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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 201, 25 August 1868, Page 2

Why does Trafalgar-street resemble the river Thames? — Because it has a bank oh - each aide of it, Mr Dudley Ward proceeds shortly to Dunedia to assume his new judicial functions. Previous to the departure of Judge Chapman for England, on leave of absence^ Mr Justice Ward will sit conjointly with that gentleman. The Perth ( W.A.) papers state that 13 tons of pearl shells hav« been exported to England within a few weeks from the northwest coast of Western Australia. Tbeee shells are worth a large sum of money per ton. The accounts of mortality from yellow fever in South America are absolutely appalling. In Callao, 2,000 people had died of it in six weeks, out of • population of 20,000. The mortality from this cause in the Argentine Republic had reached 28,000. A young gentleman after having paid his addresses to a young lady for some time, ' popped the question.' The lady ia a frightened manuer said, ' You alarm me, air/ The gentlemaa did not wish to frighten the U<iy, and consequently remained quiet for some time, whes she exclaimed, 'Alarm me again.' At a colored party in New York, Samb» asked Diaafa if he should help her to some of the broasi. *lsow t tun't you 'shamed, Sambo, to say breast before the ladiejß? JTJI tekea piece of tcrkey bosom.'