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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 135, 11 June 1869, Page 2

"Winter Evening- Lectures. —We would remind our renders thai the second of this series of lectures is to be given fit the Provincial Hall this evening. The lecfurer on th« pi'esent occasion is the Bishop of Nelson, who has clios j u for his subject "The New Lighthouse." We hope to see a much larger attendance to-night than was present at the last ect ire. The Rev. Joseph Henry Simmonds. belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist Society, is gazetted as an officiating minister within the meaning of "The Marriage Act, 1854." Parliamentary. — On Tuesday last Mr Fox moved in the House of Representatives — " That this House has no confidence in the present Government," and ' rumour says that Ministers will be defeated. Nothing but unavoidable business would be proceeded with uotil the division. The debate will, without doubt, be a most lengthy one, as the whole of the proceedings against the natives since last session will be discussed, this being the ground upon which the opposition will base their attack. If we can form an opinion f of tbe probable duration of the debate t from the time that was occupied on a I similar occasion last year, we can hardly expect to hear the result until the end of next week. The Native War. — Intelligence has been received in Wellington of the surprise and slaughter by the\natives of an escort of nine men some seven miles from Taupo. A letter of defiance purporting to be signed by Te Kooti, had been received by Colonel St. John, but it is believed that the signature is a forgery. A Discovery of an extensive deposit of meerschaum clay has been " made in a district not moro than 3.0 or 40 miles from Auckland. An informant states that there are at least two acres of it, and that its depth is as yet undetermined. There is no doubt of the accuracy of the statement, as the person who discovered this mine of wealth was at one time connected ;with tfye manufacture pf meerschaum Kpipefif,; . " ■ •'. t■"- : • " '■"-''