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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 41, 17 February 1880, Page 6

""A E6nabti physician lately advertised ;io fiheiTtrnpf for a, lady housekeeper, offering liberal tern^and received MOO applications. 7 '■' * 'Tl&pbp'ulation otihe globe may be roughly J assumed -at 1,421,000,000, divided thus ; ? Europe,' v 309,000;000 ; Asia,; 824,000,000 ; j, Africa, \ . 1,9? jOOO.OOO ; Oceania, 4,000,000 ; " America, ( 85,0p0,000, It has teen calculated , 'from 'ttie Mortality tables of known countries r; that the animal number of deaths throughout :. ttie 35.693,350, or that in other words, V 97;,790 .persons die each ; day. ; On % the othjer hand the balance of population is more than ''kept up by births at the rate of 104,800 per '••day-. J SflVenty.new lives are usheredin every minute of the r-24' hours. ' i—^The following is the perorartioo to Sir G. •.■ (i G;rey"s "speech in opening the Auckland Grammar School :— -"Now, youth, for whom 1 jve, your predecessors, have provided the "means for instruction which this institution -ji affords, remember: this : a new age is davvn- . ing, on the world, and here a youthful arid ' nnknowKnatipn'iarising. You are amongst ' the' heralds who introduce, and the rulers v '■who' must guide and direct the new age, and i.Yfho must establish (the yet unknown nation. v . Back upon you will have to look a ; new race, J, and countless millions of people.. The duty ■k'fleTblvihg on you is a great one. ' Strive • to fit yourselves for it. With 'j humility, yet with fortitude, enter on the ■ task Then falter ; not ; march resolutely with truth and justice on either.hand of -'you, .with the love of mankind as your guid.''ing iita^ your duty l \6 your maker as the [/iStalff onjwhich.you lean. Then will God ?. bless you, and render you a blessing to the ages yet to come." ( , . . 1 , ( nt Australian cablegrams which bate '"appeared in our columns refer .to the probi ; bitioh by. the Premier of Victoria, of the perlj,forrn.anpe of a political burlesque, "The .".Happy, Land," at the Academy of Music,. ;- Mjelbdjirrie; , with localisms by Mr. Marcus ''Clarke^ The piece is'a London play put upon & the Londou 'stage during the last days of n Gladstone's administration, and in which Mr. ; Gladitoae, Mr. Kobert Lone, Mr. Ayrton, and other members of the Cabinet were caricatured 'amTiatirised'. 1 \M'r. Marcus Clarke has local} ; iaed it, and the proihinent figures in the r burlesque are stated to bear a striking rof eetoblence to Mr. Berry, Mr. John Woods, ann' Major Smith. The groundwork of the ' piece consists in three male fairies paying ■periodical visits to the earth (Melbourne), /and; who really enjoy its dissipation, although <on v returning to Fairyland, they declaim against the wicked world. At length the * female fairies . determine to go and see for f themselves, 1 but are prevented by their brothers, who promise to bring them some, . specimen mortals ; and, as the Old World men ; are. exceedingly bad, they determine to select 'ithein from the New. World. Messss. Berry, ; f Woods, and the "Major" are .introduced into: Eairyland, and proceed to establish a Popular t Government there. The fun of the piece 'consists, in the competitive examination which the faries undergo previously to taking 'pdrtfoiioSf The" Berry Ministry it appears is not 'strong enough to endure a theatrical joke, i .arid though not particularly choice in their language about their opponents, are, as is usuarty the case, remarkably tbin-skinne'd where it concerns themselves. The Premier •look the arbitrary action, which is without a precedent in Victoriß, of interdicting the play, undpr the 6th section of the Licensed Theatres Act of 1865, on the pretence of "preserving gOod manners, decorum, and the public peace."— Herald.