The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 115, 15 May 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1872.

The Outgoing San Francisco Mail. «— A Poßtoffice notice informs us that this mail will not close until 8 o'clock this evening. Citt Election. — The writ for this election arrived by the Wellington this morning, and, as will be seen by advertisement, the nomination is to take place on Saturday, the 25th instant, and the polling on the following Monday. Auction Sales. — The Dun Mountain Company's plant was this day disposed of at auction by Messrs. Stavert & Co,, to Mr Robert Levien, of this town, for the sum of £4,750, The house and property of Mr. S. H. Pike, on the Waimea Road, was bought in by the mortgagee at £1,350. The Accident to the Mail Steamer. — By the following paragraph from the Evening Post of Monday last it will be seen that it was the Moses Taylor at San Francisco, and not the Nebraska at Honolulu to which the accident had occurred : —In the paragraph relating to the breakdown of the San Francisco mail boat, published on Saturday evening, we wrongly assumed that the Nebraska was (he boat indicated. It would appear, however, that the accident really occurred to the steamer leaving San Francisco on the 27th March, said to be the Moses Taylor. Flood in the Obinoco. — A correspondent informs us that the flood in the Orinoco on the 29th ult. was higher than ever before known, causing a deal of damage to roads, fences, and bridges in the neighborhood. Most of the residents in the .. district are sufferers, particularly

Mr. G: Remnant, who had two acres of land and a quantity of fencing swept away, and the whole of his homestead flooded, there being at one time two feet of water in the house. His son, who wns scut to release the pigs from the sty, was, together with nine of these animals, carried away by the current, and, had he not been a good swimmer, would in all probability have been drowned. Mr. Remnant had a quantity of produce washed away or spoiled by the water, including nine sides of bacon which were in salt. The Chinese Labor Question. — His Honor the Superintendent received the following letter by the Wellington this morning :— " Arrow District Miners' Association, Arrowtown, April 27th, 1872. — To his Honor Oswald Curtis, Superintendent of Nelson — Sir, — I am directed by this Committee, acting on behalf of the miners of the district, to express their gratitude to you for the manner in which you opposed the apparent wish of the General Government to have the Public Wcrks constructed by Chinese labor. The action taken by you was effectual in averting a step which would have inflicted a great injury upon the laboring classes, and through them upon the whole colony. In order that the circumstance may not be forgetten, this Committee will have much pleasure in enrolling your name as an honorary member of the Association. — I have, &c, Samuel Symonds, Secretary."