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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 59, 9 March 1880, Page 1

The Hokibika Evening Star looks forward to anything bat a pleasant future for Westland. Thus does it moralise and prophesy : —"The Belflahneßi, as displayed by the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, and almost all the deputations, in Canterbury and Otago, who interviewed the Minister, is commendable. They hare no hesitation in asking for the impossible. They know no one but themselves until the tax gatherer comes round. Then they recollect that -there are neighbors, and at once endeavor to saddle them with ' the heavier burdens, whether having received any benefits or not. Westland ! your prospects in the face of sleeping cars, tiger rugs, foot-warmers, and perhaps sleeping car maids, are very remote indeed. You may payj which . -ia a privilege you are allowed to enjoy, bat you are doomed to tramp, and manukft scrub placed on mother earth is your sleeping car., . : ;; " A' curious- incident of the. occupants of a a small fiah pond being destroyed by a flash of lightning is reported from Seek, Grand Duchy of Nassau. The Ncus&utr JBoteistates that during a very heavy thunder and hailstorm at night time, a flash of lightning struck a small- pond, well, stocked with various kinds of fish, the property of the pastor of the parish. The following moruing the whole number of the fish were discovered dead upon the surface of the water. They had all the appearance; of having been half boiled. " Neither any ' external nor internal injury, could be observed, the scales being intact, and the swimming-bladder filled and well preserved. The water in the pond was still muddy and dull the morning after the storm, ac if the lightning hack only then struck it.