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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 278, 30 November 1878, Page 6

Some talk on 'change was indulged in yesterday (says the Auckland "Herald" of November 2nd), witlv respect to a rather smart .trans-r action having referance to a .little discounting. Ifc appears that ' A wanred a fourteen days' post-dated cheque for £14 discounted, and applied to B, who, knowing his mark, told him at could be done, aud asked him tb'cajl again in a few minutes. ' Aon returning was "offered £7, and, under the pressing crcumstances, was obliged to take it. Thirteen days elapsed, and A was met in the street by a retired tradesman, ■whosaid;"! shall present the cheque to-morrow which I d scounted for you. I suppose it is nil right?" A replied in the affirmative, but added, "Don't you think you dealt unfairly with trie in charging so much ?" To this the tradesman replied, "I (don't think 103 is too much, bnt if you think so, I' will return 2s 6d." A was astounded, and : related the whole ailair, and the two went to 3, who had acted as agent,- andi after some strong expressions between the principal and agent, the former threatening to expose the whole transaction; at last B disgorged £0 10s, : tci the delight of A.

A Taraniki paper in a leading article thus describes the horrors of the New Plymouth Bailway terminus : — " We bare* seen railway atations of various

characters, and sometimes in strange situations', in various parts pf the world. We have ascended _tq. . them perched: above the roofs of the houses -of cities, descended. to. them in.the depths of the earth, but for baldness, beggarliness, and unhandiness we have never seen the equal of the New Plymouth terminus. Ah open ditch about ten or ! twelve feet wide and as many deep is the spot into which the citizens have to descend when they wish to proceed into ths country by rail, and into this same ditch they are shot when they return home from their migration of business or pleasure. And the evil ©f this arrangement does not solely consist in its beggarly and awkward character, but the ditch being on the margin of the sea, and only just a little above the limit of high tides, is in imminent danger of being flooded whenever an extraordinary high tide shall take place. So' despicable is this terminus that no one will acknowledge the origination of it, and it stands like a fortuitous concourse of atoms, admitting of no design and acknowledging no originating genius. In order that the traffic, may proceed to and from this infernum, the railway has to pass through the centre of the town at the level of the principal street.'' , His Excellency the Governor who is a good judge of horses, complains of tbe difficulty of getting good weightcarrying hacks in New Zealand. In a speech at the Wairarapa Agricultural Show at Carterton on Wednesday last, he said — '• Gentlemen, I must coucralulate you upon the first show in Carterton. I regret greatly tbat the weather has been so much against you, • but bad as the weather Was I waa able to see that there was io the yards some s(o2k which did great credit to your district, and I may also say that I do not mean to tell you your show was perfect, ihat I saw a better class of hackney and carriage horses in your yards tbau I have seen in any other district in the colony. (Cheers ) I think there is a grept deficiency in reßpect of that class of stock in New Zealand, and I think you will begin to flud U out before long. I know 1 have found it out. I cannot get any horses rajself; lam rather a heivy weigh' and want to get horses that will carry me, b^t I have bfion unable to fln.l one in New Zealand; but you bave come mares here 10-iay whicu if bred from by good thorough-bred stock ought to produce somo very good animals," The Coast'intiuoplo correspondent of the Times poiuts to a danger which i< believed to ba threatening that capital. The Russian army is bding withdrawn over se a week by week, nod will shortly be gone, and the British fljot is re. icing from tho sea of Marmora. The populace are therefore relieved frotn all restrain', except that of the Turkish soldiery, who muy sympathise with them, and of the police who ire inefficient. Swollen as this popu-lac-j is by thouaauds o refugees ard deserters, and harassed as it is by want of means, by the price of bread, and by the excessive depreciation of the ; paper-money — vow 75 per cent below its nominal value— -it will ba dispose! to commit outrages', an 1 perhaps to favour revolution. Very powerful persons are known to be difcoutinted the Sultan's authority i 3 shaken, and it is deemed necessary even now to take tha most jealous precautious for his safety. All the signs, in fact, point to an outbreak in tho wiotir, wh'u h unless the soldiery are strictly faiil - ful, may amount to a revolution. Even without ona there are certain to be massacres in the neighbourhood of Constantinople, only to ba averted by a Europ'-an force.

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