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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 128, 31 May 1881, Page 2

Apropos of the census in India, tbi 1 Darjeeliog News of February 21 says:— 11 There was a regular stampede amongst the Nepaulese coolies in thisdißtricton the night of the 17th February. There is hardly a garden which has not lost numbers of the labourers employed, and something like 2000 coolies bolted froiii the Teesta road works. A sort of unreasoning and unreasonable panic seized the people. The had a vague apprehension of some impending and inevitable calamity befalling them if they remained in their houses on the night of the final censu 0 being takeb, and they deserted their houses in crowds, preferring to pass the night in the jungle to remaining in their houses. One very prevalent notion among the Nepauleee waa that a child would be taken from each bouse by oi'der of the Government, and that the children^ heads would be cut off and placed under the foundations of the Teestabridge. Another notion was that a child from each house was to be put on the tram for the engine to run over, and another idea was that a man from each house waa to have his right arm cut off. The panic hai now entirely subsided, and the people are returning to their houses. The Alelootlme Bulletin has a clever and temperately written article on u The Parson we want." Having described the style of spiritual teacher we doirt want, it goes on to say! — And now let us come to "the parson we want." He is difficult to describe, but we most of us know him, and if we don't so much the worse for us. He is pre-eminently, a gentleman, and is almost always a university and public School man, but is not the sort of man who has been a saint all his life. Very often in his youth he has sown some wild oats, and if he has bitterly repented it he is none the worse fitted to deal with men and women as they are. He knows what is right and he does it fearlessly. His theological convictions are settled, and arc the result r of mature deliberation. Sometimes beginning as a Low Churchman, ho takes all that ia good from the High Church-' man ; in other cases, beginning as a High Churchman, he borrows from his Low Church brother. But in all cases he is a loyal son of the Church of England, and we are glad to know that she has many such. The Wellington correspondent of the Press says :— lt is understood that the Government sees its way to make both euda meet in the current year without any need of additional taxation, which therefore is not likely to be proposed. The plan as to further retrenchment is, as I telegraphed some weeks' ago, not to deduct 10 per cent, from every salary, but to reduce the aggregate by one-tenth, and to reduce salaries according- to circumstances by removing present discrepancies and anomalies, and by deducting 5, 10 or 20 per cent, according to whether the officer is paid highly or the reverse for his services. The reports circulated about the special reductions in the Police pay, &c, are wholly unfounded., 11 Where does your grain go to?V "Into the hopper, air." " What hopper?" «• Grasshopper," triumphantly shouted the small boy.