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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 146, 20 June 1879, Page 2

While the annual fire loss of the United States is about £20,000,000, tbat of Europe property of equal valuation is said to be only £5,000,000. " A little too much repose aboat the mouth for it to be natural," was the remark of a husband to a New York photographer who had taken his wife's photograph. One of the novel features which it is proposed to introduce in the Sydney Exhibition is a Comparative Museum of Ancient and Modern Farm Implements, with a view of informing the members of the Society, and the public at large, how great has been the advance made— alike in tbe design and the workmanship— of English agricultural machinery since the establishment of the Royal Agricultural Society forty years ago. The Munich actress, Adele Spitzeder, who was sentenced there about six years ago to a term of imprisonment for having swindled the public out of many millions by a bogus banking institution, conducted, as she asserted, for the furtherance of the interests of the Roman Catholic religion, after her liberation from prison again tried to earn a living on the stage. Finding thafc this could not be done, she has returned to Munich and again opened a bank. Deposits, on which she pays 8 per cent, monthly interest, are brought to her in abundance, and, of course, another catastrophe will occur in time. The ingenuity of the slave mother in getting her little boy to run on the way to freedom by throwing a ball forward for him to get, has been surpassed by that of a French governess, whose employer, a very, proper lady, said to her : ■ " I am shocked to find that my daughter bas been receiving letters in French from a young man." Governess : " Pardon, Madame ; ifc is only my little ruse to cheat Mam'selle into study. When she would reply to an unknown lover— a Frenchman — mon Dieu, how quickly she will learn my language I"

Lime. Lime. Lime. VICTORIA LIME-KILN, (BELOW THB PILOT BTATION). BEST QUICK LiME, 1/9 SLACK „ lOd. 187.-3a_ <3____BEI_TSOX. & SONS. NOTICB.-"C.i-BDEBICR MERCER reJD speetfr ly informs the public that ha will open a HAIR-DRESSING an. SHAVING B.LOON next door . j the "Scotch Pie Shop," Bridg street, and hopes that by strict attention, to bud-ess to merit their patronage. Umbrellas and Parasols repaired. Razors and Scissors ground and Set '_ 1873-12 FOR PATEA DIRECT. M*ksk fpHB Steamer is appointed to Ifave for the above Poi ton TUESDAY NEXT, the 24th instant, afc 5 p.m. Apply to 1872—3 SCLANDERS 8c CO. FOR WESTPORT AND GREYMOUTH. i 2JB|yD^ GRAFTON wiil leave f nr the above Ports on WEDNESDAY NEXT. For Freight or passage apply to J. S. CROSS, Jun., 1868 Agent, Commercial Wharf. THEATRE) J|jflfj|fr ROYAL. THURSDAY NEXT, JUNE 126 th. AMATELR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE In Aid op the Building Fond. D SSS° "Time Tries All." MUSICAL INTERLUDE. Faree — « Jolm Smith." Million Pbicss— Front Seats etd Gallery, 2/- ; Back Seats, l/-. 1867-6 JQBN GLOVER, Manager. WAIMEA ROAD BOARD. ELECTION NOTICE. THE Ratepayers in the undermentioned Sub Districts are hereby SUMMONED to MEET on MONDAY, July 7, at Noon, at ths places stated opposite each Sub- district, for the purpose of ELECTING ONE Duly Qualified Person in each Sub- District to supply the VACANCIES in the BOARD which will then occur by the retirement ot Messrs Bell, Fowler, and Holland, whose term of ; office will then expire, but who are eligible for re-election. Waimba West .The Drill Shed Waimka E__st.J_ich-_ond Institution Wakkpield... Foxhill School-house In the event of a Poll being demanded, the Poll will commence immediately after the Fouination, and continue for Fooa Houbs, and co longer. T. J. THOMPSON, fecrttsry. Richmond, June 13, 1879. 18S3-&R