The Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 114, 14 May 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1872.

Postal Notice.— We beg to call attention to the Postoffice notice of the San Francisco mail, which it will be seen is detained here till the forenoon tide tomorrow. The mail will close at 11 a.tn. on Wednesday. Immigration.— The Gazette of the 10th instant notifies that Alfred Greenfield Esq., has been appointed Immigration Officer for Nelson, and John Edwin March, Esq., Chief Immigration Officer for the Middle Island. Provincial Council. — The first notice on the paper for this evening is : — " The Provincial Treasurer to move, That the Council resolve itself into Committee for consideration of the Estimates." In moving this, Mr. Shephard will make the customary financial statement. The Council meets at 5 o'clock. Towns Improvement and Highways Bills.— These Bills were read the third time and passed last evening, and a motion was also agreed to recommending that the exempting clause from rating should operate on property in the occupation of charitable societies. Meeting of ELECTORs.—It will be seen that Mr. Saunders, who arrived by the Albion on Sunday, invites the electors to meet him at the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday evening. Mr. Saunders is known tp^be a speaker of no mean ability, and it will be exceedingly interesting to hear him explain his views on the present state of the colony. It is unfortunate that he cannot obtain the use of the Provincial Hall as the meeting is sure to be a crowded one. I •'. "WiwT.^ATOM--T <TT J T Amfr f - ; a nVfimir '"' thn

j the management of the Asylum have reI ported that the building and accommodation are quite inadequate to the purposes for which they are intended ; that the patients have been treated with unnecessary violence ;^and tbat the Master and Matron are unsuited, by want of necessary training, and infirmity of temper on the part of the latter, to manage such an establishment. Inangahtja. — There is great excitement at the Inangahua owing to the refusal of the Superintendent to grant certain mining lenses, and bis reduction of the dimensions of others that had been applied for and approved by the Warden. An indignation meeting has been held, and a resolution passed that the General Government should be- memorialised to withdraw the delegated powers from the Superintendent, and to take the goldfields under their own control. A petition to this effect is now being signed.