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ascertained but the following are the approximate figures relating to the several districts from which returns have been received with the numbers of population on the occasion of the previous census being taken 1874 1871 Males emales Total Total Wellington City 5502 5145 10647 7836 Hutt 1327 1104 2431 2175 Ramntikei 1330 988 2318 2269 Wanganui 2690 2224 4914 4413 Wairarapa 2673 1175 4548 3570 13522 11336 24858 20263The town of Wanganui (included in this return) numbered 1321 males and 1256 females total 2577 It mav be as well to add that the returns for the city of Wellington are undoubtedly imperfect numbers of the census papers not having yet been called for DID asks the Southern Cross in an article of considerable merit and interest rom what is stated it would appear that in some work recently done by order of the Improvement Com missioners the root of a tree and several small branches were found all of which had been chopped and backed about in remote ages with a stone adze that was lying near to them The Commissioners were causing a sewer to be cut in Coburg strect Auckland when interesting discovery was made and the men were at work 25 feet below the surface of what is known as the Barrack Hill The ground was composed ofsand and clay apparently undisturbed by volcanic action at any time the strata being regular Two conclusions that appear irresistible may be drawn from this The time that the Maoris migrated hither is known accurately enough to warrant the inference that the root and the boughs in question were not hacked by them If the work was not theirs and the fact that there was over the wood from eight to ten feet of regular strata seems to put this beyond doubt some anterior race must have inhabited the island The question then follows what became of this race Did the Maoris acquire the land by conquest or did its former inhabitants die awav in a natural manner Or was there some violent distubance of nature AT THE POST OICE WINDOW (rom the New York Commercial Advertiser) At the window for the delivery of advertised special vigilance is requisite on the part of the clerks tb guard against the delivery of advertised letters to unlawful and mistaken claimants They sometimes have difficulty however in persuading an applicant that the letter he inquired for is not for him but for another individual of similar name One of them had such a task not long since when a daintily dressed and perfumed gentleman presented himself a the window and asked fora letter advertised as remaining uncalled for and addressed to The clerk soon found the missive inquired for but after reading the superscription said in a decided tone This letter is not for you Not for me it for Edward Jackson Yes sir but it for My name is Edward I doubt it sir but nevertheless I am sure this letter is not for How can you know that said the exquisite now becoming indignant (it is astonishing by the way on what slight provocation post office callers their angry passions rise) you give me that at once report you to Mr The clerk knowing that Mr James while he would not countenance impertinent talking would be sure to sustain nim if he were in the right coolly answered I give the letter unless you answer the description in the my name Edward Jackson and the letter addressed to him I answer the description Yes sir so far But that enough The letter (reading from the address) is for Edward Jackson colored cook on the schooner Dirty Jane If you answer to that description your But Mr Jackson take it and vanished leaving behind him the odor of Jockey Club perfume and muttering maledictions on the custom of advertising letters and on the head of the culinary artist of the gallant Dirty Jane NEWS BY THE MAIL THE DANBURY MAN WHO HAS A HORSE AND CARRIAGE Madame Parepa Rosa the favorite English vocalist died on January 21st age 37 Ahi Whalley MP was fined £250 by the Court of Benell for writing a letter published in evi ril newspapers commenting upon the evidence of Jean Luie in the Tichborne case Contrary to his advice Mr Whalley refused to pay the fine and was committed to prison On January 24th however the fine was paid and Mr Whalley was released Dr Symes Thompson one of the Physi cians was fined 40s for attempting to avoid payment of his faro for travelling on the Great Northern Rail way The late "Mr Hutchinson of Newcastle a coalowner has bequeathed £50000 to various charitable institutions £25000 being given to the Newc stle Infirmary A fearful accident occurred on January 27th on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway An expres train ran into a mineral train which was benP shunted at Manuel Junction ourteen the engine driver were killed and 12 or 14 others3 are dangerously injuied A bangs of wooden stables at Shorncliffe Cam cu'ight tire on the morning of January 26th and 14 ro horses of the 11th Hussars were burnt Tits: floods in Ontario have caused considerable ihnu to the great Western of Canada Railway A man of independent means named Sweet living at Plymouth murdered his wife in a fit of passion originating in a most trivial cause The Rev Dr Sandford was consecrated Bishop of Gibraltar on ebruary 1st in Christ Church Oxford Mr Symington a consulting engineer who sus tained very serious personal injuries by a collision on the Great Eastern Railway in October 1872 has recovered a verdict for £5500 damages Lord Colonsay died at Pau on ebruary 1 aged SO During the holding of an election meeting on 2nd ebruary in an tipper room of a factory at Bury Lancashire the flooring gave way and about 100 persons fell through Ten were killed almost imine diatelv and 30 others were very dangerously injured Mr Phillips the Liberal candidate who was unhurt Professor Anderson the Wizard of the fn his sleight of hand died at Darlington on rv 3rd A niMERClAL traveller is in custody at Aberdeen ''large' with striking with fatal effect an hotel keeper named William Donald with whom he had quarrelled upon the subject of the election A firmer living near Consett was attacked by two drunken colliers and beaten so brutally that his life is endangered The assailants are in custody ive Irishmen were charged at Wigan on ebruary 3rd with kicking a man to death The Roman Catholic Chaplain at Chatham refused to recite the burial service over the body of a sergeant of the 82nd regiment a Catholic on account of his connection with the reemasons The service was ultimately performed by the Protestant Chaplain Mr John Wilkinson a calico printer at Oaken shaw near Blackburn was killed on ebruary 7th nis clothes being caught in the machine which tore him to pieces A ratal accident occurred on the Great Western Railway near West Drayton on ebruary 6 The Exeter down express ran into a goods train The guard of the express was killed and several passen gers were much shaken but none it is believed sus tained material injury The line was much damaged and traffic impeded for some hours At New York on March 5th Miss Ada Noyes (Ada Clare) the actress died of hydrophobia She was bitten two weeks ago by a pet poodle The Maine Senate has voted 14 to 12 to abolish the death penalty our Senators were absent Calcutta dispatches of March 5th report that the distress among the famine stricken people of eastern Tishost increases In one village alone there have been eighteen deaths from starvation in four days The number of applicants has increased from fifteen to thirty thousand within a week The East Indian Government has given employment to people in the district threatened with famine and in this way has already succeeded in irrigating 120000 acres of land It is finally settled that Brand Speaker of the last House of Commons shall be re elected unanimously in the new House orbes Winslow the well known medical writer is dead The steamships Heider and Silesia from Hamburg for New York put into Queenstown both leaking and the former with loss of boats The steamship Nederland from Antwerp for Philadelphia also put into Queenstown with cargo shifted and boats gone At New York on March 3rd Antonio Barlie and Pedro archini formerly partners met on Spring street while on their way to work when the former shot the latter dead and then killed himself The affair was the result of a business quarrel A EIRE of freight sheds on the Eastern Railroad at East Boston nn March 4th destroyed a large quantity of freight stores and twenty loaded cars Loss The ship Iron Crown at Limerick from San rancisco was struck by a sea ebruary 10th 100 miles off Cape Clear She lost her second mate and four men overboard She also lost two life boats and had the front of her poop smashed in and the spanker boom and gaff broken During the continuance of the Parliament just dissolved in England there were 163 deaths among the members 55 in the House of Commons and 108 in the House of Lords Elder Knapp the well known evangelist preacher died at Rockford Illinois aged 74 A destructive fire occurred in London on 23rd ebruary in an immense family depository for property Loss £1000000 The English journals generally approve of the verdict in the case and when the sentencewas announced salutes were fired in several places Jmu Xi 40 (rom the Danbury News) The man across the way his a horse and carriage We have none Three sadder words we never si The man across the way drives gaily forth eiery pleasant afternoon with his wife beside him Ami we envy him and can't help it There are others of the neighbors who envy him and could we reach each hearts we would find that our thoughts were following the lucky horseman in his various turns about town in his cantering here and trotting there and in the shine of his carriage and the proud bearing of his horse But it is a sadness to seo him drive away yet there is a pleasure in seeing him come back or it is dark when he returns the sunshine is gone and in its stead is darkness with frost in it He smiled complacently when he handed his wife into the carriage but he smile when be hands her out Perhaps the operation requires so much care and attention that it would not be right to smile We know his nose is red because we can see it as he drives by the lamp We know that his feet are frigid and that his legs are asleep by the way he gets down to the ground We are beginning to see how wrong it is to envy our fellow man He looks at her as she runs into the house and into the arms of the genial base burner and gloomily wonders why heaven so favors her above him He stumbles painfully along to the stable with the horse which he now thoroughly despises ambling behind him His hands are so numb he can hardly undo the fastenings of the door his legs have awakened and appear to be approaching him his eyes are lull of water and his soul overflowing with discontent No harness was ever before so difficult to remove as this He feels the wrath bubbling up to the highest water mark and he could scream out he is so mad We are seeing now how wicked it is to envy our fellow man He hears footsteps on the side walk and sees the flash of warm light shoot into the cold air as the various neighbors having returned from their work and having no horse disappear hastily within and take with them the bright cheerful light He gets the horse in the door and starts to look up the lantern He bumps various parts of bis anatomy against articles it is too dark to learn the nature of He would cry out in his pain and misery were he not awed by the astonishing pro fusion of things he is filling over He gives up the lantern and pulls off the harness to hang it up The straps dangle down and get under his feet and trip him and the impatient animal suddenly bolts into the stall before it is flly undressed Then there is another search for the lantern and during it he raps his head against a beam and the blow is so violent that it stis up every one of his ideas including the one which tells him the lantern was taken into the house last night to be cleaned He stumbles back over the frozen clods and into the house where the bright light and warm air render him more gloomy and morose He vouchsafes no information to the appropriate query from his wife if cold out but darkly hints of impending retribution to whoever quit fooling with that lantern and then stalks back to the stable And here for the next fifteen minutes he employes himself in arranging the bedding mixing the feed and pondering on the advantage he has over his neighbors in having a horse and carriage of his own to go where he pleases and come when be it is dark AN AECTING ROMANCE The New York Tribune says Affecting is a romance that comes from Indiana A young gentleman living near Terre Haute felt that life had no charms if a young lady of whom he thought a great deal consent to marry him She and he immedi ately went West and employed a sympathetic friend to write to her saying that he was dead and begging her as his parting request to stop and drop a weed or a flower or a tear upon his lonesome grave if she happened to be passing in that direction Mark the practicality of the modern young lady No thrill of anguish desolated her soul she calmly wrote back to the friend that if he had any consideration for her feelings to send her the dear watch and chain and money The things were sent and their owner speedily follo wed to watch the effect of his beau stratagem Alas he met her walking with another and wearing all his jewellery Appalled by this sudden apparition of a dead man Another fled but the young lady had sharper eyes for her unap preciated suitor well that ends she was so displeased with Another for running away in terror that she is now about to marry the ghost The Trov Whig infringes on the patent of the Philadelphia Ledger and says Bring out the crape and toll the knell a lovely Lockport belle Her stomach failed away to get With ninety oysters on a bet The reason an urchin gave for being late at school was that the boy in the next house was going to have a dressing down with a bed cord and he wanted to hear him howl a Quaker ever take off his hat to anyone my If he take off his hat to a barber how does be have his hair cut ather Hyacinthe has finally abandoned the clerical garb England is increasing her hop plantations and will brew more ale Railroad accidents in the United States average one person killed and four injured every working day in the year A chiropodist wants $46000 from Congress for removing bunions and things from the feet of the army during the war This is the worst yet Pittsburg wants $75000 from Congress for the expense of fortifying in daring invasion A family on Pine street had an oyster supper Saturday evening and borrowed a very handsome Bible to set off their centre table ffcftS COLONIST NELSON' NEW ZEALAND THURSDAY APRIL 18M AN IMPERIAL TROUSSEAU GRAND DUCHESS WEDDING A DAZZLING DISPLAY INERY (rom a correspondent of the London Times) St Petersburg January 21 Being about to attempt a high theme I feel inclined to follow the example of the best epic poets and co begin by calling upon some god or goddess to help me through with my task But newspaper writers I am afraid come an age too late for tutelary deities and invocation or no invocation I must grasp my pen rash man that I am and rush in where any male creatures should fear to tread I sent you to day by telegraph a few rapturous lines about Her Imperial Highness the Grand trousseau but I feel that the subject should not be dismissed in a short and hnriiel wav for it is worthy of a whole Gazette to itself It is to the good nature of one of the most agreeable of Court ladies alas I cannot spell her name that I owe the glimpse I had in company with Colonel Colville and Lieu tenant Ramsay of this garden of millinery Piloted through a succession of never ending saloons to the Winter Palace we came at last to the ante chamber to the Salle Blanche In this very large room broad low tables were ranged spread with the wonders of the wardrobe of the Imperial bride Who shall describe them and where shall one begin? Here is a table spread with dozens and dozens and dozens of pairs of the most dainty shoes in the world from long white satin boots slashed up the front to small slippers smart with bows and buckles A pair of these last was ornamented with a pretty sort of gold worked on silk the peculiar manufacture of one Russian town Trays of pocket handkerchiefs edged inches deep with beautiful lace and worked with the Imperial monogram piles of petticoats awfully and wonclerh lly tucked and plaited and embroidered exquisitely worked linen of marvellous woof and cambric as fine as floating cobwebs lay in orderly heaps on either side Blankets even were there and some embroidered furniture for bed and table looked rare enough to be put under a glass case and far too fine and fragile to be ever sent to the If one could have brought away the patterns of a row of fascinating little caps hung on stands how accept able they would have been to ladies who love to perch these taking shreds of lace and ribbon on the tops of their heads Gloves are gloves all the world over at least to look at but in hosiery there is some room for art and luxury It seemed impious to look upon shining and delicately tinted silk stockings marked with the initial letter of the most beautiful names in the world under an Imperial crown and one passed on to expend admiration and wonder on an endless array of lace at one thousand rubles an archine and ribbons quilted white satin baskets and other mysteries By the next room the great Salle Blanche from the ceiling of which depend immense chandeliers of glittering glass containing the real glories of the trousseau Here were the dresses and the bonnets and the cloaks and the furs ifty morning dresses of silk and satin and velvet bung on stands and their rich tints side by side were a rare study of color How the dresses were made I shall not attempt to say further than that their trimmings and puffings and plaitings seemed most daintily and cunningly devised The colors were exquisitely matched though in one or two instances the gown seemed to lead rather than folow the fashion If I may venture a criticism a lady whose own toilette of perfect taste gave her the right to an opinion who thought some of the dresses rather heavy and old looking with all their splendor for a you girl The gold and silver embroidered white and blue velvet gowns wiih long trains for Court are goodly to look upon though they must be weighty to wear The dress of blue velvet em broidered with gold braid is a sort of feminine uniform de rigueur in the Winter Palaeo for the Imperial family on great occasions The wedding dress was of course the centre of interest and was of white satin with pointed banging sleeves and covered with silver embroidery It has a long train and is a glorified specimen of the Russian national marriage costume It is a rich and glittering robe worthy to clothe a Princess and a bride but it will bo alf concealed by a still more Imperial wedding garment of purple velvet trimmed very deeply with ermine This also has a trailing skirt and on her wedding day the Grand Duchess will indeed need the services of the four Chamberlains and the Ecuyer who are to bear her train Dressing gowns of every description from the bona fide robe to be put on on getting out of bed to that which is merely a costly gown in disguise were there and many morn devices of female ornament than I cau remember or com fort out of doors there were tippets and jackets and cloaks of precious fur and one sable cloak in par ticular worth its weight in gold and perhaps much more A cloak of white Astrachan many Cashmere shawls and dainty opera cloaks Worthy to be About the loveliest shoulders in the world Littered the tables luxuriously But I must come back at last to tbe dresses things of at least if the caprices of fashion prevent them from being As though the milleners had exerted the skill till the force of fancy could no further there was not only a whole regiment of dresses in esse but a large number in posse in the shape of a row of rolls of silk and velvet Even as it is I have not mentioned the bonnets a whole bevy of which were becomingly arranged on a table to themselves nor must we bear ourselves away with out glancing at the portentious row of great purple Russia leather travelling trunks suggestive of im mense payments for extra luggage A number of persons bad been invited to see the trousseau and I fear that if one could have looked into the hearts one would have detected some coveting of the Grand sable cloak and other things which were hers As a Briton one felt a quiet satisfaction that all those splendid clothes were for English wearing CRIMINAL SITTINGS THE SUPREME COURT NELSON DISTRICT NOTICE is hereby given that the NEXT SITTINGS of the CIRCUIT COURT of the SUPREME COURT for the Despatch of CRIMINAL BUSINESS will be held at the Court house Nelson on MONDAY the 20th day of APRIL now next at Ten of the clock in the orenoon at which 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ISHER Clerk of the Court Collingwood The following is a list of the Applications under The Licensing DISTRICTS COLLINGWOOD AND AORERE Brace Joseph Durham Arms Collingwood Miles Jacob William Commercial Collingwood Wholesale Licenses Brace Riley AORERE Harvey Abraham Waikato Aorere Irons James Aorere Hotel Aorere Lash John Goodridge Post Office Hotel Aorere Riley William Calverley West Wanganui Shaw John Pakawau Schroder and Sawyer West Wanganui 530 LICENSING ACT 1873 NOTICE qpHE ANNUAL MEETING of the 1 LICENSING COURT of the DISTRICT TAKAKA will be held at the RESIDENT COURT TAKAKA on MON DAY the 20th APRIL next at Noon for the pur pose of taking into consideration APPLICATIONS for CERTIICATES By order of the Resident Magistrate GEORGE TAYLOR Clerk of the Court Takaka The following is a list of tbe Applications under The Lisceneing Act DISTRICT TAKAKA Abbott Henry Junction Hotel Takaka Ellis Montague Motupipi Exchange Motupipi ellows Robert Takaka Reilly James Shamrock Hotel Takaka 531 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