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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1881, Page 2

This is how a storm, occurring on fche continent of America, was an icipated seventytwo hours in- England by the electric .park. The telegram; which was sent from 2.ew York, rani— "A dangerous storm is crossing, and will probably an ive "oil the British, Norwe' iin, and French coasts between the -slh a D d 7th, preceded and ;... nded b 3 r rain, snow in the north and south-east, backing to .the northwest gales. Atlantic very stormy I north of latitude 4f).- H . There is a disagreement in Christchurch wiih teference to the award of the bowling I troprly in fche late match, Canterbury ii. AuaI tralia. It is complained that, though Secrefcau had, strictly speaking, the best average, Frith did best Bervice. The latter bowled 211 balls for £6 runs, 24 maidens, and 3 wickets, givicg him au average of 19 runs per wicket, while, Soeretau bowled 68 balls, ,3 maidens, fdr 35 riihßtthd 2 wickets, or 174 runsper wicket. The Timts points out tnafc Lillywhite waa called upon at Adelaide, in 1877, to settle a similar despiite, and he decided that when a trophy is offered for the best .average, it must be given to the bowler who obtains his wicketa at least cost. Tu th.t inetiincb 1 tho^prize-had to-bo given to a man. who'-bowled about ! - 10 balls and got two wickets ;/tbo"i_gh another player, like Frith, had b'owled long and well, and had a slightly worse average. The remedy is to offer the trophy for the best bowling, A" terrible snowstorm, _ays a telegram by the San Francisco mail, is reported from Alta, Utah. Great sheets of snow fell eo fast that it was impossible to venture outside. Slides in the mountains were frequent, and came crashing down, carrying aw.y houses, telegraph lines, and causing dire confusion. At 12 o^c.lock an avalanche enveloped the Victoria boarding-h.use, burying it and two men inside twenty feet deep. After a lapse of ten hoursj the men were rescued, having dug their way. out. This slide continued down the mountaia, and swept away another house, burying a mother and four children, who were got out dead. Other fatal casualties occurred, and terror prevails throughout the canon. The Christcl'urch Liberal Association is in a bad way, financially at aay rate. - " The sight of a creditor," s*ys tho Globe, "'endeavoring to grasp tbe association for interested purposes puts oue in mind very much of the fine old English sport of catching a pig with a greasy tail, with this exception, that iu the gamo the caudal appendage of the animal finally has the grease worn off it, and then the pig falls an easy prey, where, a the slipperiness of the association has, up to the present date, remained totally unim paired. The low-toned individuals in search of coin are referred from one high official to another, and abandon the undertaking iu despair, with a general impression that upholders of oppressed nationalities, like similarly emploj'ed gentlemen alwaya to be found in the vicinity of Leicester Square, London* are nofc always a ' good mark ' — we mean, of course, in their character oi universal patriots." Thafc Yankee and British manufacturers are not the only people who practice adulteration may be known from the statement of Mr Medhunt, a British official iu China, who recently wrote that fifty-three thousand pounds of willow leaves were being made ready to be mixed with teas at one port alone. The Czar has given his uew wife jewels, belonging to the late Empress, worth more than a million and a quarter of dollars She was in debt, they say, when she first attracted his attention, for a five-rouble silver ring ! It is rumored thafc Te Whiti contemplates removing to a more healthy and fortunate locality. The reason assigned for tbis are that toadstools are beginning to grow round the foundation of the whares of the village, thafc in clearing the bush in the ncighbood the trees are constantly hung up and refuse to come to the ground, and thafc the crops are failing by over-cultivation. We (Taranaki News) cannot vouch for the truth of this rumor, and give it for what ifc is worth. It is also said that Te Whiti has been making overtures to Te Motu for a community cf -interests, and for permission to reside at Punehu. < ■ Writing about Mr Parnell's mission to the United States, thb New York " Herald" says — -" If Mr Parnell could carry oufc his crazy programme, mud cabins would be as numerous ten years hence in Ireland as in 1841.' What we sayvtherefore, to th'eTrish of the United States is cot to give one cent for Mr Parnell and his crowd, but millions to help emigration to this country. Here is room for all who come ;.. cheap .fertjle., lands;, eyery Irish family •' may- easily, with industry, and economy, own its own acres.;* here is work "at good wages ; no landlords, no bailiffs , but let us have no Fenian nonsense;; no proposition to free Ireland by processions 3000 miles off. , Tbat does no go.od ; ifc only, fills adventurers' and demagogues' pockets.' s '■''.-.'■ Mr. Abbey, the manager of Booth's Theatre, ' has coramuriicated to an interviewer full particulars of the "results of .-the Bernhardt' season in New York.", From his. point of, view i they have ' been 'highly satisfactory. ', Mdllc, Bernhardt played twenty-four nights, i and the receipts amounted to a- total of £20;000. The highest takings ou any one night was £1127 on her 'first appearance in America^ the lowest £580, when The Sphinx ; was performed for the first time. ' Mr. Abbey ! says he paid the company -double what.' they get in France, but even at v that price the i profits are large. " Bernhardt always makes ' money even when she docs the worst Inisi-i ness/' In' Boston the "advance sale' ; of tickets' realised over £8000, and the takings for the fortnight's engagement there are expected to be higher pei' week than in New York, where 25,000 persons witnessed her performances. An old Bait, when asked'how far north he bad ever been, replied thafc he had been so far north that «' the cows, when milked beside a red-hot stove, gave ice-cream." i The Auckland Herald, referring to the visit of Major Atkinson and Mr Oliver to Invercargill, says:— "The Ministry are certainly not popular, and cannot expect to be popular with a certain clasß, and that a large and influential one, on account of the Ciril Service reductions. They are looked upon without any affection, to say the least of it, on account of the property tax; but no one believes these were the causes of the Invercargill demonstration, and indeed the demonstrators, themselves have taken care tbero shall bo no mistake on the subject. The Minister of Public Works was the bete noir of Invercargill. The mob in Auckland have had considerable reason to complain of neglect and delay ;in the Public Works Department, and if Mr Oliver was not groaned at here it would not be because we had nofc had abundant reason to express disapproval, but because we are singularly polite, patient, and forbearing. Mr Oliver, perhaps naturally, put down all his unpopularity to his zealous efforts in the cause of retrenchment. He is labouring uuder a mistake, however. His colleagues will not grieve much when he leaves tbem. If fche recent exhibition of feeliug; in Invercargill had been caused by ' Greyisrn ' the retirement of Mr. Oliver y/puld not do anything to appease lha irritation. As matters stand, however, it is not unlikely that the sacrifice of Mr Oliver, as a Jou.h who brings rotten eggs' on Ministers, tt .ll hav.e'some' effici in calming the storm.'' .1 .- -, '.. -, ". '. . Goats ought aiv ay a to be kept in large sjtahles,' because; ijuy 'trill,, fact_f Are, and; horses will follow "them buV though tteywould not go by tl empires.

The Christchurch Press of Monday, in the course of an article on Te Whiti, says:— " The hopes of the Government thafc the Maori prisoners, on their release, would separate themselves from Tc Whiti, and settle down quietly in their own homes, do nofc seem likely to be realised. The prisoners are, evidently, not wiser, though, perhaps, they may be sadder men for their confine- , ment. They are all returning to Parihaka; some of them, we believe, haviDg travelled hundreds of miles from the places where they were released, aud their faith in Te Whiti is unshaken. It is, we think, quite impossible for any ordinary European to conceive such a blind, unquestioning, unutterable trust as these poor people have iu an' imposture, wbich nevertheless is palpable enough to a mind open to reason. The most satisfactory feature, or rather we should say, perhaps, the only satisfactory feature of this aggravating business is, that in Te Wbili s present frame of mind it distinctly favours peace. The prisoners, who manifestly take their cue eniirely from him, are unanimous in the opinion that there will be no more ! fighting. They aro even prepared to Bee Te Wbiti put to death withou. any resistance, confident in the assurance that he will rise again. It is known for a positive fact that on one occasion, when they fancied the Go vernment were about to advance on Parihaka, they assembled in la.ge numbers to witness his crucifixion, and actually brought linen clothes in kits to wrap tho body of their prophet.'* , c. i i A Christchurch tcie^ of. Saturday says :-In answer is some, very vZC*- l w™ r remarks by the Dunedin Herald on the Ca.. terhury cificfeeters, the Tmes this morning publishes fl stinging rejoinder. Says the Ji>hesi~ "The truth i3 that this cricketing tour has Ifet looise a low class of beings— money-making Cockneys of the flippant order, or bawbee-loving Scotchmen ot the baser sort — who give themselves airs throughout New Zealand, hectoring, swaggering, and using coarse language, behaving like blatant, ill mannered, o/tensive boors, offering rudeness to the people of every towu which they enter; conducting themselves, in short, in every way like the backers of the rowing man Tricket, whose behavior in London has rendered the name of Australians perfectly hideous to al! respectable Englishman. *' This is understood td refer to the behavior of a Dunedin man connected with tha Australian team on the Christchurch cricket ground, where he made himself conspicuously offensive by his language and demeanour. A nev,- trouble is srtid to be bfewing over Ithe notorious Patetere block. The Waikato Mail says :— " Now that all restrictions have been removed from the sale of the Patetere block, and purchasers arc ready with their ,cnsh, the native owners bave become scr- . iously concerned, as to their respective interests. There arc two tribes who acknowledged ly own the land, the Ngatiraukawa and the Ngati Te Rangi, but they cannot agree us to their respective boundaries. The consequence has been that two sets of surveyors have laid out tho land claimed by each, and at various points these overlap, both parties claiming their surveyors lines as correct The near approach of. the lands Court has brought matters to a crisis, and a native came in yesterday and informed a person in the town that tbe disputants had been shooting at ono another for three days. In answer to a question, he said that no one •was either killed or wounded after the three day's engagement. The fact is that eacli party has been wasting a number of revolver cartridges in firing at no one in particular, but apparently discharging their arms as a mode of intimidation, without the least possible intentiou of usihg them with any murderous intent. We suppose the claims of these tribes will he settled by the court before the block as a whole is passed through. The Natural History of the Mule.— Tbe mule is bat boss and haf jackass, and then kums tow a full stop, Natur diskovering her mistake. Tha kant hear enny quicker nor further than the hoes, yet their ears are big eiiuff for snow sboes. You kan trust them with any one whose life ain't worth enny more than the mule's. Tha are reddy for use jist as soon as they will du tu abuse Tha ain't got enny friends, and will live on huckleberry busb, with an ockasional chanse at Kanada thissels. They are a modern invenshun, as i don't think the Bible alludes to them at tall. Tha never hav no disease that a good club won't heal. If fcha ever die tha must kum tu life agin, fori never herd nobody saw a" ded mule." Tha arelikesum men, very korrupt at barter ; ive known them to be good mules for nine months just' tu get a good chanse to kick sumbody. The only reason why tha are pashant is bekause tha are ashamed of themselfs. I would not sa what i am forced to sa agin the mule if his bi i th wont an outrage, and man wont (a blame for it. Tha are the strongest creeturs on earth, and heaviest, ackording tu their sise: I hen! tell ov one wbo fell oph from the tow-path but he kept rite on towing the boat to the next stashun, breathing through the ears, wbich stuck out of the water about 2 feefc 6 incbes; i didn't see this did, but an auctioneer told me ov it, and i never knew an actioneer tu lie unless ifc was absolutely convenient. — J. Billings. In no other country ia the world are so many wheat bags used as in California. Last year no less than 21,000,000 were required.