TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[PER AnGLO-ATJSTKALIAN PKESB TeLEGKAFH Agency.] PROVINCIAL. Wellington, January 31. The Colonial Prize Firing will take place at Nelson on the 4th March. All volunteers ■wishtag to attend can obtain return tickets at (ingle fares. The Hon. Mr Waterhouse has gone to, the Wairarapa on a visit. A proposal has been made to run the Hutt railway along the side of the hills instead of on the beach. - Auckland. January 31. A female servant has committed suicide by swallowing rat poison. Signer Chiarini has been detained on a writ by one of the female members of his troupe. Seven members of the company are lying ill. Lieut. Melsopp and Private Crawford of the Mauka district have qualified as representatives with scores of 75 and 78 respectively. The Magnet Troupe is drawing large houses. Cheistohokch, January 31,( | The boating representatives have agreed . to send a crew from Christchurch to be entered, as j an amalgamated club. Boats will be sent for the ; InterproviDcial gig, pair oar, and sculler's races. The twelve selected for the Interprovincial Cricket Match are, Corfe, Cotterill, Fowler, Maple, Fuller Ollivier, Pierse, Suter, Stevens, Woulmer, Moore and Wood. The consideration of a match between Wellington and Canterbury during the regatta week is postponed. The Christchurch Artillery fired yesterday against Dunedin, but the result is not yet known. Donedin, January 31. The Interprovincial Cricket team leaves for Christchurch on {Saturday. For continuation of news see fourth page.

The Provincial Government of Auckland have set apart the sum 0f. £250 to supplement any properly organised 'effort by private individuals to establish ft female reformatory in Auckland. The new Westland County Chairman has disclosed the financial position of the County. The annual income, he states, does little more than pay working expenses. Westland" is in debt to the extent of £46,673, of , which £13,769 require immediate settlement. Robbery at the Lyell. — A daring bouse robbery is reported as having taken place at the Lyell on Saturday night last. A ball was given at Foine's restaurant, and most of the inhabitants of the Lyell township attended. Amongst them was Mr F. Ulmer, who keeps a bakery store. He went there with a man and lad in his employ, and they enjoyed themselves until about 1 o'clock. The boy then went home and on arriving there found the door open and various articles in the house disturbed. He at once informed his employer, and on search being made it was discovered that a gin case containing books, papers, money, and various gold specimens, had been taken away. As soon as daylight set in further search was made in and around the premises, and ultimately the case was discovered some distance down, the creek, minus its contents, with the exception of an old ledger and a small bag containing about 1 1 ounce weight of gold specimens. The rest of the contents of the box consisting of notes and gold, amounting in value £100 or thereabouts. are missing, and no clue has yet been found of the robbers. •—Grey River Argus The "Eyes Commission" commenced its sitting on Friday last, and between that date and the present a large number of -witnesses have been examined. In consequence of the manner in which the enquiry is conducted, no report can be given of the proceedings, nor will the tenor of the report to be returned by the Commissioners be made known until the General Government is in receipt of it. The Commission has. eat day by day (Sunday excepted) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and the number of witnesses examined to sustain the charges amounts to twentyfour, being Archdeacon Butt, Rev. Father Seauzau, Dr Muller, Messrs G. Henderson, D. Watson, To M. Humffreys, T. Williams, R. M'Artney, J. Watson, H. Cate, R. Rothwell, P. Lawrence, S. Lawrence, J. Smith, C. Bed wood, C. B Taylor, J. Connal, A. G. Fell, J. Ward, Mrs Moore, Mrs Lawrence, Mrs H. Pritchard, Mrs T. Warner, Mrs W. Clark. It is probable that the case against Mr Eyes will be closed to-day; there will then remain only the witnesses on his side to be heard before the Commissioners can terminate their sittings.— -Marlborongh Press, Jan. 29. Australian Meats. — The Birmingham Post of a recent date, says : — Australian meat has been said to consist of monkey, kangaroo, and — climax of horrors — ancient cab horses. Whether the prejudice against [monkeys and kangaroo be well founded, our experience does not enable us to say. Monkeys are, we believe, eaten in Africa, the only objection felt against them by Europeans being that in appearance they resemble babies; but the hunt after our " humble relations" could hardly be remunerative, and the supply would fail. As to kangaroos, they are accounted a delicacy in Australia, and we understand there is some tinned kangaroo in Birmingham which lovers of novelty can buy at a shilling a pound, so that the probability of its being sold under the name of beef at sixpence a pound would seem to be rather slight. The subject of horses flesh is so uninviting that we must decline to enter on it — the more so as there is no reason whatever to believe the charge. The prejudice against Australian meat then resolves itself into this, that it is something new, but that objection is one that becomes of less consequence every day. Curiously enough the dislike to tinned victuals is most strongly manifested by the very class that was expected to welcome them, viz., the working class : and they have to be coaxed bj Australian meat-dinners, such as that which was held at West Bromwich, into admitting that the flesh of fat, healthy oxen and sheep, fed upon the rich plains and uplands of Australia as fit for the food of man. It is significant of the force of prejudice with which anything ' foreign ' is still regarded in England, that the pauper has lately been represented as, expressing his dibgust for Australian meat by the epithet 'slimy.' Perbapß, however, English beef would equally fail to satisfy the "requirements of the British Workhouse; the pauper is somewhat like the laborer, who, at; harvest time, first said /of/ the meat "that :thi9c'e :^aß.pleiQty ,bf : it such as it was,' and then 'that it was very y good what there .was Vof it.'< A ready-demand, for the imported meat has, however, sprungiup among the intelligent middle and lower classes^ and -that demand raay be expected to extend." 'O; W