The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 7, 8 January 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1874.

Mr. Mabin reports sales of National Insurance shares, 21s. 6d. ; National Bank, 535. 6d. Mr. H. J. L. Augarde quotes National Insurance shares at 21s. Business dove this day. Charles' Panorama. — This panorama, containing illustrations of scenery on the Nile and of tbe Franco-Prussian war, will be exhibited agaiu this evening, when one hundred presents, including a sewingmachine, will be given away. On Saturday there will be a midday performance for children, on which occasion each child will receive a gift, • Saxe of Stock. — Messrs Stavert and Co. report a Bale of stock 'at their yards,

Richmond, yesterday, when the following prices were realised: — 35 good store cattle, £3 to £5 10; seven cows, £4 15s to £7; 250 store wethers, 5s 6ri; 400 ewes, ss. The Bellringers. — The Lynch family of Bellringers, who arrived from Auckland on Wednesday, eailed for Greymouth this morning. Arraingetoents had been mado for the company appearing in Nelson this evening, but owing to, another company having possession of the field, and uot wishing to interfere with their prospects ot success, tho troupe have very generously altered their arrangements, and so proceeded to the West Coast. They will, however, givo theif entertainments on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of this month, at the Masonic Hall, and doubtless tho room will be crowded on every occasion. Supreme Court. — In the case of the Greymouth and Hokitika Tramway Company against the Westland County Council, which was tried yesterday, a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs for £15,437, with liberty for the defendants to raoveS to reduce the damages to £5227 in case the Court should be of opinion that the plaintiffs were only entitled to recover damages in this action up to the date of its commencement. The TRev. J. S. Smalley, Wesleyan Minister, was. married yesterday morning in the Manners-street Church, to Miss Donald, who has just made the long voyage from Edinburgh to meet her affianced. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Morley, assisted by the Rev. J. B. Richardson; and the bride was given away by the Rev. J. Paterson, Presbyterian Minister. As Mrs Smalley was leaving the church, twelve little girls, who were prettily dressed in white, with blue sashes, came forward, and from baskets they held, took bouquets of flowers, with which they strewed her path. There were a great many of Mr Smalley's friends in the church, and at the conclusion of the ceremony, the rev. gentleman ond his bride received their hearty congratulations and good wishes. — Wellington Independent. Nelson Exhibition Waltzes. — The ' Wellington Independent ' says : — " Mrs G. Palmer, of Nelson, is a lady of cont siderable attainment in the art of musical composition, a conclusion at which we arrive after a cursory examination of ' " The Nelson Exhibition Waltzes," composed for an occasion in regard to which the title is sufficiently suggestive Assuming thot Mrs Palmer's object was to please the large class of persons who form the supporters of tbis order of composition, she has been most successful. The music is simple and pretty, devoid of extravagant embellishments, and of straining after effect, while its melodious flow renders it extremely pleasing. To overweight the little production with an elaborate criticism on the rules of counterpoint, wonld be a violation of the proportion of things. We do not pretend to the possession of anything like the genius which enabled Mendelssohn, at the age of eight, to detect, in a concerto of Bach, six of those dread offences against tbe music of grammar, consecutive fifths. Nor is this perspicacity requisite to the discovery of the trifling faults in composition which present themselves in " The Exhibition Waltzes." Mrs Palmer's style is the reverse of pedantic, and her music must, therefore, become popular. The piece is printed by a combination mechanical and lithographic transfer process, which ensures uniformity and results in printing, hitherto unobtainable, except by tbe ordinary process, by which English lithographed music is now produced ; that is, by engraving it on expensive plenished pewter tables, specially prepared, and transferred hence, by the ordinary copper-plate transfer process, to the lithographic stone for printing from. Mr Wylie, of the firm of Lucas and Son, Neleon, is said to be the inventor of the new plan of lithographing, and this first evidence of his ability certainly does himself and his publishers a great deal of credit. Banquet to Mr Yogel. — A banquet was given to Mr Yogel at Dunedin on Tuesday evening, at which the Governor also was present. The Chairman announced that £500 had been subscribed towards the purchase of a piece of plate for Mr Yogel, who made a lengthy speech, from which the following is an extract: — Tou are aware that one of the most difficult questions we had to deal with last session— and here, I know, I am treading on delicate ground — was that of provincial borrowing. I daresay it would be very interesting to many now present, and to many in other parts of the colony also, if I were able to indicate precisely the opinions of the Government upon the manner in which this question should be dealt with hereafter. But I am not going to clo anything of the kind. I shall only say that I think there is great virtue in the old doctrine of "leaving well alone," and that I think a very great deal of attention should be paid to the representations which are made, that by unduly forcing forward the prosecution of public works, there is liability of interfering with private enterprise, by the absorption of too much of the labor which should be available for the prosecution of that enterprise. I think it is worthy of consideration that it wili be well when those large works of which the colony has charge are being brought to a close, und a certain amount of labor is consequently disengaged, that there should be other works ready to be proceeded with ao as to taka up that disengaged labor. It is well, too, that we should recollect that whatever may be the intrinsic credit of any country or oolony, that credit is liable to be disturbed by questions wholly outside the scope and influence of the country or colony preferred. We should recollect that this colony has assumed very large responsibilities, which it has the right to deßire to see carried out before increasing or them. But even admitting and recognising al

theße considerations, I by no means desire youshould understand it to bo my opinion that we should lay down an arbitrary rule, by which to deny to places interested the . construction of works Twhich their own local conditions render imperatively necessary. I have wished merely to impress upon you that in coming to a decision upon this question the Government will be guided by conservative considerations. Mr Yogel next proceeded at great length to compare the results of the land laws in Canterbury and Otago, showing that statistics from every quarter evidenced the greatest possible advantage in favor of the Canterbury Bystem. He considered that the question which was at present of the most importance to t;he colony, was as to the conservation of the existing forests, and the planting' of forests for the fttture. He dwelt upon the extravagant "wastefulness of the mode in which our forests were destroyed rather than used, and upon the fact that much of the timber really used was so dealt with as not to secure a just reputation for New Zealand woods. The matter generally demanded urgent attention, and the Government would be bound to deal with it. Another question of very great importance to New Zealand was as to the absorption of the trade of the South Sea Islands. Ho considered that the colony was naturally suited to absorb that trade ; and while not at liberty to indicate possible proposals, ho belioved that Parliament must at no distant date take the question into hand. That trade' would > not only bring an immense commerce to our shores, but it would make Ne.y. Zealand a large manufacturing cbuntry. In conolußion, the hon. gentleman declared that it had for a long while past been to hira an object of aspiration to have a humble share in raising New Zealand to the position of the first colony of. Australasia. . . : Bishop Suter. — Bishop Suter, of N--1---son, was present at the recent Church Congress at Batb, nnd made some remarks in criticism of the Confessional movement which were not well received by the Anglo-Catholics present, who seemed to form a majority. The following account is from the ' Daily News :' — "Towards the end of his speech the bishop held a pamphlet before the meeting, and announced that it was published by a committee who declared that it was to a priest that a child must confess his or her sins. At this there was a slight uproar. ' Now, ought I,' he demauded, 'to admit into my diocese a man who thinks that?' At this there was moro uproar, and discordant shouts of 'Yes, yes/ ' No, no,' and ' Question.' Reading from the pamphlet, Bishop Suter continued: 'It is to tbe priest, and to the priest alone, that a child must acknowledge his sins if he desires God to forgive him.' At this there was great uproar, in the midst of which Dr Suter managed to shout, ' If any man comes before me for admission to my diocese holding those views, I must cay to him : but the sentence was not finished. The bishop's voice was drowned in the din, and the President suggesting that the case was really one for the bishop's own authority, and the allotted ten minutes having expired, tbe speaker resumed his seat, leaving us, by the nature of the interruptions, to infer that the supposititious holder of the views quoted would have but the faintest of chances in the diocese of Nelson." The ' Wanganui Herald ' remarking upon the prosperity of the Wairoa distriot, says: — Within three years no less than seventy miles of permanent fencing has been done, and tbe fern is rapidly disappearing and giving place to Englishgrassed paddocks, the whole district being dotted over wijh comfortable homesteads. It is an extraordinary circumstance, but nevertheless true, that within three years (the duration of the settlement) not a solitary death has occurred of man, woman, or child. This speaks volumes for the climate and the race of settlers in this happy country. The 'Evening Star' speaks as follows of the want of enterprise of Auckland merchants : — " With that lackadaisical spirit for which our Auckland merchants are distinguished in tho commercial world of New Zealand, the trade of Poverty Bay as well as that of Napier, is drifting away to Wellington. Our merchants see this, and admit it, and they bow as unto the decrees of fate. We observe that Mr M'Millan brought the matter up in our local Chamber of Commerce, and received something very nearly akin to a snubbing for his pains."