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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 7 June 1879, Page 4

In the course of an address delivered to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, by 'Mr ' Firth, the chairman, he made the following remarks with reference to sham goods :— ln times not very .long ago, the great characteristic of English manufactures, whether of woollens, cottons, or cutlery, was a sterling good quality. An article was what it professed tobe. In these days of excessive ; competition, quantity and cheapness, rather , than good quality, is too much the rule. *• Shoddy " m our woollens, " dress " in our calicoes, and "tinsel "in our cutlery, have taken the place of honest good articles. Shams rule in our markets, and " cheap and ; nasty," or "dear and bad," is too often the reputation many of our manufactures have obtained in foreign markets, and, as a natural result, we are rapidly losing our ancient good name for excellence. Rash speculation, reckless trading, and dishonest representation hare borne their natural fruit Fred Vanderbilt, the youngest and favour-~.«.-ite grandson of the old- Commodore, who had :; r a legacy of two million of dollars from hia ' grandfather, has just signalised his coming of age by arunaway match with hi 3 cousin Louise Anthony, on the day of her divorce from Alfred Torrance. She was one of the standing belles of New York, and at least twelve years older than her present husband. , The marriage was a clandestine one, and was celebrated in a, parlour of the Windsor Hotel on the day of the divorce, but it was kept a secret from the family, and the bridegroom con tinned to live in his father's house aa usual until the middle of last month, when he coolly handed him a newspaper containing the following announcement:—" On Tuesday, the 17th December, 1878, Fredrick W. Vanderbilt to Louise Holraeg, daughter of the late Charles L. Anthony " The explosion which followed can be better imagined than described, and is the talk of society in New York. William Vanderbilt declares that there is. less trouble to mangage three railroads than one son. Lord Beaconsfteld makes, it is said, his : chief sustenance from champagne jelly, which he uses three times a day, and each repast of which coßts something like three guineas. The restorative qualities of this nutriment are very great, and, to a man of the Premier's sad and meditative temperament and feeble physique, must be invaluable. If this is true, and the price of this invaluable jelly is as great as alleged, it costs the Premier £3285 per annum to diet himself. At an Indiana wedding the choir sang " Come ye disconsolate." The officiating clergyman.f eeling awkward about it, attempted to mend matters by giving out a hymn, but unluckily struck into the one beginning, "Mistaken soula that dream'ofjbliss. Recently in one of the Lowell Baptist churches, the telephone apparatus was placed tin the pulpit and the service was heardby people having connection, not only - all over ( the city, but in Boston, eighty-five <■ mites away. "A romantic story conies from Tanners- , ,;THJe. Georgia. A widower, .somewhat adf yanced in age, married a young woman, who, it waa afterwards discovered, had an affection for his son, about as 'old as herself. The /'•' matter was discovered between the parties, '.* all of whom agreed that it would be more l ? appropriate if the young woman were the ' *nfe .of the sonY : - In. order ' to bring thia about, the old gentleman gofc si divorce, and: 1 the son was united to the fair one. But the post singular part of the srbry remains to bep ' -f^TO Wfttisr£were amlcail^lhjed. all rjiurid^ This i discounts Parisina all to notbiog> y^Md4im of the aValaite it Switzerland show them to have^ been awful. * The J J™7» with all their inmates/ iichfiUqVthe i Christ* : f 6 hop, th*: hmil a& irifty men were set to work to rescue »tfaf« g^J^^l^fJ^few^rßoj-^wardeds with i-SlT'izSofF 9 '- >*I *& persons , in the 'V^hemlrtV 'house had succbmbed, ! -Tiz v , the" i .; cl £ tmßt » ¥* .»*fe». their 'our. children, the .; f^W **£ ti»? Bryant. In the contiguous r5???l W*nty r eigbt persons' were found 2^ but. eighteen others^ were still alive. ; -Mdre than half this number have, however, died since from their wotinaV Four young I people dressed in carnival disguise were surprised in their mirth- by the avatyßche, and found thefr deatttfurider the snow;. On ,'-: atjjftgamnigbj another avalanche fell near btt£ jrillage, burying .another^Jwiajie, out. of rWWcp seven bodies have been recovered. It ii calculated- that eighty avalanches have fallen from the mountains round about the Tlifages,f»9d v rtporjaisa^:thas(th^ victims areszMuffl 9 a?IWB WS*/ than '"^.fflttWUeß , [;iA2ithsr'of a fotfJwkkW old baby calls ii «Ma'» newly-discoyered satellite." , * l

The Uuion Stockyards, Chicago, occupy an area of 370 acres, of which 180 acres are under covered pens with substantial flooring. AH railroad lines converge there. Water is supplied by three artesian wells. 500 men and 75 teams are constantly employed in the yardg. This organisation does a business of twenty million pounds sterling annually, and ships about a million head of cattle. Compared with other stockyards it is fnr ahead. Thus East St Louis, in the same State, ships yearly about 400,000 head cattle; East Liberty yards, Piltsburg, 300,000 ; and Buffalo about 300,000. John B. Sharman is superintendant of the Union Stockyard, and is a typical Chicago business man. He runs the hoge concern with thje regularity of clockwork. : A certain dissenting minister was preaching and was much annoyed by some persons talking and giggling. He paused, looked at the disturbers, and said, " I'm always afraid to reprove those who do not behave well \n chapel. In the early part of my ministry 'l made a great mistake. As I was preaching, a young man who set before me was constantly laughing and making uncouth grimaces. I paused and administered a very severe rebuke. After the close of the service one of the official members came and said to me, " Sir, you made a great mistake. That young man whom you reproved is an idiot.' Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave in chapell" During the rest of the service there was good order.

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