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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 243, 12 May 1868, Page 3

The late Captain Nicholls.— Some of our readers will not have forgotten the voyage of the Cornish fishing hoat Mystery-, from Cornwall to Melbourne, and they will be interested in the story of the fate of the brave fellow who commanded the little craft, as told in the last Itome Neios, as follows : —ln 1851 an old-fashioned sixton [thirteen-ton ?] mackerel boat was half-decked in Mount's Bay, and sailed for Melbourne. She was manned by some hardy fishermen of Newlyn, who, attracted by the news of the gold discoveries, thought they might fish off" the Australian coast, and supply the gold-diggers with food from the deep. The little craft arrived safe at the Cape of Grood Hope, was there intrusted with the mails, and went on to Melbourne. Richard Nicholls was her captain. Since then he has been a master in the merchant service, and of late commanded the Jane Seymour, whose latest work was to load in the St Katherine's Docks for Buenos Ayres. On "Wednesday, Feb. 12 he lefthis brokers' in the Minores, -about half-past five, and in a few minutes he was carried to the London Hospital. At a street crossing he was knocked down by a cart, laden with live pigs, and never spoke again. He leaves a widow and six children. A few days before he had insured his life at Penzance." On hearing of the accident, the Rev. A. Vawdrey, M.A., vicar of St. Agnes, Cornwall, wrote to the Times, as follows : —" The .skill and courage which enabled poor Nicholls to overcome the perils of a voyage of many thousand miles over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were not sufficient for his more dangerous steering through our London streets. In the gladness of his heart at the confidence placed in him by the owners of the Jane Seymour, to which ship he had only a few days previously been appointed captain, on the morning of his death he had written most cheeringly to his wife. She received his letter by post at eleven o'clock the next day, and in two hours afterwards came the telegram informing her that she was a widow, with six young children to support. Could a few drops out of the streams of charity that are flowing eastward be spared to refresh this unfortunate widow in the west, they might not be misapplied. I would gladly see them conveyed to her."

Chignons havefallen; those abominations have at last come to grief, and there is scarcely one to be seen in all Paris. The fiat of fashion has gone Forth, and chignons are abolished. The new way of doing the hair is to roll it up into a large flat cart wheel on the top of the head, coming to within an inch of the forehead. It requires no artificial aid. — Ladies Own Paper. Aster viewing their wonderful illuminations at home, the other night, for two or three hours, during which the children were delighted, yonng five-year-old Went tip to his mother and said, " Ma, let's unlummate, for I'm tired.' ' This brought down the house,' and his ma unluminated.