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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 218, 5 November 1880, Page 2

Up to the 27th Octoher inclusive, 94,549 persons, including season ticket-holders, paid for admission to the Melbourne Exhibition. Three thousand four hundred paid on the 27th. There waß not a single bed unlet at any of the first-class hotels in Melbourne on the 27th October. A story has been freely circulated (says the Port)' to the effect that the principal reason which influenced the Government iD appointing Sir F. D. Bell Agent- General is that they are desirous of hi* services iD London in order to prepare the way for raising another loan in 1882. This ia a pure canard. The only reason wbich influenced the appointment of Sir F. Dillon Bell was hit special fitness for a post which it was deemed . necessary tj) fill suitably and at once. Tht question of another . loan has not yet been even broached in the C*hinet, and wo understand there is not the slightest probability of the subject being even considered for at least another year and a half, as we are wholly debarred from applying to the London money market for two years Btill toconiß aad unexpired. Even a rumor that the Government had already begun to contemplate and prepare for a new loan is calculated to injure the credit of this colony at home, and the circulation of such wild guesses cannot, tberefore, be too firmly discountenanced. A popular photographer at Temuka put his shop on wheels the other day and disappeared, heading towards Timaru via Pleasant Point. He had been iv the habit of enjoining the public to " secure the shadow ere the substance fades," bufc ifc is currently rumoured that he was scared away from Temuka by the appearance of a Civil servant so reduced that even his shadow could not be taken. Patrick on the z .bra— " Phafc kind of. a baste is that — tbe mule wid his ribs on the outside of hia shkin entoirly ? " , llm i mm ■ mi ii _l_rin.i_, -lir*" ' ■■—**-■■*-