GIRLS' SCHOLARSHIP.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 139, 13 June 1881, Page 2

GIRLS' SCHOLARSHIP.

Table showing the result of tho .examination for the Nelson Girls' Scholarship, held June 9 ami JO, ]88l :-—

The San Francisco Poit says: -" Illustrative of the value of the New Zealand ai d Australian markets to the American roanu turers, we were informed by the general agent for the Deering harves er3 and twint bindn'J 1 , who arrived by the Zialandia, that he sold last Beason fifty odd machines in Sydney and Melbourne, and one hundred and eighty-six in New Zealand. Io his opinion, New Zealaud takes hold of an American invention much quicker than Australia does." Toe JUustrahd Sydney News, in its issue cf May 14th, gives an excellent cartoon of a Chioeae wife sale, which is a by no mean> uncommon event in the Australian haunts of the natives of the Flowery Land. Tbi Idescriptive letterpress of the Aews inform? us that "the price of a Chinese woman delivered in Sydney is £38; but two Cninese women only cost JE r 2. Therefore the heathen Chinese import their women in couples. Th( importer never sees bis women before tbej arrive, and then he generally selects the be9t looking one. The other is shown round to a number of well-to-do Chinese, and after they have inspected her, she is submitted to what may be called public auction." At Ihe salt under notice a girl of nineteen ye<rs was after some spirited bidding sold for £120. There is talk (9ays the Cromwell Argus) of a strong company of Chinese having combined to carry out a gigantic mining operation being no less tl.an bringing the water of tin-' Nevis Hirer to operate on the alhivial deposit of the Bannockburn. If the scheme should be carried out — and authorities say it is practicable— the extent of auriferous ground the water would command is very wide, and all carrying gold in more or less payable quantities. If there is ary truth in thr rumor, we much regret that Chinese are the movers, as it will result in the district being inundated by Mongolian laborers. | AH the London gas companies (says the [ Irish Banker) have given noiice of their intention, from the beguiling of 1881, to reducetheir prices— ihe Gaslight and Coke (Chartered) Compauy, from 3s 4-i to 33 2ci ; thf South Metropolitan Company, from 3s to 2.s lOi ; the Commercial, from 3* 3d to 33 ; enri the London, from 3a 3d to 3s per 1000 cubic feet. The Oneida community at Niagara 3?all> is going to build r spoon factory. There i» no much "spooning" by bridal couples at Niagara Falls that such a factory may bt necessary there.

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