The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 188, 6 August 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1873.

Inland Communication.—- The Committee will meet this evening, at the usual place and hour. New Tariff. — A meeting of those in favor of ad valorem duties will be held at M'Gee's Nelson Hotel, this evening, at half- past seven. Steamer Rangitoto. — A private telegram states that (he scanners Ladybird and Manawatu visited the wreck this morning, and report very favorably of the chances of getting her off. English Mail.— The Luna, with the Suez mail, will sail from Wellington for Picton to-ni^ht, and may be expected here in the morning-.. She will leave again at once for New Plymouth and Manukau, Madame Coßi performed last nipht to a more crowded audience than that of ihe previous evening. The tricks were all cleverly executed, a large number of handsome gifts were again distributed, and the entertainment which was most successful throughout, terminated with the great attraction of the evening, the nerial suspension of Mddle Christina when in a mesmeric sleep. Rale ok Stock.— Mr H. J. L. Augarde reports an excellent sale on Monday of pffects of Mr. Bonnicgton, Richmond : — Useful trap horses, £10 to £15 55.; weight-carrying; hacks, £13 to £14; lij«ht hacks £6 to £7 10?.; cows in milk, £5 15s ; ditto <3ry, £3 ss; two-year-olds, £1 10s to £2; yearlings 20s to 30s; pig&, two months old, 6a to 11s; sows, 30s to 40?; well bred bonr, 40*; pheep — a mixed lot, with lumhp, 7-i 3i per head. Everything soli) and .competition brisk. Wakefield — Our correspondent sends or ilit) following, <ittle>i yesterday ; — This morning nt half-putt niue the village of Wak field was startled by* the announcement, that one of the workmen (Martin Hirsarker), at the deep cutting behind the Forest Inn was «eriously hurt by a slip, while making ready for a fall. Medical advice having been procured, and the opinion given that dislocation of the hip was th^ principal injury, it was deemed aivisjible to remove the patient to the hospital without delay, in order to secure the proper appliances to reduce it. The excitement was somewhat abated after the

poor fellow had started on his painful journey to Nelson, when a cry was heard, " The horse and truck are over the bridge." It appeared thiifc the mare, usually it very quiet one, had just been refastened to the truck after it had been tipped, when she took fright at something and gulloped off with the truck which wna thrown off the rails, and just at the junction of the earthwork with (he bridge, fell over the side a depth of twelve feet. The mare fell on her back on the corner of the truck, and sustained serious injury. Truly, troubles never come alone. The New Tariff. — A meeting of the Committee was held tlii3 morning, when the Secretary stated that the petition had received 1,070 signatures. The petition, accompanied by the following letter to Mr. Curtis, will be despatched by the Taranaki this e veiling: — To Oswald Curtis, E?q — Dear Sir — We beg to hand you a numerously signed petition from the merchants, traders, and inhabitants of this province, and which we would respectfully beg you will bring before the House of Representatives at the earliest opportunity. The heading of the memorial speaka for itself. We may however explain that while the memorialists call upon the representatives to reject the new tariff, they mean of course in its present form, and with its enorraouely increased rates of duty upon most articles of daily consumption. Discrepancies there will be iv all tariffs, and the bulk of tho community would have been glad to have seen a re-adjustment of certain inconsistencies in our late measurement system, but we would submit that whatever evils may exist iv the latter, they are small compared with those of the new tariff, from the oppression that would arise from the increase in the price of so many articles of which large quantities are consumed in the colony. We therefore hope that youself and our other representatives will oppose it. It, however, ir, should be iouud that the majority of the House are in favour of a change to " ad valorem " duty, we would submit that it cannot be done without a properly adjusted scale, and as the object of the change is not to derive more revenue from the Customs, the actual rato of duty on goods of daily consumption ohould not exceed those levied by the late measurement tariff. Wo would suggest that this could best be accomplished by a duly qualified Commission. As a permanent Committee is formed here we should feel obliged by your communieatinp; with it. — Sitrnod, A. Sclanders, Chairman, T. R. Fisher, Secretary to Committee. Dr. Morton — The following paragraph from the Independent refers, if we mistake not, to a professional man not entirely unknown in Nelson : — Sombre as are the surroundings of the law and its functionaries generally, the love of a joke is some- • times irresistible Judges and policemen are alike partial to one when tho occasion offers. Dr. Mortou, the bigamist, arrested atPalmerston last week, complained bitterly, when put into the box on Saturday, of the mode in which he had been arrested — the joke was too practical altogether, and hia professional dignity was hurt. It appears that when Detective Lambert went to find his man, he put himself under the local coustable, who promised "to bring the doctor" to him, the detective went in to a neighboring " pub," threw himself upon a sofa, and engaged in conversation with those around him. It was not long: before the doctor made his appearance to attend a patient. The constable pointed to the recumbent figure upon the sofa, saying — " There's a patient who stands much in need of you, doctor." The bystanders were not unnaturally mystified to see the doctor brought to a man with whom they had been conversing with a moment or two before in the full enjoyment of good health, but the serious countenance of the constable and the professional "look of the doctor impressed them with the gravity of ihe case, and they at once withdrew from the room to give the doctor an opportunity to make his diagnosis. The patient, however, soon showed what was tho matter by jumping up and reading the arrest warrant. The two at once changed places, and the medical man then became the " patient." When brought up ou Saturday he admitted the charges, and was remanded to Sydney, whither he takes his departure in the Pbcebe to-day.