The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 38, 13 February 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 1872.

Bankruptcy. — The Gazette of this morning notifies that Walter Harry Cousins, storekeeper and bootmaker, has filed a declaration of his inability to meet bis engagements with his creditors. Philharmonic Society. — This Society which has been recently formed in Nelson, will give its first concert at the Provincial Hall to-morrow evening. The orchestra is said to be an excellent one, and the programme gives every promise of a really good concert. Meeting of Electors. — Mr. A. S. Collins invites the electors of Golden Bay to meet him at Schafer's hotel on Wednesday evening next, and at Takaka on the following Monday, when he will give an account of the proceedings at the late session of the Assembly. Customs Revenue. — A return -just published of the Customs revenue at the several ports of New Zealand shows that the total receipts during tbe quarter ending 31st December 1871 were £193,079 againgst £187,752 for the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The total colonial revenue derived from tbis source in 1871 was £731,883 against £765,930 in the previous year. In Nelson it was £29,759 in 1871 and £29,406 in 1870. The Late Captain Hagley. — Tbe flags of the vessels in Port yesterday were lowered to half-mast as a mark of respect to Captain Hagley, late of the s.s. Tararua. Captain Hagley, it will be remembered, was about to proceed from Adelaide to Port Darwin, with men, stock, aud material for the overland telegraph construction party, when he was attacked with an epileptic fit, to which he succumbed yesterday. For a number of years Captain Hagley has been well and favorably known in the passenger trade between tbis colony and New Zealand, in the Panama and New Zealand Royal Mail Company's service, as well as in that of Messrs. M'Meckan, Blackwood & Co., and the thousands of passengers who have voyaged with him will bear willing testimony to his invariable courtesy and his ever considerate attention to their welfare on board the steamers of which be has had command. The feeling of regret expressed yesterday in Port at his untimely and unlocked for decease was wide-spread. — Melbourne Argus, Feb. 3. Caledonians are selling at £ 1 5. A Ball is to be given at Auckland today to the officers of H. M. S. Blanche and U.S.S. St. Mary's. The manufacture of earthenware drain pipes has been commenced on a considerable scale in Christchurch. An immense grass fire on the Upper Darling was extinguished in five minutes by a thunder shower. The Victorian Racing Club are going to erect a stand to hold five thousand persons, and to cost six thousand pounds. The Melbourne City Council propose to borrow £150,000 for extending the market accommodation of the city. The Wanganui Chronicle understands that Mr. Sewell, late Minister of Justice, proposes commencing his profession as a barrister in Wellington. Notice has been given to tbe Canterbury Police that their services would not be required after the expiration of three months from the Ist instant, excepting those who desire to continue their duties at the reduced rate of pay, and give one month's notice of the same from the same date. A Horrible Affair has occurred in a house of ill-fame in Timaru. A man named J. Kennedy was lying asleep on a bed, when another man named D. Adam, having first tied Kennedy's feet together with a scarf, procured an axe and inflicted

ome severe wounds on his head. Fortunately for Kennedy, he contrived to get his feet loose, and made bis escape. He is now in the hospital. A list of future solar eclipses appears in tbe London Times, from which we learn that a total eclipse will not be observable in New Zealand until September. 9th. 1885. Gold at Wanganui. — A late Auckland telegram reported the discovery of gold at Wanganui. The discovery was at Whangarei. A specimen was taken up to Auckland for analysis. It is reported to run eight ounces to the ton. How is it that specimens taken from n reef which is afterwards proved to contain no gold always yield at the rate of several ounces to the ton ? Railway Works in Auckland. -- These works have been fairly commenced in the province of Auckland. The Herald says : — Workmen are crowding in for employment at the works, but as at present only three miles of line are in the contractors' hands, only a limited number of men can be employed at present. We may mention that the wages paid are at the rate of 8d an hour, which is 33 per cent, above tbe rate of wages paid to laborers in tbe country districts, who receive only at the rate of 6d per hour. ■ The Gipps Land Times reports : — Stockyard Creek is becoming famous for nuggets. Several goodly-sized ones have been found there during the past few months, and one weighing 52ozs. was obtained from tbe Prussians' claim. The total quantity got from the claim on the day named was 90ozs. A suit of paper clothing may be bought at Pekin for a shilling. It is stated that there are 10,000 Mormons in the British Isles. The population of Glasgow is increasing at the rate of 10,000 per annum. It has been determined to restore York Minster at a cost of £10,000. The paper strength of the Russian army is 1,724,327 officers and men. A Deaconess was ordained by the Bishop of London on All Saints' Day. A fisherman has died at Lossiemouth, Scotland, aged 105. The last surviving brother of Father Matthew died recently. At Stratford-on-Avon a boy had both bis legs cut off by a steam plough. An old lady at Ballina, Ireland, has been killed by a pet donkey. The Edinburgh and Leith Tramway carried 65,000 persons duriDg the first week. Over two-thirds of the beasts of burden in Persia have died since the famine began. A Chicago Paper says of a contemporary, that it has doubled its circulation ; auother man takes a copy now. There are said to be sixty-eight Republican Clubs in England and Scotland, numbering 30,000 members. They are composed of intelligent and well-to-do artisans. A Company is being Btarted to carry seawater to London with a view to open baths in the metropolis on a large scale. It is calculated that the water can be taken up the Thames with the tide, in lighters towed by steamtugs, so cheaply as to furnish it at the baths at ls. 3d. per 1000 gallons. Monkeys and Loafers.— ln Madras, £50 is this year voted for deporting monkeys from the city, and £2000 for deporting Europeans loafers, another growing nuisance. The editor of a country paper says — ' Wednesday's post brought us a letter addressed "Rev.," another "The Hon.," another " C 01.," one " Mr.," and the last "Esq.," On the way to dinner we accidentally stepped od a woman's traia, and she addressed us thus — 'You brute!'