The Nelson Evening mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 12,1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 191, 12 August 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1872.

Harmonic Soci.ETT.~The": rehearsal for the coming concert takes -place at tbe Provincial Hall this evening,' when a. full attendance of membera> is requested; The : Storm op SATmbAYi-^Siich a etorm of wind and rain as, is; seldom experienced in Nelson occurred ion .Saturday s last, wlien- ' between f the ; hours of twelve and eight p.m. the. enormous quantity of 5.95 inches of rain fejl. ' L-^ v NELSON : AND EOXHILL I RAILWAY. — A I Tery large and influential meeting is antici- v pated to-morro.w, e vshm'ojn bjen'ta-bl u tio'ns ■will be r proflluce^gi>;iug expression to the, "widely; j^l.tlfien'se of .dissatisfaction that prevails at the dilatoriueasC shown: \hy. 'tfthej Government inV«c6nimencin% : bu ? "We lea¥n jr f rom Mr. Austin that he has; this aiternbpflri ; received X teXegrain i jfr^nv VYellmgtonyreguestm \ ts&e^e'pfii^ ''■■' /DiSME^ 4. The^plßttttpnßiiEat ■' li-^tfe^n^eirolfa^'n^ yQt law^areiOoniiu_:*inwom^nll»nartHM

..'province bearing the signatures of almost every indiviual to whom they^have been Such an unanimous expression^ of opinion must carry ;■ in?;! the| Assembly, where it bja's'sal ready -been de-^ cided that no patchwork interference with the existing boundaries of provinces is desirable. Mr E. J. Wakefield on Protection. — Tbe following letter appears in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper : — Sir,— l am just in time to acknowledge "the receipt of a dozen copies of your valuable journal ofthe lOth December, 1871, in which, you inserted my letter ; of tbe Ist. September of. -the same year, as to the price of bread in New Zealand. The tariff I then told you of, as. proposed to the Parliament of New Zealand, was carried by a large majority of protectionists, nnd revenue-mongers, with the additional- burden of a -halfpenny a pound on rice— -nominally catching jtbe " heathen Chinee, 1 " who' are flocking to our 'southern goldfields, but. really making the meal of many a poor white man and his family obnoxiously dear. My "children are "regular * • heathens " at rice ; so are most' of my neighbors and tlieir children. Many working men are out of employment all through this' colony, . except at sheep;shearing and harvest time. The rest of the year, thoy -have to live on loaves raised from 7d to 8d the 41b loaf (a fact as I predicted) :by s ,< this ;oppressiye tariff, and. .on rice, thus enormously augmented in price, to keep- up an. army of officials,. increasing every day, and to keep up the most reckless, extravagant, and corrupt government that ever British people lived under. Many thanks to you for exposing their, now carried out intentions. — J am, &c, E. Jerningham Wakefield, Member of. the House of Representatives of New Zealand.