The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 119, 19 May 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 19, 1873.

We have great pleasure in placing the Evening Mail before our readers to-day in an enlarged form. Since first this journal made its appearance in 1866 as a very tiny sheet, it has always received a >*Jarge share of public support, and the demandß-Hpon our space have from time to time rendered aij enlargement necessary, nntil at last "the little paper that \ commenced life so quietly and unobtrusively has assumed proportions that we tr^st -will make it more than ever welcome to o-^r numerous and rapidly increasing j subscribers. That the present alteration j in the gi ZQ 0 f the paper will of necessity ! involve & Very large additional expenditure we are fully a Ware , but, if we may j udge by the past, We certainly are not, in making our calculation ,f receipts and expenditure, by any meant*, over-rating the support to be accorded i* UB i n t h e future. Comments on passing events, more particularly upon such as specially affect our own province; telegrams up to the hour of going to press from all parts of the colony, arid on the arrival- on the coast of the Melbourne boats, from Australia, and all parts of the world; reliable reports of public meetings; f^ll local news of every description; carefully selected extracts from the Australian and Englißh papers :

such is the programme we have sketched out for ourselves,. and with the full intention of strictly adhering to it, we now hopefully send forth the Nehon Evening Mail on this new stage of its existence.

The Stjperxntehdency. — Tho Marlborough Express says :-— We hear that a requisition is ia course of signature in Nelson, asking. Mr Modrhouso to come forward for. the Superintendency, Provincial Council. — There is nothing of interest on the Order Paper for tonight. .To-morrow evening the Provincial Treasurer will move, That the Council go into Committee for the consideration of the Estimates, which will of course give rise to the customary debate upon the financial position of the Province. Brogden's Navvies.— -A man named Bickle, one of the Messrs Brogden's iin--portations, has been committed for trial at Timaru on a charge of stealing the coins deposited in .the . foundation stone of the Masonic Hall there. The Herald says tbat "judging from reports elsewhere, Brogden's black sheep are pretty numerous." Inland Communication Committee. ■ — The following telegram has been handed to us for publication: — Christchurch, May 16. — Wehave had a succession of interviews with the Superintendent and Executive. Thirty miles are required to connect lheir lines with Hurunui. They \ are willing to do this, but are not prepared to recommend a subsidy to the line between that and Ahaura. The whole will be brought before the Provincial. Council on Wednesday next. It is contended tbat the Ahaura and Canterbury lines should be done by the General Government. The Canterbury Press advocates tbis, but is against a subsidy from Canterbury.— -0. Curtis, A. Sclanders, A. Pitt. . * Our Representation. — The following remarks made by the Tuapelca Times, are not flattering to the House of Representatives: — "It is notorious that the * people ' of New Zealand are either not represented at all. or are misrepresented in the House of Representatives, The landed aristocracy, as we feel constrained to term the pastoral tenants of the Crown, since it is very evident that unless some radical change in land legislation is made, the present lessees will, at no distant date become possessors of their holdings in fee simple, return able men to look after their interests — men who by virtue of their education, intelligence, and force of character and sometimes by more questionable means sway the destinies of the Colony. Against these the noble army of incapables, who annually waste three months on the shores of Cook's Straits, have no chance whatever. They are compelled to succomb to the various powerful influences under which they are brought, and legislate to suit the end of their squatting leaders-r-that is the very few of them who understand the end and aim of the enactments they pass — the majority being driven like sheep. " Four sawmills are about to be started in the Longwood Ranges— three by Invercargill firms, and the fourth by Messrs Guthrie and Asher, of Dunedin. In the report of his inspection of the Dunedin St Bathan's school, Mr Hislop says : — The children behaved themselvesso very well that I took notice of their good conduct in my address. At the conclusion of the proceedings, a little girl, five years of age, came forward, and looking up in my face said : " Please sir, I wouldn't have behaved myself so well, only my mother told nae to." One of the most shocking disclosures of immorality that has ever come before the Bench in Dunedin was heard on Wednesday last at the City Police Court. It was indeed a painful sight fo see five little children placed in such a position, and great credit is due to the authorities for bringing the case forward. The Mayor justly remarked that it was a most* heartrending case, and he bas provided for them a home where they will be free from tbe influence and example of a mother whose character is of the blackest dye. The Post of 13th* inst, says :— -The protracted period of calm weather has been abruptly closed to-day by a strong north-west breeze which sprang up this morning, and has increased during the day to a fresh gale, carrying with it terrific hailstorms of that pleasing mixture of gravel, pebbles, and young boulders, which we simple denizens of the Empire Cit-f are accustomed facetiously to term dust, As an inevitable consequence, the water-carts were conspicuous by their absence.