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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1922, 2 March 1875, Page 4

A cobebspoitobnt writes to the Post stating that it has come under his notice that young men are now being shipped at the port of Wellington as seamen, whoso sole seafaring knowledge consists in having come out there as Government immigrant*. He thinks the Customs authorities and insurance agents are to blame in allowing ships to go to sea with a crew of greenhorns, none of whom would be able to go aloft or take in sail in case of a sudden storm, and he names ships which have left so circumstanced. In Queen Victoria's crown there are 1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose diamonds, and 147 table diamonds, 1 large ruby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 email rubies, and 217 pearls—a total of 2,186 precious stones. The statistical editor of the Times, Grand Island, Nebraska, says:— 90,000,000,000,000,----000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, grasshoppers, at least, passed over here yesterday. There might have been a few more or less, as we did not count them very closely. It is explained, on behalf of Wilson, the Dunedin champion, who was expected to take the prize belt, as the cause of the falling off in his shooting at the last range; on Saturday, that he was among those nearly drowned by the upsetting of the pontoon. He lost his rifle, jand had to shoot vdth a strange one. At Hokitika, a few days since, a little infant was very nearly carried out to sea. It had been left on a log on the beach, and a roller coming up the child was being carried away, when a boy about ten years of age, the sen of Mr Parker, bootmaker, boldly rushed into the water and rescued the child. Mb Feedeeice Haedman, who for about twenty-five years has acted as correspondent of The Times- in different parts of Europe, has just died at Paris at the age of sixty-one. The Times, in concluding an obituary notice of the deceased gentleman, observes: — "Nothing save an analysis of the contents of this journal for many years back would enable any one to appreciate the extent and magnitude of his work."' On the last evening Mrs. P. M. Bates appeared in Wellington, a very pleasant surprise awaited her at the conclusion of the first piece. Mr J^. P. Hydes, commissioned by a few of this talented lady's admirers, suddenly advanced, and in a short, pithy speech presented Mrs F. M. Bates with a handsome necklace and a massive gold cross, also a pair of beautiful god earrings, stating they were a souvenier from a few of her admirers. This presentation, in these presentation days, coming so modestly and unexpectedly, must have been more gratifying to the lady than had it been publicly announced and preceded by a torchlight procession. These unheralded marks of favor must indeed be gratifying to the receiver, as well as to the givers.