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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1879, Page 4

How do we know that the schoolmaster in the " Deserted Village " had turned his back upon the world ? Because Goldsmith writes of him; " A man severe was he; and stem to view." j The volcanoes in East and West Jay & axe simultaneously fully nt work. From the Smeru volcano a broad fiery stream of flowing lava, which is making its way through a ravine to the south sea-shore, nightly illuminates the neighborhood with a sombre glow. At the other end of Java the Gedeh mountain ia casting out an , immense quantity of . ashes, which spread themselves for miles around in the neighborhood. Mr Herbert Johnson, of the Graphic, who, illustrated the tour of the Prince of Wales in India, has just finished his large painting (Bft by sft) depicting the passage of the Sarda Eiver, in Nepaul. The Prince of Wales and all of his staff in hunting dress, Sir Jung Bahadoor and the officers of the Nepaul suite, and 700 elephants appear on the canvas. An American naturalist, while investigating the causes and effect of the poison of a wasp sting, nobly determined to make himself a martyr to science, and' accordingly handed his thumb to an impertinent insect he had caged in a bottle. The wasp entered . into the martyr business with a great deal of spirit, and backed up to the thumb with an, abruptness which took the scientist by surprise. He was so deeply absorbed in the study of remedies that he forgot to make any notes, but his wife wrote a paragraph in his note-book, for the benefit of science, that , the primary effect of a wasp sting is abrupt and terrific— and such words ! • • The Grey River Argus bestows a passing notice upon Mr Woolcock's recent address to his constituents, which concludes as follows : Altogether Mr Woolcock's sermon .was ra. failure, as it is evident that he is endeavoring' to^aet the dual part of a political Jeremy , Diddler and Chadband combined ; and will, like a second Esau sell his birthright (constituency) for a mess of pottage if it was offered to him. Mr Horatio Bunting, a rose-grower of Christchurch, has obtained a patent "for a straw-binder, and a working model is to be „ exhibited in about a fortnight. The machine makes a twisted band, places it round the sheaf, twists the ends well together and tucks them in. The inventor is sanguine of success, and an inspection of the various parts of the machine leads to the conjecture that the work will be satisfactorily accomplished. Practical joking is not always unattended with danger to the perpetrator, a9 is evident from an event which has occurred at Suze (Sarthe.) A man named Verle wrapped himself in a white sheet to frighten some girls, and so far succeeded that they all ran away screaming except one, who aimed 8 revolver at the pretended ghost, and fired six shots. Verle fell dead, one of the bullets having passed through his heart, y | A contemporary publishes the following as " a warning to reckless boroughs " :— The beautiful city of Elizabeth, in the State of New Jersey, United States, declared itself bankrupt on February Ist, having failed to provide for the payment of bonds which arrived at maturity. It is said that the amount owing in wages to laboring men was, so far back as October Ist. 60,000 dollars, while policemen, school-teachers, and all officials employed under the municipal administration have not had their salaries paid for many months. The distress among these classes of persons is very great since their tradespeople have refused to supply .them any longer on credit with the necessaries of life. It was expected that the supply of gas for the city would be cut off, and that the public schools, in which there are about 7000 children, must be closed.

King Humbert's cough, while it makes the Italian Court anxious, has set a fashion ; all properly disposed persons thereabout now cough. The Westland correspondent of the Canterbury Times writes:— l fancy that, commercially, matters are looking a little better. Pretty nearly everybody that was " shaky " has been toppled over; a large number have left the district to seek better luck in happy Canterbury, or fortunate Wellington, win re, as we read, things are as dull its they are here, and so the number of idle or unproductive inhabitants ha 9 diminished, making it better for those who remain. There has been a strike amongst the men employed on the Greymouth-Hokitika railway for 10s a day. It seems a pity that, in a district where the immense majority are working men, they should keep up a nominal rate of 10s a day, for they themselves are the sufferers by it. They scare capital away by such a prohibitive rate, and compel all the few employers of labor there are to dispense with labor to the utmost of their power. If we look to the rate of wages, and the hours of labor in other countries, it is obvious that we can never develop the resources of a district in which the lowest rate for eight hours of unskilled labor is ten shillings.

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