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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 208, 4 September 1869, Page 2

The Hero, from Sydney, arrived at Auckland on the 20th ultimo, with 100 passengers, and £20,000 for investment at the Thames. Remarking on chignons, the Clunes Guardian says that the newest article used for padding is a football. This novelty is rapidly growing in favor, on account of its lightness, as the chignon may thereby be increased to any size without inconvenience to the wearer. We learn that an action for " breach of promise " is about to be brought against a Shortland solicitor by an ex-barmaid. An. eminent legal gentleman has received a retainer from the injured fair one to conduct her case. —^Evening Star. The introduction of hemp by the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society appears to be appreciated by the rope-makers, several applications having been received for seed from thai; grown in the Society's gardens last year, the imported seed having lost its vitality. Hemp appears to thrive well in the province, and on good soil to be a productive and highly remunerative crop. The heat in India of late appears to have been fearful. In a private letter received in Dunedin from a gentleman in Calcutta, the writer says : — " ~W"e have had a most trying hot season this year. Men who have been here thirty years say they have never known anything like it for intensity and long continued uninterrtfptedness. I saw a gentleman two days ago who had just come down from up-country, who says that hardly a train comes in but some one is found dead with heat-apoplexy. The only way he could stand it, during the journey, was by putting his head under the water tap at every station, and having a wet towel round his head between stations. The East India Railway Company have for some little time back kept ready-made coffins, of assorted sizes, at all the principal stations in case of emergency." It is generally admitted that the Dutch can go ahead for making pigs. For in» stance — - ... I've got a pig cat, I've got a pig tog, I've got a pigcalf, I've got a pig hog, I've got a pig baby, so pig and so tall, And I've got a pig wife datfs pigger than all. The ordinary mode of churning in Chili is to put the milk in a skin— usually a dog skin — tie it to a donkey, mount a boy on him with rowels to his spurs about the length of the animal's ears, and then run him about four miles. ;