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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 192, 15 August 1887, Page 2

A London paper says : — " An aristooratic addition will shortly be made to the business establishments of Ipswich. The Bhop at No 4 King street has been let to the Duchess of Hamilton, who intends using it as a depot for | the sale of dairy produce." They are taking photographs in Paris that actually wink. This leads to the hope that 1 they will eventually produce them in such a manner that they pan go out in a oa.se of emergency and borrow five shillings.

Of all tbe observations on the state of the Colony which hare been made by travellers, distinguished and otherwise, none (says the Lyttelton Times) are more to the point or more sensible than those which Mr Brodid Hoare has contributed to the National Review. Mr Hoare believes in tho richness, variety, and vastness of the Colony's resources, and so believing makes them the chief point in his description. The defects of the management of this fine country he does nob conceal, but he keeps them in their relative placo in his criticism, and therefore speaks the truth without exaggeration and without dnrnuge. Iu fact, he tells the English public the obvious truth th>t the country (like all others) might be better managed. But he does not stop there — ne goes on to say that the better management hns already begun ; that it will increase, till by taking proper advantage of the partnership between th? Colonial resources and English capital, it will give us a period of progress certain to cast eviQ the phenomenal progress of the past into the shade, The Colony should be grateful to Mr Brodie Hoare for his wise and jusc criticism. It should also b^ grateful t) the men who, by giving us the Midland Railway legislation, have given us si judicious a critic as Mr Brodie Hoare. That gentleman's article in the National Review ia the first, of the series of bent-fi s predicted as the result of introducing private enterprise into our Public Works system, under conditions of properly safeguarded mutual benefit. The American Pilot says : —It is net flattering to our national pride to have it recorded in a Parliamentary paper on tbe merchant shipping of the world that the United States hns subsided even below tie level of tho little poverty stricken kingdom of Norway as a maritime power. In 1884. it would appear, that country had 1,588,434 registered tonnage, while the United States had but 1,304,222. And what makes the matter worse is the fact that every endeavor of late years ion store t3 the old fhg its former prestige, by removing the burdens and disabilities imposed upon our shipping interests by a system of restrictive legiel&~ tion, has met with such small encouragement a? to forbid the expectation of an early* changro for the better Lady cricketers, says the " St. James Ga/.ette, " " do not often make scores which run into the thirties. To do this has been the happy fortune of a young lady of the Countess of Dartmouth's Eleven, which beat a rival team of schoolgirls by one run and an innings to spare. Miss Leeke scored 31, and nobody got nearer to her than 18. Ninetyone runs in an innings is creditable work indeed for a femiuine team. Then there ia the prowess of Miss Thorny well, a lady " demon bowler, " which will not soon be forgotten by those who tried to stand before it for she took eight wickets. But it is only fair to remember that the winning team consisted of ladies somewhat less young than the beaten one, whioh was made up entirely of schoolgirls.