The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY OCTOBER 21, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 21, 21 October 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY OCTOBER 21, 1872.

' PROROGATION OF THE AsSKMBLY -^ A private telegram received from Wellington states that in all probability, the Assembly will be prorogued on Wednesday, and that the Nelson members may be expected by tbe Alharnbr f a on Thursday. 1 Nelson Hospital '. ' Convalescent Fund. — We remind our readers- of ..the omate.ur dramatic entertainment- : to' be given at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening, in aid- of the above fuod. Tickets may be obtained from any of the booksellers' or at the door. ' . : . • . Travelling Expenses.— Mr. , Qol lias has given notice that he will move: — " That, in the opinion of this House tbe amount expended, during the last financial year for travelling expenses of Ministers and officers of the General Government, and others, as shown by a return <o an order of the House of Representatives, dated the 24th July, 1872, is excessive, and out of all proportion to the means of the colony." ■ . . . ' ; The Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Bill has been thrown out in the Legislative Council. , , The Premier announced .on Friday last that the Goverment would introduce, next session, an Education Bill. ' The Harrison Scandal.— With reference to this discreditable business „the Otago Daily Times, alluding to the discrepancy between Mr. Harrison's written andjhis verbal statement, says: — Weare[left therefore to decide whether Mr. Harrison, at the interview, forgot to implicate Mr. Stafford's Government, or whether this charge was an afterthought or a pure invention concocted for the purpose of injuring his political opponents in the event of what was expected to be a closely contested division. We leave our readers to form their own conclusions. We were not long in forming ours. Nelson and Foxhill Railway-. — Our readers will be glad to learn that there is every probability of this line being actually commenced at no very distant date. Mr. AustiD, who returned from Wellington this morning, has received instructions to be on the look-out for an' office, . and the engineer will at the close of the session be dispatched to Nelson ■ for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements. Would it not be well if the people themselves' were to. make a simultaneous effort in the .direction of connecting thej present terminus of the dray-road with the Lyell and iutery'entDg districts ? ';