TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 111, 9 May 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Per Angeo-Aubtbauan Pbbss Telegraph" . Agenov]. P EO VINCI A L . Welxington, May 9. , Tbe prospectus of a new Coal Company has been issued, called the Albion,, to .work..- lhe Ngakawau coal,. and will probably amalgamate with the New Zealand Coal Company. The journeymen tailors' strike is over. A telegram from the Agent (3 eneral states that a number of immigrants., have been .ordered • to be forthcoming during the current year. The Halcione left London for Wellington on the 17.th of April with a full complement of passengers, and Uontarina Fleming, for Otapo, with immigrants. Fourteen hundred are to leave in May. The Agent-General has chartered tour ships from Shaw, Saville, and Co. at £14, per head; three other ships are engaged at £l 6 1 6s per, head for Canterbury, and one for Napier at £\6. Two thousand five hundred tons of railway material have been shipped. Earl Kimberley. at the instance of Dr Featherston, has agreed ito modify the 'Australian Reciprocity Bill, so as to . empower this colony to impose differential duties. - ■ ' The Government has received information that the New Zealand Loan Guarantee Act Amendment Act has been passed. The Imperial Treasury can at once issue the remainder of the bonds. The Rangitoto takes the outward English mail. i ' . Morrison has ceased to be connected with, the London Agency in tbis colony. • Auckland, May 9. The Thames Advertiser authoritatively says that imrae iately on the receipt of the news of • Sullivan's murder, Mr Gillies offered Mr Vogel to give £1,000 reward for the capture of the murderers, also to start everv available man in instant pursuit. Mr Vogel's reply was tantamount to " roind your own business." Mr M'Lean telegraphed to the frontier settlers that the Government are taking prompt steps to protect them. The Tauranga natives here are quiet. Mr Vogel has received a letter from the Governor of New Pouth Wales .statins- that the Po'tmaster- General would visitTNew Zealand by . the next steamer to endeavor to arrange for the co-operation of this colony regarding the new San Francisco service. The Cross asserts that it is probable that the result of the elections since the la>t session will be to strengthen the Ministry by four votes.

The Address ob 1 ExPEOrATiON, j^thb Tuhn- ; INCH :*.b*"aOTV_OT_X')Bdbrd».TH_t--*NBMOI!r AHD ; Fox Hill Railway, ■■on thb Morning of rata ■ ' : 6ra;oF ; _4Asy,ißr3; 0 - '..••-. , *.- .-,,- :;' .y Sound thetrumpet 1 wake to duty ! Mountain peaks are tipped with beauty. See I the rosy morn is breaking ; Let no heart with ills beaching. Sires -and sons in countless numbers, . Waken "from your drowsy slumbers ; Mothers, matrons, young, and hoary, Daughters sweet in beauty's glory ; Leap from hard, and "downy pillows, Come like ocean's surging billows ; And with hearts in ardour burning, - Grace the hopeful First Sod Turning ± Come to Nelson's farthest regions ; Come in. joyful troops and legions ; Come leave nooks arid dells, aud gorges ; Leave the mines; arid looms, and forges ; Leave the farms, arid cots, and shieldings ; Cjme with heart en-raptured feelings. * Leave the sheep and kine, to clover ; Sun the drawer- kept dresses, over. ' Blooming childhood, boy and maiden ; Hearts with hope's sweet fancies laden ! Come iri flower-bespangled lorries, - What, a theme for future stories I Waking music! thrilling treasure ! Lend the joyful dancers measure; * Lightly o'er the green-sward whelling; Hear their merry laughter pealing ! Now, let moving beauty, lend her Graces to the noon-day splendour. Let the moVements-flee divinely ; Spread the banquet far and finely. Give the mantling ale-cup motion — Blest the hour, knd sweet the potion ! Be this day in. memory's keeping, Bright as summer suu -beam sleeping 1 Fill- the wine-cup overflowing ; Drain it while our hearts are glowing. Raise the song, and swell the chorus, Fortune's sun is rising'd'er us ; Ever bright and brighter getting, May his splendour know no setting ! (And our Southern Britain's story, Rival Northern Britain's, glory. She the youngest of her daughters, Planted in the fartherst waters ; Firm in filial bond-hip, kneeling, At her shrine, in warmest feeling. Fill the wine cup, fill it proudly ; Let the cheers ring far and loudly ; ' Till the voice of echo thunders Thro' her farthest bounds, the wonders. - Pledge-— The Queen of Britain— cheering ; Lsngth of days and joys endearing ! Fill again the cup of gladness, Let no bosom harbour sadness ; Drink a Welcome to the Strangers, .Bravely. facing ocean's dangers ; To the fond pair on the waters, Stately sons and blooming daughters I Charge again a bumper-measure ; . Every toast contains a treasure : Now 'tis Julius Vogel — twenty 'Cheers ! his motto— peace and plenty I Peace and plenty be the chorus, Peace and plenty hover o'er us. Deep our hearts with ills were dinted, Now our hopes are rainbow tinted. Be this first green sod the token, These, our hopes, will ne'er be broken ; But in full fruition ended — All in deed and action blended. Fill again. There's yet another Toast of toasts for man and brother. Charge again with willing fingers ; Fondly here devotion lingers ! Charge with bright and flowing glasses ; Drink—iVcK* Zealand's bonnie lasses 1 O the blissful, priceless treasure ! O the nameless, boundless measure ! How; the bosom thrills with feeling ! Past expression, past revealing : Themes of themes, the bosom nearestFirst, and last, and best, and dearest ! fij'i " "' ' " •r- r mi f- -i