The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868. PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 95, 23 April 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868. PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

Wednesday, April 22 . The Speaker took the chair at 5 o'clock. Present, ail the members except the Provincial Solicitor, Messrs H.Redwood, Wigley, and Home.

Mr J. V. Smith was introduced to the Speaker by Mr Bentley, and took his seat for the Buller.

Ou the motion of Mr R. Burn, tbe report of the Select Committee appointed to prepare a reply to the address, was read, and notice was given of its adoption to-day.

. The Provincial Secretary laid on the table a letter from Mr Commissioner Kynnersley, giving a long aud circumstantial narrative ofthe late disturbances on the West Coast, which was read.

The Provincial Secretary also laid upon the table a large number of reports, &c, on various subjects.

The Provincial Secretary, on behalf of the Provincial Solicitor, who was absent through indisposition, moved for leave to bring in bills to repeal the Cattle Slaughtering Act, 186S, the Cattle Trespass Act, 1866, to amend the Country Road Acts, and to provide for the inspection of meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables, which was granted, and each bill was read a first time.

Mr R. Burn presented a petition from 52 owners and occupiers of property in Brook-street Valley, praying that steps may be taken to protect them from injury from floods, which was read and received.

Several notices of motion were given, and the House adjourned at a quarter past 6, until 5 o'clock to-day.

It is announced that the entrances for the approaching races, which come off on Tuesday and Wednesday next, must be made to Mr Elliott, the Secretary of the Turf Club, to-morrow (Friday) before 6 p.m. We regret to find that although the members of the Club have exerted themselves to the utmost to obtain such an amount of subscriptions as would render the principal stakes more worthy of the high class of horses which will on this occasion compete for them, their efforts have not been so successful as could have been desired. It is, however, hoped that some addition may still be made to the subscription list, which will enable them to make the stakes for the Turf Club Plate 100 sov. and that for the Duke of Edinburgh Plate 200 sov., and thus to offer some greater recompense to the owners of horses for the outlay which they have incurred in sending their horses on this occasion, with a view to revive the drooping fortunes of our annual Meeting.

We understand that the popular actress, Mrs Robert Heir, who, when Miss Fanny Cathcart, accompanied the late G. V. Brooke to Australia, and played all ,the leading parts with him during his sojourn in the colonies, is now performing an engagement at Dunedin, and purposes visiting Nelson shortly, where she will give some representations.

The Phoebe left Wellington at 2 p.m. yesterday, when it was blowing fresh from the S.E. in the Straits. Arrived at Picton at 7 p.m. Left Picton at midnight, and arrived here at 9.30 this morning.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday the following debt cases were heard : — J. W. Bond v. J. Thornton. This was an action to recover £5 2s. for work performed for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff, iu May, 1867, took a house in Toi-toi Valley from the defendant, the agreement being that the house had to be put in tenantable repair, and it was asserted th a t the whole of the work charged for was necessary. For the defendant, it was pleaded that he had let the whole of the work required to be done to the house for £9 10s, and while plaintiff was engaged on it he agreed to rent the place for 5 years at £50 per annum ; that he had never agreed to put the house in good order, and that on the 17th inst. when he had a settlement ofthe rent, the plaintiff owing him £12 10s. under the lease, he allowed his contra accouut of £4 9s. 6d., and nothing was said about the present account. Judgment was given for the defendant with costs £l l3s. Thornton v. Bond. This was an actiou for the recovery of one month's rent due to the defendant in the above action. Judgment for the plaintiff" for £4 3s. 4d., and costs £2 135., payable in one month. In the adjourned case Hill v. Laing, for assault, the defendant was fined 10s. and costs, it being proved that the dog struck by the complainant, by which the assault was provoked, was on the chain at the time, and could not have done any injury to the complainant James Gaiubull, a seaman on board the Charlotte Anne, was fined £2 and costs, for an assault committed ou another seaman of the same vessel, named John Meyer. Our facetious correspondent has forwarded us the following cou. which he considers suitable to the late occasion ofthe opening of the Waterworks : — Why is the Superintendent like a chimney-sweep ? — Because he is not particular about his suit (soot) ! Mr Thomas Birch was elected Mayor of Dunedin, by a majority of 26 votes, on Monday last. The Northern competitors for the annual Champion rifle prizes have arrived at Wellington. A meeting was held at the Empire Hotel, on Saturday evening last, Lieut. Col. Reader presiding, for the purpose of making arrangements for entertaining the representatives of the several provinces during their visit to the capital, and a long discussion ensued as to whether there should be a ball ora dinner, which was finally decided in favor of the latter entertainment.

The Independent of Tuesday says that that notorious individual Mrs. Kinder has been for some time past residing in Wellington, and sailed for Callao in the Franz Schartan, on Saturday last.

It having been determined in December ast that a place of worship for the Hebrew persuasion should be erected in Wellington, a committee was appointed, and no less than £693 has been already promised for the purpose.

The duty, on New Zealand flax imported into New South Wales has been abolished.

Lady Bowen, in replying to an address from the Ladies of Auckland, said : — * Every visitor must be charmed with the beautiful scenery of Auckland and its neighborhood ; but it has a tenfold interest in my eyes, for it recalls to me vividly many remembrances of my native land. While standing on the hills above your town, I cannot fail to recognise the Isthmus of Corinth, and in the Bay of Hauraki I see once more the Isles of Greece. Tou may indeed make it your boast that your home is a favored land.'

The Independent of Tuesday last states that Chief Justice Sir G. A. Arney is expected to arrive by the steamship Kaikoura, due from Panama in the course of the

current week.

A case of great importance to owners

and masterd of vessels of trading on the coast was heard in the Resident Magistrate's Couvt, Wellington, on Saturday last, when Captain Palmer, late master of the unfortunate steamer Cleopatra, was summoned by the Custom's authorities for carrying passengers in his vessel, knowing it to be unlicensed as a passenger ship, and was fined £_ and costs.

It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that Madame Carandini and her party will give the first of three concerts, during the Race Week, on Mon-

day evening next.

It is reported that the Resident Magistrate, J. Poynter, Esq., has tendered his resignation of the office which be has occupied for so many years past.

A recent Gazette gives the following return of land sold in Marlborough, during the quarter ending December:— 7a. Ir.'l6p. (town), at an average of £22 6s. 9d. per acre ; Ilia. 3r. 4p. (suburban), at £2? 148a. 3r. 24p. (rural}, at £l ; and 8455a* 55p. (pastoral), at ss. sd. The cash paid was £2,856 3s. 4d. Besides these lands, 1,055a. 3r. 17p. were granted as reserves to the Education Board.

Louis 11., King of Bavaria, died on the 28th February. He was enly 23 years old.

Barnum's Museum, in New Tork, was destroyed by fire on the 3rd March, together with all the curiosities, and the larger part of the live animals.

Parties showing a want of respect to Royalty, for instance, by keeping on their hats when the National Anthem is being sung, are reminded that if their hat geteknocked off it would not constitute an assault, at any rate such was the decision given by the Ararat police court, in Victoria, when a man named Connor summoned another named Tuson for the offence mentioned, the magistrate ruled that ' if he (Connor) remained there and persisted in keeping his hat upon his head, it served him right to have it knocked off.'