The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 162, 10 July 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1874.

Mb. Luckie, M.H.R., arrived by the Ladybird this morning, but is unable to meet his constituents this evening as he hoped to do. He proposes paying them a visit daring the session. The GouRLAr Family. — Considering tbe number of opportunities that have lately been afforded to the people of Nelson ot spending their pocket money upon amusements, the Gouriay family may congratulate themselves upon having had so good a house last night. The entertainment commenced with the little melodrama entitled " Milky White or Early Love." In this the acting of Mr Gouriay as the litigtolHtfld proprietor of a milk walk, who wassat enmity with all JJA /world, but had one soft corner fojjpbfart for his daughter, was just whafWfshoutd have expected from so well-tried a veteran. Miss Minnie Gouriay took the part of the old man's daughter in which she appeared to be perfectly at home, especially in the reconciliation scene after a forced absence from her father's house, he having driven her out in consequence of a conversation between her and Dick Duggs, the cow boy, which he bad overheard but misunderstood. Mrs Saddrip, a neighbor, was represented by Mrs Gouriay, and fhe characters of Archibald Good, the veterinary surgeon, and Dick Duggs were .-entrusted to Mr Corbet, wbo3e acting,*^e|pecially as the cow boy, A a half-silly, , loutiab, Yorkshire laid, was inimitable^ Some very fair eitigKjg By Mrs and Miss Gouriay, tbe latter of . whom accompanied herself on the side drum, which she played in a manner that would rouse the envy of many a regimental drummer, and the amusing performances of an automaton dwarf, brought to a close a really pleasant evening's entertainment. Mrs Macgregor's levee, at one time a great favorite in Nelson, will be represented to-night. A curious action for libel, writes the Daylesford correspondent of the Castlemaine Representative, was tried on Tuesday, before Judge Bunny. "Dr. Baird sued Mr Izett, the town clerk, for £100 damages, for having characterised him as a ' bounding medical kangaroo.' His Honor, in nonsuiting the plaintiff, ridiculed the notion of the words being in any respect libellous— the doctor iv fact might have appropriated them in a complimentary sense. Had the parties been in England, and Izett ceiled the doctor a ' British Lion,' cr in Calcutta, aud the name chosen was 'Royal Bengal tiger,' there could he no possible damage doae to his income or to hid reputation, aad she 'jdocior could take jhe_ term as tyconymous with '{edoulable' or 'indomitable/ Here the'kangaroo was a national animal} sutMo be likened to it was gather a^ompljanant than otherwise.) Noils wed wrthjcosts $ costs to be taxed." *

Between the 14th and '30th April last the receipts upon the Halt railway, which is only ten miiea in length, , amounted to 3309 6a 6d. A Wellington contemporary learos, I by private communications from Otago, I that the conduct of, a large number of the Asia's immigraulß has proved absolutely intolerable. Some of them I have spread through the province, and i their progress hoe been marked by a i series of thefts and outrages of all dea- < criptious. In DunediD, tbe energies of i the police have been taxed to the < utmost in looking after^hese "Asiatics," I and Mr Bathgate, tbe Resident Magistrate, is said to be perfectly, exhausted i by the labor of signing warrants for i their committal, time after time. The i gaol and the lock-up have both proved 1 insufficient for the accommodation < of these exceedingly undesirable ad- \ dttions to the population, aod at last I the Provincial Government has arrived i at the conclusion that the best aod i cheapest mode of meeting the difficulty | is to ship the worst of the lot back to < the place from whence they came. It < is said seriously that the Provincial i Government, at its own expense, is | making arrangements for the emigration of about 80 of the Asiatics back to « England and Ireland, most of the undesirables being ex-inmates of ths Cork Reformatory. "iEgles" writes in the Austra- < lasian:-— The New Zealand journals i are naturally enough struck with the seeming^nconsistency of a free immi- < grant havfhg £I^2oo in his possession. < It certainly does seem a«JUUe incon- < gruous; but I think it wouldn't' be a bad speculation for any colony to import a whole ship-load of these 1,200---pounders. They would be cheap at £15 per head passage mooey. It would simplify the rival claims of capital and labor — to import them band in hand. If the New Zealanders don't want rich immigrants, let them eend them over here. We have room for battalions of them.