The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 195, 4 July 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 4, 1870.

Masonic Company.-^ injsetihg g^tj&Tis Company is called for this evening Jfor the transaction of "business ~ '"o : f~wfp*firt'-' ance. s • ••'■■'- =•' •■•-"-<---> -- j Christ* ;MiNSTRELS.^Aa .will be seen by advertisement these minstrels. whoX» a hare .obtained the character lof ibeiag" tlie best company .oi the kind' that has ever •^site'd-tlre^fotofay^ xMilEellows'-Hall, this evening.— lt is so lpngy.sincewei; have bad a7rea% good company of Minstrels in Nelson, that we have no ; doubt; ■■ that t hey i : will secure crowded 1 'houses' during their stay in^the Province. Accidekt.— An accident of a curious but mosP' serious nature 1 Occurred a few days agP'aiiiQoiden Bay to a .miner, named Wa'lkeF. : la irwalkihgi along -a track in Golden Gully across which brush manuka had been laid. Walker tripped over one of the' stems ahn'fell, but in drying to rise he found ttiat something was wrong' and called out to his~mate for assistance who' on examination found that 7 his' "leg i-wias. broken a'fey'in'c^' : «bpve':'ttie ancle-joint. '$<isak&s'qtiQ9\^kse£ tp'jbis; hut where ; the bone rwas set by the .diggers, , b^kafter ten: days it: was found Ihit- he ' w"SsVsaot pVdgres'siDg'favbrabryi 'and he >: was taken down to Collingwood and brought oyer to the Hospital 'by^ne''La3^'.Ba : pk"iy. .oft: Friday last, when it was found necessary jto re-set the bone, and; we are glad to learn that he is now— getting— ©o much better than Was expefefed 'by 'his -frietfdsj > 'who where much_ alarmed at the symptoms ■' Whiten had set in; '~ • . PxjBMC-^EnsTro&.-^A public, meeting has been called fwthii- evening for tjhe purpose of ; expressing! aniipT/inion,- on; the Financial Statement recently, delivered jby the Colon i.al" rTreJasurer. Tfe earnestly hope that ihe taxpayers of the town will muster .in- considerable fprpe; to raise their voices' against the -proposed scheme which, "as have before sTa ted; appears to us: to Tie fraught with- ruin- and disaster • to ■ the cofony. - If tbe;Mimsi^ iby Mr. Yogel, are jprepar£3 a .,t9;gp^'tp'.the ■country on their Budget^by all /means ilet ?them do so at "once, • an4'tßus^fgi%e- the electors an opportunity of; giving expression to their wishes, but we trust that the House pf Eeprensentatives,.wi]l in ihe event;pf a,;dissolufeion, confine the supplies to the narrowest -possible limits, for We would Bbt,JinMie Sacalbf Ihe scheme propouuded/ron iTtresdayiiasV entrusi-jto a? Government rash enough -to come down withsuch'' 1 a : > Budget fthe 'ekpdndiWre' !bf 6ne single .shilling more than is absolutely hecessary foi: the conduct of : 'iiie L affairs of the colony for the 1 time being.