The New Agent-General.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 2

The New Agent-General.

OHBISTOBUBOH, This D„Jfc. Mr Perceval, the hew 'Agent General'; felt to-day by the Penguin for Dunedin, where he ; will join the Wairarapa. He will proceed to England via Melbourne. A large number of prominent citizens assembled at the railway station to bid him farewell.

W^^^ fty that the '\ BißhOp of Salisbury had started on a walkmm^pßvolu^bry, se|[ooljr in ihe cityf B W^ Hon i P# er^ Jost their wa«#n ue DoßeTwow^ onl^evenlng, and did^o^fc^loPke^l^^nere 7 they had arranged to pass the night until after ten o'olook. The rectpr^'Bad re6eived,ja promise from Dr Wordswprth to offldiate at the parish ohuroh at seven o'olook, and his non-appearance at the appointed time caused some surprise. When the shades of night, began to fall, however, and no sign was given of the pedestrians, the surprise deepened into alarm; and, suspecting the oause of the .delay, the rector- gave f orders that the ohuroh bell should be kept ringing, in the hope that it mic&fe ret&h the bishop's ears. When at last, guia&l by the sound of the bell, Dr Wordsworth and his itos s reaohed the end of their journey they *#ere quite tired out. The inoident must have reminded the Bishop of a srtfldttegooidiaffioe performed years ago by thet^Sompline bell *at Salisbury Cathedral. The belated wayfarer who was guided to the dtyh^thiibeli left a Request, to which is tjaceabietlfe custom o'f ringing tjie Cathedir^Lbell aitejpiitOf 9 olcjpk every* §ight. ? : The Wevaaan thus tells the story of .tite .best paying, minei property in the NetidaSftafe :^" Simeon Wenban had run the Garrison tunnel at great expense and was left a poor man', owing hiß oreditors 150,000d01. There was not a pound of ore in sight whereby the debt might be paid. A* a:lastt resort; iwith » forlorn hope, after thg mine had. been dosed, Simeon Wenban drilled a hole in the hanging wall and blasted outa huge pieoe of rook, which he found t6 be almost a solid block of metal and part of an immense vein whioh had been paralleled hundreds of feet. . This fortunate last effort marked a sadden change that seldom falls toi the lot of a man. It was Wenban, the. poor man, the labourer, before that blaßt was fired ; ib was Simeon Wenban, the millionaire, but a second thereafter. , The first month's run of his little mill gave him SO.OOOdoI, and ever since he has gtownnaore -wealthy." - - -• A few days ago (the Daily Chronicle's St. Petersburg correspondent says) a' terrible crime, the -result of an old popular super-, stition, took plaoe in a small village in the Government of Saratoff. A young child belonging, to one of the peasants was found to be mißfiing,; An houraf ter the body of the missing child waß discovered terribly mangle^ and with its, throat put. The police louhdthat the crime had been perpetrated by an old soldier, wdo had murdered the child and t eaten its heart under the 'impression that the heart of aninf ant, would "cure him, olKls disease $*$ suffered; from - for manyyefrsf *"'-'"-* "" " '^ .',•.. A^*Dal^T^£S^«^ r^alied New York, August 18th, states ;—" Great indignation has been exoited all over Amerioa, by the oonduot of Thompkins, the Priyate Secretary of the Governor of South Carolina, who reprievea a 'oondemhed couple on the scaffold on Friday alter their legs and arms had. been" pinione*! and the noose adjusted, It appears -that ihompkins travelled leisurely' for half a day with the reprieve in his pocket, it having been given him . days before by the Governor, to be used or not, as his judgment dictated. He arrived at the gaol on Friday, was present at all the arrangements for the exeoution, and in the condemned eell urged the two, vjotims to ppnfeti.^'Be .was! pr_fe& when lh Q \ miserable mbtlar*»_le bar llitf farewell to a prattling three-year-pld' .daughter. He followed the proceasieh W the sottflold, stood at the foot of ttyMiairs, and feepd the last word said, and when M& hopepfa ooniession Was past and tfie^fapVata&efit to be sprung, presented his papers to the sheriff, Had the condemned under the terrible strain uttered a word whioh ooaid hava been construed as a confession, they would now be dead. Their sentences have been commuted by the governor to imprisonment, with hard labour, for life. " - Tue Reichsanzeiger publishes the text oi a BUI for the 'repression of drunkenness, whioh will be laia before the Reiohstag on ite meeting in November next. Even iii a; state ■so police-ridden as Ger-* inany,. the' hkwWe ia a - drastio one, muoh tgt&re'soi than any corresponding legislation in^Engjand, .The Bill is aooompanied by a long and exhaustive expoti des motifs, containing suoli statistics as the Government believes} justifies its' introduction, Ihe Bill Qonß»rs of twenty-three ol&uses. The first clause defines the position ot a olass ol licensed dealers* somewhat; similar to the licensed grocers^ in: England. -Suoh dealer may not sell spirits in less quantities than half a litre. Succeeding olauses deal with the retail dealers. It is proposed that, so iar as possible; these dealers shall be under obligation' to supply food aB well as spirituous refreshment, and, further, that they shall not be permitted to sell liquor before eight o'clock ,, in - v , the morning. .They shall furthermore do' all in their power to hinder the abuse of spirituous liquors. By olause 9, no spirit dealer shall be-; permitted to sell spirits to any person below the age of 16 years, They are forbidden to sell liquor to any visibly drusken person, or to any person who within three years has been punished as a oonffcxn«d or_mkaidi;~ The spirit dGalerjis bound to see that drunken persons are conducted to their dwellings or handed over to the police. He is' further forbidden to supply liquor on credit. One of the most drastio olauses bf the Bill is that whioh lays down that people, who, on account of their drunken habits, are unable to manage their affairs, or who, by their conduct, threaten to bring their families,' into want or to endanger the safety of others, may be placed under a guardian, aud this person, with the Court, may place his ward in an asylum for inebriates. Even in caseß where the guardian- does not exercise hiß rights in thia respect, the Court may intervene and order his committal to such an asylum. A magnet formerly belonging to Sir John Leslie; and p.Ow in the physical collection of tdiniargh,lweighing? 3 Jew," is . ab& to support 1660grs. ■ - — *——»—■ —— — ■