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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 3 July 1888, Page 4

.• , Under date Broken Hill May 28 a correspondent writes to a northern contemporary. r-The Broken Hill Company employ 1,400

irieri regularly, and their wages sheet tots up = nearly £5000 every week. Miners work from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and! they generally take it pretty easy, but it is very hard work, and it is so hot. The sun begins to scorch you directly it rises, aad continues to frizzle you up till it again sinks below the horizon.. All around the country is flat and uninteresting as a vast expanse of water. . The flies do their best to beat your eyes out> r and you bannqt put down your foot witkdut -;t jelling myriads of ants. The rabbits— you happen to know what the rodents are like in Central Otago - come right into , • the 'tents, and don't appear to bare whether they gefe out of your way or mot. They ap- . pear to be much larger than the Otago rabbits, bat they are simply skin ' and bone. Emus, turkeys, kangaroos, and crows are all very plentiful. There is no dew or f roßt, and the nighta are very oold. No rain has fallen since last Christmas, and occasionally it is not an unusual thing for rain, not to fall for three or four year". The country around is pegged out, mostly on spec,- for a radius of between twentyfive and thirty miles ; still shafts are being sunk in all ■directions, and you cob hear the whirring i boom of the furnaces night and day. Tbere are over 15,000 people on the field, aad the , number is increasing daily. , v Mr M'Laugblin, a farmer in the north of Auckland, has just retnrned from a visit to South' America, where he hos spent ft year in travelling with the express object of ttkiog np land and settling dowa. He has decided that, taken altogether, there iti no place like New Zealand. Ho did not go to South America is" a atfanger, es he was bora there, and his father lived there for 60 yaara, neei he visited his native land with. a strong pcedileotion to remain there. He informs the " New Zealacd Herald " that he is convinced " New Zealand is a far bitter placa for an Englishman, and there's more money to be made in it, ojjd jta eieier kept when made. You never know when » civil war may breakout in South America, or a war With a neighbouring republic. Chili, Bolivia, and Pern have not recovered! Rom the last war, and a war between Chili and tbe Argentina moat come sooner or later, as they dispute Patagonia between them. All these ooun> tries court war, and go in when they have a I ehanoe. They love it. but tbe Foreigners don't, as they generally have to pay for the fan. When I hear people growl at the New Zealand Government, I think they should just go to South Amerioa. They would at -feast get an idea of jvhat corruption means. A man has only to become a governor or jadge and he is rich, and all his relatives and friends too. Most of their loons are spent on armies And navie*. Chili alone can pat 100,000 men in the field, well armed and eqaippid, and bstter soldiers are nob to be had, Wben on the marob a flight of looustsaro fools to them. All is fish thas drops into their net, and they don't care a rap vbo i$ belongs to." Mr Mclaughlin gives a lot of infbrma&oa about agricultural and pastoral Affairs in tbe Argentine Republic and Chili, bot? consider* N«jr Zealank farmers batter Off, bad times and all. Mr J. EobertsoH, late of Lawrence, in his

aeoond letter to the f apanuji Courier, states

that he believes it would be to the interest of 1 |Jew Zealand to establish a firm in Australia who! would deal in nothiag bat New Zealand jiroiootß. Ho gives the following instance of vrhai took place in Sydney to show what New Zealand produce has to contend with :— " A •grain merchant advertised New Zealand lpng Tartar oats for Reed. I called as a purchaser, inspected said oats. And found than to be worthless rubbish, although in bags marked Haw Zealand. I spoke out very plain, and told him that I had been nearly all my lifetime in Hew Zealand, but never saw a eampta <jf oits grown like that. He took me to Another lot in bags marked similar, that I could recognise as New Zealand grown oats. Now, the conclusions I drew from what I saw Sere, and by what I learned from others, wera that they used New Zealand as a draw, and pawned off to the unwary all the rubbish they oould at New Zealand price, and as New Zealand; and those that bought the worthless rubbish would not deal in New Zealand grain again." St. jfetersburg. hae been unexpectedly startled by the sudden death almost at once «?f the two bo- cay ed railway majesties, the Israeliteo Varehavsky and Poliakofi. The latter, was one of the richest men in Russia, wifl the fortune he has left his son — 86,000,000 roubles — proves (writes the cor. respondent of the "Sydney Morning Hen. aid") that a good deal can be got by railroad concessions Jin this still innooent country. As to Varshavsky, who wag always very rich, he got entangled in some very deep plans of «s£are)y Jewish dye, and was weli-nigh ruined. A few days ago, being in great finance distress, he applied to his intimate irieiE^l, Ppliakoff, the millionaire, for the loan of a trifle, 75,000 roubles. The latter refused, And Varshevflky went home and atrangled tumself with the ailken waist cord of bis .dasMring gown. At bis burial Poliakoff was ttir distressed that it was thought he would lote his reason, and jmt as the coffin lid was about to be screwed on, he foil down dead ov«r his Mend's body. The sensation created 4f this tragic event was very great, and the ebfeqoies of Poliakoff formed one of the most faipoaing sights. However he had come by

bis great riches, Poliakoff employed them well* .'He had fouaSed innumerable asylums, schools, and institutes; there waa not a charitable sooiety in whioh he had not a hand; he generously helped artists and all sorts of stragglers in life. Hia goodness was not confined to Israelites alone, but extended over every kind of people.

We have now in Wellington, two gentlemen, of the moat undoubtedly trustworthy oharaoter, one of whom has had exceptional opportunities of knowing the truth, about the present Emperor. The moat exaggerated statements have been made attributing to him serious physical deformity. These gentlemen state that while his left arm is slightly shorter than the other, and wanting in some degree in nervous force, the hand is complete in its formation, and the Emperor holds with 'it his reins and maintains complete control over his charger. The state* ment that he requires to have his horse quieted for him is entirely untrue, and without any foundation in. fact. We are assured that he is much liked, and that if his experience has hitherto been more on the parade ground and in military matters than in the Cabinet, he will yet show that he is in nowise lacking in the qualities that constitute a wise ruler of a free people. At any rate it is a oruel thing to try and raise prejudice against a Sovereign by contemptible personal attacks on his first advent to the Throne.T— Wellington Press. The following story of a school teacher's herioo oonduot comes from Amerioa : — On the 30th alt., whilst 120 children were atf school at Cypress Creek, Nashville, under Miss Green, a sohool teacher only 18 years of age, a dog rushed into the schoolroom, foaming at the mouth, and began snapping and biting at the children. Miss Green bravely armed herself with a heavy ruler and sprang between her pupils and the dog. The infuriated animal sprang at 1 her throat, bat she was agile, and warded him off with her weapon and repeated kioks. The dog tore her clothes into ribbons. During' the encounter all the little oneß escaped frpm the schoolroom, and ran for help. In the meantime the gallant teacher kept the brute at bay until she reaohed the door, whioh ehe skilfully managsd to close behind her, and then fell fainting outside. Assistance arrived, and two men armed with rifles shot the animal. The grateful parents of the children presented Miss Green the next day with a handsome riding pony. Four Fremoh soldiers who were taken prisoners in the war, and who were subsequently sentenced to a tang* term of ponfmement in a fortress for assaulting the Prussian, soldiers in oharge of them, were inoladed in the amnesty recently signed by the Emperor Frederick, aad have returned to their own country. They were allowed no communication with the outer world during their long detention, -and their families, unaware of the: circumstances in whioh they were placed, naturally concluded that they were dead. A. pleasant surprise 1 was in store for one of the party. He found the child with whom his wife was about to present him when he was summoned from home, and whose face he never saw, a strapping lad of 18, and just on the eve of being married himself. But one of his comrades has to face the peculiarly unpleasant domestic complication whioh the' laureate has treated in his poem • " Enoch Arden." His wife remarried some years ago, and is the mother of a large family. by her second husband,