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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 294, 19 December 1878, Page 2

Rubies, emeralds, topazes, garnets and different sized stones that niay prove to be diamonds, have been bronght. from the country we3t of the San Francisco mountain, Arizona, by the military exploring expedition sent out their by General Wilcox. The constituents of Mr Woolcock, M.H.R. for the Grey Valley, are about to present him with a substantial testimonial in recognition of his services in Parliament. Mr Manders (says the Chronicle) has received a vote of confidence and thanks from the electors of Wakatip. The folk' of WaKatip, having peculiar notions regarding a member of Parliament, are easily satisfied. The N. Z. limes says :— From a, private letter to a gentleman in this city we learn that the ruin caused by the insolvency of the City of Glasgow Bank has beeu : very widespread indeed. Very many private families hitherto in affluence are left penniless, and one gentleman, who has up to the present been accounted almost a millionaire, will probably be reduced to poverty if the' full cost of JESOO per share is levied and the unlimited liability of shareholders absolutely insisted upon. Petroleum Centre, Pa., once a town of i nearly 4000 inhabitants, is now a deserted i village of about 100 people. The oil wells are empty..

An acrobat at Moscow rather astonished General Grant. The General attended a fete in the park where four of these performers were operating. One of them placed four bottles on a high table, and on top of these a chair, which he balanced " sideways while he stood on hi 9 head on one corner of it. He kept repeating this, adding one chair, at a time, until he got five on top of each other, and still showed no signs of stopping ; but General Graut got up and walked, away, saying he would rather read of the death in the paper to than wituess it. A recent Christchurch telegram says: — The railway traffic betweeu Christchurch and Dunedin during the last sis months shows an increase of 32 per cent. A great Increase is proposed id the workshops, &c. Orders have been sent to Englaud and America for £6000 Worth of tdoh, A Saratoga correspondent writes :— A girl who will sit with a fellow all night on the stairs, at a bail, with no clothes on above her waist worth speakiug of, would faint away dead if the same fellow were to meet her on the stairs, muflled from head to foot in three nightgowns. Curious, isn't it ? There is said to be a terrestrial globe in the Jesuit library of the Lyons Lyceum, which is 170 yeurSoldj containing, in great detail, the ciirioua system of African lakes tfna rivers, which the English and American tiavellers have lately re-discovered. The globe has created a great sensation among geographical servants and amateurs. 5 Y a sale of colonial draft mares held in Melbourne recently, forty-two animals realised 3033 guineas. The Leeds Chief Constable reports a decrease of 84 per cent in the number of apprehensions of drunkenness during the paatyear. The improvement is due in a great measure to the opening of coffee-houses for the working-classes. ; A man in Paris the other day amused himself by blowing tacks imbedded in putty from a blow-pipe at the passers by. Drawing in his breath for an extra strong puff at a passing journalist, the tack went down into his throat, causing speedy death.. A wealthy St. Petersburg merchant has deposited at the Russian Treasury 50,000 roubles, to be given to the person who informs against the murderers of General MezeutzofE. The following is an extract from au article in the Chronicle on the Chinese question : — Any large and continued influx of Chinese to Now Zealaud would be nothing short of a terrible calamity. For what objects, after all, have men of British blood and race come out to this fair young land ? They came to colonise the country, to open up and settle on its rich lands, to form homes, and by means of vigorous honorable toil to make a heritage for their children. And the brave pioneers who have succeeded so far iv doing this, now naturally desire that those other portions of the colony still to be opened up should be settled upon by their own blood and race, who would, by the exercise of that perseverance, energy, and industry which constitute their national character, soon make New Zealand a great, free, and prosperous Colony, fast rising to the dignity of a Nation. The men we want to form that Nation are sturdy yeomen, who will change our swamps and fern fiats into rich fields of yellow grain ,6r luxuriant pastures; who will build houses,' form roads, make bridges and connect each centre of population in this island with the rest by means of railway. We want Englishmen and Scotchmen and Irishmen to do this; men who will settle npon the land, build houses, schools, and churches, bring up their families in decency and comfort, and leave ! them with a fair competency to start in the world for themselves. We desire to colonise the lands with a population, who as " producers" will add to the actual wealth of the country, and as " consumers" will add to its revenue. Will Chinese immigrants fulfil these necessary conditions for the proper colonisation of a country ? We trow not. The Chinaman is in no sense a colonist. He comes to a colony to scrape together some money, aud after this takes it back to China to live upon there. He works for a rate of wages upon which a colonial laborer cannot live. Ho spends very little either upon food or dress, and thus contributes only in a small degree to the Customs revenue He seldom becomes a permanent settler, and he takes no intelligent or- active part in promoting the progress of the country. He is subject to loathsome and horrible diseases with which their is danger of infecting Europeans. He is addicted to vices and practices so utterly abominable, that they cannot here be named. Surely cheap labor would be to dearly purchased at the cost of inflicting upon the colony the moral pestilence, the social curse, and the terrible evil of Chinese Immigration !