The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 109, 10 May 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1870.

Mining Shares. — Mr. H.J. L. Augarde quotes: Culliford shares, £1 ss. paid, at 275. 6d.; Perseverance, £1 10s. paid, at £2 ss. per share. Business done this day. Acclimatisation. —By the Tararua last night, Mr. Huddleston received a small shipment of Mioah birds from the Victorian Acclimatisation Society. Marine View. — This work of art, of which we have already spoken, will be on view at the Assembly Room this evening, and will, no doubt, attract a large number of spectators. At every place where it has yet been exhibited the newspapers speak of it in the highest terms. Resident Magistrate's Court. — Thomas Fogarty of Nelson, laborer, was yesterday charged with having on Sunday last, assaulted and heated Miriam Ruku, a Maori girl of thirteen years of age. Prisoner was sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor. Parish Meeting. — The adjourned mectiug of the parishioners of Christ Church is to be held at the Bishop's Schoolroom, this evening at 7 o'clock. As, however, the debate that is to take place .-:• th"' ""'ovincial Hall will attract a large number of persons who would otherwise attend at the schoolroom, it may prove desirable to further adjourn the meeting. The Case or Walter Tricker. — A telegram received by us from Wellington this morning states that Walter Tricker, who has for many years been in gaol for the murder of Mr. Rayner of Rangitikei, and in whose behalf a great stir has lately been made in Wellington by a number of persons who firmly believed in his innocence, is to be liberated to-morrow under a free pardon. Steamer Charles Edward. — Sinco the telegram received by Messrs. N. Edwards and Co. from Captain Whitwell last night, stating that the Charles Edward had been seen by a schooner on Saturday off Rocks Point under canvas, no further intelligence has been received of her whereabouts. The gale of Sunday last must have blown her considerably out of her course, but she ought soon now to make her appearance in the Bay. The no Confidence Vote. — The proceedings of the Council will commence this evening with the debate on the motion that the Council has no confidence in the Government of the Province, as at present constituted. We must give Mr. Luckie every credit for the ingenious manner in which he has worded his resolution, which is expressed in such a way as to catch any wavering votes ', it must however be rembered, that it by no means follows, because a member sides with the Opposiiion ou this occasion, that he will by so doing be condemning the Government as a whole. To some, perhaps, the Treasurer may be obnoxious, others may disapprove of the Solicitor, while the two latest appointments, or either of them, may not be in consonance with the views of another section of the Council, and yet by the skilful generalship displayed by Mr. Luckie in framing his battle cry, all those who are in any way discontented, although widely differing in their estimation of the Executive as a whole, may be for the nouce induced to fight under one banner, each in the hope that the particular individual to whom he objects may be slain iv the battle while the others escape. Members are not invited by the resolution to express any opinion ©n the actions of the Executive, but merely to say whether they approve of each and every individual of which it is composed, thus converting what should have been a strictly political into a purely personal question. This may be extremely clever, but is it ingenuous ?^°;& S^^ U^ M _ W

A correspondent of a Wanganui paper estimates the number of laywers in that town at one to every hundred of the adult population. In one of the electoral districts of Auckland, out of 230 claims sent iv to the Returning officer, 150 were made by Maoris. The Herald takes alarm at this and suggests that some one should object to tnem seriatim,