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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 21 February 1879, Page 2

" Mr Frank Allan," the Gipps Land Mercuiy states, " received a very welcome and most unexpected surprise on Friday by post from Philadelphia. It will be recollected that, during the cricket match in that city last year, a number of watches were stolen from the pavilion occupied by the Australian Eleven, and that the property could not be recovered previous to their departure. The police, however, promised to use every exertion to restore the stolen articles, and they were apparently successful a very short time after the theft. The packet which Mr Allan received contained two watches, his own and one be was bringing out for his brother, but not a single scrap of writing to explain how, where, or when the watches were found. The only information of the source whence the packet was sent was on the address, which intimated that it came from the Police at Philadelphia. An extraordinary case, calling for some inquiry, is reported from Wanganui. " A Settler," writing to the Herald says :— " An acquaintance of mine was taken ill a short time ago, and the doctor was sent for. The symptoms of disease was a faint or fit, and a slight wandering iv the mind, caused perhaps through him not seeing his way clear to meet his liabilities in money matters. However, the patient answered the questions put by the doctor correctly, without showing any sign of insanity. The doctor, after talking a little, iujected some morphia (or something else) in his arm ; iv a short time after he inserted the second dose. The patient soon went to sleep, and turned pale, and then yellow, and next blue, or rather black, and all the veins in his body quivered. He never spoke again , and in 48 hours after receiving the inserted medicine, he died. Ido not know whose duty it is to enquire into such cases as these, but I think they ought to be enquired into, for it might be the means of saving the lives of others." " Atticus," in the Leader, says :— "ln a letter from a friend well up in London gossip, I am told that the Marquis of Lome was desirous of leaving Englaud on account of his little differences with his wife's eldest brother. The Prince of Wales, with all his good nature, 13 a stickler for court etiquette, nnd on one or two occasions has protested agaiust his brother-in law partakiug of the privileges of royalty, even if limited to the use of particular doors and staircases. The Marquis resented the distinction drawn between the position of himself and his wife and the Earl of Beaconsfield, acting upon a hint received from high quarters, afforded him the means of making an honourable escape from the snubbings to which he was continually being subjected." Peoria, Ills., December 28th— A young girl here tells an incredible story to the effect that last Thursday evening she "was kidnapped, taken out of the city, tied to a tree, and her clothes set on fire, all by uuknown men. She was released by unknown hands, and now lies unconscious here at her home.

The New Zealand correspondent of the Argus writes as follows respecting the refusal of the Hinemoa to the Governor :— "In connection with the departure of the Marquis of Normanby, a paragraph appeared in a Ministerial paper — the Aew Zeatauder — stating that his Excellency applied for the use of H.M.S. ninemoa to take him to Australia, but that he was told the steamer could not be allowed to leave New Zealand waters. The true version of the matter, however, is this. While Sir George Grey was in the North, the other members of the Ministry offered the use of the Hinemoa to the Governor, adding that she would be available to send to New South Wales to briug Sir Hercules Robinson to New Zealand. All that remained to be done to complete the arrangement was to get the consent of the Premier, but uo di*nculty was appre ] hended on that poiut. Sir G. Grey, however, never did give his consent, and it is equally true that the Marquis of Normanby never made the request."— N.Z. Times. ' The Sydney correspondent of the Argus says that the curious feature of the robbery of jewellery from Government House was the mixture of cleverness and stupidity displayed in the man's proceedings. The robbery in itself was quite a work of art. It was a case of " Veni, vldi, vici." The artist drove to the door in a cab, entered with the confidence of a familiar guest, took posaesi sion of the property that lay ready to his i hand, and parted in security. And then he went to a pawnbroker's with a medal that challenged attention by the inscription upon it. This looks like the absence of mind by which genius is distinguished. There was also a notable absence of pride in this gentleman. Although he robbed Lady Robinson of her jewellery, he was not above stealing some things belonging to a cook from her bedroom i iv a publichouse in King-street.