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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 292, 14 December 1869, Page 2

St. Mart's G-ibls' School.— We call the attention of our readers to an advertisement concerning this school, in which • an omission has been supplied. Waterworks. — *'An Inhabitant of Wellington-street" inquires why the water has not yet been laid on in this street, especially when it bias been taken high on the Grampian hills in the Wairaea-rbad, and up among the Bocks at the Port. The Police at Elections.-— By a letter from Greymouth we , learn that an inquiry is to be made, into the conduct of the police at the late elections on the West Coast. Our correspondent doubts whether! it is "likely; a fair inquiry would be held"! when the person appointed to conduct such ; iniquiry has .already publicly^ expressed bis approbation of the manner in which they acted. Mr. Foic, we learn from the eame SGurce v has prbmißed that a daily: mail shall be established between Grey'.moutQ:andiQ6^den.;cWX''i>i^4l; ,:■ .■ , • ■' ; ;, *ppnd|intwrlt^:-^Thehbrse-fcracfc^^ >;ttfefosw#dWirj^^^ named Lingfoi^waß lea alongtbe trftcl^ wh

one of the bad places, and fell over a bank into a deep gully talcing the man with him, who however got from under the horse, and, though much bruised and hurt, managed to make bis way to Sutcliffe's accommodation-house at the Baton. A number of diggers proceed to the place, and got the horse out, but he was so seriously hurt that he died shortly afterwards. Lingfurd has recovered. Surely something to. be done to make this track safe, especially as the traffic between the Baton and Wangapeka is increasing rapidly. Monte de Piete. — A correspondent is informed that this title (Anglice pawnbroker's shop — with a difference) is derived from the Italian " Monte di Pieta," which has existed in Rome since the year 1585. It is certainly the greatest pawnbroker's shop in the world, and in its kind one of the noblest charities. Any person that brings a pawn may borrow from sixpence to seven pounds without paying any Interest, but all that is lent above that sum pays at the rate of two per cent, per annum. At the end, of the year the borrower "may renew, which is done without any expense ; but at the end of two years, if the pledge be not redeemed, nor interest on the money paid, the pledge is sold, and^ the overplus of the debt is laid by for the owner, who . has it in his power to demand it at any time within one hundred years. — Voila la difference ! The Prussian Bible Society in- Berlin has distributed, sirjee its loundation, in 1814, more than, three millions of copies of the Holy.Scaiptures Intheyesr 1867 alone the number^was 90,000.