The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, 9 March 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1872.

New Wesleyan Churches have recently been opened at Woolston, Canterbury, and Tararu, Thames. DIORAMA OF THE AMERICAN WAR. — It will be seen that this beautiful diorama, so well known in Nelson, is to arrive from Wellington by the steamer Wanganui tomorrow, and to open here on Monday evening. The entertainment, we notice, has been very successful in Wellington, where it has drawn crowded houses. Professor Haselmayer. — According to the American and Auckland papers, a rare treat is promised to the Nelson public next week, when Professor Haselmayer, the celebrated magician and musician, will give a series of entertainments at the Assembly Room. The Professor, we are assured, is quite equal to the celebrated Heller, not only as a conjuror, but as an amusing " talkist," and if his performances are anything like what we are led to expect, and there seems no reason to doubt it, we may safely promise him crowded houses during his stay ia Nelson. Mail Arrangements. — The miserable character of our mail arrangements says the writer of "Casual Notes" in the Daily Times, received yet another illustra - tion last week, when the Alhambra arrived in Melbourne with the Suez news but without the Suez mails. A delay of a few hours in Hobson's Bay would have saved a delay here of ten or twelve days. However, the powers that be think it better to have all our eggs in one basket, and to pay an immense subsidy for the San Francisco service, rather than a smaller subsidy for one equally good by the same route, calling at Fiji instead of Auckland, and leaving the balance to subsidise the carriage of our mails via Suez also. New Zealand therefore enjoys the distinction of preferring one expensive and irregular service to two cheap ones, one of which is regular. So long, however, as our commercial men are afraid, for political reasons to mak« their voices heard in this matter, the same state of things will continue. Like the

Hindu fanatics, they cast themselves before the car of him whom (politically) they worship, so that if they aro crushed by the wheels of the New Zealand Juggernaut they cannot complain.