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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 221, 17 September 1880, Page 2

In describing the recent accident on the" Rimutaka railway the correspondenVof the New Zealand Times writes : — On the top of, the first carriage being blown away all the passengers rolled down : the,;steep -declivity. There was nothing but .the loose, rough, broken rock— no vegetation to. which, they could catch',' the wiiid:bl6wirig 'them furiously^ downward ;, and there was therefore nothing to stop, them .until they reached .tb.e.j:bQi;.tQm. The sensations of sthe. unfortunate people as they^ rolled cannot' be d^senbed and scarcely , imaginedr i 3 Eaclrone expected every instani

to be his last, for independent of the fearfully rapid rolling, the. wind was blowing about the stones and debris of the carriage body in all directions. On arriving at the bottom the men stood up as quickly as they recovered their senses, and looked around. They had all come to a stop pretty nearly in line. The sight that met their eyes was terrible — an awful view that can never be effaced from the memory. Lying close together, disfigured and dishevelled, their hair streaming in the wind, and their faces pale and bloody, were the two Misses Pharazyn. Near them the two lads Nicholas — one with his skull cut nearly off and his brains protruding, battered and bleeding'; the other lying stiff and motionless and seemingly lifeless ; huge pieces of woodwork and the broken rock flying all around them, and the roof of the carriage coining hurtling down and threatening them all with destruction; the wind blowing so that they could not keep on their feet ; everyone cut and battered, and with blood running from face and hands, and with clothes torn. Above them hung the carriages, threatening to giye way and roll down, crushing them to pieces. A New Plymouth telegram of Saturday says : -The remnant of Wi Kiugi's tribe, numbering about 30, including men, women, and children, arrived in town this moruirjg on thc-ir way to Parihaka, where .they intend to settle permanently. The aged chief, William King, iufirm and bedridden, will be conveyed to Parihaka on a stretcher, where he will spend the remainder of his days, under the protection of the prophet. This is the eni of a brave warrior chief, who 20 years ago densd the British flag at the Waitara aud brought on the trouble between the races The settlement of the tribe at Ngatimaru will be abandoned. During the hearing of the Kyeburn murder case, Mr Eowlatt remarked that the handbill offering a teward and pardon had been very badly trauslatad into Chinese, and the local paper accordingly asked him to procure an exact translation of the Chinese placard which he did. It is a curiosity in its way. Here it iss — < Jntent. Post Notice Any same human being kuow it. Kyeburu Digging, murdered, one European woman named Mary Young Government put out reward, £100. No matter, anybody no murderer — Pardon. Come to Court* tell ; pardon him. Then take reward money. That man not murderer, how many partner, never hurt deceased himself. Then receive reward, also pardon. Hope soon come to Court, tell inspector of Police. Catch murderer,, have reward money pnid. Intent. Post, Explain. Hest for ever! 4th August, 18§0. Murder, Wellington. His Excellency the Governor. 17th August, 1880. Notice." Despite the evil reports which have been circulated at Home, (.says the N.Z. Times) this colony continues to receive a fair share of attention. A new proof is to be found in the fact that a number of Yorkshire farmers havo sent out a delegate in the person of Mr Moulton, who arrived in the barque Waimea, to report upou New Zealand from an agricultural point of view. The Government have received advices from the Agent General of the sailing in August of the following four vessels for New Zealand with nominated immigrants and single women:-- rFor Wellington, the Pleione, with 195 souls (including 120 single women); for Lyttelton,.the Opawa, with 205 souls (including 130 single women); for Auckland, the Wanganui, with 157 souls (including 100 single women); for Port Chalmers, the Dunedin, with 214 souls (including 130 single women). These comprise the final batch of assisted imtnigrants> and complete the whole of the Government's engagements in this direction. As the services of the immigration officers at the various New Zealand ports will not be required until immigration may be resumed at^some future date, they are to be placed on half pay, and employed on other work so far as possible. The Post concludes a clever article on the late session and its results, in which it alleges that throughout the Opposition have been playing directly into the bands of the Government, as follows: — Summing up these results, we mny put the case thus: — Ministers have now every prospect of being able to meet Parliament next session with the public service reorganised and rendered far. less costly; with a revenue greatly in excess of the amount calculated upon, and expenditure much below the estimates; with the native difficulty settled, and a proportionate further saving practicable: with their last session measures, revised and improved by experience; and, above all, with an unexpected million or so available for public works. Be it remembered, also, that next session is the last of the present Parliament, and the Government will therefore go to the country not ouly with the eclat of having achieved all this good, bufc also on a readjusted representation of their own arranging. Such is our reading of the political situation and political prospects. We do not profess to be in the confidence of the Government, and we may be told that we are quite wrong in our views of the position. In that case we should merely reply, " We shall see," and we entertain no doubt that this time next year our present forecast will have turned, out to be accurate. If so, it will be impossible to deny that, however deep and complex a game of strategy the Government have been playing, it certainly was " worth the candle." And whatever the result may be as regards political consequences, the country will be immeasurably the real gainer, and will reap the substantial fruits. Mademoiselle Blanc, the youngest daughter of the proprietor of the celebrated gambling salons of Monaco, has just contracted a marriage with Prince Roland Bonaparte, and brings to her husband an estate, worth £40,000,. and a dowry of £1,000,000 sterling. M. Blanc a few years ago kept a small restaurant at Nice, and Madame Blanc was a well-known flower girl in the same town. Such a large dowry, however, is sufficient to cover over a multitude of shortcomings. j When about to get four years' penal servitude the other day, the burglar Nicholson received a remarkably bad character from the police, who proved a number of convictions for larceny, assault, vagrancy, abduction, &c, and stated the prisoner was a loafing companion of thieves and prostitutes. Upon this the prisoner, producing a handful of greasy-look-ing papers, was most solicitous that the. judge should see hia " testimonials to character," Said bis Honor, '• Oh, 1 have just heard them." The prisoner urged they weie certificates from " employers," and was most anxious the Court should rend them, but the Judge said, " I certainly will not. You may have picked them up in the street, or manufactured them for the occasion," and then proceeded to pass sentence. — N.Z. Times. ; A rather curious instance of the way in which intelligence is sometimes rewarded is thus given by the Ashhurton Mail: — " There a|re," says our contemporary, "three or four men working in the Asbburton Goods Shed, one of whom, from his being very diligent and well educated, was made a sort of ganger Over the rest, and entrusted with the clerical work. The rate of wages for ell these men has hitherto been 8s a day, but this last month those persons doing clerical work have had 10 per ceut stopped from their pay, and the result has been that while the ordinary men in the shed have received their usual wages, their unfortunate superior has been rewarded by receiving a salary of 7s 3d a day instead of Bs." : An- unknown tramp near Americus, Ga., gave chase to a rabbit and ran it into a log. Putting in his arm to take it, he was horribly bitten by a rattlesnake, and died in a few minutes. - : -