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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 132, 5 June 1891, Page 2

Reoordß show that December ia London was absolutely sunless. Aooordiug to the Gref mouth Star ""the Blapkball coal minte will be ia aotive opera* tioa sooner than many folks anticipate. A meeting of the shareholders is to be held at Ohciatohurohv when, overtures will be considered from a powerful^ shipping company, Should these negotiations terminate success* fully— aud there is every probability that they will— then we shall soon see another powerful fleet of steamers dividing the trade with the Union Goinpauy, and forcing tho coal trade in markets beyond the colony," The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes: -The following letter, whioV appeared in tho Mar one day this week, contains a hint whioh New Zealanders might make a note of. The writer,' a Mr J. D. Sproats, says:—" It is well known that dor* ing the months of April and May English, poultry is not only of inferior, quality bub exorbitant in prioe. It is quite a ditttoutfy to get a good sized tender fowl, and if by good fortuue one falls in with suuti a luxury the purohase money varies from 4s toM; What is the result? Only those who card not what they pay and those who pay not at all can go in for suoh a deUoadyj whilst the middle olass must be content with old hens, and the poor folk with tough Russian cooks. * * ♦ What an advantage it would be to have poultry from New Zealand. I under* staud full grown ohiokens are retailed there at the modest sum of Is to Is 3d, and more* over they are in their prime about January— the very time they could be deapatoded for delivery in April and May." Vbl.tap. What Mr Sproats puts forward is perfeobly true} there is certainly an open market fo} poultry in London in the spring and eaiW summer. • ..".,..,■ From an interview whioh a reporter of tho Dunedm Star has had with Mr Maomahon! '^ e xT r V ha lour of fche " taking machine ", in New Zealand oeoupied over five month*, and the phonograph has travelled right through New. Zsalaud from North to South, and from the East to che West Ooast, visitlug thirty seven towns en route, The receipt* show an absolute profit for the five montha of £3,000 ; and, taking the population into comparison, the phonograph has proved ft greater sucoeas in New - Zealand than in England or Australia. The takings for six performances at Wellington footed up £6<HV - and the holding capacity of the Opera House > there was nightly taxed. Mr M^oMahbnE ■ invariable experience has been that ashia stay extended the popularity of Ediaon'a invention increased, aud in proof of this assertion it nny ba pointed out that the preaent return visit to Dunedin has averaged better business than did the previous one. , Wellington proved the hestshow townfron» " a managerial point of view, and.then Attojc* \ land, Dunedin, Ohriatohurch, and , Napier, in that order. On the Coast thlnga were rather depressed, and the inopnYenienoe. °l ""veiling, &>., convinces Mr' ifooMahon. that Greymouth and Hokitika are not worth visiting. There can be no doubt that SirGeonre Grey s progress through Australia ia like a triumphal procession. The Sydney BuUe* tin says :-•• Something worth seeing wm that ceremony at Melboune , railway eta. tion when Grey, of Maori Und, and Munro, Th B yi Ofc<)ria K riv^ d 'wm.thelOonvehtdon Grey . 7 a h T] ln « multitude to weioomo wrey, and the old pro-oonsul looked Hke & man about whom a nation might reasonably S2TJ- ? ttfe> a 8 f0 L r Muur * h «^^ ideal of a bagman who came baok from an unsuccessful trip, and as he jammed his bat down over his commonplace head and Edited for a oab with his samples in his hand, ha looked a very miserable bagman; and and that travel^ for a firm in an tu£uii£? small way of business." This ia ratter hard on Mr Munro. ••■■-'. tt*V, A most touohing and impressive soea«" was wltnessaed at St. Petersburg ice. ?«L&* S? blß £ °° lon y * 6 * 6 deeply^. S 8^ 1 c - Em P eror and BmVreaL * and His Majesty/s four brothej, wiS neral of their old. Enghwh nurse ?Wsa Catherine Strutton, whfdied aTw £ Ta IV^ ot eighty^o, The. (few . and the Grand Dukes Vladimir, Alexis, Serge, and Paul, walked on foot through the melting snow and dirt behind the English hearse (which had glass panels, showing the coffin covered with flowers) along the Neva Quay from the Winter Palace .to the Englwh dhuroh, while the EmprojsWaiid the Grand Duohesses followed in a long hue of carriages. The GzV afterwartU:. . drove with his brothers to the cemetery, and Haw the burial. Their Imperial 'Maiesties wore unremitting in their personal and affectionate attention to the deceased during her illness, A great oommotion has been caused in Russian military oirolea by the suioide of one of the Ozsr'a aides.de-oamp, Captain Michel de Kautmaon, ol the Artillery of tha Guard, who was also a well-known tore ia (ha most fashionable sporting ofcelea? Tha ■ saioide was the result of.aquattelUetwttn' M. de Kaulmann^ancl ah oSoS TOTO^ ' the Hue regimenU. It teem a ith«t fe«- l - weeks ago the, deoeased guaxdwuui^w'fltil^ ■■ »n offioer of the navy, to a plaea t r oir nnhiS ? tesont .known MVHw^A^^klfShm^ n an officer ol * tW^SS SS? V rfwe, Jhe inlantry^^ nom th^ loSdHriSE V ~ iwta^d^the-twp ■$Qitig^mfys-foMMm^ «rhp,wew alightly toe I 8 to* liquQ^Pl^ ?wtpQtly ( ;a|^blettbne>fthey| ; l^alwi&^ls proaoh the gipsies with obm^romisihgtheM^^^'^ jelvejijn.theiMmpany-of^^aiim'ere^iM^liM^^ is a itaah of :obi^i^iature,HKiHe^^u^W^^ Rurally too|»^aV'&fSa|ltlßP^ pu blioly Qffer¥;i4p'M^iH^lii|lleMtna»^ j.ad r«uniW thra9hM.m^M:^^«|»? l^uts . opuld ?P Qn] V boasl^i Wibk P^^adPnllliil