The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 111, 11 May 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1874.

The Albion with the Suez mail will I arrive here on Friday morning next. Para Paba Compant. — It will be seen by advertisement that Mr Anderson of Melbourne will deliver a lecture tomorrow evening on the Para Para iron deposits, and the Collingwood coal. We are very glad to find tbat attention is to be thus publiciy called to tbat portion of our mineral wealth which lies in Golden Bay, and trust that Mr Anderson will secure a large audience. Bachblder's Pantascope. — A large crowd of chidlren attended at the Odd-Fellows' Hall on Saturday afternoon, and were thoroughly delighted both with the views and the queer antics of the automaton on the slack rope. There was also a good house in the evening. The panorama will be on view again to-night, and on the two following evenings. Christ Church— The Rev G. H. Johnstone preached his farewell sermon to the parishioners of Christ Cburch last night, when there was an unusually large congregation considering the unfavorable state of the weather. At the yclose of the service, the churchwardens, vestrymen, members of the choir and several of the congregation waited upop tbe reverend gentleman in the vestry to bid him adieu. The Rev J. Leighton, the new Incumbent, will be installed with all the ceremony customary on such occasions at seven o'clock this evening, when there will be a special Set vice, the musical portions of which will be as follows: — Introit, Hymn 434; Psalms 48, 133, 135; Dens Miser eatur, No. 10, Mercer ; Anthem* " How beautiful upon the mountains;" Hymn 74. Provincial- Council.— The second readings of the " Municipal Corporations Actß Bill," the " Gas and Water Works Transfer Bill," and the "Cruelty to Animals Bill " are set down for this evening. To-morrow, Mr Donne has given notice that he will move, "That in order to restore the efficiency of the Nelson Provincial Council as a representative institution, it is the opinion of this Council * The Executive Government Act, 187 J,' under which certain members of this Council hold office, should be repealed, and other provisions made in lieu thereof, and that leave be given the mover to introduce a bill to give effect to tbat object." Imported Sheep. — A valuable addition to the stock of the province has been made by Mr James Marsden of Stoke, who reoently purchased at Canterbury a ram and twelve ewes of the improved Border Leicester breed. The former, for which Mr Marsden paid £30, was bred in 1872 by the Hon. Matthew Holmes from stock imported from Lord Polworth's and the Duke of Buccleugh's flocks, and was second in a pen of five rams at the Oamaru show in 1873, against both colonial and imported Leicesters. The ewes, which cost £1 each, are also of the Border Leicester breed, and were bred by Mr Tolinie from" sheep purchased by him from Mr George Murray, whose stock was admitted to be the best in New Zealand, the originals having come from his father's flock which had been established for upwards of seventy years. We trust that Mr Marsden's spirited endeavor to improve the breed of sheep in the province will meet with the success it deserves.

Jumping sections is the amusement of some of the Westport community. Tho Times says:— Quite a flutter of excitement has pervaded in Palmerslon street during the week among holders of unoccupied sections, consequent upon one or more of such coveted bits of ground having been jumped, and in one instance a building partially erected. Pickings for the legal fraternity are cropping np ominously in tbis much vexed question of the right to have and to hold. A horse bred at the Cape of Good Hopo has been sent to England, and entered for the Ascot Cup of this year. We learn that a company is in the course of being formed in Melbourne for the purpose of utilising the discoveries of iron lately made in the province of Nelson in New Zealand, on the shores of Massacre Bay. A prospectus has been issued, feom which we gather that the ore is of extraordinary richness, and the iron produced of the most superior quality. When tested ; in Melbourne the ore was smelted in i quarter the time required by the celebrated Cleveland ores, at about onefourth the expense, and with only 10 per cent of flux instead of 30 per cent. The pig-iron was puddled in about a fourth of the time required by English pig, and as malleable iron it is said to be inferior only to Sweedisb, being exceedingly malleable and ductile. It can be produced in pig at the nost of £3 per ton, and in marketable bars at £6 per ton. The fact, moreover, tbat this company has also made arrangements for tbe purchase of a coal-mine at three or four miles distance, advantageously worked for some time past by another company, is also a marked feature, inasmuch as sufficient coals can then be got at very little expense to answer all requirements for making the iron. Tbe names on the provisional directory are well-known ih Melbourne and present satisfactory guarantee of the bona fide of tho undertaking.— Australasian. " -Egles " writes in the Australasian: — I wonder if the Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's directors ever became aware of the following imposition. It dates as far back as the collision on that portion of the line then known ns \ the Suburban: — -An elderly persOD, who had once been a leading merchant in Melbourne, but who had latterly succumbed to persistent tipsiness, on tbe same afternoon fell out of a cab on his way to Hawthorn. From that accident his face was much, cut, and his eyes were blackened. When he, on the following morning, read of the collision a happy thought occurred to him. He betook himself to the secretary of the railway company, obtained an audience, pointed to his smashed face, announced himself as being very much shaken, and asked how much the secretary was prepared to give him? That gentleman thought he bad done very well for the railway company when be arranged to pay £50, and took a receipt ih full of all demands from a claimant who bad not been in either of tbe colliding trains, and who had carefully avoided asserting tbat he had been. Dr Kenealy (says the Australasian) has done a good many things to prove that he is by no means wanting in assurance. He has outraged common sense, insulted the witnesses, defied the judges of tbe Court of Queen's Bench, bullied the jurymen to whom he was appealing for a verdict, vituperated and vilified everyone who stood in the way of his case, and trampled forensic decorum altogether under foot.. But even Dr Kenealy never manifested such towering, transcendental impudence as when he asked the judges who had been sitting for nine or ten months trying this Tichbome case to grant him a new trial and try it over again, Tho proposal was monstrous. No matter what legal points the learned doctor had to urge — and we know that with Dr Kenealy a little show of argument could be made to go a long way— the idea was utterly preposterous. The long-suffering patience of the British Public stood it all once, but flesh and blood could not stand it again. London Punch, in a recent issue, depicted tbo wearisome last guest, who bas overstayed all the others, and who lighting his twentieth cigar, proposed to discuss some points of " this Tichborne trial." His host and hostess, although tired, had been politely patient up to this moment, but at the bare suggestion the bore is at once and violently ejected into the street. The reading intelligence of England was saturated with Tichborniana. Every bore talked about tbe case, the public prints were full of it, it held meetings, excited disturbances, gave theatrical exhibitions/ got committed every week for contempt of court. This fat man, with his 26 stone of gross obesity, sat on the public like a nightmare for years. , At last he is got rid of and bundled off to gaol, and now we hear that tha inexhaustible Kenealy comes into court as fresh as a daisy, and asks the Court to go through all this dreary business again. The Court, of course, refused, and had, no doubt, good legal warrant for the refusal. But, in any case, considerations of public safety would have demanded such a course. Another Tichborne trial would have caused more suicides than the foggy November to which they are now mythically ascribed, would have crowded lunatic asyluais, and driven the sober mind of England to drink and mad dissipation. It would have been better to suspend the constitution, or to put the Claimant out of tho way by Boms lynch-law act of Parliament, rather than have incurred the frightful risks of such, a 1 course.