The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 45, 21 February 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURD AY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874.

Wesleyan Church, Hardy- Street. | — The services at this Church, tomorrow, will be conducted by the Rev, ! -3£ Buddie. \-?- H. J. L. Augarde quotes Golden Calf (Thames) shares' at 235; National 1 Insurance, 225. Business done this day.

The Provincial Secretary and Solicitor started for, the West Coast overland this morning. They purpose being absent about three weeks, and during that period will be met by his Honor the Superintendent at Westpor,^ i Good Templars.— Mr Mackune *ia expected to arrive here by the Taranaki to-morrow, and will lecture oa Good Templar ism .in the Temperance! Hall on Monday evening. Mr Mackune is a great chief among the Order to which he belongs, and has already instituted sixty lodges in this colony. Seamen's Union.— -A meeting of this Society was held at the Pier Hotel last night for the purpose of electing a person to represent the seamen in Nelson, when Mr J Tutty was elected to the office by a large majority. Seamen desirous of joining this Society can obtain all necessary information from Mr Tutty. Bult/eu Roads.-— Tenders are invited for finishing the dray road near tbe Matakitaki, known as the No, 5 contract. -Specifications will be prepared as soon as possible for that portion of the road between the Grip and the Hope, and for widening tbe present horse track from the Hope to the Owen. The Upper Motueka Road Board are also pushing on with the road through the Hope Valley, and it is hoped that not many months will elapse before communication is opeued up from Nelson to the Matakitaki. City Rifles. — The third competition for the Snyder rifie took place place at the Maitai Butts on ■ Thursday morning. A strong wind was blowing all the time, which was felt most at the last range, as the scores will show. The following are the scores : —

Harvest,- Thanksgiving Service. — The bountiful harvest with -which our agriculturists have been favored this season having been safely gathered in, it is intended to hold a special thanksgiving service at Christ Church on Tuesday evening next at 7 o'clock. These services have been held regularly in Englaud for some years past and are usually exceedingly well attended, and recent telegrams inform us that last Sunday was specially dedicated to the purpose in Tasmania. It was thought however, that the evening of a week-day would Ie more convenient here, and Tuesday next, being the festival of St. Matthias, has been appointed as a fitliug day. It is hoped that members of all denominations, and especially* residents in tho country districts, will attend. The musical portions of the service, for which the, choir, . assisted by, several friends, has been practising for several weeks past, are arranged as follows : — Opening voluntary, < The Melody of the. Silver. Trumpets; Psalme, 65, 135, 148, and 150, Woodward in D. , Gregorian, Crotch in C. , and Grand Chant respectively; Cantate Doniinp, and J)Bus : \^lisereal^r A Jackson in F\, Anthem^&ont's Blessed be Thau; Hymns, 56% 500, and 28, Mercer's' Oxford Editionj Offertory voluntary, the ßenedictus : lvom Weber's Mass r in G., k Closing; voluntary, Mendelssohn's March of' 'the -'Priests 'in Athalie. The voluntaries will be played by Mr H0110w1y,,," -thg. organist of All Saints' Churco. ' The offertory we understand, will be devoted to the Hospital Convalescents' Fund. ;.;.;, ' FUNEBAL OF THE LATE Dr. TlJßnbll. — The remains of the late Dr. Turnell were conveyed by boat on Monday last from Takaka to Collingwood where they were interred in the cemetery in tfie' presence of a large number of the residents in the district by all of whom the lobs of the deceased will be ' greatly felt, his kindliness of disposition and readiness to assist those who were in trouble having endeared him to all with whom he was brought in contact. The service, in the absence of a clergyman, was read by. Mr Marten J.l*. It is a strjinge, and a melancholy fact that of all the graves in this cemetery two only contain the remains of those who have died from natural causes, the others having met with their deaths , by accidents, of one. kind or another. The ' Otago Times ' asks — Is there no method by which the flax interest in Netv Zealand can be permanently re-, lieved of the pressure brought to bear upon it by the Manilla monopoly? It has been stated that one English firm alone has liabilities in the trade amounting to several millions, and ii naturally follows that the development of the New Zealand flax business is retarded in consequence as much as possible. We hear, indeed, of cases where, when tho market at home was exceptionally high — SAy £40 — agents of the firm in question bought in largely at this figure, and sold to themselves afterwards publicly at £14. It'ls^uite depl6rable to look around and see how many respectable men have been actually ruined by throwing their all into this perfectly legitimate enterprise; or, if not ruined, so crippled,; that it has taken J years to ""recover themselves, in many* cades tho very best years of their lives. And these Manilla, men willfight hard; of this there is and can bo no question whatever. It is true that ouij fibre is slowly coming into a little notoriety, but the Manilla monopoly must be broken before flax is what it ought to be— one of the staple articles of New Zealand produce,

The " Loafer in the Street," o humorous writer in the Canterbury ' Press,' has been on ad excursion trip, and, among other peaces, visited Nelson. He thjjs descril es his impressions of this place: — It comes on to pour, and by-and-bye we arrive in Nelson, We go up to town by the Dun Mountain Tramway. There was a Dun Mountain Copper Company once. It busted up, but the tramway now carries passengers. It is an excitiDg means of progression. One of the boys is so charmed With it that he arranges with the driver to go backwards and forwards all day long. He had a small bottle of beer at each end and spent a pleasent day. We look everywhere for the fruit we have heard so much of, but we don't see it to any extent. You may have heard that Nelson is the garden of New Zealand. I have heard it called so at least twice, but were it not that I saw -lots of boxes of fruit shipped 1 should doubt it. We may be here at the wrong time, but we see none, and I'm sure it was scai'ce. A nice young man got in to the car with a paper of raspberries, and during a temporary absence of this party Bell ate about halt of them. He says it was absence of mind, but the fruitist was far too wild about it for fruit to have been common there. Another fraud is calling Nelson Sleepy Hollow. They all seem lively enough, and I don'i see men loafing about. I don't think there is room hero though for many. more business men. ] meet a resident who tells me that in Nelson every one who koeps horses and dogs has to Jieep triplicates of each. The place, he says, is that dozy that animals work one day and sleep two. Eggs are dear because the fowls just lay one egg and then slumber for a fortnighf. The dogs lean up against a fence to bark, and any human being who has resided here for a week can sleep fortyeight houi'B on a stretch easy. That's what this truthful old resident tells me. How it would surprise him to know that I don't believe it. I try, and fail, but I would give just about anything I've got to know what there is about me to make a wooden chump try and sling statistics of this sort into me. We interview the hop gardens. We walk about fuur miles in a big rain to see this institution, but to my mind it was a failure. As an ingredient of bitter beer I approve of hops, but I can't rave about the hop gardens. I cannot grow delirious about rows of long poles covered with green foliage, but they pay here, and so they would in Canterbury I'm told. The Government -buildings are picturesque. The Council chamber is a fine room, where concerts and balls are also held. There was a large temperanca meeting here once, and a well-known pqblic man w»b asked to speak. After a few prefatory remurks, ho said " He believed the object wSs most useful and praiseworthy. It ViSti, well known that drink was the carise of the colonies. For his own part i he was not a total abstainer. He could not believe in total abstinence, in fact he might say that it was his firm conviction that some of the happiost moments in any man's existence were those of the early stages of intoxication." He has not been asked to any temperance meeting since. There are lots of larks in Nelson, but we do not hear them carolling much in the sky. jt is raining too hard. No lark of any proper feeling -would make an exhibition of,* himself in such weather. The lark is, insectivorous. We hear that the ratio in Nelson is one caterpillar tp eVery •f^nrAia'rks, and then the laUer have^p ; ;tr^vel. round to make it up. Larks are.* as, Qommon all over ihe NelsQn;prpvince ; fls flies. They have trout in Nelson) also. Ido not hear that the Afccl|^jaiisation Society have voted one yeit for tHe Governor's table, but it possible will when be calls again. We go over the woollen factory. Between ourselves I'm not death on factories. I could get through the year without seeing more than twenty, and -still enjoy rude health. I should think : the Nehtou factory was a paying concern because they are mnking considerable additions to it, and have jußt imported more macbiuery, I mention this because some Canterbury people seem shaky in their minds about the proposed woollen factory. Mr Buddie' -describes Nelson "as a small, but the prettiest place in New Zeoland — a place, he says, where if the people have not much wealth, they have, at any rate, very little poverty, and wherever a person goes he sees sighs of domestic comfort." I don't think I can better ,on this much, because it's truly brief and briefly true. . - For the last few weeks rumors have been current that the Government contemplates selling the Luna, and it has even been asserted that her Bale basi been privately arranged, Captain Fairchild [and Messrs Turnbull and Co being respectively named as Jthe purchasers. It is also asserted that the Government have arranged to replace the Luna by a vessel now on the way out from home (o the order of the. Dunedin Harbor Company.— 'Pest.'

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