The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 193, 12 August 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1873.

Mr Mabin reports sales of Persevernnoe paid-up shares at £l, and National Bank shares at 325. 6 1, Steamer Wellington. — This steamer leaves the whatf to-night, at 9 o'clock for Taranaki and Manakau, Gasworks. — Tenders are iuv'ted for building retort benches, ond chimney at tbe gasworks. Particulars will be fouud in the advertisement, Lectuke At Stoke. — We remind our country readers of tbe lecture on **• Infidility " to bo delivered this evening: by tho Rev. T. Buddie at the Wesleyan Chapel, Stoke. Public Meeting- — A public meeting in connection with the new tariff will be beld this evening at 8 o'clock, wheu Mr Luckie will address hia constituents. Tbere is another matter of far greater importance to the people of Nelson than the question whether customs duties sball be levied by measurement or ad valorem, namely (he construction of a railway from Foxhill to Brunnerton. On this head we shall be glad to hear Mr Luckie speak, and to learn whether he oan offer any reasonable explanation of the somewhat unintelligible and very unsatisfactory line of action adopted by Mr Yogel after the promise made by him to the deputation sent from Nelson that the Government would recommend the commencement of tbis line. The Rangitoto. — The^ Wellington, which arrived last night reports that tbere is every probability of the Rangitoto being afloat in a, few days, she havinjj escaped all injury with the exception of the lobs of funnel, from the gale of Sunday. Her anchors, chains, spurs, and sails, together with over £1000 worth of cargo, have been secured, and with the assistance of one or two lit hters that are to be taken over from Wellington, it is hoped that she may gradually be woiked to the shore and pumped out. The hole created by striking the rock is reported by the divers to be about seven feet long by six inches in width, and one that, can easily be stopped. It seems therefore extremely likely that the N.Z.S.S. Company will very soon have succeeded in including in their fleet at, a comparatively trifling coat, one of the finest boats that ever traded to New Zealand Ports.