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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 167, 19 July 1869, Page 2

,;■_, ,'c fi J± parageaph," says the Argus, "is going the round of'the New Zealaud papers to the effect that there are eighty news- ■•■_ papers published in thatgroup of Colonies, or double thennmber issued from the press in Victoria.. For the purpose of setting our insular friends right upon this point, we may mention that there are. ninety-four periodicals published in this Colony, of. which eighteen are morning or eveutng newspapers. Nevertheless, we are far .behind California, which numbers twenly- ' seven daily, one hundred &nd sixty two .weekly, and six monthly periodicals." '_;... The Melbourne Telegraph reports a .peculiar phenomenon, not altogether unknown in the mining world, occurring the ; other 6 vening at the elaitri of the Duke of '.;_ Timor, near Maryborough. Some men _ were at the bottom of the shaft, engaged . iirsinkiog the bore, when a tremulous movement of the ground beneath thera, ; 7 ucedriipuriied with an upheaval of matter, TT so alarmed theni that they immediately 'telegraphed for the bucket, which was at once lowered. Into it they at once got, .and'hot a '"'mbnient' too soon, for as they were drawn up, they were surrounded witli a vast column of mud and water, and ~;it;iß:;said that the -bucket was so buoyed '^ifp^wifli' the^sluff; that- the hands at the l^iwincljass felt"'"' no difficulty in winding. f^he^maUer rose up with them to a height Toy6Q;l!eet.7y Ty- xTy y7T y ■ '■ yxx^TiWrHt: is tlie moon yieryXyficked ? Ber|;_cau_^^^;is continually Mr row ing from s|||^iun_^aQ(l^ neyei^ thinks of pay mg back |fjjj^Jß>^ yr