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New Zealand Mail, Issue 116, 5 July 1873, Page 6

Yesterday the “Nelson Examiner” made its appearance once more as a daily paper. Mr Hamilton, well known as an eccentric phrenological lecturer, is now discoursing on craniology in Sydney. A correspondent of the “ Greymouth Star” says that the consumption of brandy in the valley of the Buffer is “something enormous. 5 ’

A recent visitor to Mercury Bay informs the ‘ ‘ Bay of Plenty Times” that he saw there three boats “ steered and puffed by young ladies in excellent style.” We notice by Sydney papers that Mr Solomon, oculist, is enlightening the Sydney people as to the fact that 11 the eye is one of the most delicate organs of nature. ” It is to be hoped he will profit by his Christchurch experience. Thomas Kelso, Esq., a well-known and estimable layman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, has made provision for the immediate erection of a Methodist Orphan Asylum in that city, the whole to be at his sole expense. The gift will amount to not less than £40,000. The institution will include both white and colored orphans. The will of Napoleon 111. has been proved in England. His personal property is sworn at under £120,000, and this he leaves to the Empress without reserve. To the Prince Imperial there only one bequest, the Imperial Crown. The Rev Father Holland met with' an accident while travelling from the "Waimea on his recent visit to Westland. Nightfall was approaching and he was leading his horse through the bush when the animal slipped into an old shaft of considerable depth, and very nearly dragged the Rev Father down also. R e escaped, however, with the loss of horse.