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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 201, 26 October 1866, Page 2

The brig Emma has arrived at Port Chalmers, 79 days from Tome, with a cargo of flour. The Government of Tasmania offers six per cent, per annum to any company laying a telegraph cable across Bass's Straits. Several serious fires have lately occurred in Brisbane, Queensland. A telegram from Adelaide to the 'Melbourne Argus, dated the 11th instant says, prices range from 4s. Bd. to 4s. 10d.; Hour is nominally at £11 13s. to £12 10s. ; wheat is from 4s. 9d. to 4s. 10d.; bran, Is. 4d. per bushel. A Durham paper records the escape of Mrs. YV. Fox from death, whilst travelling, in Switzerland. She was travelling on a mule's back, along a narrow passage, about a mile beyond the well-known 'fete noire on the way to Chamounix ; the road skirted a nearly perpendicular precipice of 80 feet, with n mouutaiu torrent at the bottom. Meeting a baggage mule at this point, the mule on which Mrs. Fox was riding began to jib," aud contrived to get its hind legs over the precipice. Having thus lost foothold, it slid down some 25 feet, tail foremost, after which it rolled over and over amongst the rocks ; when half .way down she was rolled off, but being entangled by the stirrup was dragged further down, till she became disentangled, and then rolled down to the bottom of the precipice. Her husband, who had witnessed the fearful crash with which they had, gone down the precipice, never expected to sge- either her or the mule alive again ; •and great was his surprise as well as joy, on hasteuiug to the spot, to find that, she was entirely uninjured except a sprained ankle, caused by entanglement hi the stirrup.