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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 59, 12 March 1869, Page 2

Suez Mail. — The mail for Europe by the Alhambra will not closo until tomorrow, at 5 30 p.m. Duke of Edinburgh's Ball. — The Ball Committee are to meet this evening at the Provincial Hall, when the question of whether the Provincial Hall or the Hospital is the better place for the ball, is to be decided. According to the New Zealand Advertiser, the Government has been informed, by the mail of 2nd January, that a further conversion of New Zealaud bonds has been effected to the amount of £111,250, as follows : — General Government Bonds, £53,500 ; Auckland ditto, £3,750 ; Tarauaki ditto, £250 ; Canterbury ditto, £43,600 ; Otago ditto, £10,150. There are now 1,113 miles of telegraph and 1,642 miles of wires in South Australia. The tariff there is very low, and inconsequence the average of telegrams is one to every eighteeu letters, against one to 121 in England. The marriage-ring of Martin Luther is at present being repaired by a jeweller at Waldeuburg, Saxony, It is of silver gilfcj and bears the following inscription on the inner surface: — ' D. Martino Luthero Catherina v. Bora, 13 Junii, 1525.' Dv Chaillu describes the costume of tbe Court of King Diops in the following manner : — ' The King wore a dress-coat — and nothing else ; his first minister wore a shirt without sleeves — and nothing else ; his second minister wore a necktie — aud nothing else ; the third was adorned with a hat — and nothing else ; but the Queen varied the fashion by wearing an umbrella — and nothing else.