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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 106, 4 May 1880, Page 2

The Napier Telegraph says : — As .bowing the 'genial climate we are now, and have been for some time enjoying, we may mention the fact that the apple and pear trees are in blossom for a second crop of fruit, which, however, cannot be expected to come to maturity. Melons and pumpkins are bearing a second and an abundant crop. Sergeant-Major Creagh, on the occasion of his election as lieutenant of the Oamaru Artillery, vice Holdsworth resigned, made the followiog sensible remarks : — " He was aware that it had become usual on such occasions for the persons obtaining promotion to * shout all round.' This he did not think himself justified in doing. He was sorry to see that this pernicious practice of ' shouting ' was not confined to meetings such as that in which they were then taking part, but was customary on almost every occasion on which it could possibly be introduced. Although not by any means a teetotaller, he decidedly objected to the habit, and hoped the battery would join with him in trying to put a stop to it, at least so far as their battery was concerned. In order to show that in declining to conform to this custom, he was not actuated by anything except a desire to do what he could to diminish what appeared to him a growing evil, he would present the battery witb a medal to be shot for by its members." During the trial of Butler for burglary, Mr Haggitt, addressing the judge, said : — " Before the prisoner came to this colony at all, your Honor, lam informed that, under the name of George Lee, alias James Wilson, he received various senteuces. He received a sentence of twelve months for vagrancy at Melbourne on the 17th September, 1860 ; twelve months for larceny on the 2nd Feb., 1863 ; six months for vagrancy on the 19th May, 1862, at Richmond •; five years for assault and robbery under arms on the 15th December, 1864, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne ; six months' imprisonment for receiving stolen property oa the 15th December, 1864, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne ; and 5 years for burglary on the 15th September, 1871, at the Supreme Court, Melbourne. In addition to these, the prisoner here received three months' hard labor for larceny in August, 1876; and in October, 1876, he was sentenced by this Court for burglary, larceny, larceuy) larceny, housebreaking, housebreaking — six distinct charges — to four years' penal servitude. The social habit of drinking at bars, where ! each member of a party, having ' been " treated " by another, considers it necessary to treat every other member, has at last attracted the attention of the law-makers. The lowa Legislature has a bill before it to abolish the custom, and make it a punishable offence; and, although such a proposition can never become a law, it is significant ias showing public dislike of a custom which no drinking man wants to be the first to disregard. This habit of standing treat is the cause of more physical and mental discomfort than every other convivial custom combined. A respectable man who feels the need of a glass of wine or spirits — and there are hundreds and thousand, of such men, in spite of all that the temperance people say to the contrary — approaches a bar, and finds, perhaps, several acquaintances who ar6 drinking and who invite him to join them. When he has done so, and drank all he came for, his spirit of independence prompts him to return the invitation, which accepted by the others because it would seem discourteous to refuse; then those who have been treated make haste to return the compliment for fear of seeming mean, and the end is that four or five men, each of whom came for a single glass of liquor, retire with several times as much as they needed or wanted. — Boston Traveller. On the question of Chinese competition, the Sydney Town § Country Journal of 27th March observes :— "The 'heathen Chinee' has so successfully competed in cabinet - making that there is very little to do for those following the trade, and wbat little falls to the lot of Europeans is what the children of the brother of the sun reject as unpayable. In other branches of trade Chinamen are running Europeans very close in this good city of Sydney. The Celestials are not equal to European workmen, their only recommendation for employment being the exceedingly low rate of pay which they are willing to accept. Our Chinese fellowcolonists have now invaded another field of labor. There is a new business establishment being built for Sun Kum On and Kee Kig, in New Pitt-street, opposite Lynch's Ship Inn. This is being built entirely by Mongolians. The workmanship savors of the Flowery Land, inasmuch as it is indifferent. The I courses are in admirable order. Instead of being parallel they are converging lines, which do not meet only on account of their not being long enough. The beams in the building are much to light, while they are insecurely fixed. The Chinese do not go about their work on the usual Western method. Trowels are tabooed amongst them, and as a substitute tomahawks and meat choppers are used and they rub the protruding mortar off with wisps of straw. The city building surveyor might pay a visit to this remarkable building. As previously stated, the European cabinet-makers have been almost ' wiped out.' The attack on the building trades is worth considering, not only by the trades and labor council, but by the Legislative Assembly.-" The names of twenty nine ladies appear in the list of candidates who passed the matriculation examination at the London University in January. Two of them are in the Honors Division, and one of these, Alice Elizabeth Lee, of Bedford College, London, is at the top of the list, but is disqualified by age for the first exhibition. Seventeen ladies passed in the first division, and five in the second.

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FOR WESTPORT AND GREYMOUTH. GBAFION will sail ior the above Ports on THURSDAY 6th May, at Thre9 p.m. For Freight or Passage apply to JAS. S. CROSS, Jun., Agent, 1341 Commercial Wharf. PIGEON MATCH. tejg^^T"-^^ A FOUR-HORSE ACH will leave m&EMW^skikz^&L oor Stables, Trafalgarst.,for STOKE, TO-MOBBOW (Wednesday) MORNING, at a Quprter to Nine. «-l TWIST & GAY,