The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 59, 8 March 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1872.

Meeting of Electors. — Mr. Ralph Eichardson will address his constituents on the proceedings of the late session at the Black Horse, Wakapuaka, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock.

Cricket. — A match between the Stoke and Spring Grove clubs will be played near the Bridge Hotel to-morrow. The return match between Wakefield and Motueka will come off on the ground of the latter early next week.

Accident.— A serious accident occurred yesterday evening to Mr. John Armstrong, who was standing in Bridge-stree. talking to a friend, when a horseman rode down the street and knocked him down, causing the fracture of one of the bones of the leg just above the ancle. He was at once carried home and medical assistance sent for.

Canterbury Waste Lands. — We {Canterbury Press) are given to understand that the large sum of £12,946 has been realised from the sale of land in ihis province during the month of February, being an amount more tban equal to onethird of the sum estimated as likely to be received during the whole of the present financial year from this source.

The Basque Malay. — A Wanganui telegram, dated February 28, says : — The Malay, while being towed by the Wanganui, got out of the channel and took tbe ground at the Point in her passage down the river on Monday ; the Wallabi proceeded last night at high water to endeavor to tow her off, but was unsuccessful, and is is feared that the barque will have to remain in her present position for a few days. It was intended to complete tbe loading just inside the Heads by lightering, this, however, will now have to be postponed. The Malay at present draws one inch more water than she did on her arrival in this port.

Waikato Railway Works. — The Auckland correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes : — About . 250 men are at work on the Waikato railway, and they get on very well with Mr. Brogden's overseers. Two days ago 30 of the loafing class were discharged. Sooner or later it must have come to that, for what employer of labor will pay liberally for nothing done ? Any man capable of doing anything like a fair day's work for good wages need not be idle here; and it must be confessed that a generous interpretation

obtains with Mr. Brogden's overseers when amount of work done has to be computed. I know of many steady men who were not brought up to navvy work, and who I feared would fail, but who give satisfaction because they are willing to do their best, and try to do better. The men on the Waikato railway, by their own account, have no reason to complain of harsh usage.