The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 167, 16 July 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874.

Telegraphic Communication with the West Coast, and all stations south of BleDheim, is still interrupted. Colonial Bank.— The local secretary notifies that a deputation from the provisional directors of this Bank will meet those who are interested in ita establishment, at the Masonic Hall, on Saturday eveuing, when all the necessary inforraation wiil be suppliod. We understand that a large number of shares bave been applied for °iv Nelson. Telegraphic Brevity.— The following telegram, dated October 11, 1873, from Mr Yogel to Dr, Featheratou, is worth studying, as showing what a mass of information or instructions may be crowded into a few words: — "Am Immigration Minister. Correspond direct. Address telegrams « Yogel, Melbourne,* forwarding arranged. Your telegram about short shipments reached us when colony much complaining want labor. Although numbers increased, immigrants wholly inadequate. Government decided that until otherwise instructed you are to grant free passages; also, if necessary, advance expenses to port embarkation and outfit. But exercise great stringency in selection. Government doubt efficiency of selection by agents paid per emigrant; prefer trusting officers paid salary. To prevent short shipments and increase emigration, keep emigrants in depot; in advance of ships sailing, to enable you fill every vessel. To prevent short shipments, send emigrants for any port New Zealand, for transshipment on arrival. This direction only to prevent short shipment. Otherwise send emigrants direct to destination. Besides October ship for Napier, send with utmost despatch another ship ; Ormond wants thousand immigrants as quickly as possible. Endeavor charter two fine fast steamers leave early December, oue Canterbury, one Otago, each bring six to eight hundred emigrants. Follow this instruction though steamers cost twenty pounds per adult, though anticipate less. Positively preclude steamers touching Australian ports. Try through respectable brokers get Cunard or other first-clnss steamers, show how pleasantly passage may be made. Besides these steamers, push on emigration to all alt parts of colony utmost consistent with careful selection, by granting free passages to ail suitable emigrants, and widely announcing same. Gltd if during six months you could send twenty thousand. Don't send all from England. Try despaJch some ships from Glasgow, Belfast, Queenstown. Continue sending Scandinavians, Germane. Consider these instructions imperative. Fully cable proceedings consequent thereon. Suggest try obtain co-operation of organization Joseph Arch connected with. Would you like lecturer, and some persons acquainted with Colony suitable for agents sent you ? — Featheraton, London." The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Star refers to provincial loans in the following curt terms:— " Most of the provinces are goiug in for borrowing — Nelson, a quarter-of-a--million; Auckland, double tho amount; Marlborough, the Stunted, for fifty thousand; Otago, the same as Auckland. Mr Carrington, of Taranaki, has not made up his mind what to ask, but it is believed ho will be content with a harbor. Westland is in the same predicament. Canterbury will go on ber patrician blood and lands and probably ask for nothing." Mr Curtis, says the Post, has lost no time in assuming the leadership of the army o( provincial borrowers. He has como forth boldly with his little bill for a quarter of a million, aud probably on thia bill the general question of provincial borrowing will be fought. Tbere will be little use sending up to the Council a whole litter of little pigs, as was done last session. One energetic young sucker will be sufficient to test the feelings of the Council on the subject, and to establish a principle and a precedent. Mr Curtis' Bill will also, serve to elicit from the Government a declaration of their policy on the question. They stand pledged to support the Nelson loao, but they cannot accord this support without laying down some general rule applicable to all the other expectant borrowers. The House will not stand uncertain conduct on this matter. It is quite aware tbat it was played with last session, that the Government was insincere in the professions it then made, and took very good care that they should be fruitless. Duplicity such as this will not be tolerated a second time, and the Govern- I ment will be forced to declare plainly ! and boldly what position they intend to take up towards the various applicants fbr provincial loans. Having made this declaration, the House will probably insist on their abiding by it. We shall watch with much interest tbe progress of Mr Curtis' Bill. Tito Kcwaru (says a Wanganui paper) is Btiil north of Waihi, and may be occasionally seen, accompanied by sixty or seventy of a body guard. Kimball Bent, the deserter, is supposed to have goue further north towards VVituara, and haa not been seen by any white man for some time. We fancy his life must be a considerable burden to him if his past career is ever a subject of retrospective consideration. A correspondeafc of tha Auckland Star, of 10th inst., says :— - " On Wednesday last the s.B. Albion left the

Nelson wharf at 430 p.m , and about ten minutes afterwards the s.s. PhoeSe followed her. Captain Underwood, of the Albion, after discharging his pilot, kindly waited outside the Boulder Bank until the Phoebe had discharged hers and come alongside of her—nay, he even backed astern in order to bring tbe two ships in line, when both vessels started oo their respective courses. For a short time the two beats kept abreast of each other, but although the Phcebe was in bad trim, aud hud not been docked or cleaned for some months (which I uuderstand was not the casa with the Albion), she gradually gained on her, and when it became dark the Albion's light was seen some distance astern. Captain Underwood seemed bont upon racing, he having waited considerably after his advertised time for sailing to be ia company with tbe Phoebe, b.iog evidently under the impression that he would run away from her. It is to be hoped that he is satisfied with the result." Do not tho records of wrecks on the New Zealand coast show that there has been a little too much of this steamer racing ? The forthcoming Wellingtoo race meeting is ihus talked of by the New Zealaud Times : — " A perusal of the proposed programme for the races of December next, encourages the hope that tbere will be a very brilliant and successful meeting. The entries for the Derby closed on Thursday with 18 nominations, out of which number probably 10 will come to the post, representing tbe best blood in the Colony. Then there is the Wellington Cup of 200 soys, with a sweepstake of 10 soys eacb, which also is certain to command a very large field and make the stake a valuable one. A handicap of 100 soys, with a sweep of 10 soys each, is likewise oo the list and certain to he well patronised ; m also the Provincial Pia'e of 100 soys, for all horses owned for six months prior to the race by bona fide settlers of the Province of Wellington. Tnen there is a Hurdle Eace of 75 soys, and a Maiden Plate of .100 soys, besides several other events, with similar amounts attached, which cannot possibly fail to attract a meeting which should bear favorable comparison with the best meetings held in the Colony." A lady, in Wanganui, who, with her family, was the sole occupant of the house, was awakened during the night by hearing in another room her little daughter talking to some one. On listening, she heard the little cne, in the moat unconscious innocence, addressing some person in the words, •« Please shut the window, or I shall catch a cold." The lady immediately ran to the room, and discovered a man standing at the half open window, through which he was apparently meditating an entrance. The intruder, who had hesitated at the fearless and unconcerned conduct of the little child, at once decamped upon the appearance of the lady. Tho Editor of the "New Zealand Handbook " warns ne'er-do-wells from our shores in the following terms : — "Let it not bo thought that ior all persons New Zealand is a suitable home. It is a land of plenty to the colonist who can do work such as the colony requires or who can employ others to do such work for him. But it is no suitable home for those who cannot work or caunot employ workers. The mere ability to read ond write is no sufficient justification for a voyage to New Zealand. Above all, let those be warned to stay away who thiuk the colony a suitable place to repent of evil habits. The ne'er-do-well had better continue to sponge on his relations in Great Britain, than to hope he will find sympathy for his failings and weaknesses in aJand of sirangersj strangers, moreover, who are quite sufficiently impressed with tbo active and hard realities of life, and who, being the architects of their own fortunes, have no sympathy to throw away on those who are deficient in self-reliance. This warning is not altogether uncalled for. It is astonishing how many people are sent to the colonies to relieve their friends of their presence, no heed apparently being given to the fact that these countries are not at all deficient in temptations to evil habits, and that those who are inclined to such habits, had much better stay away. An instance not long since came under the writer's notice. A wealthy settler received a leter from an English gentleman of whom he had not; before heard. The writer explained that his acquaintance with a mutual friend induced binto write and to introduce his son, the bearer, who was visiting New Zealand for the purpose of settling there. He was sorry to say his son had not been successful at home in anything he had tried. He had had to give up the army, and was so very weak and easily j persuaded, that it was hopeless to put \ him to anything in England. The j writer would, he said, be content if the j gentleman he was writing to would j give his son a home aud £100 a year till he could do something better. The young gentleman who presented this letter at once intimated that a loan of £10 won Id be acceptable: He received it. The day was Saturday; on the Monday following he called again for a further loan— the first £10 was gone. He was naturally denied, and the next intelligence of the young hopeful our settler received was an order for the payment of a considerable debt. Such prodigals are not suited to the colony. It would be better to kill the fatted calf on their account, without any intervening absence."