CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 137, 9 June 1880, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor ccof the "Evening Mail." Siß~Th<ire is a scource of profit which it ; strikes me i3!>sadly. neglected by us in Nelson, and that is the preparation for the proper houaingrof visitors who might be attracted here by 'the acknowledged salubrity of our climate: and the beauty of our scenery. There is really one place only for such peoj pie,- and it ia almost always crowded. Prom ,' advertisements ia the local, papers, and also from applications made continually to private parties, it is well known that for lack of fitting accommodation numbers do not corue to Nelson who would otherwiso visit us. To supply this great want I would propose that a joint stock limited liability coinpaoy be started for tbe purpose '.of purchasing a suitable pieco of ground, and erecting thereon a building which would supply the much needed want I hare referred to. Let us by such action give convincing proof that wo tire alive to our own interests, and are not deserving of the nickname kindly accorded to us in and out of the colony cf SLKEpr Hollow. . Nelson, 9th Juue, 1880.

: During the course of some excavations and levelling which have been carriod out within the historic Hues o£ Plevna by the Bulgarian Government, sixteen cannon and 10,000 muskets have been found, which Osmari Pasha caused to be buried before he surrendered to the Russians. Lato news from Eogland states that erni•gration from the British Isles is enormously increasing, but principally to the United States. 23,000 emigrants have sailed during tho last three months. Nearly all have gone to America. There is great emigration in the same direction from Northern Europe. , 2000 eruigrauts sailed from Bremen, making .14,000 from Germany, during the laßt three ; months. • ;• , , . ; . We (Marlbrough Times), understand that it is intended by some residents in Blenheim who have capital at their command, and possess a kno\vledge of the ground, to taka machinory to the Oaainalutu Valley, with a view of further testing the value of , the auriferous deposits io that locality. If success attends this undertaking, a great stimulus will , bo given to prospecting in this neighborhood. The Kennedys are making a very payable tour in India. Mr David Kenuedy, jun., retires from the company on the conclusion of the tour, having become, by purchase, the proprietor of^the Pieter Mariizburg (South Africa) daily paper. He has lately published •a work giving an interesting account of his professional tour through South Africa. In noticing me death of a well-known carrier in Otngo, named Macdonald, th*Dunedin Star says: — " xiustan rush broke out he was carting Btores, and getting whatever terms he liked to a&k for carriage. A uumber of diggers, cot caring to tramp the whole distance over the rough roads of those days, suggested to Mac that he should give them a lift. At first he declined, hut, on thiuking the matter over, decided to meet them half way. 'I'll take you as freight,' was bia reply. ' but you must be weighed and ticketed as such.' And on to the scales went every man of them, and paid fare at so much per pound per mile. The diggers thought it a dear ride ; but at the end of their journey they declared it one of jolliest trips they had ever made, so full of ( fun and auecdote was ' Old Mac.' " , The Otago Daily Times has the following : — It does aeeni somewhat inconsistent and incongruous .(writes a contributor to an English paper) to read in one portion of an Irish paper of the dire distress of the country necessitating urgent appeals for help from all other nations of the earth, and in another column.of the same paper, almost side by side, to read of the large sums of money collected from these very poor and starving j people by their bishops to send out to the Pope in distant Italy under the head of Peter's Pence. Surely, if. the unprofessing world are expected to give their little, or their much, to help their suffering brethren, the great head of their Church should deny himself the customary offerings dragged from the very poor of his flock, and forbid , the collections of such pence till the present ! famine and distress have passed away. The rumor chronicled laat week of the approaching contraot of marriage between ' Prince Leopold and Miss Maynard(says the, London World) is said to he unfounded. Such ! an alliance -would bare been popular, and a beauty who Has £30,000 a year is not a bad match, even for a prince of the royal blood. The Maynards have always been a popular family in Essex, and the bright presence and ' ■winning smile of the heiress of that ancient house are ever welcome at Dunmow. Easton Lodge, near to Dunmow, which is Misb Maynard's property in her own right, is one of the finest mansions in the country, and is no mean rival of Audley End— but without > its wealth of artistic treasures— or Down Hall. The late Viscountess Maynard, the grandmother of the new beauty, for .many years distributed two thousaud pounds per annum among the poorin the neighborhood of Easton.. Miss Maynard attained her eighteenth birthday last Deceriiber ; and it will be remembered that the occasion was celebrated: by a magnificent entertainment which cost' an enormous sum, and was odo of 'the most brilliant affairs which has been known, in Essex for a generation. l ITlowera were brought from Nice, and a suite of temporary reception rooms was erected for the occasion. ; Tlie American Exporter, received by this mail, contains a full description of an : "Oleomargarine " mannfactory in New York. Oleomargarine is known as " bull butter " by its facetious foes, while more vigorous > denunciators call it " bosh " butter. Any- > bow, it is the substitute which does duty for ; the geDuiue dairy product in thousands of j houses in England and America. It is prepared byJsteaming and (refining .tallovftjand j churning it up with fresh milk. The factory : alluded. to by the Exporter is stated, to. turu out more butter than all the rest of the great , dairy State of New York, put together, and j seldom is there a less quantity . than 50,000 pounds in full view at once, i t j V; i' i . An Englishman well acquainted with If err ' Kruppfs establishment at Essen, >,says •-, that ; since the Turco-Ruseian war Russia ! iis pur- , chased there no fewer than 700 cannon,! mostly of the large calibre. <

_ A London correspondent writes :— "I believe that before long the Eastern question will settle itself" by the reduction of the Turkish provinces to a desert* I was told not long ago that the Turks ta£ the Very fruit trees, and, as might be expected", the first year they cease to bear they are cut down. Whole districts in Syria are becoming arid and barren through the disappearance of the woods. Only this week I heard from a gentleman who has been to -Asia Minor that everywhere the trees are going, and that the landscape is perfectly bare. Nothing is done in the way of planting, for the simple reason that no property is secure. It; is. most melancholy, considering the ever increasing pressure at home, to recollect that continents within easy reach of us, which might supply food for millions, are doomed to sterility through the most accursed misgovernment which the world, perhaps, has everseen." The number of different kinds of po9tage stamps, which have been hitherto issued all over the world is estimated, in round numbers, at 6000. Among them are to be found the effigies of five emperors, eighteen kings, three queens, one grand duke, six princes, one princess, and a great number of presidents, &c. Souieof the stamps bear coats of arms and other emblems, such as crowns, the papal keys, and tiara, anchors, eagles, lions, horses, Btars, serpents,' railway trains, horsenien, messengers, &c. The collection preserved in the Museum of. the Berlin Post Office included', on let June, 1879, 4498 specimens of different postage stamps. Of these, 2462 were from -Europe, 441 from Asia, 251 from Africa, 1143 from America, and 201 from Australia.; A donation of £125 each has been given by two native .Indian :princes— H.N. the Nawab Abdul Gunny, C.5.1., Dacca, Bengal, and H.N. the Nawab Khajah Ahaunloolah, • Dacca, Bengal— to the Irish Relief Pnnd. The breakiug up of the ice on the Seine, between the fortifications of Charenton and those of Auteuil, caused damage to the extent of £140,000. No fewer than 42 boats were sunk, estimated at from £600 to £800. Captaiu Eastou, Her^Majesry'a Acting Consul, in returning from a trip up the Niger, found that the natives of Onitsha, two hundred miles from the mouth, had been giving considerable trouble to the Europeans. . lie accordingly bombarded and destroyed the town. The natives are now quiet. The President of the State of Boyaea, one of the group which makes up the Kopublic of Columbia, in South America, has lately given some interesting criminal statistics of the population over which he presides. Iv dependent of deaths caused by wars, earthquakes, floods, and accidents, 123 citizens have been assassinated during the last four years. Theie were 28 murders in 1876, 31 in 1877, 38 in 1878, and 26 in 1879. These murderous excesses are attributed to the abolition of the peualty of death. The annual exportation of cheese from America to Englaud reached the enormous quautity of 134,000,000 lbs. in 1878, and dur- , ing the same year Canada also supplied the English market with 42,000,000 lbe. This gives a total of about 80,000 tons,. Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan divided £1000 par week as their profits duriug the run of '•The Pirates of Penzance " in New York.