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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 31, 10 April 1866, Page 3

Dunedix, Friday, 4 p.m.— Jones convicted of murder at Waipori, was executed to-day. A Monkish Rebellion' ox Mount Sinai.— An Alexandria letter .reports a monkish rebellion on Mount Sinai. It. appears that Archbishop Cyrille, of the convent of St. Catherine, having given some cause of offence to his monks, they mutinied in a body, seized his grace, and shut him up in the black hole of the convent. News of the affair having been sent by an adherent of the Archbishop to Cairo, the Viceroy has despatched a company of troops to effect the release of the prelate, and restore his authority in the convent. — Levant Htrald, January 3. Taxi> t o a -Miracle.— A convent has been erected on the mountain of La Salette, and the water from the miraculous spring is made an article of great | profit by the monks, who bottle it and sell it at a ! fixed price. A case of these bottles having arrived I in Paris the otlier day, it was stoped at the octroi, and the officials, when they discovered what it was, were sorely puzzled to decide under what category of liquids ifc was to be placed. It was at length determined to tax it as mineral water. " How rapidly they build houses now," said Cornelius to an old acquaintance, as he pointed to a neat two-storey house. ■ "They, commenced that house only last week, and they are -already putting in the lights."—" Yes," rejoined his friend ; and next week they will be putting in the livers." A little boy being ' told by his mother to take a powder she had prepared for him, "Powder, powder!" said he, putting'on a roguish smile, "mother', I ain't a gun!" A fashionable young lady, desirous of purchasing a watch, was shown a very beautiful one, the shopkeeper remarking that it went 30 hours : " What, in one day ?" she asked. An unsophisticated alderman, on being told that the Italians and French have no W in their languages, informed his informant that he "couldn't fool him in that way," and knowingly wanted to know how they could spell waggon, or wealth, or woman, or wine, without a W.