The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 247, 14 October 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1873.

Caoutchouc. — We remind our readers that the hairless horse, a curiosity weli worth seeing, is now on view at the MasoDic Hall. The hburs during which he may be seen will be found iv the advertisement. Cricket. — A plucky challenge has been issued by the eleven of the Union Club eelected to do battle with the Motueka men, who state their willingness to play any sixteen cricketers the town can produce. We learn that the Motueka eleven bave followed euit, and have challenged cot less than fourteen to play them on the same date. Public Meeting at Wakefield. — We have received a report of a public meeting held yesterday at Wakefield for the purpose of taking into consideration the Koad Board assessment for the current year. We regret that it reached us too late for publication in to-day's issue. Fatal Accident. — A fatal accident occurred this morniDg to Mr Waring, the mate of 'the Waihopai, who was assisting in discharging a cargo of coals when as he was running the laden basket aloDg the plank, the rope slipped, and he, losing his balance, fell over on his head on the combings of the hatchway with such force as to render him perfectly insensible. He was at once removed to the Hospital, but we regret to learn that he has since died. j Local Ram Shotvb. — The Stoke and Richmond ram show will be held on the racecourse to-morrow afternoon, and that for Wakefield and the surrounding districts on the following Monday. The Stoke Farmers' Club has made a step in the right direction in instituting (hese shows, and we fully expect to find a very creditable exhibit, aa several valuable sheep have from time to lime been introduced by the shefp breeders of the province. The Haast Rush. — The G. R. Argus refers to lhe return from the Haast as follows:— Haast Rush No. 2 has for the present pat taken very mucli of the character of colouiaily-cbnsumed champagDe similarly designated. . It came upon the j community, as champagne does to tbe ears of a cotnptny, with a sudden sweet-sound-ing " pop," followed by a brief prevalence of '" fizz." but connoisseurs have already pronounced it to be as much a "wild-goose chase " as ever colonial champagne was 41 cultivated goose-berry." The subspquent headache by which haßty con-uraption of No 2 is alleg, d to be accompanied is now being experienced, but there is consolation iv the fact that, in this instance, the number of consumers of the exciting article I haa beon limited*

The following cable telegrams, in addition to those already published by us, appear in the Melbourne papers : — " The death is announced of Mr James Clay. M.P. for Hull.— Mr Henry James, Q C.. member for Taunton, has accepted the office of Solicitor General. — The first sod of the Persian railway has been turned." Tlie Church Herald .'states that the wayside memorial to the late Bishop of Winchester, to be placed ou the spot where the Bishop fell, has beeu designed by Mr G. E. Street, and is to be axecuted in gray (unpolished) granite by Mr K. Earp. It ia thirteen feet high from the ground line. Tlie plan of the steps is oeiogoal, ten feet wide; there are three step^, the lowest one supports a wrought-iron rail iog four feet in height, on oue face of which is a kneel iug step projecting about twelve inches beyond the octagonal face; the third, or upper, step is in a cross furm; ou the plain, and from the centre, iis>s the plinth and base of cross, which is eight feet in height, with equal chamfered faces — tapering upwards about two inches its whole height. The Argus of the 29th ultimo has a leading article on tbe financial crisis io America, in which it traces the panic to the recklessness of certaio banking houses in :>ew Yoik, and the too prevalent systt-m of " stock watering," which is described as "the secret emission of new shares in canal and railway companies, by one or two director?, possessing the entire control of tbe fuhrls aud business of the association, as was done by the old Erie King, and as continue;; to be done by daring and unscrupulous imitators of that gigantic fraud. The shareholders in many a flourishing concern have thus been cheated out, of their legitimate dividends, because the funds available for that purpose have been partially or wholly diverted from their proper channel, and have heen absorbed in the payment; of interest upon preferential shares or mortgage bonds, the whole amount raised upon which has gone into the pockets of an I opulent and influential swindisr and his accomplices." The panic is primarily attributed to tho operations of k " the gold clique," which has on several co: ?ir,r,!=, in recei.t years, induced v panic iv Wallstreet. Tlie New York World, last July, directed the attention of the; public to the unsound condition of tho New York banke, fourteen of which showed net liabilities of 72,070,000 dollars, with a legal tender reserve of 7,620,100 dollars, or •10 57 per cent. The World denounced this "as a violation of the Naiional Currency Act, and as a source of danger to the couutrv so soon as the harvest operations in the West aud the South should necessitate an expansion of the Government currency/" These anticipations have been ouly too truly iodised ; our latest American telegrams intimating that the export of grain and cotton had ceased. — Guardian. The Opunake correspondent of the Taranaki Herald writes : — "For the last fortnight natives have been passing through this district on their return from the Pa rink a meeting, aud the last batch parsed through on the 30th September. Te Wbiti held forth much as usual, prophesying coming events; one being that flax works would ceaso at Opunake. Of course the natives are aware that the companies are not likely to work till a better price is obtained for fibre, and Te Whiti has taken the opportunity of foretelling the event. Te Whiti's resurrection of the dead has been a great mistake; since then some two or three meetings have taken place, and the dead have not appeared. Tito Kowaru tauuted him with this nonfulfilled prophecy pretty severely, and Te Whiti came off second best in the argument. '? here is no doubt Te Whiti is falling very much in the estimation of the natives. Many of them have spoken of him on their return this time as a fauatic and deceiver. Taurua. the chief of returned Otago prisoners, who has been much enlightened by his stay in Otago, tried to convince him of the advantages to be derived from roads and improvements. Te Whiti taunted him with beiug only a returned prisoner. There is no doubt Te Whiti is a shrewd and clever man, and may retain his influence over his own immediate people; but with the outsiders (who at one lime believed so much in his prophetic powers) Te Whiti's influence is gone, and will only return when he brings their ancestors to life." During the past week, says the Post, the streets have been greatly enlivened, if somewhat incommoded, by the presence and eccentric performances of numerous , specimens of the British tar, ashore on , leave from the newly arrived H.M.S. ' Pearl. Gratuitous exhibitions of naval hornpipes, wrestling matches, illustrations of the " noble art of self-defence," forecastle songs, and other nautical amusements, have been supplied at brief intervals duriog the last few days and nights to numbers of admiring spectators. Occasionally the performances have been varied by experiments on the cohesive po«er of glass aud the exact percussive force required to cause fracture. Unfortunately, the windows experimented} on proved so ridiculously brittle, that the mere impact of a mass oi stone or iron simply propelled agains* iis surface by the unaided force of the human arm, proved sufficient to cause comminuted fractures. It is evident the quality of the glass must have been very inferior. Some of the experimental philosophers failed to recollect the termination of their leave last evening, and were accordingly chased by a picket of their comrades, and beiDg iiiglou'ously captured, were conveyed vict arm is on board. A New York paper contains the following startling pieceof news: "Dispatches from Melbourne report that a pauic prevails in New Zealand over the frequent and terrible aßßassinatioos by the mountaineers. The scttlerß are organising for defence, and another Maori war is probable."