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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 23, 26 January 1877, Page 2

The petition against the return of Mr A. R. Guinness as member of the Grey County Council, for the Paroa District, has resulted in his election having been declared null and void. The plea against the election was " intimidation and violence," the fact being that a body of. Chinamen proceeding to the polling booth were stopped by several per- ; sons, who frightened them from voting. The Charleston Herald says that : amongst a "prospect" brought down by one of the prospectors from the Four Mile Valley was -• a minute speck, hardly visible to the naked eye, which on being placed under the microscope was found to be a diamond. We were i aware that the country abounded in "black diamonds," but must confess to an agreeable surprise at the pleasant-to-view prospect opened up on being informed of the. foregoing astounding discovery. A Napier telegram of Tuesday says: —The Odd Fellows' Hall was crowded last night. Mr Suttori addressed the electors, and in tne ? course of his remarks attacked Sheehan who was sitting in the body of the hall, alluding to his conduct in the House as a politician, and also as a lawyer in Napier. Just as the meeting was thought concluded, Sheehan mounted the platform and made a brilliant speech of an hour. He succeeded in fairly turning the tables on Sutton. He got the sympathy of the meeting, and could scarcely proceed on account of deafening applause. Sutton did not attempt a reply. A vote of thanks to Suttoa for his address concludedthe proceedings. The latest phase in servantgaligm (says the Wettpart Times) is told a3 occurring in a mining township about one day's journey from Westport. The proprietor of a wellknown hostelry had engaged the services of a handmaiden. She was small and active, and possessed a temper. For a little time the domestic atmosphere, barring passing clouds, was serene, but there came a sudden stormy outburst. The mistress of the establishment chanced to make a remark thafc Jemima Jane had overlooked some little duty, and Jemima Jane chanced to overhear i her. Whereupon she deliberately let down her back hair, rolled up her sleeves over two muscular litile arms, and went for her mistress, making articles of feminine apparel, household utensils, and things in general fly in all directions. - At the Good Templar Grand Lodge held at Auckland it was resolved. " Thafc a member does not necessarily break his obligation by drinking brandy in case of sudden illness, but he is open to charge for doing so, his lodge being the beat judge of the rectitude of bis conduct." The report of the committee * read as follows: — "Members of our order cannot consistently be at the same time members of a section of the so-called Church of England; Temperance. Society, which per-; mits the use of intoxicating liquors at mealtimes by its members. The adoption of the report w»s moved and seconded. A sharp discussion fol'owed, in which most of those present took part. The motion was then put to the lodge a^d carried with only one dissentient voice. Referring to the Melanesian Mission, the Rev. J. Selwyn (says the Ota^o Daily Time*) last Sunday said: — " There were 200 soul 3 from 30 different islands at the school in Norfolk Island. _ Five native teachers had been already ordained, and three more were ready for ordination. In one small island that he visited, the natives near the coast regularly went to work armed for fear of an attack from those of the Tillage about two miles distant. The labor traffic vessels recently caused great dissatisfaction through taking native women (whose social status the missionaries are endeavoring to raise) without lawful authority. Christians all knew the weight of public opinion. If public opinion says " Right is to be done," right will be done. Public opinion cried out against the labor traffic which had been organised iv Queensland and Fiji. It had been remedied; and : kidnapping wa3 almost a thing of- the pastr Public opinion had -prevailed therVv- ■ •

.The rights for booths, and. .fruit stands afe,* .#®, X^reymduthL All , England icrickefc; matei£ r ; jEeahsedata|ic|ioa£66. \ f;-- 5 ! r'-i v-' ■■ I A fatal accident by barning^ recorded blithe Cnnstctt^cht;B-ftj^A\liefcle girl two .apditi^lf ieaisM named Mora Weaver, :£*WM?r of 'MrGedrge burnt to death yesterday morning>in I; fa"er Bed. ' Mrs Weaver had been detained in town on Saturday night with her other children, and the deceased child slept for the night with her father. Yesterday morning Mr Weaver j got up at six o'clock and left thechild sleeping, there being no oneelsg in. the hpuslatl the time. ' :i Mrs Weaver ''rekrnM home be? (ween seven and eight, and when she entered her bedroom found the bed on fire and the little i girllyiug on: hee hands find Knees face downwards and dead. Her night dress was burnt aiid also the greater portion of the bedclothes. With the asistance of neighbors she put the .fire qut V ;:Nq fire had.. been lighted in- the house that morning, but a full box of matches " ,had been left in a candlestick neap, and this .wasfoimd in the bed, and\must have been placed there by the child, f The body was not sburnt very much, and death seemed to have resalted more from suffocation. : _>" A : cotrespon^ent of the' North-Eastern En:*y? (^ictoriaX writes respecting a wonderful I'tstts naturen-.-f-A. most Extraordinary freak of nature has; occurred limthis district recently. A cow,; on Mr Telford's rue,, the Yarrawonga station, has brought forth a calf with twelve fiorhs growing' from its head. Such parts of it as have been! preserved are now in the possession of Bllr Hugh Little, of this place, an.d hav6 esjcited considerable cariosity. The I ' two largest; horns are thirteen inches long, and the • shortest three inches, the. whole twelve growing, straight from the head; in fact Jihere jis not 'a bone about it like any known animal ever seen before"; for instance, the shiii bones are all double, and others very strangelyj formed, j The General ; Government haye appointed a commission tjo enquire "into the condition of the Auckland Lunatic Asylum and Gaol. It is proposed id . make the v Gaol more selfsupporting, and £o utilise" the Hospital' and Asylum Reserves: ' :.-■■■> Amongst many: amusing anecdotes which appear; in the journals and letters of Dr. Norman M'Leod, there is one he calls a specimen of aboy's theology. It is as folio ws-.—J. : "Mama aaya thafe good aiigels keep good boys." Aunt: /"Shall I leave the candle burning? Are you frightened?" J.: "Yes— no— yes;, leave it burning." Aunt : ' "What are you frightened for?" J. : "Rate." Aunt: '■ Think, dear, about fche goodaneelg " J.: •• Can they kill rats?" The King of Greece is writing a book on bees.— 'Baltimore Gazette.' All write honey. It ought to cell.—' Commercial Advertiser.' What a beestly pun^'Burlington Hawkeye.' Beehive yourselves.— ? San Francisco Post.' ' Some of these remarks are waspish, and fit only for drones. They lose any sting they maty possess,, bee-ing too silly,, and if this sort of thing waxesmuch warmer there 1 will i be a swarm of such jokes. In the province.of Biscay every landowner ' must plant two saplings for every timber treje he cuts down. In Java the birth of every child is celebrated by planting a fruit tree, .which is carefully tended as the record of the age ot the child whose birth it registers. This wise; regard for the future deserves imitation. \