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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 168, 20 July 1867, Page 3

A recent writer expresses his belief that meat should be taken at the morning meal and thus gives his reasons. It may not be digested so quickty as some starchy substances; but as a rule, it is digested easily, and it certainly satisfies the system, and carries us farther in our work than vegetables alone. At this time meat should be taken in a palatable and easily digestible form — stewed, with nutritent juices saved in the sauces, and the aromatic principles developed by the heat; or better than all broiled, for here the juices are retained in the tissue, aud the flavor is developed by the hardening and carmelizatiou, as it were, of the exterior. Above all, avoid the abomination of frying fresh meat; not alone as a matter of taste, but a violation of scientific laws. A fresh animal tissue which has soaked up a mass of fat is not in a proper condition to be taken into the system. Salted articles, which are generally so hardened that they will not so readily absorb the fat, as fish, and articles which are exposed for but a short time to the very high temperature to which all fried articles are subjected, may be cooked in this way, but never good fresh meat.

A telegram received last night informed us that the Rangitoto, with the June Mail via Suez, had arrived at tbe Bluff on the preceding evening. The Nelson portion of the mail may therefore be expected to arrive here either by the Phcebe or the Rangitoto on Tuesday, or latest on Wednesday next. The Finance Committee of No. 1 Company, City Rifles, meet, this evening, at the Bank Hotel, at 7 o'clock. The members of the corps will meet, at the same place, at 8 o'clock, to receive the committee's report and balance sheet for the past year. The General Government Gazette contains the following notice: — His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation, by the Hon. E. W. Stafford, of the delegation to him of His Excellency's powers under the Goldfields Act, in respect of the Goldfields of Otago. The Grey River Argus of the 13th, in an article devoted to the consideration of the Westland Separation question, says that the proposed union with Nelson is popular, but that it is quite certain that the annexation of the whole of Westland to the Province of Nelson is not practicable, and questions whether such a proposal would be acceptable to the Nelson Government. After comparing the policy of the two Governments of Nelson and Canterbury, the Argus says that while tbe latter Government and Council are not liberally disposed towards the goldfields, the former have been liberal in the extreme. It holds that annexation to Nelson could only be wise, if the goldfields were adequately represented in the Council, and their affairs administered by a responsible officer. We are requested to state that an address to young men will be delivered tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, at the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms, Bridge-Street, by Mr Dacombe. The subject will be " The Gospel in its adaptation to the young." We understand that a series of Sunday afternoon addresses are in course of arrangement. Our readers will be gratified to learn, that intelligence of the safe arrival of the Countess of Kintore ship, after a passage of 79 days — being one day. longer than the Electra — wos received by Messrs. N. Edwards & Co. this morning, by telegram from Dunedin, the contents of which have been courteously placed at our disposal . An adjourned meeting iv counection with the proposed Theatre and Assembly Rooms, was held at the Bank Hotel yesterday evening, Dr. Williams in the chair. The plans aud reports met with a very favorable reception, and a share list having been opened, 95 shares were immediately subscribed for. A prospectus is now in preparation, and the Provisional Committee intend canvassiug the city for the disposal of shares in the proposed company during next week. It is hoped that l>y the next meeting, which will take place on Friday .next, sufficient shares will have been subscribed for, to justify the election of ai direction and an immediate commencement of the building. We understand that an accident occurred yesterday evening to Mr Duncan Sinclair, manager of the Maitai run, in returning home from town, by the ■upsetting of a light spring cart, near Mr Huddleston's property. Dr Cotterell was soon in attendance, aud we believe that the injuries sustained by the sufferer have, fortunately, not proved to be of very serious character. ■ We beg to acknowledge the receipt from the Government Printer of the first weekly number of the Parliamentary Debates in. the Legislative Council and House of Representatives. Although we wholly dissent from the novel course which Government has adopted in this matter, we are bound to acknowledge that the publication is altogether creditable aud will probably prove a useful work of reference.