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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 235, 4 October 1880, Page 2

The new electoral 101 l for the Buller district contains 1044 names, as against 1147 on the last roll.. The contract price ftr br'n?ingr Cole'g circus from San Francisco to Auckland by the City of Sydney is £3300. This shows what a tremendous affair ifc must be. : The Auckland Observer says :— lf the Union Bank can afford to pay a dividend and bonus of 16 per cent, it has surely sufficient funds to replace those beastly dirty notes, instead of scrawling "Limited" acrojas (hem. There- was a big fight afc Exeter Hall on the night of the meeting held to protest against Lord Ripon'a appointment. Black eyes and and white ties were the order of the day, and coat-tails, perhaps in honour of the occasion, had many a Rip-on. It was a godly and a Christian spectacle, and a Zulu who was in the gallery telegraphed borne for a few English missionaries to be sent back at once. He felt they could be of much more use in their native land. The libel for which the proprietors of the Christchurch Echo have been committed for trial consisted of the following answer to correspondents :—' ls it ?— Yes it is. He served four years in the Pentridge Gaol, at Melbourne, for forgery. We ghall be happy to furnish the particulars in a future issue, extracted from the Police Gazette.' Of this Mr Izett, the editor of the Christchurcih Star, says in his examination :— « My name ia spelt Izett, and I consider? the word • la-it ' iB a play upon my name. I have never bedn in Pentridge, never accused of forgery, nevjsr convicted of forgery, or ever in«ide a gaol in my life except to take evidence. This, I feel certain, refers to me, because it is the way my name is pronounced. An amusing incident occurred at one of the Carandini concerts at Temuka the other evening. During the Binging of the Regulation duet by Miss Carandini and Mr Sherwin (saya the leader) it frequently appeared that osculation was about to take place. This did not meet with the approval of an individual in the back, who evidently thinking Mr Sherwin was getting too familiar, cried out, as if to stop the male singer, "Now then, steady " When remonitrated with for interrupting,'he replied, " She's too pretty for that old fellow to kiss." Every little while (says an exchange), we read of some one who has stuck a rusty nail in his foot, or hand, or some other portion of his body, and that lockjaw resulted therefrom, of which the patient died If every person was aware of the perfect remedy for all such wounds, and would apply it, then all Buch reports must cease. The remedy is simple, almost always on hand, and can be applied by any one, and what is better it is infallible. It is simply to smoke the wound, or any bruise or wound that is inflamed, with burning wool or burning cloth. Twenty minuteß in the smoke of wool will take the pain out of the worst wound ; repeated three times, it will allay the worst cases of inflammation arising from a wound, " A West Coast paper says that people there with property are getting uneasy at not having received the new forms under the Property Assessment Act. It saysi—Their property is still unassessed, and Heaven and Major Atkinson only are award of what is yet in store for them. The writer of « Sketches in Parliament ' in the Otago Daily Times says:— The Rev Dr Wallis suggests Harold Skimpole. There is

an airiness, lightsomeness, a careless joviality (would it be very wrong to say a devil-may-careishness in the cacc of a rev Dr. ?) about this fresh -looking draft from Church to State. The air of the House seems invigoratingand reviving round about where he sits, and it is possible this may be wisely ordained, inasmuch as the Maori members ait close behind. Nobody exactly knows why Dr Wallis came into the House ; but he evidently enjoys it so immensely, looks so enviably jolly every hour he sits there, even into the small ones, and sheds such a benign, and placid, and contented light around him, that he will be as great a loss if defeated at the next election as the Right Hon James Lowther was to his nook in the House of Commons when York rejected him after the last dissolution. Dr Wallis is incapable of wit like his, but he is a pleasant old gentleman, although the truth must come out that he is more frequently put down as a • bore, 1 both in and out of the House. Our Parliaments have numbered more than one c ßev.' on their rolls, and those I recollect have been excellent members. There was Mr W. J. G. Bluett, now an auctioneer in Canterbury, to which position hia stentorian voice is probably better adapted than either Church or Chamber. His burly figure, jolly English face, and good humoured speeches were a loss to the House. There was the Rev J. C. Andrew, now head master of Nelson College, a ripe scholar, a keen politician, a sparkling speaker } the defects of an ungraceful attitude and a shrill voice monotonously high pitched were completely overcome by a perfect torrent of eloquence, in which wit and humor, anecdote and statire, thrust and repartee, tumbled one over another in rich confusion ; he scored a success whenever he ■poke, which he did with regretable rarity. They used' to say Mr Murray had onco filled a pulpit, but this Ido not vouch for. He is still in the House, aud his constituency is unlikely to wish him out of it ; nobody is so uncharitable as that, and after certain allowances made, Mr Murray is a good member, a most hard working man, a perfect devourcr of our blue books, Parliamentary papers, and statistics, and an eager searcher among those of foreign countries also, for anything that benefit or instruct this colony. Ladies have been in the habit of using the side-saddle in England for the last 300 years, but it has lately been proposed that they should give it up and ride astride like men, and there has been a long correspondence on the subject in the Live Stock Journal. The Chinese camp at Tuapeka is stated by the local paper to have lately become "a scene of riot and tumult," caused by drnnken rows between European women who are married to Chinamen. This is the latest phase of the Chinese difficulty. The Dunmow Flitch (says the Age London correspondent) was given away as usual on the 26th of this month, "to any married couple who are willing to swear bef oro a jury that they have lived together in unbroken amity for a year and a day." The mistake of this admirable institution seems to me to be its having its jury composed of " maidens and bachelors." How Bhould they know anything about the disputes of wedded life? On the contrary, it should consist of the longest (and of tenest) married couples procurable, in which case the cross-examination (under the head of "by a juror") would be really worth hearing. On what admirably good behaviour, by the bye, intending candidates must be as they near the period of probation. One cun imagine, on the slightest cloud appearing on the brow of the husband, the lady sayirg, " My dear, the Flitch!" on which it instantly vanishes. On the 27th, however, human nature probably asserts itself, and he beats her about the head with a poker. The London correspondent of a contemporary writes :— Relations are sometimes dreadful things, notwithstanding our chivalrous attempts to persuade folks to the contrary, but I never knew how dreadful they could be till I read last week of the domestic trouble of an old gentleman at Plurnstead. He had loved not wisely but too well; that is to say, when advanced in years he had espoused a young woman, and on his wedding day his three married daughters came to congratulate him. This they did by knocking at his door for twenty minutes apiece all night, and eventually throwing alarge stone through the window of his nuptial chamber. The magistrate before whom the case was brought endeavored to convince them that their papa had a right to marry if he liked ; to which they replied they rather pitied than blamed him. In the end the good Cadi expressed his hope that " they would shortly be at peace and harmony not only with their father, but their stepmother also." I have heard all sorts of epithets applied to police magistrates j the term for this gentlemen is "sanguine."