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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 3, 3 January 1879, Page 2

Martin Wibridge, late carpenter of the Avoca, under remand for stealing five thousand sovereigns from that vessel, has escaped from the custody of the police. He had been taken by detectives to a lonely part of the Gippsland district to point out the plant of sovereigns; and although three officers were present he contrived to put them off their guard and escaped into the bush, and has not yet been found. The Duchess or Argyll left £50,000 for the relief of the poor of London. The United States now exports about 200,000,000 pounds of cheese to Europe annually. Recently a young gentlemen, son of a well-known farmer at Findon, undertook for a wager to eat a greater quantity of plums than one of his companions, and, the challenge being accepted, he managed to consume nearly a gallon, when he was taken ill. Medical aid was summoned, but the sufferer expired in intense agony. . - : A Melbourne telegram dated December 24 says .— A farce is being played, as a isort of set-off to the embassy proceedings. The whole of the doing3 of Berry and party are being paraded by a negro politician, very much washed, who, has been a nuisance as a sort of popular agitator. The man is named David Henderson, and is generally called Henderson Af ricanus. He is now designated the third Archdeacon, and has been banquetted on the same night as Berry, and furnished with a private secretary and new clothes, in addition to credentials to the Secretary of State. Most people thought the joke a capital one, but that (it had now been carried far enough, but others persisted in carrying it further, and sending the man home to England in the same steamer with Berry and Pearson. Henderson is afflicted with vanity, and is beiug fooled to the very top of his benfc. Colonel Henderson has issued a notice in London warning publicans that all Christmas draws for geese, &c, are illegal, and that offenders will be prosecuted.