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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 124, 25 May 1880, Page 2

A Grahamstown telegram says :•— A whale 85ft. long went ashore on "Wednesday night on Piako Bank and died. It was brought today by steamer, The finders exDect to make .£l5O from the oil. A shocking 'accident occured at Talbot, (Victoria), on the 9th. Mr Kichardson, an old and much respected resident, while saying good-bye to a friend leaving by train, fell between the platform and footboard, was dragged a mile and a half, and mutilated beyond recognition. The accident was un noticed by either guard or driver. " The Vagabond " says that four seta of judges for colonial beer have been used up at the Sydney International Exhibition. Two men are in the lunatic asylum, three are hopeless drunkards, and one is paralysed. — Post. " I hate your perfect men. I never was so badly cheated in my life as I once was by one of your ' perfect ' men. ;He had got so far up in morals that he couldn't see the rules of common honesty. These men who go prowling around prayer meetings, telling how much like saints they are — look out for them; keep your hands on your pocket books. The 1 higher-life ' man of a certain class, who goes around with a a Bible under his arm, and who rushes into the counting room of a merchant who is adding a column of figures, and exclaims, 'How's your soul?' is a nuisance. He makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha. I tell you, a roaring, roistering, bouncing sinner, isn't so repulsive to me as one of that sore of higher-life men." — Talmage. A correspondent gives the following hint to New Zealand landowners :— " It may interest some people to know how landlords who are not English treat their tenants. Messrs Hagin and Carr are American holders ot a ' Mexican grant/ in Kern county, California. The grant was for 15 square leagues, and comprises about 90,000 acres of splendid land, mostly open valley land. They do not wish to sell at present, so they rent it on the following terms, in lots of 160 to 640 acres: — They build a house, barn, and outbuildings, furnish seed, provisions, &c, for the settler, until he can supply himself, and if need be a portion of the team, and on the bush land only ask a return of the outlay from the crop of the farmer the fourth year. On clear land ready for the plough one-fourth of the crop, and a return of the advance made with- ! in three years. But then they know nothing j of the custom of feudal tenures, and are satisfied with moderate returns and happy I and contented tenants."