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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 143, 17 June 1879, Page 2

Wellington detectives are waking up at last, many very clever captures having been made lately. The inhabitants of the Terrace have suffered very much from meat-safe breakers and pie-sneakers, consequently a detective was told off, who succeed in collaring a man with two pies, stolen from no less a person than Dr Lemon; several well-known inhabitants having had to go breakfaatless on several occasions. The hungry thief had to do three mouths for his pie-ratical inclination. The newspaper press of this colony is pretty unanimous in congratulating Sir W. Fox and Sir E. W. Stafford upon the distinction conferred upon them, and in describing it as well merited. The Aahburton Mail is an exception. It say 3 that " the victims are entitled to the sympathy of. every well-dis-posed colonist." The correspondent of a country paper, writing from Wellington on the commercial depression, says:-— "No one knows who is to be the next. It is generally admitted that at least one fourth of the business men of Wellington wiil have "gone through the mill" before the crisis is over. The fundamental cause of this is that there has been altogether too much illegitimate speculation. Men have gone on trading with paper money, thinking the good times would last. Immediately the depression came the speculators went down like skittles." The Sydney correspondent of the Christchurch Press, writing of the low level to which the New South Wales Paliament has aunk, says .—" As if it were not sufficient that our representative chamber ia a pretentious sham, it must also needs become an outrageous nuisance. Night after nighty of late, there have been in the Assembly sach scenes, such speeches, and such farces, as could not occur in any le3s privileged precinct, and would not be endured in any other assemblage in the country." The writer i then goes on to give one or two instances, from which we quote the following:—" Then Mr Buchanan, who forma his style upon Carlyle, and is not a very bad imitator, took up the running, and delivered himself, for Mr McElhone'a behoof as follows :— He did not wish to exceed any of the rules of the House, but he would just put this before them— Suppose they were to encounter iv any Assembly in the world, say in the British Parliament— if that were possible— a low-bred, illiterate, ignorant ruffian, destitute alike of truth and common rectitude, and wholly unable to understand the meaning of either; whose very nature was made up of falsehood and malice — a living, moving, incarnated lie; whose whole public action was occupied in the basest slander of better men than himself, who publicly proclaims himself a liar, with an utter Insensibility to the accompanying degradation; who, when met by one of his fellow representatives whom he bad insulted, with * hold up your hands, you mean, despicable coward, and I will strike you to my foot and trample your unworthy carcase under it,' crawls away from the encounter in the spirit of a craven and a dastard— who stands pilloried in the universal opinion as a common slandermonger and a dealer in falsehood, and who, when dragged before the tribunals to answer for his vile calumnies, basely shelters himself, behind the cowardly plea of privilege. He aaked what more appropriate treatment could you offer such (a ruffian than to allow bint to sink out of sight, deep in your contempt,"! covered with your scorn, and 'enveloped in the hatred and detestation of all truo men." AH this is charming and elevating. Nothing could be better calculated to form the minds of the rising geeeration on a noble .model than the parasal of >ucn oratorical effort! in opr legislative fasJJe, 1

In addressing a meeting in the Pai^ea district last week, Major Atkinson said -.—As far as the Natives themselves were concerned, he did not for a moment suppose they wished to fight, but were waiting for Te Whiti" to dispose of us all by supernatural means. When they found Te Whiti had not the divine power he profes3ed to base (and he believed Te Whiti believed he realty had supernatural power) then would opposite means be adopted. A story given by one of the Natives who had returned from a Parihaka meeting, was then related, and caused considerable merriment. It was a good illustration of what Te Whili's influence can do with Natives, the one in question having, stated that te Whiti could not be harmed by anyone, that any body of men visiting him would fall down and lick his feet. At present the Natives would believe anything Te Whiti ,told them, and fortunately such a phase existed. He did not wish to be understood to say that because this was the case that no danger existed. He thought every man should be put in a state of detence. The broad principle, however, that Government is responsible for the preservation of peace in the colony, should not be lost sight of. The Wellington correspondent of tbe Fielding Guardian says : -An industrious woman here kept a boarding-house, and on the proceeds of this kept her husband. The husband was an excellent carpenter, and a great strong hulking fellow. He never did a stroke of work, and he used to make bis wife bring him his breakfast at ;11 o'clock every morning in bed. Not content with this he thrashed ber in the most brutal manner just to kill his enuui, or, as our | French friends say, pour passer le temps. Her eight boarders yesterday paid her a considerable sum of money. She got tbe tea and went out apparently to pay a hurried visit to a friend. As she did not return the lazy husband grew alarmed and made ;. enquiry. He discovered that his wife had taken passage for Dunedin, and left the same nigbt as she went on the alleged . visit. Moral : Though you loaf on your wife, don't beat her also. The Wanganui Herald says : — " The Maoris cleared off from the foreshore a few weeks ago, but a f resh party have now begun to assemble. Those who went away had scarlet fever and dysentery very prevalent among them. The mothers of children suffering from fever, had no scruple about taking them on their backs into hotels and stores, and it is only a wonder tbit tbe diseases did not spread more than they have done. Had diphtheria broken out, as the doctors fully expected it would, there would certainly have been an epidemic in the town. Surely some steps might be taken under the circumstances, to prevent a similar danger occurring again." The following ia the Maori cure for diarrhosa and dysentery, and one the efficacy of which has been demonstrated -. — Take, say, a handful of leaf buds of the common shrub known as koromiko, kokomuka, or kokoromiko, and boil for half an hour in a quart saucepau ; strain off and set to cool ; when cold, take two or three wineglassfuls at intervals during the day. New Zealand says an Otago paper, must be an exceptionally honest country. A sale of unclaimed goods, luggage, parcels, etc., left in railway carriages or on station premises, is advertised to take place shortly, and amongst the sundries are 107 umbrella 3 A monk named Serafino, at Alcamo, in Italy, who made a trade of predicting winning lottery numbers, has been murdered by two disappointed clients. They have been arrested.