LATEST TELEGRAMS. THIS DAY. (by electric telegraph.) [from our own correspondent.]

Evening Post, Volume V, Issue 73, 7 May 1869, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. THIS DAY. (by electric telegraph.) [from our own correspondent.]

\^ DUNEDIN. Mi". Co Van has been elected for Wallace, 'Southland, in the stead of Mr. M'^feiU. Mr. Cowan is opposed to Mr. Stafford's policy. Mr. M'Neill was a Ministerial supporter.

The position of a bar-girl is very odd. ! It is neither one thing nor another. We are dressed up like ladies j we look like ladies, but we ain't. I know we're not, because the gentlemen laugh at us, and look at each other sometimes when we say things. The young swells make love to us, but they would never marry us. Those that would marry us we wouldn't have. There's a deal of love of one kind or another wasted upon us bar-girls. It hurts the young men more than it does us. ' We get used to flatteries — we hear them all day long ; but each young man thinks that lie is the party that has made the impression. We are the ruin of many . young men, without being able to help it. They come spooning round us, and in hanging about I the bar they learn to drink. 1 have known a young man. drink a whole bottle of brandy in nips in the course of an afternoon. He didn't want the nips, and only took them to have an excuse for standing at the bar and talking with us. I have seeu many young men go to the bad this way, under my very eyes. I have seen them drowning iv liquor, as it were, without having the power to rescue them ; for of course it would never do for us to refuse them drink, unless they were much the worse and noisy. The nonsense I have listened to ! — the grasps of the hand I have had ! — the deep-drawn sighs 1 have heard breathed over the porkpies and sausage rolls ! — the oceans of champagne I have seen poured "out on the shrine of our fascinations ! Poor young men, if they only knew what fools we think them. ! — " The Refreshment Girl," in Routledge's Christinas Annual. A Windfall. — For several months past a rumour has been circulating at Oxford that a tradesman ot that city I had become the possessor of a large and valuable estate as the result of certain I Chancery proceedings. The report has turned out to be perfectly true, the fortunate individual being Mr. W. H. Walter, of the High-street, who has unexpectedly become the owner of lauded aud other property valued at £80,000. Some 20 years ago a sister of Mr. Walter was engaged to be married to a gentleman named Dancer, the owner of large property, residing at Harrow-on-the-Hill. The wedding day was nxed, and all the preparations were made, when Mr. Dancer was seized with, an illness which terminated fatally on the very day that had been appointed for the marriage. Before his death he bad made a will bequeathing the whole of his landed estates to his intended bride. A Chancery suit was immediately instituted by the friends of the deceased with a view to set aside the will, and while this was pending the lady in question was married to another gentleman ; although several children were born they all died in infancy, and the lady herself died about two years ago, when her legal claim to the property was yet undecided. Alter a long course of litigation Mr. Walter lias succeeded in obtaining a decree of the Court of Chancery establishing his claim as heir-at-law, and last week he took posseasion of the property, one estate being situate in the neighbourhood of Harrow, and another in the county of Southampton. A heavy blow at political ardour in women has been struck by the Limerick Bench. An enthusiast, named Eliza .Nunau, had been found guilty of assaulting a gentleman who took a prominent part in the recent borough eleotiou, and on her being brought up for sentence, the Chairman (Mr. John Loahy, Q.C.), addressing the woman, said — " It appears that you and a nuniber of other women make an occupation at times of an election, Municipal as well as Parliamentary, of forming yourselves into a body to extort drink and money. In Limerick, it seems, there is a number of females who are only to be looked upon as monsters in human form — who, like fierce savages, go about the city to do just as they please. It is a feaful state of society, and doesn't exist anywhere else in this country. When a breach of the peace is apprehended through your violent conduct, I don't see why a magistrate should not l^ave you all arrested and locked vp r iv prison until after the election ia^over. Women who were exaininecU&n your on behalf seemed to think it was a matter of course to act in the Way they had done, but I must show them the contrary. I am going to deal leniently with you, as you are a .

married woman, and have three children. The sentence ia that you be imprisoned for six months, at hard labour." Not yet quiet crushed, Mrs. Nunan cried, as she left the dock, " I h>r n in God Miather Taifc will succeed. Hurrah for him." Fokty Million SovySitEioNs. — "We have made 40 million sovereigns in the last tea yeavs — lots of lkaney '. and 13 million half-sovereigns, leaving out a few hundreds of thousands as of no account. Altogether thoW beautiiullyformed pieces of gold, so nice aud round, so neatly stamped, so reverenced by tinkers aud tailors, by dukes and dustmen, number neai'ly 54 millions, weigh 12 million ouucea, and are worth 47 millions sterling. "Who can imagine 40 million sovereigns 7 Who can realise to himself such a mountain of treasure 1 It is said that the late Mr. Oavvshay, the ironmonger, left seven millions sterling ; we do not know how this may be, but even then we are talking of six-GVawslmy power. Forty million sovereigns weigh nearly 300 tons. If jjilod one upon another (supposing them nnf to topple over, which, however, is a hopeless suppo9*tion), the golden column would reach seven times as high as the loftiest mountain on the earth's surface, and would be able to look the moon boldly in the face. If spread out as a square carpet, they would cover a floor ten times as large as that of Westminster Hall. If made into a golden pathway, 6ft wide, fit for empressco and princesses to walk upon, they would reach from Victoria Station to the Crystal Palace — be it high Level or be it Low. Low AND 'JI3IE. — " But, father, you know love makes time fly/ said an enthusiastic daughter, who was arguing in favor of a longer bridal trip than usual. "Yes, my dear, I know it does afc first," replied the old gentleman ; "but you'll fiad in the end time will make love fly." Many women have the materials of happiness placed within their reach, but not one in ten knows how to manufacture anything out of them except ennui.