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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 131, 3 June 1879, Page 4

Five hundred guineas seems a high price for a litter of grey-hounds, but a celebrated Worcestershire manufacturer has ju9t given that sum to Mr W. G. Homer, of Athelhampton for a litter of six. They are of the famous Farrier* Gulnare breed. The fact is the more extraordinary as Mr Homer, only . ,entered the lists as a breeder of grey hounds two years ago.— Devizes Gazette. The Globe, under the heading of " Fatal Saturdays," publishes the following rather remarkable paragraph : — The death of the lamented Princess of Hesse on the same day of the month and week as that of Prince Consort attracted general attention, but it may not have been so universally observed that Saturday has beeu a fatal day to the Royal Family of England for the last 177 years : — William 111. died Saturday, March 18, 1702; Queen Anne died Saturday, August 1,1714; George I. died Saturday, June 10, 1727, George 11. died Saturday, October 25, 1760; George 111. died Saturday, January 29,1820; George IV. died Saturday, June • ,26,1 ,1830; the Duchess of Kent died Satur!'iiy, March 16, 1851;. Prince Consort died Saturday, December !4, 1861 ; Princess Alice died Saturday, December 14, 1878. Land and Water gives the following instance of remarkable intelligence of a horse: A gentleman living in Surrey had a very fine horse stolen about six months ago, and tried in vain to trace him. As he was passing Blackfriars Bridge the week before la3t, a horse neighed very loudly; Mr— -re* ' cognised the sound, and looking round saw -■ five horses tied up, close to- the entrance to the bridge. One of them again neighed; it was surely his lost favorite nag, and the ■ ( .animal showed : that he knew his former .owner; hut in qhanging hands be also changed color. He had been cleverly dyed or painted . a dark brown; when stolen from the stable I he was a bay. The new color was soon 1 ' ■Washed .off, and Mr — —recovered his pro- ' perty, but failed to trace the thief, who had sold him at a fair in Hants, to the man in whose possession his master found him. '-■ Tbe : horse had always been in 1 the habit of neighing when' his master entered the stable, and bad evidently seen him as he was about %o pross the bridge, and hailed him. A schoolmaster serving under the Otago Education Board has been found to have been giving in false returns of the attendance of pupils At his school. The Board met in committee to consider the matter, and resolved to dismiss him. . The American Export Journql shows that -among the exports to the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, one of the leading articles is lumber. In 1878, the exports of timber and articles of woollen manufacture fEomJftew.York'and Boston to the Colonies 'were:— Lumber, 3,961,0981 eet; laths, 553,000, brooms, 494 cases ; chairs, 26,998 cases; ' ■ clothes pins, 17,933 boxes ; carriage materials, - "4,139 packages; doors, 12,501 ; pails, 328 dozen; tubs, 429 nests; wooden ware, 1869 packages. In reporting the result of the recent Mayoral election in Wellington, the New Zealander says: — Mr Anderson declaiming on the verandah of the Evening Chronicle office last night, presented a most ludicrous appearance; on each side of him flour-bespattered • ; . torch-bearers, brandishing their flaming implements and dropping the hot grease on the • ttead of any unfortunate individual who, inJ cited by. intense admiration of the literally burning eloquence of the speaker, ventured _ too near the sacred spot; at the back the : smiliog visage of the local poet beaming with exultant joy — all seeming deeply impressed except the unfortunate boy standing . beside . the great oritor.and on whom he was heavily leaning— rather too heavily — as might be seen = bythe look of patient sufferingion hislface; .- butwhen at -last the speaker, roused by his own eloquence, and clinching the argument, brought down his hand on what he, no doubt,* , thought was a table at a public meeting, but,' unfortunately for the boy, ;v?as bis shoulder, youthful patience gave out, and the mob roared;>

issue. Our reading matter is rather more circumscribed than we could wish— caused by the pressure of advertisements and the monster letter list, which we give with the present issue, and which will be continued weekly." This ends the introduction. The other reading matter is about three inches of mining news, a paragraph about the Post Office, and another relative to amusements. The " monster letter list" is about two thirds of a column of lone primer. The imprint is —"Printed by J. Yogel and G. Pettifer, the proprietors, at their office, Commercial-st., Inglewood." No one at that time (1860) — Sir Julius Yogel least of all — could have the least forecast of what the whirligig of time would bring about, or that the petty struggling journalist, editor, canvasser, and collector in one, of that day, woxild be the literary and political luminary, whose brilliancy required only the New Zealand air to draw it from obscurity. The relic in question will be framed and glazed in a day or two, and hung tip in St. George's Hall, prior to its transmission to Sydney. This fragment will show from what small beginnings great things arise, and is another proof of !he old quotation which tells us that "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." Save yourselves. The time has come when it behoves all sensible people who may be suffering the tortures of Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Liver Complaints, Biliousness, &c, not to allow themselves to be trifled with, . and the cure of their maladies delayed. All these complaints can be speedily and effectually removed by the use of those never-failing remedies, "Ghoixah's Great Indian Cores." They can be had of all Chemists, and obtain from them the testimonials given by well-known Colonists who have been cured of long standing disease. i ■ i