda ot sr' % fine c'oclca and". Xourtcou heris, She afterwards killed live choice rabiJiis, and concluded her smmiainhulant proceedings by morta'ly stabbing a favorite donkey. An eminent London physician has been called dowuio examine and report on the patient. fj)ili- legislators (says the Post) are very foUcHiuta d'ond tUc welfare, of domestic animals and are at the present engaged m passing a measure to preserve them against acts of cruelty. Are boys included in the list of "domestic animals?" Tf they are, we hope that the members of the House of Representatives will be > prosecuted, collectively aud individually.; as soon as the bill becomes law. Two small boyn—oae aged eleven' aud the other thirteen — are kept at v/orS at Bellamy's, week in, week out, froili elftht o'clock in the morning to eleven at night. They do not even get a solitary half-holiday in the week, aud one is engaged every Sunday, so that their off-days are confined to one in the fortnight. Apart altogether from the moral aspect of the question— the propriety of employing boys so yonng as bar attendants-^-it is sheer cruelty to require theni to isork for sd.many hours. Their average weekly workiug honfs are 71 h throughout the whole session. Their sickly appearance and stuuted growth tell of the j strain upon their young constitutions, while their precocious sharpness tells as plainly of the moral effect of their employment. E. T eu strong men would find such lengthy hours of work tell heavily upon them, and it a disgrace to the House that, for the sake or' saving a few shillings weekly, they should employ boys at work so physically exhausting and morally deleterious. Some lat ios (says the t^ust were driving along Lambton Quay yesterday when, just as they passed 1 lie new brick warehouses in coilrse df erection for Messrs Jacob Joseph and Cio., a sudden gttst of wind brought a perfect volley of quicklime from the works, which descended in a thick and copious shower upon the feminine occupants of the carriage. Fortunately their eyes escaped the visitation, but their apparel suffered deplorably, some handsome dresses, velvet jackets, &v , being completely spoiled, in fact, burned iuto holes by the corrosive powder. The damage is estimated at between £80 and £90. We understand that legal proceedings probably will be taken against the contractor to recover compensation for the injury done.