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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 226, 19 September 1873, Page 2

Bankruptcy. — It is notified in this morning's Gazette that George Silcock, of Spring Grove, laborer, has filed a declaration ol insolvency. All Saints' Ciiurcii. — The monthly choral Srrvice will be held at All Saints' Church ibis evening at seven o'clock. These services, which have been steadily improving in character siuce they, were first inaugurated have become most popuiur, the Church on every occasion beinc well filled. Auckland Fire. — The following is the authorised statement of lossis sustained by the vaiious Insurance Offices in Auckland in the late fire, as furnished to the JSI.Z. Herald: — Norwich Union Insurance Company £4500, Royal do £3535, Sjihli British do, £2050, New Zealand do £2000, Victoria do £1000, Scottish Commercial do £IGOO, Northern do £1000, Pacific do £1000, Loudon, Liverpool, aied Globe do £700. Mortuary Chap, l — Some three or four weeks since a suggestion was mode in our columns to tbe effect that the absence of a building in the Cemetery in which the burial service might be read was a standing disgrace to the community. We have much pleasure in (jiving publication to the following letter on the subject addressed to the editor of this journal: " Sir, — In the weekly letter of your Saturday correspondent I notice the menlion of the desire ou tbe part of some portion of tho community to erecL a mortuary chapel in the cemetery, aud that oilers have been made to subscribe to ao necessary aud praiseworthy an object. Tbe question is asked by the writer *' Will anyone take it iv hand ? " In reply, I beg to offer my servict-s to solicit assistance on the condition that a committee is formed to authorise me to try to gather from all who nre willing to subscribe (irrespective of sect or creed) towards so laudable a purpose. — I am, &c., S. K. Gapper." Tbe writer of the above letter may be communicated with at our ofiice, and we trust that hia offer to take upon himself the trouble of

soliciting funds for this purpose will be accepted. If a few of the leading m?n of the place would meet, and take the matter in baud, we havo no doubt whatever that with Mr Gappor's assistance, tbo necessary aovnuit would very soon bo raised. Collingwood. — The- Lady Baikly which arrived frotn Golden Bay yesterday brings the good, news that a new seam oi' coal three feet in thickness has been struck in tbo Collingwood mine; nlso that Wffia lino qu:ir(z specimens have been found ou a hill between Slaty Creek and JMalone's Gully. Crushing is proceeding at the Decimal Cornpauy's mine and the prospects are most, cheering. A tremendous storm of wind accompanied by hail aud snow passed over Collingwood on Wednesday night, Wesleyan Church. — A highly interesting lecture, full of good sound advice, both to married aud single people, waa delivered by the Rev. T. Buddie, at the Wesleyan Church, on Wednesday evening, the subject being '« Courtship and Marriage." Tho lecturer Bnid that in order to make their lives happy, and that they might fuliil the purpose of their erector in the marriage institution, the blessing and guidance of God should be sought by all who entered into that state. He also tendered some wholesome advice to young people who were thinking of getting married, warning ihem that they should msike a point of obtaining the sanction of their parents before commencing courtship. Having given some telling illustrations from Cowper, Burns, &c, the lecturer proceeded to administer a reproof to bachelors for remaining in a state of celibacy, and expressed his opinion that they should he made to pay for tiie education of the children of tho poor. During the intervals of the lecture the choir 83ng some well selected pieces, which were well received by the audience. Tiie net proceeds amounted to £4 8?, aud the proceedings were brought to a close hy votes of thanks to the lecturer, the members of the choir, and the chairman, A Guievance. — Our friends in Waimea South have a grievance to which they are very properly calling the attention of the authorities. What it is will bo best ascertained from a perusal of tha following petition addressed to "A. D. Austin, Esq, Resident Engineer Nelson aud Foxhill Railway ": — " We the undersigned owuers and occupiers of laud in the District of Waimea South, through which the Nelson and Foxhill Railway passes, beg respectfully to call your attention to the serious inconvenience that will be continually incurred by us by reason of the slip rails which it is proposed to place at the crossings of die Railway. Hitherto any chil I or aged person could take cattle to water, &c, but if they have to take down and then to replace eight heavy rails each time of crossing, this work will require a strong man to perform it. Aa we believe that gates might be constructed al very little additional expense, and would be much safer, we hope that they may be substituted for the proposed draw bars or rails. — Signed by 39 interested residents." To those who do not know what it is to remove and replace a number of heavy bar.=, the grievance of which tho petitioners complain may appear a very trivial matter, but it is by no meaus so to those interested, as is shown by their assertion that unless the evil be remedied it will take an ablebodied man to do that which hitherto has been a child's woik. This is uo trifle on a larm where every hour's. labor is worth money. If the same nuisance is to be extended to "Waimea East it might bo well if the residents ia that district were to unite with those in Wakefield and Spring Grove iv protesting against, it. In the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum there are 180 patients. During the last ten years no less than 700 have been admitted, of which number Go per cent have been discharge i cured, 9 per cent died, aud 26 per cent remain iumates of the institution. Six or seven of the ladies of Duaedin have already signified their intention of becoming candidates for admission into tha Telegraph Department. A little boy twelve years of age has been accidentally killed at Auckland by a fall fiom his pony caused by the breaking of the saddle girth. The Governor of New South Wales intend g'mng a cap to tho best, four-in-hand turn-out on the day of the opening of the Agricultural Society's Show. The ketch Clio, recently arrived at Auckland, reports trade brisk at Now Caledonia. The copper mines were turning out splendidly, and thero had been increased returns from the gold mines. A nice post-otftje, certainly, they must have at Charleston, where an old lady the other day had a £1 note carried from her baud by the strong draft blowing through the pigeou-lioie window. The money was not recovered, the wind carrying it out of sight ! It will be a red-letter day for New Zealand when she can produce her own iron, and we trust that it will uot be very long before ibis article of commerce is io be found among tbe exports from Nelson : — A writer in the European Mail speaking of the high price of iron in England, goes on to say : — lf our colonies could make their own iron, instead of taking measures to iucrease the demand for it, there would be an end to the grievance. It seems hard, however, that men of enterprise, and with no lack of intelligence, should be periodically at the mercy of tbe great capitalists pi this country. Still it will he contended that what has been done has been done io the true course of trade, and that the cost of production has boen enhanced, as iv all tbiugs else, by the demand. Time, however, will show that something more than a lair equivalont on capital has been added to the labor of production, and if this system is continued our wants will have to be supplied from the United States and the Comment.