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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 38, 15 February 1867, Page 3

The Avoca Mail vouches for the authenticity of this little Australian romance : — Many years since, a young lady, the daughter of an Austrian nobleman, left the home of her parents in consequence of a disagreement with her father. Years elapsed without the bereaved parent finding any clue to her whereabouts, notwithstanding his utmost researches, and, as he advanced in years, the desire of once more clasping to his arms his only offspring, grew strongly upon him, and he determined upon using every effort to discover the lost one. On the assumption of the Earl of Derby to the reins of Government (with whom he was intimately acquainted), he besought that nobleman to interest himself to discover the whereabouts of his daughter, to which his lordship responded by immediately communicating with the different Governments of the Australian colonies, to some of which it was deemed probable the young lady had gone. His Excellency Sir Henry Manners Sutton, Governor of Victoria, was, amongst others, requested to interest himself iu the matter whereupon his Excellency immediately communicated with the wardens ou the various gold-fields. The result was that Mr. Warden T , of A , on being applied to, recollected that Mr. C , late clerk of the local court of petty sessions, had a servant, answering in every way the description of the lost one. After due inquiry thc Warden's surmises proved to be correct, aud the truant was found. It appeared, further, that the young lady had only lately been married to a well to do merchant (also an Austrian) residing at Ararat, who now states his intentiou to return to his own countiy, and exchange the toils aud care of business for a position far more exalted thau his wildest dreams had ever anticipated. It appears that another, and as far as distance is concerned, a better route from the Pacific to the Atlantic, than that of Panama, has been set out, and that the completion of the Imperial Mexican Railway will render this much the best track from Sydney, China, San Francisco to New York or Europe. The comparative distances are set down by the China Mail at the following figures : — Sydey to Liverpool via Otaheite, Sihuatanejo, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Cuba, and Azores, 13,500 miles ; Sydney to Liverpool via Otaheite, Panama, and Azores, 14,000 miles ; Hong Kong to Liverpool, via Sandwich Islands, Sihuatanejo, Vera Cruz, Cuba, and Azores, 13,650 ; Hong Kong to Liverpool, Panama route, 14,500 ; San Francisco to New York via Shutanejo and Vera Cruz, fifteen days, 4,260 ; San Francisco to New York, Panama, twenty-two days, 5,260. It is considered probable that the railway, of which the portion between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico is already completed, will be finished to the Pacific seaboard by 1870. The mau who has a steak in the country writes to say that he is longing to get back to a chop in town.