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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8148, 17 January 1895, Page 2

Pbopossd Appl.bv RAttWA_ Btation.— We learn from Mr Graham, M.H.R., that he has reoeived a communication from tie m.mbar for Waimea Soundp, Mr 0. H. Mills, promising to do all in bia power to seoure for tbe farmers of Appleby acd Waimea West the railway conveniences tbey desire at Appleby.

Accidbst. -Among3t those who were present at the Sa'vatioa Army picnio yesterday, was an elderly man named R >dgers, who, in orJer to fix a sswi g for the plea ure of tbe children, climbed a tree, whioh, when he was in tbe aot of making the rop_ fast, split, and he fell with a dull thud a distance of som . 15 feet. Ths unfortunate mao was atteaded to and was conveyed towards town, when Dr Roberts was met. The doctor was unable to make a complete examination on the road, but he gave certain directions, and Rodgers was taken to tha residence of Mr Garrett, with wh.m he lodges, but we learnt that it was dee ned advisable to have him removed to the Hospital.

CiTY Riflss. - The members of tbis corps fired the fifth match for the Company's Belt and prize money on Monday morning ; range 600 yarda. 10 shots. The following are the eleven highest scorers : —

The tight highest aggregate scores in the five matches oompleed for the Belt are :— Capt. Jickell, 160; Private Keoning, 158; Private Roweli, 158 ; Sergeant Jackson, 150 ; Private Small, 146 ; Lieutenant Oakley, 145 : Private Andrews, 143 ; Color- Sergeant Hooker, 143.

Axti - Vaccination League. — A special me ticg of this League will be held in Mrs Scott's Schoolroom, Trafalgar street south, at eight o'clock to-morrow evening, It is intimated that business of importance will be brought up for discussion, and in addition t . every member beiog expeoted to attend all supporters and sympathisers with the League are invited to be p.esent.

Nelson Acclimatisation Societt.— A meeting of the members of this Sooie'y will be held this eveniug for the purpose of fixing tho de?r shouting season.

Mission Skrvicbs. —The Rev. W. Bradbury will c jnduot a mission se.vioe at Ail /Saint.' School oom this evening, at half-past seven.

Railway Teaffio Retubns. — An error oocuriei in ihe figures given in our laet issue. Tbe Deoember returns of last year were £882 193 11(3, being an increase of £180 13s 101 over tbe returns for the corresponding period of 1893.

A Falsk Romob.— The ' Westport Times' of January 14th states : — '« A rumor is bfloat in shipping circles that tin Anohor S.S. Company have .old, or are about to sell, one or more of tn; ir steamers. ' On enquiry we are glad to learn that tLe rumor is a false one.

The Salvation Abmv.— A large number of the m.rnbers of the Army and their friends procacded to Mr Denoker's firm at Wakapuaka je3torday, where they held a picnio.

Sale of Stock, I-Iplsm.nts. and Fubnitubb. — Messrs Sharp & Sins will sell at Hillwood, Wakapuak., to-day, the stock, impleiiecttf, and furniture of Mr S. M. Neville. A c.aoh wiU leave Gay's stables a^ nine o'o'o.k for the convenience of intending purohasers.

A Soccbssfoii N-LSONiAN. — We extraot the f-jll-wing from the ' Ev.n'ng Poat 'of M nday " The vao_uoy oooa.ioaed io th. dovernment Insurance Offioe by the deata cf Mc Robert J. S, loid, the aco.untant, has b ea filed np by tbe promotiou of Mr George W. Barltrop. who has for some years been chief olerk, in which l.tter position he has baen succeeded by Mr R. O. Niven. Both Mr Barltrop and Mr Niven are very oil officers of the Department. Tiie former enterei the Department as a cad.t throagh the i" i vil Servioa examinations. He was in the fir it vnsta.a. . edaa&t-d at one of the Nelson St .te Sohcols, having gainei a Provincial s.holai'.hip, and after oompletiug his term at t..0 Oollega he piSB-d b t!_ Junior and Sen'or Civil Service Examinations, taking the first plaoe in the latter cut of all those examined throughout the Co'ony.'' Word of Mr Barltop's promotioa was reoeived here by f ress Association telegram, and pub isbed on Monday. We add our congratulations,

That circular that tbe police matt not be members of athktio olubs is very keenly fe't in Wel.ington. The Wellington Football Club will lose MoCormiok and Bishop, the Athletic Club will lose Hyland, Swindley, Taplin, Cod c and Goidie, and the Foneke Olub will mourn the loss of Poland.

Mb F. D. Luckie, jun., brought into Napier recently a splendid speoimen of the wild horse, a black stallion about 14 hands 2 inches in height, whicb he bad himself captured af er an exoiting chase laßti.g nearly six hours on tbe K.trangaroa Plains. When the animal oame into oivilisation for tbe first time, and saw tbe houses, and the people, and the vohiclss, it burst into a flood of perspiration, commenced to tremble violently, and leaned ag-iuit a mare whioh Mr Luokie was lea. ing, as if for support and thei er. Mr Luokie says there are large numbers of wild bcrse3 on the plains mentioned.—' Hawke's Bay Herald.'

Miss Edojeb, M.A., i 3 ai present on a visit to Gisborne, and i 3 lecturing at one of tbe publia hall, on Tbeosophy.

Thb Auokland ' Herald ' reports the golden wedding of Mr aud Mrs D. McNicol, sen., pioneer settlers, when their children, grand* children, and friends met to celebrate the event. The assembled company numbered fifty.

Thk totalisator tax paid into the Colonial Treasury by the Auoklan I Raoing Olub over the recant Summer Meeting amounted to £441 6p.

A man made a rush to oatch the train from Waikooaiti on a reoent rae a day. He mounted tbe platform as the train moved away, but not getting properly aboard fell off, and was left on his back lamenting. In sheer disgust he went baok to the oourse and backed Count d'Orsiy. Dividend, £13 19..

Thb Loveli's Flat correspondent of tbe ' Bruce Herald' Btates that a fine paddock of oats belonging to Mr W. Fraser is undergoing a remarkable visitation. The crop iB covered with a blight whioh to all appearance is exactly identical with that so familiar among cabbages, causing it to wither aud die. Mr Fras r at first deoided to turn bis sheep mo the orop, but as tbe blight, which affects about on. -sixth of the whele, doe. not appear to be spreading, the nnaffeoted portion is to be aliow.d to lipen. One of the Government experts should visit tbe farm and decide whether this is a new post whioh farm __ should be warned ag-unst.

The rumor is revived that Mr D. O'Brien intends bringing his racing team baok to New Zealand.

Says the Thames 'Advertiser ': — Legge and party, tributers in tbe Kaipanga Com-p-iny at Coromandel, have on hand about 700 ibs of iioh specimens, whkh tbey anticipate will yield fully £12,000 worth of gold. If this haul had happened at Coolgardie ail the world would hava he.rd it 'ere this. But we alw&ys were a modest orowd when anything extra good oame in onr way.

Tbe orchards of Central Otago bave an area of 119 acre?, and last year the growers received for their fruit in Dunedin thg iarge sum of £3911 19s.

The Albany correspondent of the ' New Zealand Herald' reports tbat a settler found in a schnepp r hs was cleaning a halfsovereign of 1845. The coin bears tue mark of tbe fish's teeth, and wben found was a good deal tarnished, but on oleaning wa3 Eeen to be in a fair state of preservation. The fortunate finder intends having the coin mounted as a brea3tpin, as an interesting memento of regaining a coin f om the briny deep.

The Blenheim 'Times' says the recent cleaning*-up in the King Solomon mine resulted in a £10 dividend to each of the members of the Picton syndicate owning the oiaim, and that this makes £55 reoeived in dividends for the year. The yield of lOOoz per week is likely to oontinue.

The London • Globe ' says the Australian colonies threaten to flood the English market with millions of eggs, bnt it would be much preferable to develop the wine industry. Tbe litter would only have France to compete against, and wonld not add to the troubles of the British farmer.

Lo.don ' Chrcniole' about Rubinstein : — "He was almost beyond comparison the grea'eet player c f the piano. Others may equal his technique, but nobody can approaoh his fire and inspiration,

Da Babnardo's Homes have, according to the latest computttion, emigrated in all 7298 boys and girls to Oanadi and the C.lonies, ot whom 9. par oent have acquitted themEelves satisfactorily.

Of £500 raised to build an Anglican ohuroh in Wrexford street, Sydney, the ie3idtnt Chinese eubaoribed £400.

A street porter at Brest recently addressed two o flioers of the Lansquenet aa " old dirty biards " while the latter were standing on the quay in the Oommeroial Harbor. For this " outrage ag.inst t_n navy " t_e porter, wbo pleaded th.themust hay. been drunk, has been sentenced ta two years' imprisonment.

A bteamkb which is beiog built in Franoe will, it is .aid, revolutionise steamboat tt availing The (invention oonsists in roi ing a vessel over the w.ter inetead of foroiug it through as at pr>seut. A number ol enormous oopper 0} lin: era are fixed to th. sttamer, whioh revolve on the surf.cc of ths water.

The state of trade in Christohuroh is thus notioed by • Truth ' : —A white smith says ha is keeping good hands on sooner than send them a* ay. bat that there was no sale for t.s work taey were making, and it wa. aooumulating at a ruinous rate. An ironfounder asked to contribute to a charity replied, I'm already doing more than I oan {.ffor-. I'm keeping on me a that I don't want beoause I khow if disohsrgd they'd swell the army of unemployed." One faotory generally employing eighteen to twenty female machinist, has been almost empty for weeks, and the girl. &ay they can't get work anywhere.

I bout 300 orgau grinders arrive in London every June frcm Italy, and leave again about Ootober.

The Auokland 'Herald' of January 12th thu. describes stone obtained from the K'pang. mine at Coromandel : — There were six large yellow pyramids weighiog over 300ozs each, and its value ia estimated at about £3 3s per ounce, making a total valuo of about £5000. This magnificent re' urn of gold is the product of 650 p juads of specimen stone which iough'y averaged ia eqaal to about 30z3 for every pound of stone treated. In addition to this, however, the same party ara now crushing 20 loads of general dirt at the Kapanga Company's battery, from which they expect a yield of at least 2500zs more gold. This when added to the specimen yield referred to above will make a grand to'.al of 21460zs gold from 20 loads of dirt, and6solbs of picked stone, making ia itself one of the richest and most remakable returns of gold ever chronicle! since th. famous returns obta'ned from the Caledonian mine in ths early days of the Thames goldfield.

The question arises, can the term " national " be properly applied to cricket and football as played in Australia and Eng land — for New Zealand is not so great a sin.er in this respect ? In tbis connection the words of ihe Hon and Rev E Lyt'.elton. headmaster of Haileybury, an enthusiastic sportsman of the best type, are veiy _ignif_cant. He says :" We are drifting to a state of thirgs when the games wiil only be national, because Englishmen look at them, and those who play them are paid £200 or £300 a year for doing co. Paid players and vast hordes of idle spect tors — Thesa were symptoms of the decline of Rome."

Os a railway train recently (says a correspondent of the Christchurch ' Truth ') a halfintoxicated old Binner, sitting next to a minister — not of the Crown, but of the GO3---p?l-pulled out a battle cf ardent spirit Bnd offered bim a taste. Could he do what he liked with it queried the parson. " Oh, yes," raid old three sheets-in-the-wind, 'help yourself ; stow away the lot." But he did not pas 3it down his neck, but out of tbe carriage window, bottle and all, to tbe intense merriment of about twenty passengers.

" Have you any Three Star brandy," s.id the weary traveller, a. he ranged up to his berth at tbe rear of the bush shanty. " I don't know whither Oi hoy any thre. ttar," said the landlaud," but Oi have some of the rale sthult here, Bnd two glasses uv it'll make you see fourteen stars any day — comets, too, be Jabers." But the weary one took no inteiest in astronomy.

A purse of gold has been presented to an ex-warder named Brown, who had seen over 40 years of service io Birmingham Gaol. Browa was the original Evans of Charlei Reade's novel, ''It's Never Too Late to Mend."

Fbost bells ara tolled in some districts of France when frost is threatened. Immediately the inhabitants place quantities of tar between the rows of vines. The tar is lighted, and volumes of dense smoke arise, thus protecting ihe vines.

An English sporting paper states :— "For the second year in succession Mr Millionaire M'Calmont heads the list of winning owners, his total being £37,674 ; Lordßosebery oomea next with £17,156, and the Duke of Portland third with £11,301. The Duke of Westminster £10,939, is the only other over £10,000. The winning sires list runs:— Isonomy £42,056, St. Simon £41,859, Hampton £21,103, Petrarch £11,137, Barcaldine £11,118, Royal Hampton £10,470."

A gioantio lion's head of the finest Gre:-k marble, seven feet high and in excellent preservation, was re oee tiy unearthed by soma workmen at Kertch, in tbe Crimea. It is supposed to belong to the seventh or eighth century before Chris. Is is to ba sent to St Petersburg and exhibited there.

Sib George Grey tells an amusing sto'y about the contemplated annexation of Samoa by tbe Government of N9W Zealand. It wa3 in the haloyon time of the Yogel regime, before the triple protectorate was established over Apia by Great Britaio, tbe United State., and Germany. As all the world knows, and aB New Zealand will have good reason to remember for many a day, that w-s the period cf vast and daring projects, when such an exploit a? tbe annexation of Samoa was a comparatively unimportant item in ambitious programmes involving tbe expenditure of tans of millions of borrowed money. There ie in Sir George's possession a mo.t interesting relic in the form of a deok chair, made at the th_3 for the Government steamer Hinemoa. On the b:ck of the ohair i iosarib-d the legend " Samoan Expedition." Several of these ohairs were made for Ministers and others who contemplated a sort of grand embassy to Samoa, but nothing oame of it Sir George say 3he intends to present this artiole of furnituie to soma New Zealand museum, where, in future ages, it may excite the wonder and admiration of tbe antiquarian aa a reminis.enca of the ambitions of the young oolony.

At Sjuthwark Police Court a man, oharged with a shameful offence, refused to give his name, and was remanded. Next d.y the Court wa. crowded to hear an nnsavory ccar,3 r , but the accused had committed suicide in hi. cell by cutting his throat with an eye-glas3, and his life went out, and bis name too. Tbe aocus.r, who was a blackmailer, did not put in an appearance. The f ilsely aocused one was a British offiaer.

A jungle scene on an extensive scale will be a feature of tbe Indian Exhibition at Ear. 'a Court, London, this year.

The tallo.t man in the world is said to be now in Berlin. He is an Arab, and B'.ands 9ft 2in, although he is only 16 years o'd.

The o_)astguard_nen at Lowestoft bave a dog whioh is ejecting funds in aid of a proposed eeamen's home.

One of tbe very few medical bursaries in the University of Edinburgh haß this year been won by a Japanese s'udent, Yoshmobu Fukuda, newly arrived from his native land.

"On January Bth thirty-five years ago took plaoe one of the most impoitant revolutions that have ever happened in the civilized world. After years of patient but persistent effort, Rowland Hill persuaded the British pablio to baok him up in bis attempt to force the Government of the day to a trial of his system of penny postage. Of course, the Poet Offioe officials predioted a disastrous failure, and, of oourse, offical conservatism was again convicted of stupid blindness. The quiet, self- cont ined .ohcolmaster won the day, and his system from tbe firet trial on Jannary Btb, 1840, was a brilliant suc.ces3.

Andrew Carnegie made a few remarks at Pittsburgh, Pa., on November 11th, on the acoumulaiion of wealth, whioh, in the ligbt of hia previous history, it may be well to repeat. " Some sought fortune," he said, "for tha gratification of having it; ethers wanted it for the good they could do other people. My creed is tbat a man who dies rich dies disgraced." Regarding the distribution of his own money, Carnegie said : " I expect to leave n< thing when I de but my interest in the iron busines . I want to do aU the good I can while I live."

A peer of the realm is now an inmate ot one of the ins itutions of the Church Army. Ho is said to be a dipsomaniac, and complains that be was Lever given any work to do by hi 3 f .tber.

Soke serious oharges are made concerning tbe Kanaka 1 r.flio by the Rev F. J. Paton, of tbe New Htbrides, in the 'Australian Weekly.' He writes : — " Four women have returned from Q:e;_sland tj my mi.E.on district since tl_9 now regulations began. Eaoh had tw. or three hu_b*nds i 1 Q leensand. A wom-_n reotuited last year and ons tbis year w.ta men— not tbeir hasb.ndß. I reported each case. Tbe fi.st was inquired into and held proved. Two of tbe Bhip'g offioers who we - e responsible were alraady dismissed for committing 0 her irregularities. The women, so proved to have been illegally recruited, were not returned. Judas threw away his money, but the Queensland Government, like the Pharisee', dismiss tbe agant but keep the women. Every native woman, pure or otherwise, who goes tj Queensland comes baok mined."

Db Turner, an English medioal officer ef high standing, contributes to the « Lanoet ' the impressions formed by bio. during a visit made to Paris for the special purpose of inquiring into the practical treatment of diphtheria witb the anti-toxin sernm. " From what I hava seen," be says. " of the ourative treatment in the hospitals 0! Paris by anti-toxin serum, I b.lieve i; to be far ahead of any previous treatment. In soma oaseß the results appeared to me to be magical ; in practically hopeless conditions tbe re-* peated injections seemed to bitt'e with tbe poison, the result depending on the constitutional recupe.ative powers of the patient."

On the ocoa.ion of the interview of the Swszi envoys with her Majesty, tbe address to the " Great White Queen" was oonohed in raihor byperbolioal language. In one passage she was adjured to " nourish and pro eat the little one." Whether may have been the Swazi phrase, it was translated by the interpreter " bab?.' 1 '• But where ie the baby ? * n.turaUy i.q.ired the Qaeen, with her womanly feelings. "Here," said tho interpreter, and he pointed to a dusky warrior about Gft in height. Tbe Q_e_n smiled, and cxerybody had some difficulty in preserving a becoming condition of gravity.

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Great Realisation Sale Draper-/ at tub " Economic "I— Our ccstomers and the publio generally are req.eettd to note that, being desirous of l«avi g Nelscn, we intend di_p.ing of our stock and collecting our aceoun s with a. little delay as possible, and for this puipose we will on Tuesday next, 15th ia.t., commene. selling off at suoh re* duced priaes as must effect tbis objeot. Having realy dtta> ruined on this step, we can assure tbe public of Nelson and Distriot that we shall offer the goods at prioes lower than anything yet given them. We are now preparing the bargains, and shall be ready for aotion on Tues-ay, 15th inst., when we trust that everyone requiring Drapery or open for some good lines at half their value wilt come and get them. The Dressmaking Department will bo carried on at reduoed ratts, and costumes to order will receive aU the advantages of the sale. Please note that Tuesday, 15th inst., is th. opening day. — A, W. Bain A 00., Economic Drapery Warehouse.

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