The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, 5 August 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872.

Acclimatization. — At. a recent meeting of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, the Curator slated that bd application had been received from the Nelson Society for 300 young trou+, and was instructed to reply that it would be considered when the proper time arrived. Telegraph to Eeefton. — We are requested to state that telegraphic offices aro bow open at Reefton and Abaura, communication therewith being established byjjhorse express, which leaves Grey mouth and Ahaura every day at noon, Sundays included, making oue service per day each way. The first mail . was to arrive at Greymouth last Saturday at 4.30 p.m. Thb Premier and Mr. Hall. — A well known humorist who holds a seat in the Upper House has perpetrated the following witticism on the elevation of Mr Hal] to the Legislative Council as the Government representative in that body. Mr. Fox is supposed to be introducing the new " peer " to the Speaker, and in doing so addresses him as folllows : " I give thee (H) all. I can no more, Though poor the offering be," &c. DISMEMDERMENT OV THE PROVINCE. — We would direct special attention to <he petition to the House of Representatives on this question which appears in our advertisiug columns to-day, and ia now beiug circulated throughout the whole of the province for signature. The injustice that it ia proposed to inflict on the Province of Nelson by thus mutilating it is put in a few forcible words ; and the petition, we aro sure, will meet with the full approval of those ia the settled district, and, we also anticipate, will be signed by many on the West Coast. Already hare the powers of self-government been bestowed upon one portion of the gold fields, and what are the results ?* Are they not written iv the records of the votes and proceedings of the Westland Council, in words so plain that they who run may real? Nothing but evil, mischief, aad confusion can follow, if this obnoxious proposal of the Government be carried. To that which is now known as the Province of Nelson it will be fraught with both financial and political ruin; to that portion which it is proposed to sever from the parent stem, with consequences the most baneful, for, there being no settled or permanent population, the Government must inevitably fall into the hands of a few clever speculators, who, careless of the welfare of those around them, and utterly regardless of (he future of the country for which they are called upon to legislate, will simply study their own interests, aud go conduct the government of the new province, that, although a brief, Hitting prosperity may possible be obtained, it will be entirely at the expense of those who are to follow, not in the course of a generation or two, but within a very few years. We further protest against the proposed action of the Government on the ground that it is unfair to a degree to select one particular province upon which to practice with its amputating knife. If some general reorganisation of the local governments throughout the colony were proposed, Nelson, of course, would have to take her chanco with the rest, but to select her as a fitting subject for constitutional experiments, merely because sh« happens to be numerically weak in the House of Representatives, is most unfair and unwarrantable, and we hope and believe, when the whole of the pros aud cons are placed •before the House, that each is the light in which this Ministerial measure will be looked upon by the representatives of the colony. , Picton and Blenheim Railway. — We take the following from the monthly summary of the Maryborough Press: — Our Railway works have been begUD, and a number of laborers are daily employed in the necessary earthworks, although as yet but little progress is visible. Now that the works are begun is the best time to bear testimony to the ability and energy displayed by members of the General Assernfor this province in pushing forward the work, and compelling the Government to proceed •with their signified intention.. To Mr. Seymour, . our Superintendent, very great credit is due for his unceasing efforts to promote the end he had ia view, and he may reflect with pride that but. for him the Picton and, Blenhiein Railway Would still bej as „maoy.; other projected public works are, in tte limbo of ■the^^fatalJe.^•^^'^The/P.^by>in.cial"JCQl!ano^iaißo are deserving of : praise. for,;, .backiDg up Mr 'Seymour; in his endeavor to get the work begun, and the people i-must concede that their reprl^ ■performing *lhe'taßk ' they /were; expected :

to undertake. Tho railway has already given an earnest of what it is likely to do to advance the prosperity of Picton, fi^o new places of busiqeas haviug beeu opened, and several more are about to be built. The ouly danger now is that trade is likely to be overdone, and that tradespeople will become as numerous as- consumers; but there is the prospect of a lurge increase to our -population besides' Messrs, Brogden's laborers, and there will be room for all if they only come in moderate numbers*

Protection of Animals Act. — We have been shown a copy of ft l>ill that has been introduced by the Hon. Mr Farmer, of Auckland, into'tho Legislative Council, for the purpose of amending The Protection of Animals Acts at present in fores. One of the clauses in the new Bill runs as follows: — "Every person who shall sell, or offur for sale, and every holder of a license to sell game, who shall have in his possession, or shall in any manner disposo of, any dead hen phensant, shall on cbnvictiou forfeit and pay for every such act a sura not exceeding £20 ; aad if such person hold a license to kill or sell gome, such license shall upon conviction become ' ipso facto void." Another clause provides for the repenl of so muchUf section 11 of the Act of 18G8 as permits game to be hunted, shot, taken, or killed during tho month of July.

No wonder small-pox liuds a congenial home in Auckland. A contemporary the other day spoke ns follows of a nuisance existing there: The stench at the entrance of the wharf was yesterday most abominable. The wind caused somewhat of a heavy sea to come rolling id, and this stirred up the mass of putrifaction known aa the " beach," the fumes from which, rising and being blown over the wharf and up Queen street wero enough fo breed a fever. Wben will the authorities cause a pipe to be laid down to low water mark so as to convey the drainage of the city clean out into the harbour, without impregnating the beach, and disseminating the seeds of typhoid and other diseases arouud on every side. :