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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 27, 10 February 1863, Page 3

A Relic of Lobd Nelsox; — The Times, of Ist October, in calling attention to tho collection in the Intercolonial Exhibition, of the works iu jewellery and precious metals, by British artistes, mentions a " curious monument formed out of the eighty-four guineas found in Nelson's pocket after his death at Trafalgar. Tho guineas are disposed in a pyramidal roof, supported by four figures in gold, over a small golden urp." The artist's name is not given. It is exhibited by a Mr Hancock.

Eu9H Firks. — We regret to learn that the fires which, for some weeks back, have overspread parts of the country, and been productive of considerable damage have reached the principal bushes and proved most destructive in there effects. At the i'ohui we are sorry to hear that great losses have been sustained by those who have been devoting their energies to the newly sprung Up timber trade. Mr Marhell has lost no less than 10,000 poste ; Mr Munro 20,000 feet sawn timber and 2000 remo rails ; and Mr Proctor (in the Pakiaka) a quan ity of split stuff as well as his whare and its content?. Tbe house occupied by Mr Parsons, together with fences, &c. h.ad a very nnrrow escape from destruction ; as it is, the surrounding foliage has been swept away and the beauty of the situation wholly destroyed. A fire was burning in the i'ohui some two or three months ago, and it is possible that some of the embers' may not have been wholly extinguished. There is, however, a difference of opinion as to immediate canse of the present conflagation — some ascribing it to afire left by Mr Munro's men, and others to the burning of fern on part of Major Whitmore's mn. It broke out on Tuesday the 6th inst., during a strong nor-west wind and burned furiously for two or three days — resisting every attempt to save the posts &C, all of which were ready for floating dawn the Mangaone. The lire is still smoking, although no longer dangerous. — Homevvood .'tush also been severely visited, and it is feared that Mr Tiffen's loss will amount to a large sum. Kereru is also ou fire. — Hawkcs Bat/ Herald Mrs. G.AJir iv a Friendly Society. — In the published official correspondence of the past year between the liegi«tr».i of Friendly Societies and the local officers of those societies, the following curiosity finds a place; the signaiure is not given: — " bir, — I would he very much obliged lo vou if you would send us word wat wee ad beter doo ; one our members as been sick and clamed the benefit of our sooiely, and wile he was on the box the stuard went to visit him. He was feeding pigs ; the pigs was nat his oun, they belonged to his landlord, at a publick where he lodged at. The stuard ae«<l him caring the wash acrossthe yard, wich contray to our rules. We referd'to the rule 20 and 2s, wich we caled a comity, and excluded him by our laws in the usel manei ; wich he as obtained two sunmnses for \he stuards. wich they a*. ended before the bench of mages-H-ates, wich they asked him if he did it with intent to earn money, wich he replyed, no, sire, ; then themagestra.es asked him how long he Had been in the society, and he say od seven years ; and they ivccned it up wilt he had paid in the society, and wat he had received out, and they said they must pay him thedifference, with was 0 pounds wich the socieiy thinks it a very ilenal thin^, wich the man has no trade ; he is a m m at any calin^, wich is a labourer, wich is a very unsatisfactory thing for us to have the society registered, and the socieiy can'l go by the ru'es; wich the 2fi rule s-iies that if a member be f.und cng:i»(?d in any kind of woik before he fi.'s I declared off the box he shull be excluded, wich the magistrates did not call fed ing pigs work, wich there area great inanny jnearly kept for nothing els but to fed pig-. Tiie ma^estiMtes would not heare but \ory 1 1 lie the we ml ji<H l° ; they f-aid we must other pay him four weeks" monny, and take him into the socieiy again, or give the diferan>-e, wich I hiisk j'ou, sir, if the society has lo pay the difevnncc whether she can't stop the docror monny. wii-h i^ three shilling-? a year, and the expence of the club room, wich is threepence every club night, wich the society would he very much obliged to you if you send us word vrnt the society hnd bitter doo in il as «-oon as you cin mako. it conveieiif. So henre I remain your affectionate ." — Times, Oct. 1. Frightful Accident to a Somxambuust. — -Yesteriliiy morning a most painful accid'Mit ha ppencfl to a ni;in nimed Robert May, aged 'A6 \ears, who \v;is nccujiyinc apartments at Mr. Spill's hoM-!:ng house, iN'n. -10 High street, Shadwell. The I sufferer, who was about to leave iCn^lanil I for .New Z^alanf!. nnd had p;iid for his pasbtue in the Chnriot of Fame, which lefi the London Docks yesteiday afternoon, had htvn drinking with several friends un til a lute hour on the previous ni»ht. lie retired to rest in one of the bedrooms on I the third floor, and nothing more was heard of him until the morning, when one of the servants proceeded into the yard and disc' vertd him lying upon the stone fln^s bleeding from a wound in the head and oilier injuries. A medical man promptly attended, and found that the poor fellow I) -id received an extensive fracture of the skull and compound fmctuies of both leg.--, with extensive contusions o\er the body and limbs. He was at once conveyed to the London Hospital, where every assistance was rendered, but the injuries were such that slight hopes were entertained of his surviving many hours. It was ascertained that lie had been subject to sleepwalking The bedroom window was found to be wide open, and he must have fa 1 ' n about 45 feet. Li) 4s od in cash was found in his room, wilh numerous memorandums showing that he was a native of Belfast. —Globi, Oct. 24. Russia in 18fi2.— Tlio Emperor of all the Ttussias is so surrounded by tre.von and detestation that he lives in daily fear, and dreads the presence alike of his denrest noble friend and his most obsequious slave. The troubles in Warsaw, too are frightful to contemplate, the chiefs of p. dice are struck down on the lhre-li' ! 1 where their terrible mandates arc wr. uen, ihe oppressped people totally disregarding the dreadful Knssian punishment of arrest and 1 execution, knout, and exile, but still ihe Cznr pursues tlie Siberian policy, nml strives by barbarous wholesale banishment to quiet "the still small voice" of the " Kolokol" which tinkles throughout his enormous possessions, in the p;ilace and in the cabinet, the hut and ihe barracks. I with afear ful sound like " Duncan's knell " Surely there can bs no wonder at the v;iicano "which is ready to blaze forth and spread its fiery lava over the empire, when we Tead ihe atrocious conduct of the re forming Alexander. Men, women, and children are slaughtered in the public sireets ; scores and scores of officer^ high in rank, are made to run the gauntlet, while hundreds of the nohles, young and old, are exiled to Siberia, and have to walk the long military road to their infernal prison, a journey which occupies \i months io accomplish, and dunni? which many die of want and fatigue, dm \t I e expected that even a Russian serf will for ever endure this horrid barbarism I — London Cor respondent. — Otaqo Daily Times. Trn? Tnkocent Cofntrtman avd the Sharp Omnibus Conductor. —At the Clerkenwell Police Court, London, a young man, well dressed, wbo snid be had come from Yorkshire for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, applied to Mr I)' K yn court for a summons ngainst an omnibus Conductor, under the following eirouinstiinces : — The applicant stated that he wus vidincr home fiom the Exhibition on tbc top of an omnibus, when be gave the conductor a halP-eroivn to take bis f'nre from. The conductor jl'iivo him 2s (id in change, and nrnontrst it «'ns a shilling of Qom-ge tho Fourth, date ISG2, having on tho back of it a lion. Fancying thnt the shilling was not all right, he asked the conductor if it, was so. The conductor bewail scratching bis bead, said (hat tho lion backed shillings were very valuable, in consequence of their being so scuree, ftnd that he (applicant) might soon earn a fortune, as he could hav eighteen pence for every one he could grt o l ' them. (A laugh.) He also said that he was sorry he bad given him (applicant) the shilling, but as it was done he could not help it, but ns be wanteJ one very particularly to give to his a^reetbenrt, h

would give him eighteen pence for tho one he ha'" 1 ' He (applicant) said he should at once have it, on which tho conductor grave him eiglit penny pieces. (A. laugh.) ' Ha (applicant) told him that he was wrong, and that he had promised him eighteen pence for the shilling: pioce, on which the conductor and passengers outside burst into aroar of laus-liter, and the conductor said he bad done no such thine ; all he had promised he had performed, namely, given him eight, in pence for the shilling, and he might do what ho liked for the other fourpence, for be did not care for the magistrate. (A lnushi) Under Hiese circumstances lie had to apply for a summons to compel the conduct df to refund the four ponce. Mr D'Kyncourt snid the applicant seemed to have been very foolish in the mattpr, and referred him to the Connty Court. He thought applicant had better let tlio affair rest. — JEngiisJi paper.