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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 21, 24 January 1880, Page 2

An advertisement in last night's Ipapsr invited Masons and others to attend the funeral of the late Mr Pollock on Sunday afternoon. It was, however, found necessary to anticipate the arrangements by a* day, and the funeral took place this morning, when a considerable number followed to the grave the remains of this much esteemed citizen. Oun supplement to-day contains the minutes of the last meeting of the Waimea County Council, reports of meetings of the Executive of the New Zealand Ride Association and of the West Wanganui Coal Company, held at Wellington, and a variety of interesting extracts. The Victorian Parliament haa for some yaars past been gaining the unenviable notoriety of being the deliberative Assembly in which there is more rowdyism and blackguardly conduct than in any other in the world, and it appears to be quite equal to maintaining its reputation, two " scenes " having occurred on consecutive nights, the last one being characterised by a personal assault by one honorable member upon another honorabls member. To be a member of the Victorian Parliament is surely nothing to be proud of. May it be long ere New Zealand in this respect sinks to the level of her elder siater. The civil sittings, of the District Court will open in the Court House on Monday morning at eleven o'clock. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a carefully got up little paper published monthly at Tumut, N.S.W., and rejoicing in the title of The Matrimonial Chronicle. As tne name denotes, most of the. articles, of which there are several, treat upon matrimonial subjects. The advertisements are principally supplied by persona of both sexes I who " wish to correspond " with a view to marriage. We copy a couple as samples :—- --" A lady would like to correspond with a middle aged gentleman of a moral disposition and a religious turn of mind with a view to I UmtIMQJOD V, OQ6 13 UlluQiG QCTGCI ■•■ £LVGPfl£?fi age, tall, good looking, fair, dark blue eyes, can play and Bing well. Sho wishes her husband to be good looking, and fond of music also. 9 ' Dat by day we receive and publish telegrams from other parts of the colony stating that subscriptions are being raised for the relief of the famine stricken population of Ireland, and in to-day's issue will be found a cable message from the Lord Mayor of Dublin to the Mayor of Sydney, renewing the anpeal for assistance, and pleading as a justification of the repetition of the prayer, the terrible nature and extent of the distress which exists in that unfortunate country. In Nelson we cannot raise our hundreds of pounds as is being done in the larger and more wealthy towns and districts of the colony, but can we do nothing to help our fellow subjects in their dire distress ?

I■•■ . • ' Among the recent curiosities of science ie an invention-— patented — for turning human corpses into a substance resembling marble, and warranted to keep in all weathers. The largest fleece of wool ever shorn is, undoubtedly that cut in California, about five years ago, and which weighed 52lbs. This fleece, however, was supposed to be the growth of two years, and had a large proportion of dust and yolk in it. Fleeces of 34lbs or 361bs are not uncommon among aged merino, rams, but of this four-fifths or fiveBixths usually consists of grease and yolk. There is a report in circulation >at one among the oldest Poverty Bay settlers has appliedto the Government for the lease of a block of land on which to form a Mormon settlement. It is stated that the eettler in question has received a " revelation." and that when the settlement is formed there will be plurality of wives as part of the system. We have not written in anything ]ike jest. The information has been communicated to us as a fact. — Thames Star. The Sydney correspondent of the Press writes : — Something like a thrill of consternation ran through Sydney on the 20th inst., when the morning papers announced that two lepers, in an advanced stage of that horrible complaint, had been discovered in a tenement off the Botany road. The discovery had been pecipitated by the death of one of the unfortunates, and the survivor was speedily escorted by tremulous police- ' men "to an isolated, not to say airy, situation at Botany Heads, where some sort of shelter was provided, and an attendant of his own race procured. The latest intelligence respecting this too interesting exile, is to the effect that he is frightened of his attendant, , who is suffering from his. disease in a more i malignant degree than himself: The public alarm hasj subsided on the appearance in print of sundry assurances that leprosy ia . not infectious, or even contagious, to the present generation of Caucasians, although our ancestors both in England and Scotland suffered from it. The conditions favorable to leprosy appear to have been scanty sustenance coupled with personal uncleanness. The former condition nifty be said to be almost unknown in Australia. As to the latter, I am more dubious. But certainly here in Sydney we give every : encouragement for some disease to make its appearance and fill the place with leprosy held among our ancestors. ' The London correspondent of the Auckland Star says:— Just as the ship Padishah was about to sail for Otago, the surgeon, a Mr Lawford David Evans was arrested at the instance of his injured and irate wife on the count of allowing her to become chargeable to the Holywell Union. The unlucky man is a surgeon with an extensive practice , at 'Mold. Some • time ago he became financially embarrassed, and finding things unpleasant, left his homo. About the same time a young lady in the neighborhood also disappeared, and it was suspected the two had gone to New Zealand together. The prisoner's effects were sold, and Mrs Evan9 applied to the parish for relief. Afterwards, however, the good, lady ascertained that her husband was staying in London, and, accompanied by a detective, she went there, and arrived jnst in time to give him into custody. It was ascertained that lie had paid £30, towards a passage on board the Padishah for a certain " Mrs Elizabeth Evans " whom the real Mrs Evans expressed a desire to scratch. When brought up at the Police Court the prisoner said he felt his position acutely, and that his book debts would more than have covered his liabilities. Ha was however, sent to gaol for a mouth with hard labor. |