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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 19, 22 January 1879, Page 4

The whaling vessel Proven, which has lately returned to Tromso, reports having fallen in with Russian pirates off Nova Zembla, who partially pluodered her. They were in two Russian schooners, which chased and overtook the Proven and then launched boats the crews of which were well armed. These men roughly overhauled the whaler, carried away most of her fishing gear aud some prorisions, and left her. Lord Coleridge, in recently charging the grand jury at the Bristol assizes, referred at j some length to two cases of murder in the I calendar, and remarked that the real source ' of both crimes was drink. Persons sitting in bis position must, he said, be tired of saying i what was the veriest truism in the world; tbat if tbey could make England sober they could shut up nine-tenths of the prisons. The large majority of criminal cases began, or ended, or were connected with, the publichouse and drunkenness. He admitted that they could not make people good by Act of Parliament, and his own view of absolute prohibition was that it led to the vice of hypocrisy and concealment. Still, the vice of drunkenness was a national disgrace, and was a considerable factor in any distress under which the working classes suffered. They should all, therefore, endeavor to check the evil. An interesting experiment (says the Argui) is being made at the municipality at Rheims. That body has founded a school of industry, capable of accommodating 300 pupils, and affording a course of instruction covering a space of three years, to which boys between twel re and fif teen years of age are admissible from other schools. It possesses a staff of six professors, and there is a teacher in each of the workshops. In one of these practical mechanics is taught iu all its branches, steam power, a forge, benches, and ail kinds of tools and implements being provided. In another part of the establishment the boys learn the carpenter's, joiner's, and cabinetmaker's arts. In a third department weaving is carried on by means of numerous hand-looms.aud the textile fabrics produced are from designs devised upon the premises. A portion of the building is devoted to the study of chemistry, and, as Rheims is one of the seats of the woollen manufactures of France, the pupils are taught how to analyse the staple, how to wash and cleanse it without injuring its fibre or its lustre, how to extract Irom it the natural grease and reduce it to a solid substance, how to prepare dyeing colors, and bow to apply them. Attached to tbe school is a large piece of ground, planted with trees, shrubs, herbs, and flowers; and here the science of botany is taught. The institution has now been io existence for two years, and tbe advantages it offers seem to be eagerly embraced by the rising generation in Rheims, who find in it much more entertaining and profitable occupation than in lounging about the streets of the city after nightfall, and poisoning tbe air with tbe fumes of cheap tobacco ; for the evening lectures, which are free to all the residents in the place, are numerously attended and highly prized. Altogether the undertaking is one deserving of the warmest approbation, and its success will probably lead to the example thus set being emulated by other cities. It ia the kind of education which is most wanted in this " working-day world," and nowhere so much, perhaps, as in the colony of Victoria. Foremost in the ranks of fame stand those extraordinary and successful medicines known as " Ghollah's Gbkat Indian Curbs," The numbers of sick people that have been restored to health by their use since their introduction into New Zealand, are incredible Some of the severe cases treated successfully by these Indian Medicines seemed to have baffled all tbe available and ordinary remedies previous to their introduction. Severe cases of 16 and 20 years' duration have beeu cured by their use. " Ghollah's Great Indian Cubes" are sold by all Chemists, where see testimonials.

RFREEMAN, • GENEBAL AGRNT, 39— .m0 Bridge st, Ntlson. Notice! Notice!! Bee-hiye Store. Reduction of Duty on Teas and Sugars. "VTEW SEASON'S TEAP, 1878-9 JLI In Chests, Half. chests, and Boxe*, From 1/10, 2/2, 2,6, 2/10, 3/2'f lb Quarter-chests from 20/-. SUGARS! SUGARS 1! Crushed loaf Sugar 6d. #* ft Mo. 1( Beat White) 6|d. „ Wbite Mauritius, for Preserving sd. „ Fine Ligbt Yellow Counters ... 4}d. „ I crate Jelly Cans 1 hbd. fnemmelied Preserving Pans, new shape A few Prime Hams Groceries of every description and of tie b'.st quality Families waited upon for orJers and Goofs delivered to;any part of tbe city Feusb. At H. V. Phillips's ME-HIVE STOfiE, Cobmkb of Bridge and Collingwood . Streets. 1.6 GRATEFUL— COM PORTING. EPPS'S (BREAKFABT) COCOA. «By a thorough knowledge of the natura laws wbich govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careiul application of the flne properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps baa provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavored beverage which may save us many doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever tbere is a weak point. We may escape m.ay a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified witb pure blood and a properly nourish d frame.' —Civil Strvice Gasette. Sold only in Packets labelled JHVKS EPPS & CO. BOMGSOPATHIC CHEMISTS, Lqkooh. 1591