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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 283, 30 November 1868, Page 2

The Panama Company have reduced their fares between Southampton and Melbourne. Saloon fares are now £80 and ifc'Bs, aud second cabin £50. EEhe ship Light Brigade, now loading ot Lyttelton for London, will take the' largest shipment of New Zealand flax yet sent from the Colony. The HalswelJ Flax Company have already shipped 100 bales, and during tive present month 150 more wiU follow, making a toial of 50 tons. The flax has been very carefully manufactured und put up, and is said to be in excellent condition. An experimental shipment of halt' a ton made last year by the Bliip Beautiful Star haviug proved highly successful, great hopes ate expressed regarding the present venture. The. mail boxes have been recovered from the sunken steamer City of Launceston. One of the younger members of the i French Legation at Washington had be- I come noted for his gallant speeches and his exquisite compliments. A few evenings eince, at a 'germau' at Governor Morgan's, he was introduced to a witty New York lady, who has an unmistakably ugly, flat nose. Tbe polite Frenchmen discreetly complimented her on her dancing, to which she archly replied: — 'Ah! I have heard you are a flatterer ; but you cannot Hod it in your heart to compliment me on my personal beauty, so you praise my dancing.' ' Madame,' was the reply, with a Parisian bow, 'you are an angel from heaven, but you fell on your nose.-' The lady narrated this ompliment with great. complacency, until it was insinuated tliat-sbe~was"a""* fasten angel,' siu/.ej-vhen she has been silent oa the subject. — New Jarkljeroja,