The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 212, 5 September 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1872.

Richmond Cattle Fair.— Mr. H. J. L. Augarde reports as follows : — Moderate attendance, but more buyers than stock. Cows, about calving, realised £5 10s. to £5 12s. 6d.; steers, 3 years off, £3 10s.; 2 years off, £2 135.; yearlings, 19s. to 21s. Pigs, supply scanty, two-year-old sows fetched 31s. to 355.; no fat stock. Horses, few offered, stout active breeds obtained £13 to £15; hacks, no demand; cart horses, none offering. Perseverance Mine. — The Lady Barkly, which arrived from Collingwood this morning, brings intelligence to the e&ect that the crushing operations re-com-menced on Monday last, the intermediate time having been devoted to repairing the machinery. The plates are said to be looking exceedingly well, and the hopes of those -interested in this particular mine and the district generally are reviving. It is probable that the result of the crushing will not be known for a fortnight. The ANATORi.r-Twenty-five cwt. of stone -taken from one of the Anatori reefs ■were recently seht to the Perseverance battery for crushing, and we have to-day seen a letter from Mr. Adams, the mining j manager, to Mr. Webster, in which he states that -the yield has been 2ozs. Bdwts., or at the rate of two ounces per ton. The stone did not consist of selected spediriensybut was taken eat indiscriminately; and the result may therefore be considered highly encouraging. A company, we understand, has 'been formed to work this promising. reefy ",.',, ; ;,,. ','yif''"; j^cK)XBALL. -r- A : match between ; the College (assisted by four old u Collegians) d^y^-- l^effirat;game-;o'f/ the match? was played about three months ago, and at the end of the afternoon a goal was kicked by Vickerman ior'^theH College. The^match wi#>WeUingt6ni ( ' and the wet, w^raer, prevented Ithe^ ;! game Mngreßnm^- till Saturday last, v wfcen^ on each' side to dp^ttle vfbr^/thieir fipecMv^clbl^^^lllsbmans at first had 'theiadyan^ge of vthe wjndjJahd^^he: first /■' : ' ; :hafciioM'jhe^ iworphongn iheir "opponents; useft'itheir; /E«mpthbrne made' a fun behind gbiriine,

Soon after, the sides changed goals, and now the advantage was on the side of the College. Some pretty play waeexhibitedcby both sides, and evei*y one didhis best,!but in an unguarded moment Speed obtained the ball, and dodging past the back players got a touch down for the College. The goal was kicked by Blundell, and the match thus terminated in favor of the College, two out of three goals having been kicked by "them. As the season is drawing to a close, it is proposed to have an. alphabetical match on Saturday, the 14th instant, which will be the final game, Motueka Road Board.— 'The Board met on the 21st August. — The Secretary read copies of letters he had written .to the Government as instructed last meeting, and stated that he had received no replies. — Mr. Greenwood stated that Mr. Atkins was quite willing to give up a portion of the Island (rented by him from the Native Commissioner) for the use of the Board for a gravel pit. — The Secretary stated that he had waited on Mr. Herrick, as instructed at last meeting, about executing a conveyance of the land taken for the new road through, his property, but that Mr. Herrick had s/ated that he^was not prepared to do so, unless the Board would close the- old road at present in use.-7-A letter was read ( from Mr. Saxon, asking that some 6teps might be taken to prevent the water from standing on his land, where, in making the road, an old water course had been stopped up. Resolved : That the Secretary visit the place alluded to in Mr. Saxon's letter, and take what steps are necessary to prevent the water from standing on his land.*— Rose and Fuller's Contract, No. 3, on tlje road to Waiwero, being, in the opinion of the Board, forfeited from non-completion in specified time it was resolved, That the Secretary draw up a fresh agreement for the completion of work, to be finished in two months from date, subject to a penalty of 38. per day for every day in excess of that time. , The Secretary hayiog prepared the assessment as instructed last meeting, the ' Board went partly through it, but in consequence of the lateness of the hour adjourned till the following Monday, when they met again and completed the assessment. The Secretary was instructed to cause it to be advertised in accordance with the Highways Act, 1872. Respectable Newspapers and Telegraphic Agencies.— Mr. W. H. Harrison is reported to have stated in the House on Tuesday last that "every respectable paper in the colony had joined the Press Association." As we happen to be supplied' with telegrams by Greviiie's agency,' and at the same time are not aware of having done or written anything whereby we have fprfeited our claim to respectability, we canr not allow his uncalled for remark to pass unchallenged. Mr. Harrison is well known to be the editor of the Wellington Independent, and wo have at various times been called upon to quote and comment on some choice extracts that originally adorned the columns of that journal. If these are to be viewed as specimens of what Mr. Harrison considers the style of writing that should characterise a " respectable paper," then we can simply say, once and for all, that we have no pmbition to be classed by him aB such. A free use of coarse epithets and vulgar abuse does pot to our thinking constitute an essential element in the management of a "respecta? ble " newspaper, nor does it of necessity follow that because a journal derives its telegraphic intelligence from other sources than the Association of which Mr. Harrison is one of the managers, it should therefore, cease, to enjoy a character for that respectability which, from our^ pojbt of view, is so lamentably deficient in the paper at present under that gentleman's control. We cannot but think that the rival agencies upon which the New Zealand newspapers are dependent for their tele 1 -; grams have been a great deal too frequently and very unnecessarily dragged into 4 this debate. We have read; the various , items of news supplied by both to the numerous journals that come under bur notice, and have hitherto' failed to observe ''that; the. one forms a better or more reliable source of intelligence than the. other. There is, however, one failing that is common to both, so far, at least, as the Parliameutary . telegrams are concerned , namely, that each > isftoorprorie to impart its political bias, to; the reports of the proceedibgs, in;the " Assembly. Whatjihe public reiquire is ja, fair and impartiaV summary, entirely .Iree from coloring,, of all: the most Jmpertant speeches, from the.,perusal:ofi which they may be in a position to . form their own 1 opinions of what .falls frptn , $heir representatives. No telegraphic agency that j faihjjin^eup.ply^ [ upon as entirely sa^feotory;*! ,nh.-:> '