THE PANAMA MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 204, 31 August 1867, Page 2

THE PANAMA MAIL.

We extract the following items of intelligence from a telegram which appears in the Grey Rivex* Argus of the 29th instant: — Wellington, August 28. The Panama Mail arrived this morning. Brings London dates to the 12th July. The latest advices from Mexico announce that the execution of the late Emperor Maximilian is no longer a matter of doubt. Juarez, the republican dictator, has refused to give up the body, and Austria has ordered a fleet to Vera Cruz to demand it. A corps of Volunteers, named "the Maximilian Avengers," is being organised in New York on a very extensive scale," and was to start for Mexico in a few days. The prospects of the harvest in Great Britain are splendid. The complete list of prices awarded to English exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition has been published. Ninety English firms have taken prizes of the highest class, and 300 have been awarded second class, and 400 have received bronze medals. The English firm of Johnson, Mathews, & Co., metallurgists, who exhibited apparatus worth £2,000, Lave been awarded a double first prize, the only one awarded The list of the Belgian Volunteers who are to visit England contains 2161 names. Great preparations are beiug made for their reception. The penny-postage tariff between England and America comes into force on the Ist January, 1868. Bandenbrock Brothers, a large banking firm in New York, have failed. The I liabilities are enormous, and the loss will fall heavily on the depositors. We have received, through Captain Whitwell, the intelligence of the loss of the schooner Emerald Isle, formerly the property of Captain Leech, but now of Messrs Alcorn & Co. It appears that she wa3 capsized off Charleston, and the crew, consisting of four persons, were all lost. The following telegram from Wellington, dated August 29, furnishes further particulars relative to Sir George Grey's recall, of which we received telegraphic information on Wednesday last : — The despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Sir George Grey simply says, "I shall then, after the arrival of the next mail, be able to inform you of the appointment of your successor in the Government of New Zealand, and the time at which he may be expected to arrive in the colony." The members of the House of Representatives waited upon the Governor yesterday afternoon, and expressed to his Excellency their high sense of the services he had rendered to the colony. A long dehate took piace this afternoon on the question as to the reduction of the salary of the Governor from £4500, as set down on the Estimates, to £2500. The latter sum was moved, and an amendment was proposed that the amount be £3500. The debate was adjourned till Thursday next. Our readers will observe that the Richmond Cattle Fair will take place on the 4th September, on the ground belonging to the Association, and that a considerable demand is said to exist for every descrip- j tiou of fat stock, dairy cows, and heavy draught horses. We are glad to find that the proposal to erect a building for the practice meeting of the Harmonic Society, to which we invited attention on Wednesday, has met with such acceptance, that the committee have called for tenders for its erection, so that we may anticipate that in a month's time or so the building will be ready for the purposes for which it is destined. We have lately inspected a beautiful specimen of an art which is very generally admired, but which, we believe, has not been extensively practised by the lady members of this community. We allude to a group of, wax flowers, executed by Mrs Flood, of Nelson, and consisting of the camellia, pyrus japouica, hydrangea, , water lily, and other garden nVwers, which are imitated with great truthfulness, and reflect much credit on Mrs. Flood's skill and taste in this especial line of art. We understand that the; group, which is now to be seen at the Bank \ Hotel, is shortly to be raffled for.

The Greyl River Argus{of the 22nd, published a letter from MriGfeorge Donne, the hon. member for the Cobdeu District, complaining that the Argus had published the attack made upon him by Mr White in the Nelson Provincial CouncirwitSout giviug his reply. The Argus nqtices,;Mr Donne's letter in a leader, which concludes in the following terms :~" We have'nd doubt that George Donne, Esq.;; M.P.C., is a very important, person, in Brighton, and probably deserves .so to^ be; bukthie halo of local glory no longer surrounds him when lie enters the Council ■Hal Pat Nelson, and he has to associate with men who have been accustomed to conduct their discussions; ;in a dispassionate reasonable manner. Mr Donne appears to have forgotten this fact, until undeceived by his want of any real influence Jin/the House. By this time he has, we have no doubt, found out that tact is a necessary quality of a successful politician, just as science is more useful than mere strength in boxing. And if Mr Donnewill take oar advice, and abandon the 'heavy business,* and select a more genial 'role,' he' will contribute much to the success of tha ' ' Corps Legislatif ' which at present treads the political boards; and will' satisfy any reasonable performer." A clergyman preached at Lambeth lately on behalf of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, and took for his text, "If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink." It was a spirited sermon • and good measure. Laud is usually sold in Buenos Ayres by the league or nine square miles, which coutaius 6000 acres. A league of good land will hold on the average about 30,000 sheep. The price of a sheep is*6s. The ' class of sheep bred in Buenos Ayres will yield 181 bof wool, and when steamed down - about 301 bof grease. The Rambouillet ram is found the best for breeding purposes. Tombstone fame is curious iv the turn that it takes. For instance, there will soon be erected in Newcastle churchyards a tombstone bearing an inscription which, after recording the name and age of the departed, closes thus: — "Deceased was. one of the best shooters iv the Northof England. He killed fifty-nine head iof grouse at seven double shots." 50,000 passengers annually travel by sea between the Atlantic ports and' San Francisco, and in a single year 27,000 teams departed from two points only on the Missouri on their westward journey>J: The Sandwich Islands promise to supply the Pacific coast with sugar. The number of acres planted with cane is 16,266 ;' thecapital in the business is. 2,000,000 dols. The Rev. Mr Hunt, Northmoor-green, Bridgewater, recently signed a petition in favor of Lord Shaftesbury's Clerical Vest-, ments Bill, and against Ritualism, in the following terms:— James Hunt, of North-moor-green, Bridgewater, who wears the legal eucharistic vestments himself, signs this, because the effect of it will be to . cause the bishops to cease from arraying themselves in the garb of lunatic washer? women. The Argus of the 23rd instant has the following : — Legal jokes in this colony are generally so feeble and pointless that few of them are worth the trouble of recording. When one, therefore, "approaching to merit is uttered, it deserves to be chronicled. On Saturday, Mr Ireland, Q.C., was alluded to ,; by Mr Dawson in a speech as being a cats-" paw. "What's the difference," interjected the gentleman spoken o£ "between-. a Q.G. ; '' and a catspaw?","A Q.C." retorted. Mr „ Dawsou, "is clothed in silk and often ' talks stuff." - . ' ' : : .•■••hv. Nightingales settledrabout the middle of April in groups of from twenty to thirty in a wood near Naumburg, and remained t*:ere eight days. During this time they held a sort of musical tournament, two birds singing solo alternately, with now and then a chorus. It is said that, there - was not a single female bird among the singers. Every now and then the birds moved in a body to another part of the wood. Professor Adams has lately propounded ■■■. a theory to the effect that the' sun Is "stir- L rounded by a ring jpfmetebra,: amoving ia an eccentric circuit, . like many of the comets. Their course and- that 1 "of the earth intersect one another.; :In ordinary years we only cross the thin part of the meteoric ring ; but every 33rd and sometimes 34th year also we cross the thick ; consequently theCtliick par tf must" Be about 8,000,000 miles long when it is jaear . jieri^. Jbelion, • and the whole ring jbf -nieteo.rs. * aboyej 44^O,d^0jffipmiies lpn|,^:^; v _M

NELSON-RETAIL, MAKKET:-r-August,3l. Beef,*sd! to 8d per 1b Bread, 2lb loaf, 5d Mutton, 6d to 8d Butter,fresh, Is 8d perlb Pork, 8d to 9d Cheese, col:, Is 4d to Is 6d Bacon, Is Od to Is 3d Ducks, 7s per pair Ham, Is 6d • Fowls, 6s Lard, Is 3d Turkeys, 7s each Eggs, Is 6d per dozen Flour. —Rod & Hounsell quote fine silk dressed flour at 151. per ton. Redwood's (D. Moore, agent), 15/. per ton. Wheat, 6s per bushel; barley, 6s 6d; oats, 4s to 4s" 63. ; .:Potatoesi 5/ per ton; hay, 51 to 61. Beer, 6/ per hhd; 8s per dozen.