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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 234, 2 October 1880, Page 2

'*^ji^:»>»7^R'i^niT.u;i. i^iiJia>»aa!ST) > 'Wi.*'Aa<..'i . , ■, v>M'nwai«B«iw> Agreat Queensland squatter returned after a visit to i England. His friends asked him what, he thought of It. ttepjy : v It's a nice little; coup try, but it's all taken up." - ■ ]A.NeSV York telegram of the:l3th August says: — Advices from Lima of July 13th state' thatthe enrolling of the population of Limn and Callao'tp fo.tm, an army reserve hasten " finished!' At three o'clock ttie*cathedral bell was rung, and at ooce all business establishments were" Railway ttains> street cars] and- neatly all cqdohes tieasedtuDniny, and of trie whole of the male population between fifty and sixty turned out to answer the/foil call, the f oreignersj the"bl'df men.^and" children to look on. The closing of business establishments is to take place every dayj bo as to give members the necessary time to. driu. r ..,...., ... ' .. „,. ";:.; ; y Armagh has been the "seene i of another merry little fight. A party of picnicers were returningjfrom.a jaunt. in the -. country, accompanied by a band, whenby some, evil, fate or another, it started, off >with the first few bars, of . ? c Boyne .Water." .. Instantly, the. neighbouring " piaantry si . turned out, and t]ditjgs"were lively for the" next'ifuarter of an hour. Shots, stones, and fisticuff swerp. gene-, ( rally exchanged by'everybocTy, .and,t^e"tot»J ' number of wounded has yet to"oe u reckoned. People residing in Armagh, when they go picnicing/stiouldnot bid' the" band to pl«y " Boy ne Wa.ter." . . > Cold lead on the top of a dinner in the country is uncommonly hard to digest." ' . Te.Whiti (says the. Chronicle) finding that hia flock has^ dwindled -down t6 a mongrel collection of old womeni babaa, and Maori larrikins, has started business at a schoolmaster— his stock-in-trade consisting of ,a l pair..of geographical glojbes, 'which hf picked up dirt cheap at Hawera! .Thf Parihaka people are delighted ; 'and aa thi long bearded prophet turns his globes and points out th^ various objects of . intere«Jt. in 1 this mortal' -world,^ they think 'not of illegally fencing, but go tp bed and dream that,they ara i in England^ 1 where the ';Wei.t. Coast Commissioners cease from troubling, arid'tbe A.C.'s are at rest. r: . . ' incident occurreja at a recent sitting of the Dunedin. District Court. Mr Gr'E.Bermer.a dfuggiit," »skedto be. exciisyd from' serving as a juror on the. ground' that- he bad no ione but an inexperienced assistant to take charge of his shop -while he Was away. The circumstance .(says the Otdi/o Times) recalled to the mind of the Court very vividly' the 'case of Barbell y. Pickwick, as reported by Charles Bick^ria, and hi§ Honor wanted to know whether this boy Was similar, to the one mentioned in that cajsei Mr Deriner innocently answered that the only difference was c t hat his boy \wta subject to epifeptic fits.' His Honor, alarmed! afc'th'e series of calamities that' might occur through Mr Dormer's absence, 'immediately despatched him back tohit business. r Auckland must be a nice sort of a plaice to live inlf>cenes.such as th.it deactibedbythe, i 5/ar as follows are of .frequent occurence:— A > «%. y Me [attack^ was made upon Mr McGarry, a j stall-keeper' in the market,-yesterday~aftep-nooti|,betwe©n three' andviour,po?clock;" Thf fact^are^brieflndiin^pie^l^w^iamftrtlopi ing yojjpg^giriß^Wftlke^iintb Mr McGarrjr?s sh^p.acS 'frsrated .to^kniw Ithe^prjci pi his b6B^Qahterbury sacpn j^as^ ''"they- required ■ a sicleT "The jpriie Vaß given .in Mr MpGarr^Js > peciliarly ! good«h'(im(6red atyle, wnen otib' of the girls gave him a kick on ; the' shint,v and the other gave him a '•■< Bpanker* 1 on the be^id wiifi^a bunch pf turnips; >x Mjr ' McGarry resented; the'.double r aff rpnt |n , A /spma t wh*t angry tone] and ordered; the. fair intrudirs out of his shop, when;i' morb vigorous onf ' slaught!wfts ! made, on [•Mri McGarry; which caused him to fall over *. keg of butter. He roared; for help; but; before help came the giris..were.uponJhim,. .one. ._hol(iinsta_box_of . ball blue, while the ptherjblued h|i nose and face,and, wrote on the stall-keeper's ! back| "Cbo'queredat.laat."' J , .|? ' T". \4 - v> The 'Wellington Benevolent ; S.p'cieiy are literaiiy'- interpreting. £ tb^e \bebsest i% sent theici (r jby v "the ' City ..Council; wsx^tjp economy in using their iunds, for it was ripticable •at ' the meeting ; yesterday that , the relief ordered w"as, cut' to the.ifinest point-^wliere half a.rationjcould be .saved it ; ' wds '.and ; where it was thought'reciplent's ; of- relief cojild manage witha less, , expensive! • hpuse i a"fewshiHi%s'were t tak t en as' ; l a.hint to themi'to. migrate. * * Jkl so'ii, w^ose J mother . vras gettiiigtuonay and rations,' yp,s reported' to be '^Bobbing about i in^ -tlie ' sunshiny'arideven /S contemplating matririJony," which the cpmmittee resolved, to discourage by making!* him keep his mother, as he had-beenordered to by the R.M.— a,-membeivremarking that would be matrimony ehoiigbHn r> tbese times. This policy was reversed in the next .^case--whereran .engaged woman 'was ' a^r«;eiver «£i relief, h aciie'.committeeithouglit'it^v'as^ long, cour^shipj-nd should be terminated, and the woman' got 6fr their hands. It.,wasc tfe^aolted to prosecute a man who had got relief/ by., false pretences. 'One woman was reported to be unable, tffget $prk because hjer husband followed her everywhere." like a* big dog," andifc was resolved tb"try r tA detach ry hiu), T as hWwas^li^^m^ne:^^ for relief seemed to" Stream peculiar views 9 as to|ssat; feireHefb^hp^di^&lthjsi'iaeas being in the direction, of .■w.eli furnishing an eight-roomed hotisefkc.^^His views were ry>t end'bi^a^liheico'tiimittße, some ra^ro^ even doubting bis sanity,—. Ifnw, .

■ Mr.Miller, of Melbourriei paid away last: year in ' consultations '\ £34,000, ou ; which he, had a percentage of £3400. Mr Mc&eever, of Ifeatherston, paid over. £30 the other day to a man'for rabbit skins.' The rabbit, catcher some, short time since' thought rabbit catching would'at all events provide a chance of employment, which he has found to be of lucrative .nature. The price was 2s 4d a dozen. A London telegram to a New York paper says :— M. and W. Collinson will stake £1000 against a similar sum thatl Dr Tanner will not, fast forty days aud forty nights, the brothers Collinson to watch him. Native Christians on the Islands of New Hebrides recently shipped to London some 3,7001bs of arrowroot to pay for an edition of the Old Testament now being printed for them in their native tongue. Pair exchange is no robbery. -• =- •'A correspondent at Parihaka writes to'a West Coast journal, "It is astonishing bow the natives acquire their information, but ;yout correspondent has^in some cases, found them' well informed on European matters of which he himself has been ignorant at the time, but which have subsequently been found to be as the natives have stated." The Wanganui Herald states that the mt mbers of the local Acclimatisation Society ara much aggrieved at the. loss of 16,000 trot ova sent up from Dunedin. Owing to some unexplained. delay in transhipment from one steamer to another in Wellington, the ova on arrival here were found. to be bad. Bren the milliners at Wanganui are succumbing to the pressure of hard times. Saturday'sXftromWe contains notifications of the bankruptcy of two ladies of this vocation. : , .'":'. '.„■;',' '* "■.'.. In the recent municipal elections at Auckland the Good_Templar element was strongly in the asoendant, aided by the new organisation, the New Zealand Alliance, which bids hit to become an influential element in the control df mUtiefsf^oth J° cal ond parliamentary. * ' ' ' An incident related at the Wellington Benevolent Society meeting the other day illustrates the vicissitudes of fortune, and the truth of the " 'fcwixt cup and lip " axiom. A woman while in England, learnt that her h us,band had died in the colony, leaving her his '^property." Borrowing-,£150 she came out, ; O ni> to flndjlhrough a clause in the will, that the had disinherited herself by her action (the borrowing), and the prdperty passed to other hands; At a recent laying of the foundation-stone of the Upton Congregational Church, it was iionlibriedthat'tbe late Key. John Ctorwen'a Contribution to the. scheme .amounted to £1 ,850. It was said that Mr. Curwen, though ■ok » rich uidnr was a systematic giver..: jfrdm.the timetwheri he efti-hed his, first five pounds he set apart a tenth for giving, i Toronto was: the i. scene; of tioton the'lfith August. . . the KomariCathor iieao.cietieß.olthat-city.ahd Hamilton being bmtrfor a HolidEiy encotiutered a gang of Orangemen, stronjfj and trouble com|m»nced. Stones and brickbats •were.passed around with great vigor, for :some. minute a, many of the riotera and several policemen receiving serious wounds. At 1 night thej fighting was resumed along the docks, arid lasted till daylight. Several of the-ring-leadira were arrested. ic i I The Marlboromh Times of Tuesday, says: ; i—Ur Turner, manager of A the Kavenscliff iMine,hada moat eventfnl passage on bis iwjiyito Picton during:, the recent galei hi 9 ibbttwaa capsized and he stuck: to it for '■averal hours, then lost ; consciousness, and (when he recovered he found himself on the ibeacfa, the - waves washing over; him^ Mr JTurner is. to be congratulated i on.hia- happy ieacape. ,- v Notices of Moti6n.r-.Time.tables.