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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 288, 3 December 1881, Page 3

A very inncceafc remark was made at Cbristchurch the other day by one of the fair sex »ho was viewing, from behind the willows, the recent "Maiden Fouh " race of the C.R.C. As tbe crews pulled by, the fair damsel, peering through tbe leafy screen on tbe bank, caught a glimpse of the mmtachiof d crew, and in a tone of astonishment, and apparent vexatioD, sne was heard to exclaim—" Why these are men ! They are not maidens 1" Lord Nortbbrock, who is at present the bead of the British navy, in compliance rvi r b tbe wish of many, has made amngsnaent s by which cocoa is to be substituted at certain tines for grog. Lemon water and birley water are now to be seen on tbe tables of most great houses, while at the London clnb3, daring tbe past summer, the run on the iced barley water waa very greai. The worse a politician is, the greater the fuss he will make when an accusation is male against him. It is estimated by a dry goods merchant of Philadelphia that 100,000 dols worth of monrning good 9 were sold there on the day after the death of Garfield. One of the highest compliments ever paid a people was the recent assertion of a Mormon missionary thafcthere are no Irish among the Latter Day Saiuts. A day or two ago a farmer in the neighbour - hood of Titnaru turned a flock of some 300 sheep into a clover paddock, in whi.-h there was a large quantity of sorrel Eighteen hours after the sheep had been placed in the field the owner visited the flock, and found to his vezation andastonishmei tnoless than 40 of the number lying dead, and some fourscore or so of the others m extremis By dint of bleeding 70 of the latter were saved. Eating of the sorrel is supposed to have been the cause of death.