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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 223, 1 October 1879, Page 2

The Marlborough Express says that Mr P. Mcßae met with a serious accident on Thursday last. It appears that whilst he was attending to some matter connected with a threshing machine his hand was caught in the band. On the extrication of his hand it was found that both the bones of the left forearm were broken, and one of the fingers was subsequently amputated. An Essex labourer, working in the fields, hearing cries of " Murder" proceeding from a neighboring cottage, left his work and found a man being murdered by a lunatic, who was in his charge. The murder was prevented, but by rendering assistance the labourer absented himself from bis work for an hour and a- half. For this, of course, he was summoned by his master, and the Mistley Bench decided that he mus*. pay a fine of fire shillings. It is really surprising on what trivial grounds people will leave their wort:. We have heard of a man leaving turnip hoeing to jump into a river merely to save a life. In this case the surprise is that the miscreant should have escaped with a fine. We wonder they didn't make it penal servitude.— Herald. A collector employed by a brewing firm in Dunedin disappeared some months ago, hia accounts not being quite straight. Information has now been received of his capture in New South Wales. He will be brought back to Dunedin. Te Whiti does not appear to meet with much encouragement from the Waka Maori, judging from the following extract from its answers to correspondents :— " We have received a silly 'Proclamation" from the Prophet of Parihaka, for publication in the Waka. He say 3 the « orphans and the poor ' are under his special protection. This being the case, we beg to inform him that we are extremely poor just now, and that we cannot afford to insert his proclamations without payment. If he will pay, we shall be happy to insert as many as he may be pleased to issue ; otherwise, we must decline the honor." It is said that the miners of Safford Town recently got up a shilling subscribtion and purchased a pLk, shovel, and tin dish for presentation to Mr Edmund Barff as a new start in life. The articles were sent by coacb, carriage paid, and duly delivered, but were soon after seen lying in the gutter, despised and rejected in the scorn of offended dignity.— New Zealander. Election expenses during the past contest (says the N.Z. Times) have been unusually heavy. Probably the most expensive trip At hich any candidate made during the general election was one said to have been taken by Mr Sheehan from Tauranga to Napier. It is stated that an offer was made by a certain coaching firm to do the trip in forty-eight hours for a hundred or a hundred and fifty pounds, but that the time mentioned did not suit the would-be member for Olive. Hence a far larger sum was agreed for upon the understanding that the distance should be covered within thirty six hours. Both the amounts paid and the time occupied in the above rumor may be grossly misstated for aught we know; but we shall be happy to correct any error which may have been made. It would take a Crce3ns to meet such lavish expenditure if often repeated The atmosphere is sultry with libel actions ;just now. The Wanganui Chronicle and one of its correspondents have received notice that Mr Baliance intends to proceed against them. Mr M'Minn, of the Rangitikei Advocate, intends to take proceedings against the Evening Chronicle, and Mr Anderson, of that paper, returns the compliment by proceeding against the Adoocxte. Mr Halcombe, of Feilding, has arrived at the" conclusion that hia good name has suffered at the hands of the Afanawatu Herald and the Evening Cfyroniclc apd threatens proceedings if certain conditions are not complied with. Whatever the ultimate results may prove to be, the legal fraternity is pretty sure to make a good thing out of this evident desire to obtain satisfaction.