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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 212, 16 October 1878, Page 2

Says the Auckland Herald :— " It was with feeling 3of heartfelt pleasure that the brewers aud publicans heard yesterday of the defeat of the Government on the beer tax question. Notwithstanding all that has been said on the subject of robbing the poor man of his beer, the public generally seemed to care very little about the matter, the reason, uo doubt, being that the tax while in its embryo state was not made to fail— to any perceptible extent, at least— on the consumer, while the brewers took very "ood care to rid themselves of the burden" by throwing it on the publicans. The fate of the Bill, however, shows that the delegates sent from the various parts of the Colony by the brewers aud publicans have been energetic, and accomplished the lobbying business well. Now that the Bill is abandoned, there Wfll be a system of refunding going on. The Government will have to refnud the money collected from the brewers at the rate or l.\d per gallon. This the brewers, of course, must refund to the publicans, but we know of no provision for refunding to the consumers any proportion of the tax which they have paid." " Autolycus" writes in the !\ew Zealander: — There was a terrible rush to the barracks on Thursday morning to secure domestic helps, per Rakaia, and in the short space of one hour and thirty minutes the new arrivals —bar one— were engaged, at wages that nifjst have seemed astonishing to girls used to uve }>ouuds per annum, and no perquisites or followers allowed. | haye all save one were satisfactorily disposed of. The solitary exception was a young lady of stalwart limb and passable figure, who* was for the time being the object of an active competition between Mrs A. of Te Aro, and Mrs /i. of Thorndoii— " Fifteen shilling^ v week," said tue iGfwef, "and two nights out!" "Sixteen," said Mrs li. "an^ a l;oj; supper for your sweetheart when he comes to see you." " Seventeen, and an occasional drive in the carriage," was the rival bid. " Eighteen, and every Sunday to yourself,'' followed from the opposition. " Nineteen and your master to take you out for a walk sometimes," shrieked Mrs A. ?f A ppuud, and your muster to take you to the theatre whenever there is anything worth seeing," yelled Mrs 8., and Uien the ladies paused, exhausted, aiid glared at each other. The I "young person" wanted was equal to the j occasion. Smiling sweetly on the aspirants \ for the honor oi : employing her, she said, " Keally I cannot conclude t>t present; send ;}/e photographs of your husbands, au,l I will let you'jjiiov,' uiy decision In :>. dry or two." I have not yet learned ''tjio dame of this winner." The Marquis of Lorno?s appointment ad Governor-General of Canada is approved on ail sides and ha 3 elicited great enthusiasm in Canada, lie will procepd to the pominion, with the Princess JLouise, in November. The " Vice <>ueen of Canada'" is what I they are calling the Princess Louise.

A Cape paper states that during the war about 9000 Kaffirs have Been killed, aad, a like number wounded. From private accounts, the Diamoud News can quite believe these figures to be within tha mark. \- ; An excursion in the captive balloon is one of the mo3t fashionable of amusements in Paris just now. The aerial travellers remain away from 10 to 16 minutes. When the wind is too not high, as many as 300 ascend in the course of the day. On the payment of one franc people are admitted into the iaclosure. Maharajah Holker placed his troops at the disposal of the Government of ludia for home and foreign service during the recent war crisis. A boy, aged eleven years, who was awaiting removal to a reformatory under a magistrate's order, committed auicide in Glasgow gaol by haugiug himself to the bars of his cell. Messrs Henry S. King and Co. announce that t hey have opened a branch house in . Cyprus for all departments of their banking, agency, supply, aud forwarding business. The New York Sun stock isn't a bad thing to hold. Five shares, of the par value of £200, brought £520 apiece at an auction sale recently. A movement is on foot in Chicago to do away entirely with the present system of using gas to illutnina.te the streets, aud substitute in its stead a dozen electric lights at different elevated points. Last year Ocean and Burlington counties, New Jersey, shipped 51,000 bushels of cranberries to Philadelphia. Commander Cameron, of South African fame, is about to proceed to Asia Minor for the purpose of surveying that tract of country through which it is talked of having a short railway cut to India. In spite of the Peace there will be great autumn manoeuvres in Bavaria this year. "Ready, ay ready," is plainly a German motto. The French, too, will have elaborate manoeuvres in September, between Paris and Lorraiue. We wonder what amount of truth there is in a certain very ugly rumor that has reached our ears concerning the cause of the disgrace which has befallen the Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. Thatpeculation and dishonesty were universal and prevalent in all classes of the Russian Empire we knew, but we had supposed the line must be drawn at the Imperial gates wrongly, we are told. It has been announced that anybody entering the park of Babelsburg during the Emperor's resideuoa there, except through the gates, will be fired on by sentinels. "Insulting the Emperor" fs a misdemeanour that keeps the German police courts pretty busy ju3t now. Since Dr Noebling went gunning for William there have beeu 650 arrests for indulgence in the luxury of " cussing" the powers that be. One man called the Kaiser " the Boss Tweed of Germany." He is to be hung. It i 3 said that Baker Pasha is to reorganise the Turkish gendermerie, and is to be charged with special service in Eastern Rou mania. Myers, a solicitor, and Jay, an auctioneer, have been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude, at Leeds, for forging a will at Brighton. A surgeon and a chemist have been condemned to fifteen and ten years' penal servitude respectively for an attempt to procure abortion, resulting in the woman's death. A robbery of bank drafts, notes and coin to the value of £17,000 was effected at the house of a money lender, near Bradford. Tne phylloxera is spreading, both in the northern aud southern provinces of Spain. One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred at St. Louis, within a week from sunstroke. The Czar will review the Baltic fleet, com- j prising altogether 80 vessels, with 240 guns and 7895 men. It is then to be dispersed. A beerhouse-keeper at Greenwich took his three young- children for a walk in a wood, cut their throats, and then killed himself. A powder magazine at the Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe, was blown up during a thuuderstonn. Much damage was done, to property and several persons were injured. Mr Edward Stanford, the publisher of Charing-cross, has issued a map of SouthEastern Europe and Armenia, illustrative of the Treaty of IJerlin, showing the boundaries of the New Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, the accession to Austria, Russia, Montenegro Servia, and Roumenia, as well as the territory taken from Turkey by the San I Stefano Treaty and restored to her by the Berlin Congress. Included in this is an inset map showing the relative position of Cyprus. Among the nomination^ to the rank of chevalier in the Legion of Honour is that Mile. Dodu, who, at the peril of her life, intercepted a German telegram at Gien during the war, aqd. was thus tjie cause qf saving several Frenph regjmenls from a surprisp. Eighty-five thousand women are teachers in the United States. About a million are domestic servants ; nearly half a million are engaged in manufactures, and about tea million to young men— or are willing 50 beAccording to the Vienna journals, nearly all of which have articles upon him, the etninpnt spant and. anatomist, Baron Rokitansky, who died the other day, dissected upwards of 30,000 human bodies in his time. It is estimated that 12,000,000 acres of forest have been cut down in the United States in ten years past. A report, which has been officially contradicted, has been circulated, of a defensive alliance between Greece and Italy, the latter pledging herself to use her fleet to prevent the landing qf Turkish troops in Greece. It the Sydney police q,re not eflfectjye in preventing crime, they jjre prom.pt enough in detecting it, having a dqjien or more thieves in their employ. In this way they get a fleal Q f cpet ij t they do not deserve. Mr George Darrell'9 new play, " The Struggle for Freedom," is said to be the best of the plays presented by him in Melbourne. The Sydney omnibus driver has to work sixteen solid hours out of the twenty-four, for which he receives only two guineas a week. " Garden " on the subject of the longevity of the ojlye fcrse says ;— " jn tqe n,eigfboufhood of Beaulieu may be seen an olive tree, which, as far back ag 1515, was already noted for its extreme age. Its trunk measures \2h metres (about 40 feet), in circumference at the base, and more thau 6-^ metres (about 20J feet) at a height of 40 inches above the ground. This tree, called, " pingoie," is the pnly one that survived the terrible hurricane of 1§ 16, since which lime it has yielded on an average about 100 kilogrammes (225 lbs.) of oil " a-year, and sometimes, iv good seasons, as much as 150 kilogrammes (about 337 lbs). Still more cplcln-afed are s,otne frees growing in the Garden of Q lives at Jerusalem. They are eight in number, measure about C metres (20 feet) in circumference, and, according to Bov6, must be at least 20 centuries old. On the banks of Labi Frasimcno, too, there are other veterans, some of which may doubtless have witnessed the expedition of Hannibal.'' •A Home paper says :— " Another curious little story comes from Ayr. A merchant there lost a roll of £20 in bank notes, and atiec diligent search, \n his ouice jt could not be found. As a last Venture,' a search was made in a dungueap, outside the town, where the dustcarts disgorged their unsavory'contents, and there the missing notes were discovered. They had fallen on the floor of tho merchant's office, beep swept up as 'waste paper, and in that ignoble, Capacity 'been related to the dast carr. " '' ' ' ' * ■ ' T '

A nine days' prayer has been ordered in all the Catholic churches of New Orleans for the abatement of the yellow fever scourge. The Sultan has made a gift of property, valued at £20,000, to Fuad Pasha, second: in command to Osman, at Plevna. A husband applying for a divorce at Cardiff, Wal<?3, lately, testified that his wife had not been sober for seven years. Mr P. sent his two boys to a neighbour until the peril of an impending earthquake should be passed. In a few days he received this letter: "Please take your boys home, and send down the earthquake." A bread-fruit; tree has been acclimated in the State Capotol grounds at Sacramento, and is now in healthy bearing. A story of a curous freak in natural history reaches us (Akaroa Mail) from Okain's Bay. It appears that a lamb was left an orphan at an early age. In default of its natural sustenance, the little creature, with a sagacity beyond its years, or rather days, attached itself to a sow which was at the time nourishing some juvenile grunters. The unamiable animal, objecting to play the wet nurse, fell upon and killed the youthful emblem of innocence. The owner of the lamb now seeks to recover damages from the proprietor of the sow for the destruction of his lamb, while the latter threatens proceedings to recover the value of the nutriment feloniously appropriated by the lamb. Eather a nice question as it stands, and re minds one considerably of the celebrated case of Ballum v. JBoalum Pull value for our money, no matter of whatsoever kind the article may be that we purchase. The inestimable blessing of being restored to health by the use of honest and reliable medicines, can be procured by a moderate outlay. The reputation gained for " Ghollah's Great Indian Cures" since their introduction into New Zealand, warrants the assertion that they have not their equal as reliable restorative agents. (See testimonials, and get the medicines of any chemist.)