The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 26, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 125, 26 May 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 26, 1873.

Quadrille Assembly Club. — The members of the above . club advertise a quadrille assembly for this evening, dancing to commence at 8 o'clock. Inland Communication Committee. —Members of this Committee are reminded of the meeting that is to take place this evening, at half-past seven. Star Combination Company.— This Company will perform at Richmond to T , night, thus affording the people of the Waimeas an opportunity of spending a pleasant evening. To-day's Holiday.— lf there is any connection between loyalty to the throne and holiday keeping, no colony or part of a colony beats Nelson in the exuberance of its loyal sentiments towards the throne of England. All sorts of preparations have been made for enjoying the holiday that is to be observed to-day in celebration of Her Most Gracious Majesty's birthday, and we have no doubt that a most pleasant day will be spent. Like everybody else, our employes are anxious to make the most of the occasion, and for this reason we publish the Evening Mail at an early hoar.

The Tar anaki Herald stateß that the Mokau natives are not likely in any way to mix with the Waikato natives should any embroilment take place. Letters, it believes, have been sent to Mr Parris, stating that whatever may be the result of the Waikato affair, the Europeans need not fear that it will in any way effect this district. The retiring room provided . for the jury at the court house at Milton is a large and airy one, being an adjoining grass paddock, which w*as occupied for a short time by the jury of a case recently tried. The Bruce Herald recommends that the fences and gates be made a little more secure, as in the case of a jury being locked up for a night, the idea might suggest itself to some of them of re* tiring (o some comfortable quarters. The following is from a late number othe Otngo Daily Times: — On Friday eveni ing large quantities, amounting to severs. tons, of the delicious fish called by Dr Hector clupea sagans were cast ashore on the coast near Saddle Hill. The shoal was the most extensive that has been seen for years. The sea as far as the eye could reach was covered with fish, which were pursued by whales, porpoises, and birds. A specimen of the fish, which is considered by Highland fishermen to be the true herring {clupea harengus), has been sent to Dr. Hector at Wellington for inspection. Some mining works of* more than ordinary magnitude have been nearly completed in the Okarito district by a party of twelve working men known as Graham and party, at the Saltwater Beach. They have built a dam across the Creek about 200 feet wide, and consisting of piles three feet apart, and closely boarded, the seams being battened and the whole structure strengthened by diagonal stays. The dam being further protected by fascines and crates. The bye-wash has a wooden platform ninety feet wide by fifty feet long, laid on sleepers placed on piles, and with sides standing up seven feet six inches high, boarded and battened throughout. The sluice openings are forty in number. The work which has taken twenty months to accomplish, will enable the enterprising company to work at all seasons. What Can he r>o With it ? — What can an ordinary mortal do with an income of five millions a year ? He cannot spend it, and it Is accumulating afrightul responsibility if he saves it. Using it is out of the question, and the alternative advice of the Roman Emperor to the man who found a treasure, " abuse it," is equally difficult to follow when applied to such enormous sums. These considerations arise from a calculation given . by our London correspondent, that Lord Dudley's forty coal« pits yield 16,000 tons of coal daily, and returning a grand total profit of £4,992,000, per annum, leaving a margin for small coal, &c, that would divide into a good many respectable incomes.' Without adverting to the particular circumstances that especially point the irony of fortune in placing this vast wealth at the disposal of the present Lord Dudley,' we can well understand the truth of the remark, that " facts of this kind set the common people thinking." There is, indeed, material for thought in a state of affairs that gives one man a profit of five million pounds a year when many millions of his fellow-countrymen are undergoing discomfort, and even wretchedness* from the high price of the coal which yields him this fabulous wealth. We can well appreciate the statement that discontent is simmering, that strange and novel questions are beiug discussed, going to the foundation of the rights of property, and that revolutionary feelings are growing in the minds of men in a country presenting such exaggerated extremes of wealth and poverty. As one of our London correspondents says, lt It is the • facts, not the theories, which set people talking on these matters." When these questions are being canvassed with such freedom of speculation, and such a Bpirit of indignation to sharpen speculation, and when the conservative influences are daily losing in power, patriotic Englishmen may indeed feel uneasiness as to what is to be the issue. — Australasian.