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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3825, 1 April 1881, Page 1

A ■weiteb o< Melbourne notes says :—I have often had the pleasure to admire the 000 l manner in which women get out of a difficulty before which a man would shrink appalled. But I never admired the coolness of any feminine more than I did that of a lady at the Exhibition the other day. Her attention had been attracted by a somewhat complicated invalid chair, warranted, so far as I could see, to get a siok man out of bed, take him out for a walk, and put him to bed again, without any external aid whatever. Most of the visitors had; up to this, avoided any rash experiments with this article of human ingenuity. But this lady was not so easily daunted. Not only did she manage to induce an attendant to explain the machinery to her, but, eventually persuaded, him to get into the chair and parade the court. When slw haddorie.thia, aa .admiring crowd had''gradually collected, she calmly took the opportunity, and faded away, leaving the unhappy -attendant to wonder what the deuce* he'had'been giving himself all the trouble about. Two mormon elders, John'P. Sorensan ard John S. Ferris, endeavored to h'old'a meeting at Terrace End, Paltnerston North, on Sunday week, but their efforts, judging from a somewhat singular effusion written by Soranson to the Manawatu Standard, do not appear to have been very kindly received. The following is an extraot {verbatim et literatim) from the elder's doleful narrative—"At the first Meeting four Women arid a Crowd of Men praps fifty or more Gathered the First halve hour all went along smoothly but then tke Row commence, after several attempts to be heard, wich was answered by yelling arid hooting, and the Arguments of Boiled Potatoes Rotten Squash and Green Peaches wich was pelted after the Elders Heads in.a Pall Mall manner the meeting was cloiea by a few wordi of prayer by Elder Ferris, wben the Elders left under a shwer of abuse and Kitohea Refuse from the Crowd who mostly adjourned to the Nearest Pup for Refreshment after their ardeous Labours." " SItiTEK Pbn " writes to the New Zealand Herald from San Francisco : —" On the return of tho whaling fl.et ihis present season, a captain of one of the vessoia reportedJa singular discovery which ho had made while on shore at Alaska, north of this country. Trading with the natives, he, with, bis mate and one or two seamen, went, by the invitation of the chief, some distance inland, where he noticed a peculiar looking mountain, which they ascended, and, bein? struck with the metallic appearßnco of the boulder, took an axe and chopped a portion cf the mountain. After piokihg up several loose stones they returned. When these spe imens were shown to an assayer in this city, he pronounced thorn silver, assaying 6000 dollars to the ton. A party, is now forming to proceed hence early in spring. Considerable excitement is felt over the result of bowing down the Silver ! Mountain." It is estimated that ilvo thousand persons spent £40,000 in gambling over the last Dunedin races, liy means of totalisator*, £15,000; consultations, £15,000; and'bets, £10,000. £40,00J in gambling at a single race meeting .' Yet there are persons who declare that gambling is not a prevalent vice in New Zealand. Four things are required in a wife— virtue in; her heart, modesty in her face, gentleness on her lips, and industry inner hauds. , ■ '