The Nelson Evening Mail SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 72, 23 March 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1872.

Forestry. — The first Forester's Court in the Province of Kawke's Bay was opened at Napier on the 13th instant. The Government Wharf, Warehouses, &c„ were let, at auction, to-day, to Messrs. N. Edwards & Co., for £870. The sum realised last year was £500. British and Foreign Bible Society. — We see that the Keverendß. Backhouse has returned to Nelson, and will, on Tuesday evening next, be present at the Temperance Hall, to communicate information with reference to the objects and operations of the Society. Miss Clara Stephenson. — We see that this most accomplished Australian artiste is to make her first appearance in Nelson on Monday evening next, and, if we are to judge by the reports of her performances in other provinces, we may expect an entertainment that will prove highly pleasing. Band oe Hope. — A meeting of the Band of Hope took place at the Temperance Hall last evening, when the magic lantern was exhibited to a roomfull of members by the indefatigable Ben Crisp. "We understand that these meetings are to be continued fortnightly, at a charge of one penny, for the providing of new views for the lantern. The Tuapeha Times states that a stone having al! the appearance of a horse's head was lately found by a miner named Currie, in his claim on M'Cann's Beach. The sockets of the eyes and nostrils, ■which are filled with quartz pebbles, give it all the appearance of a fossil head. A Rtjsh is reported by the West Coast Times to have taken place within the last few days to some ground at the back of Arthur's Town, on the southern Bide of the Hokitika River. It is Baid that the prospectors are averaging £7 per week each. The Mayor of Wellington, at a supper given to the Wellington Regatta Crew, said, "Much had been said lately about tbe so-called salary which had been lately attached to his office. He could assure them that he should look upon it as a sum to be distributed solely for the benefit of the city." , The Westport Times says : — Messrs. Chambers and M'Nairn are preparing to - deliver coal at the Nokawau, which they say can be done at ss. per ton at the mine. They represent that any vessel of iight draught can easily enter at the Nokawau, ■and that vessels can sail up to the mine, where they intend constructing a shoot by which they will be enabled to load a vessel in a few minutes. Representation of the Grey VALiLEY.-7-Tbe Grey River Argus says : .~r";The only gentleman who has been mentioned as likely to stand for election as a member for the Grey Valley district in the Nelson Provincial Council, is Mr. T, A. S. Kynnersley, formerly Com-

, missioner on the Nelson South- West Goldfields. A message -was sent by some of the electors to Mr. Kynnersley, and it is stated that he has replied that be has no objections to be returned without the trouble and expense of a contest." The Scandinavians. — A writer in the Otago Daily Times takes what we think a very fair objection regarding Scandinavian immigration. He quotes tbe fact that promisory notes are taken from Scandinavians for that portion of the cost of passage which the immigrant is expected to pay, aud then asks " why similar advantages are not offered to Britons, for people will soon complain, aud with justice, if such favoritism is shown ; for men of our own race are entitled to at least the same chances of bettering themselves that are accorded to those who cannot plead the ties of blood and kind red.' XJ^ho could have Invented This ? — "In oue of the country districts ( out west' in the Nelson province, a man was charged before a Wellington Justice of tbe Peace, who was travelling through the district, with having committed some petty offence. The apprehending constable was about to testify to the offence and the arrest, when lo ! the volume of the sacred lav/ proved truly to be a jewel without price, a search of two hours in the neighborhood proving of no avail in procuring a Bible. As a way out of the difficulty tbe culprit bad to be dismissed, This district should be marked out as a suitable field for tbe labors of a missionary." Amongst the many hundred of " wants" that appear daily in our morning journals we do not remember to have seen any precisely like tbe following, which we copy from the Denver Daily Tribune of sth September, 1871 :—" Wanted— A girl to do house-work. She will be permitted to receive company every day in tbe week, and a good substantial fencewill be provided to lean against while courting, and ample time will be accorded for that recreation ; but no piano will be furnished. Inquire at A. McCune's residence, bead of H Street, ' Brown's Addition.' " Registration. — Upon this subject the Grey River Argus of March 21, says : — " It is especially recommendable that the requirements of the Electoral Act should be complied with in a case where tbe office of Superintendent is one of such exceptional power a3 it is in that Province [Nelson]. More than in any other Province the results of the meetings of the Provincial Council are nominal and uninfluential in the guidance of the administration of Provincial affairs, and there has also to be considered the serious and unfortunate fact that the Superintendent is simply the representative of a section of the population — -a section topographically and otherwise separate from tbe population on the SouthWest Goldfields." Having some idea of what has recently been done on the Coast with the public money of tbe whole province, we must confess to some astonishment whilst reading the foregoing, but when the writer added, " It ought however, to be unnecessary for us at tbis time of day to harp upon such a well-known string as this subject may figuratively be said to be," we were mollified, for figuratively is all that can truthfully be said of it. Shipping Disaster. — A serious misadventure, which, we fear, will be attended by very considerable loss, happened to the little steamer Pioneer and the punt, just now engaged in loading the Malay, which lies at the anchorage immediately inside the Heads. The punt was loaded with 52 bales of wool and 13 bales of flax yesterday evening, and, on being towed down the river by the little steamer, got out of the chaunel and took the ground. The Pioneer proceeded to the vessel to discharge her own cargo, and remained alongside until the tide should again make. Ou going this morning to bring down the punt, it was gone; it had floated some time before, and on investigation it turned out that ifc had floated seaward. In crossing the bar, it must have capsized, and a portion of its cargo has already been washed ashore. — Wanganui Chronicle, March 14.