The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 168, 14 July 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1873.

Parishes of Christ Church and All Saints. — The Churchwardens of these two churches notify that they will be in waiting to receive the pew rents this evening, as per advertisement.

Interprovincial Football Match.— A letter wns received from the Secretary of the Wellington Club, stating that they bad failed in getting up a team to bring over to Nelson this season. Steps will therefore be at once taken to see if a team of Nelson players can be got together to visit ihe Empire City during the next month. During the last three years an interprovincial match has been played every season, and it to be hoped that the match w f iil not fall through this year.

Football Match. — The return match, Old Collegians v. Town and College, was played at the Botanical Gardens on Saturday last. The game commenced soon after 3 . o'clock, and lasted for two hours, an<J both sides throughout played with equal spirit and determination. In fact it was the most hardly-contested game of the season, and, notwithstanding their . utmost efforts, neither side succeeded in getting a goal or even a try. The match will be played out on Saturday the 26th inst.

Chairman op Committees. — In remarking upon the nomination of Mr Seymour to this office, the Wellington Independent says : — " We have heard that the mind of the Ministry has been considerably exercised upon this subject, and that amongst other possible nominations to the chairmanship of committees Mr T. L. Shepherd's name was seriously mentioned. Tbe solution of the difficulty is, however, tolerably satisfactory."

The Superintendency.—- Commenting on the candidates for the Superintendency spoken of by that gifted scribe who did the Nelson correspondence for the Inangahua Herald, during tho late session of the Council, tbe Marlborough Express says :-— On the Coast Mr O'Conor has announced himself as a candidate, and we are told is likely to carry all before him. Grant bis plection with a strong West Coast Executive, and their Western proclivities, and the removal of tbe seat of Government to the Coast will follow, and then — Nelson wbuld wake up with surprise at her own shortsightedness in the past. We shall look forward to the issue of this business with some curiosity.

The Ross News reports a strange accident, which came near proving fatal, to an iuebriate who was found on his back in a water tank, heels up, and unable to help himself. Fortunately a passer-by came to the rescue, and saved the maD.'s ife.

Frost Fish. — These delicious but rare members of the finny tribe are again in season, and the late frosty weather has led several of them to beach themselves; perhaps they object to tha cold water, but it must be a case of out of tbo frying-pan into Ihe fire these frosty nights ! One measuring over five feet in length was picked up on the beach Monday momin»!, and a portion of it submitted to our rritical tooth. We have pleasure in bearing testimony to the savoury nature of the first offering, and trust it may not be the last of (he kind. Verb sap. — Wanganui Chronicle.

Ouit telegrams have already announced lhat the capital for the new daily paper to be started in Dunedin has been increased to £25,000. Ifc is now stated on good authority that the greater portion of the mon.y has been deposited ready for uso. The title of the paper is to be The Guardian, and the date of publication is definitely fixed for the 18th inst. The preparations in connection with this journalistic venture are said to be of the most elaborate and costly character ; anc(

should they be carried out, the present Ministry will have a tower of strength in the Otago metropolis— for tho new journal is to be a supporter of tho Government, It is stated that Mr Brogden will shortly pay a second visit to the Colony. A Productive Tree. — A totara tree lately felled in the province of Wellington is stated to have yielded no less than 50,000 shingles. During the last half of last week a large quantity of railway materials was landed at Pieton. The Alert brought 537 rails; lha Esther 67 tons; the Canterbury 80 tone, 400 rails, and 24 packages iron; and the Elizabeth, 340 rails. Mr M. B Hart, of Christchurch, has received information to tho effect that the men working at his pit have discovered another seam of coal at a depth of tweniy feet from (be old working, and that it is 2ft 4-^in. thick, added to which the coal is harder and nobs larger lhan from the old seam. Mr Fish has tabled a motion in tbe Otago Council to compel candidates for the Superintendency to deposit £50, and for the Council £25; the amount in either case to be forfeited if the candidate should fail to poll one-fifth of tho total number of votes polled. He has also given notice of a motion in favor of manhood suffrage. Official Changes in Marlborough. — Wo {Express) learn that Mr Eyes has has resigned the various offices he held under the Provincial Government, ond several changes have resulted in consequence. Mr C. Goulter is appointed Provincial Secretary and Registrar of Brands, and James E. Hcdeon, Eeq.. has joined the Executive. The following ships forming the Australian squadron, will rendezvous at Wellington in October next': — The Clio, 21 guns, Commodore Stirling; Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Challis; Blanche, 3 guns, Commander (Simpson; Basilisk, 5 guns, Captain Moresby; Dido, 8 guns, Chapman; Alacrity, 1 gun, Simpson; Conflict, 1 gun; Renard, 1 gun; Sandfly, 1 finn; Beagle, 1 gun. The Wairarapa correspondent of the 'Wellington Independent writes :— ■ " I have never in all my experience seen such a lot of precocious young scamps as are to be found in the Wairarapa. At ten a pipe is their ambition, at fifteen Ihey talk horse, at twenty they are experts at the cue, and at thirty too often they have settled down to a besotted life. A dark picture certainly, but a true one." The three rival journals in Hokitika delight in catching each other napping. The Register of a receut date saye: — " Our morning contemporary yesterday announced the discovery of some human remains on the South Spit, and particularised them as ribs and other bones. " Prom inquiries made by us, we learn beyond a doubt that the bones are those of a deceased cow. Dad they been human, the ribs could only havo belonged to a man weighing about half-a-ton." • Chinamen are gradually elbowing their way into occupations which hitherto, at least in Otago, havo been deemed sacred to the Caucasian race. Some of them bave found employment as navvies, some as farm laborers, some as fencers, an 'l lately we {Bruce Herald) observed a few " diamon cracking " by the roadside. Tha Celestials seemed to take to the work kindly, aud hammered away with the philosophic indifference to things mundane so characteristic of the European " lapidary. We fancy the Chinese will be adepts at stacking tbe metal for measurement. Loungers on the Pictou Wharf were gratified by a rather unusual sight last week, having seen some whales inside Mabel Island. The whales wero of a species known as hump-backs, and were rolling about thoroughly enjoying themselves. Though not a frequent, it is not an unusual occurrence for whales to come so far up the Sound in tbo season, and when they do come, it is taken as n sign that they are plentiful, and bodes a good harvest to tho fishers. What luck the whalers have had yet we have not heard, but tbe presence of so many fish in the waters should enable them to secure good returns. — Press. The Greymouth Evening Star has the following: — "The melancholy tidings reached us this forenoon thr.. unprecedentedly high _nnrt_lity has prevailed at the Greymouth Hospital duriDg the last 24 hours. On our making enquiry we fouDd the rumor fully confirmed, and though the public will scarcely credit it at first hearing, it is, nevertheless, true that over a dozen deaths have taken place in the hospital within the time mentioned. The origin, or immediate cause of the deaths is not fully ascertained, but it is supposed to be a species of paralysis of tho circulatory system produced by the absence of that degree of caloric necessary to sustain an amphibious existence. In spite of daily visitations by the medical officer nnd superintendent, and notwithstanding the copious application of all means known to the hydropathic system, the rigor mortis was observed to have overcome no less thau 14 at an early hour this morning. Iv other words, nearly all the leeches have died of cold.", TpE Melbourne correspondent of tho Otago Times writes :-»• It appear-' extremely likely that one result of tlie strange state of confusion into which the different colonies have fallen respecting tho mail services will be that New Zen land .-md Victoria will jointly support the existing lihe by way of Galle, and ono to be established by way of San Francisco. Your Government eauda a message congratulating ours on its completion of the P. and O- contract, and the price at which it is effected, aud promises to join it on the terms offered, that is to say, to pay in proportion to the. letters carrier!. At the same time Mr Yogel proposes terms to ours for

a share in the Californian line— -that although they are much lower than those which he persuaded Mr Duffy to accept, are at tbe Bame time very much higher than our Government aro likely to accede to. So Mr Francis has replied, offeriug to join in the Californian contract on th;* Bame mothod that your Government proposes with reference to the Suez line — viz., to pay in proportion to the letters conveyed. This is as fair for one as for another, and in fact appears a perfectly equitable arrangement. New South Wale.a and Queensland fail to agree about iho Californian service. The northern colony wants the steamers to call off Moreton Bay; New South Wales objects, ond quite naturally; ar,d it is vow likely that Sydney, in establishing a trans-Pacific service, will have to adopt the system knowu in euchre ns goiDg alone.

American Notes.-— The following extracts from the letter of a gentleman who has recently goue from Nelson to England via America may be interesting to our readers : — Now about Chicago, where I remained only a few hours, but went about and saw all I could in the brief lime allowed mo. It isa wonderful place, a huge city sprung up in eighteen months out of the ashes of the old one — such enormous buildings with such elaborate facades. The dry goods stores are a marvel, and it iB a wonder where sufficient people can be found to buy all tho things they contain. I was 'shown one corner brick and stone store, four storeys high, with underground cellars, an immense pile. The night after the fire the contract was given out while the ground wns yet red hot, and the whole wa_- finished in twenty-eight days, by which time it was full, nnd bu.iuess going on in full swing. Being frosty ,wealher at the time, the mortar was kept thawed by innumerable charcoal furnaces. Truly they are a wonderful people ' Tn going through America yon cannot but be struck with their great railway system, just what we waut and must have in New Zealand. It was quito amusing to see the engine and train wending its .way up tho centre of the street at ono end of the town, neither horses nor people taking any more notice of it, than we do of our bus. Out of' hundreds of horses I never saw one start at it. The street tramway, aro a perfect institution, tho whole towns of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York being completely interlaced with them, very well arranged, cheap and comfortable." * * * * The. travelling in Pullmau's palace sleeping cars was great fun ■ — such a glorious muddle night and morning — ladies and gentlemen dressing and undressing in the most promiscuous manner. , The former don't seem to care a little bit. One great piece of fun was with a young lady who occupied the top bunk opposite to mine. bhe crilled out in the morning to the conductor (a nigger) to fetch the steps; he did not hear, and I happened to be below stooping down pulling ou my boots, when a bootless foot was placed ou my back. I was firm. Sho alighted most gracefully and apologisod for mistaking me for the steps. Of course I could not do otherwise than look pleased,, and offer my neck to the yoke whenever she might require it."