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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 281, 22 November 1873, Page 2

Tiia ** M;i3tftr Rout*. " Cup, to bn run by r iLe jnotiuce f f tl>e :u:imal of that '"'riamu at Dunedio, in March, 1875. is valued at £300. It weighs lOiozs , and is f of.vefy chaste workmanship. TO9 line of railway from the city of to the Hutt will probably be jry^pepeu about February. This i3 some months after contract tirm-, owing to the non-supply of locomotives and rolling stock", which the Government was boon/1 to have famished in April last, and which are only just to hand. It is gratifying to learn (says the Thames Evening Star) that many of our ■ r '' miiie3— for a loDg lime looked upon as outsiders — promise well for tho future. /^Although no large dividends are paying, ' " a healthy sipn is not wanting, and it is really to be hoped that the steady, payiog mines will very soon bring abodt the re- . trivial so long looked forward to as only £ likely to occur through another unprece"daoted run of luck in one of the premier ' i( mfne*. \ Alexandra correspondent writes on November 7 : — Nepi, the chief of Kopua, rrwho^died some fortnight since, was only burietf yesterday at Te Uira. Ti.ey kept him I 'for the prnpliet to resurrectjooise. -iJHfIL ti'ied and, 6lrange to say, failed, in g lOpp^equence of bis friends crying over the ""/body, contrary to his instructions. The J" Kl^ijia. natives are so ,disuusted that they .£. : fuie.&l\ off iq a body to-day to dig him up bj; again, and bring him to Kopua ani bury him toere. Tawhino is not quite well. I receivetHa uoto from him yesterday, reqtreatiag two gallonß of • medicine.' He has returned from Mckau, and is now at r.-jjfbto Kaiti.— -Thames Advertiser. „ r Wjriting on the sublet of a criminal . libel jctioo, Hayden, a newspaper correspondent, v. Potts, a nawspapar proprietor, bcth'of the Abaura district, iu ihe County of Westland, which has resulted in the ' T ~' J e6mtaiiment of Potts, a ihird newspaper gentlemen describes tho case in fie folwlPg.graphic paragraphs — "Tlio leadtfig party in tbiß quarrel may not inaptly be iikeced to an ignorant and rude urchin who, standing by the wayaide, has amused himself for years by indiscriminately ?Klhrowing mud at everybody passing, without for one moment linking that his peculiar diversion was ooe in which two could engage with an equal chance of success. • Until rateting another youth whose dirt-throwing abilities exceeded fiis own, he was, hy the force aud foulness of the reprisal?, compelled to abandon his ■ favorite pastime and run crying core bespattered to his loving mother — the law —for assistance. The whole thing is a teropeet in a teapot, nnd is sufficient to f create credence in the exploded theory of Lapland witches, keeping foul winds io "iibaga for the purpose of letting them out in sudden gusts to upset coracles in puddiea." Mb. O'Cokor Again. — We need .'scarcely say that we fully endorse the •^otiowing remarks of the Grey River ,A:Argus on one of Mr O'Cbnor's latest ' apcecbee:— Cobden, with No Town, has 21 beett complimented by a second visit from ].f ; Wjr iQ'Ckroor,' because, of course, he estimates these places to be two of the weak £ /points' 10 the constituency as regards his ,* n p#fldidftture. But advantage of the oppor--1o tonity was also taken to air the eloquence iv %7 ja tnh pretended patriot upon two of his pst 'topics — the venality of the Press, and the vicicaaneeß of all people that on earth do dwell, who differ from him in constituconduct, who do not discover iu him the embodiment of Virtue pure and and who detect in him the alloy and the mark of — Brummagem. That .r^ie would be his course before the conclusion of his contest with Mr Curtis, anyone who knows him for years knew vMett. : The calm cautious speeches with * f) #bich he at first agreeably surprised those who had not previously heard him, though they might have heard of him, beiug but „? o{ if»rreßoJt.of artifice, no sooner did nature .nifsasserHtself, or occasion arise to arouse .liisjßvU passions, than he recklessly, and f t w|tt i the behaviour of a bully, blustered Jj;WgaJ?at the humble individual, and, with r i, the character of a coward, declared himself a martyr when his opponents represented integrity and influence, as in [he case of , (he Press, It has been ever so with him, ft has '' been so in the later part of bis candidature in Nelson; and that he should r r.come so far south to illustrate at Cobaen .^^peculiarities of hia character and their permanency, is the most considerate '--ififngf that be could possibly have done in the interest of bis dearly beloved bosom friend-—-" the cause of truth and justice." Qy^'fbe/ndependene suggests to the Colonisir&pvemmeot the desirability of bringing io a Bill nexfc sesaion providing for the establishment of permanent paid fire police in the various municipalities, making it compulsory for each Corporation a "certain" number "of * firemen «wHb r proper apparatus for extinguishing ■ 4 -^fiSr#;iiJ "proportion to the population of the town ofoiiyr- The matter has already at-

— ' = -\ traded she attention of the Victorian L?<;i&uturf, iiud a Bill haa beeu introduced, having for iis object the formation of a Fire Board in Melbourne, to which the various insurance compnuies are willing to hand over £2,000 worth of plant nnd machinery, on the condition that tho Government grant £2,000 addili'Jn&l. The Argus, in supporting the Bill, says: — We do not wish in any way to disparage the services of the various volunteer compnnies throughout the country, but it fis evident that a small body of trained men, always on (he alert and ready to start at the first alarm, is worth a wilderness of amateurs, partially disciplined, difficult to summou, and under no obligation to turn out when called. The accounts from Fiji by the Star of the South (says the Herald) are highly satisfactory, and indicate the new aud influential position acquired by Auckland through the eslablishment of steam communication, aud of the Banking aod Commercial Company. The shares in the Bauking Company, reserved for issue in Fiji were being applied for freely by the Bettlers, aud the greatest interest taken in its success. Auckland .enterprise is exceedingly popular in the group, end Sydney, for the moment, iu the shade.