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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 25 June 1881, Page 3

Another evidence of the growing prosperity of New South Wales may be found iv the large number of public works in progress. The additions to the new General Post Office are being vigorously prosecuted, and are estimated to cost £205,000 ; four new lighthouses are in course of construction at a cost of about £55,000 ; the Ballau Park Lunatic Asylum, which will cost £229,000, is being rapidly pushed on ; about £50,0C3 are being expended in ihcrfiasing the fortifications ; the Goulburn Gaol, now iv course cf erection, is to cost £57,800 ; while numerous Courthouses and post and telegraph offices bring the total of works in progress (exclusive, of course, of railway extensions) up to £750,000. " Gorman ladies of good family, " are seriously competing with English governesses. The English picture trade is principal])' in German hands. The ranks of labor are crowded with Gorman workmen. We have Gernan architects and German professors of all kinds. Germans engineering firms compete successfully with ours. Their cheap contracts are frequently accepted in preference to those of English firms for work of considerable magnitude, as they not only bring ironwork from Germany, but German workmen as well. We have everything from Germany at the lowest possible figure, even to tbe humble German potato, which, it is asserted rivels, the Irish article in quality as it does in cheapness. And yet we do not Boycott our Teutonic friends. On tbe contrary, we hold out our arms and receive them as brothers, though we stand in danger of being ruined by German cheap labour and German competition generally. These are surely facts which should make the subjects of the Kaiser be a little more tolerant of Israclitish competition—" London World." An Edinburgh solicitor, recently deceased , used to tell with great glee how he was once visited by an elderly respectable-look ing man who stated that he had come to bave his will drawn up. Seeing the prospect of a good, client, the solicitor devote 1 much time to drawing up the instrument, in which property, shares, and funds to a considerable amount were assigned to crrtain relatives. When the client had paid many visits, and was at length pleased with the wording of the will, the solicitor asked where the property, &c, was invested. The client replied, " Oh, I haven't any ! I only want my relatives to see after I'm dead what 1 would have done for them had I been able " la regard to the appetite of Chang, the Chinese giant, who visifed New Zealand some years ago, the National It? publican, Washington, has the following :— "For breahfisf, when he was feeling well, be drank a large pot of coffee, a pitcher of milk, he eat three pounds of steak, two good sized trout, half a-dr zen hot rolls, with a few etceteras thrown in, and a lot of fruit to taper off with. Mr Chang always emerged from these dietetic cntests smiling. The landlord felt relieved when Mr Chang had taken his departure. II( j was a very pleasant, quiet guest, but £1 dn per days does not, as a rule, balance his table performances." The idea of placing an ermed guard to protect a lighthouse i 9 both original and amusing, yet such a protection is to brafforded tbe Cape Egmont lighthouse. About £8000 has been fxpe-'ded on this structure, and whilst the inanimate sentinel is the silent means of keeping vessels from being wrecked, twelve armed men and 0 sergeant are provided so that it shall not be wrecked by the Natives. — Taranaki News. It is remarkable what little bites a woman takes when eating in the presence of her sweetheart. What a little mouth she ha? then ! She nibbles with her little white teeth like some dainty pquirrel eating a hickory nut. But wait till waihiay comes ? Watch her when she goes to hanging out clothes and gets in a hurry. By th 9 time that ehc gets the big ends of fifteen clothes-riina hid in that mouth you will begin to thick that it is a pretty good-sized, hearty mouth after all. The trail of blood. — A correspondent writes to the Hera d from S*n Francisco : — Consequent upon tbe acquittal of bo many slayers of men, as might be expectod, the epidemic spreads apace. N t a week passes without a shooting or stabbing affair — more often they are bi weekly. Last week a woman was found about two o'clock in the morning sittiug on a doorstep bathed in blood. She could not speak, and while tlu peopltJ who found her lifted her on a rnc"e stretcher, hastily thrown together, the vital spark fled. Who was she ? No one could tell ; but the bloodhounds of the law found the trail — a broad one — of blood, which the* followed up for quite a long distance. Ii rested at a doorway, passing through which the sleugh hounds entered, and following uf. the crimson stain, paused at a bed made or the floor, on which lay a man spotted over with blood, and among the bedclotbeis a large bntcher's knife, bleed stained, whf found. The brute wag partially drank, and, when taken to the City Prison, seemed wild about the wife be bad sent into eternity, not believing that she was dead, and pleading drunken insanity ; but this is only one case I could fill up my letter with the most harrowing tales of bloodshed, which occur mor' or less every day. Whether it ig the climate or the increased wickedness of man I cannot say, but in this State most certainly we are in tbe " ace of blood." The following facts about railroads from an American commercial journal tend to encourage the progessive devclopmet of lines in a country like this : — "People now living had reached manhood and womenhood when the first railroad was put in operation in the United States. The present development of that interest has been obtained within about fifty years. But in a money point of view the railroad Interest is greater than that of the Government. It collects and disburses more money than the Government. It owes more and pays more interest. Two years ago the capital stock of railroads amounted to 2,522,257,877 dollars. The debt of the same roads was 2,480,030,482 dollars. It is stated that a quartar of a million of men are employed by these roads in various capacities. The number of stockholders and persons indirectly interested in the ownership i=i estimated at about the same figures as employes, The capital stock of the railroads was equal to about one-seventh of the assessed value of property in the Union. Their earnings were more thau twice as much as the total receipts of the United States Government, and their profits were 25,000,000 dollars more than the entire expenditure of the Government. It may be added that railroads are built as fast as ever.

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