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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 165, 12 July 1880, Page 2

Humourists are not' encouraged in China. When a paragraphist gets off a joke on a , slant-eyed emperor, the alleged humourist has his pigtail cut off. The loss of his hirsute appendage is bad enough, but when they amputate it without removing it from his head, it becomes painful, and the paragraphist's propensity for joking is cured for ever. " Vanity Fair " hints at a coming change ' in the Earl of Beaconsfield. It says: ■*' It is not often that a man after 73 years of active life commences to turn his thoughts towards matrimony as a serious profession, yet I am told that the evergreen Earl has al-

most made up bis mind. * ..T.m ll~«W«IMW l WHk>HMMUittMMiiiMKM._MM____--M_________M*-__M___^4_fr LOST, a KET RING, engraved W. Cailagan Kindly return to MissE. I eboh. "Coach and Horses" Hotel. 2082— 1p WANTED a GENKRAL SERVANT. Apply to Mrs H. BUCKERIDGR, 2080— 2n College Hill. Horticultural Society. COMMITTEE MEETING WEDNESDAT EVENING NEXT, isetead of Tuesday as previously notified. ALFRED GREENFIELD, 2086 Hon. Secretary. Nelsan, July 12, 1880. To tbe Commissioner of Waste Lands, Nelson. IHFREBT give notice of my intention to apply to the Waste Lands Board, Neleon, at their next sitting, for a Prospecting License for Minerals other than Gold, over a piece of ground to contain 160 acres, on the mineral belt at the head of Croixelles, on the north Blope of Mount McLireu, bounded on the southward by land applied for by M' Hacfcct. 2081— lp „;..._ T. W. GOTTEBSSLI.,