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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 174, 24 July 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1874.

Perseverance Mine.— The mine and plant. &c, of the Peraeveranco Company were disposed of by auction on Wednesday last to Mr Robert Levien and Mr Joseph Harley for £796 10a 6d. Tbe original cost was, we believe, about £3,000. Supplement. — With to-morrow's issue of tbe Evening Mail will be published a supplement containing the annual report of the Inspector of Schools Colonial Bank.— The total number of shares applied for in the province of Nelson is 5,600. The steamers Taranaki and Murray left Ocehungaon Wednesday afternoon, but did not cross the Manukau bar until yesterday morning. They may be expected her 3 early to-morrow morning. University op New Zealand. — In our advertising columns will be found a list of the subjects in which candidates for University Scholarships will be examined ou the next occasion, also the text books recommended on certain subjects. In his Financial Statement, Mr Vogol proposed to advance £50,000 to this province, and to make os a present of £5,000 iv addition to the capitation allowance, making a total of £55,000. Of this sum £5,000 has already been advanced on tha coudition that it should be repaid in monthly instalments of £500 each, three of which have already been paid. An additional sum of £5,000 has been received in aid of the Buller Valley road, £1,500 of which has already been expended. Should the Assembly agree to the Government proposals, the £1,500 returned to the Colonial Treasury will, we presume, be handed back to the province, and as a similar amount only, out of the money advanced for the Buller roads, bas been expended, this will leave the full sum of £50,000 available for such public works as may be agreed upon by the Provincial Council. Public Works Statement. — We have received a telegram stating that the Minister of Public Works will make his statement to-night. To residents in Nelson this will be even more interesting than the Financial Statement, as we shall learn what are the intentions of the Government with regard to the Nelson and West Coast railway. Wesleyan Missions. — Sermons of a more than ordinarily interesting character will be preachod in the Wesleyan Church, on Sunday next, by the Rev. Joseph Waterhouse, the chairman of the Wesleyan Mission in Fiji. On the following evening a public meeting will be held in the church, when a full report of the Society's proceedings in New Zealand and the Polynesian Islands will be read, and addresses delivered by tbe Rev. J. Waterhouse and other ministers. Newspaper readers in Nelson cannot have failed to notice the very liberal supply of telegraphic news that appears in the columns of the Evening Mail as compared with what is furnished by our contemporary. It*is true that our Parliamentary telegrams have of late been more lengthy than is necessary, and that we intend to have

■ — - — '„ „* them confine 1 more to matters of interest to onr readers, but we shnll continuo to give the fullest and latest information from the provinces, Australia, and the rest of the world. As will readily be ; believed, news of this description is not provided witbout a large outlays as a proof of this we ~ may" state that the telegrams placed before our readers in one week recently cost tbe proprietors of tbis journal no less than £12. ; The very large and daily increasing circulation of the Evening Mail, however, justifies us in^ incurring a considerable expense in obtaining telegraphic news, "and we trust our efforts in this direction will be fully appreciated by the public, and tbat they will continue tho support which has hitherto been ao liberally accorded to us, for without that support it would be utterly impossible for any newspaper, to supply its readers with this most expensive description of intelligence. The Greymouth Star thus complains of a grievance under which it suffers: — "The smallest worm will turn on being trodden on, and doves will peck in safeguard of their brood, which being the case we wish lo remark that we have sighed and suffered long enough from the injustice of our, big brother of Boundary.street. If we get a private telegram and publish it on Tuesday night we read it the following morning under the head of the Press Telegraphic Agency in the Argus. It we hunt up a bonne louche either of news or scandal it is appropriated without acknowledgement by our morning contemporary. Now we really must protest against tbis violation of right during the present dearth of local intelligence. If murders and Buicides were plentiful we could afford our brother a share, but at a time when even a broken leg ia invaluable we must insist on receiving the credit for oil the startling items that we can- rake up. Yesterday, our police reporter « bottomed ' on an interesting caee of alleged iunacy, and, to make 6ure of it, he put his stamp on the same by sayiug there was only one newspaper reporter present at the hearing of the case. This morning the Argus, with unblushing effrontery, copied the statement even to our reporter's private mark — and the consequence is that ' our man ' has taken to drinking at what we may term a critical period io his life — a time when his deareet frienda had him half persuaded to join the Good Templars. Really the Argus haa a deal to answer for iv this matter." Brigandage is on the increass in the remote districts of the United States, and will furnfsh to the coming novelist tales which future generations may regard as highly colored sketches from tho imagination. A gang of outlaws have taken possession of Lincoln County, New Mexico, ond are clearing out the inhabitants by knife and bullet at a rate which leaves them no alternative butaspeedy retreat, aud tbe balance is migrating in shoals. Seven additional murders were reported witbin ten days, and gome of the principal citizens had received threatening notices. A story ia told of a steamboat ou the Mississippi being captured by a band of well-dressed handsome young men, who came on board, apparently having no connection, though it was afterwards remarked that they all wore new boots of a similar pattern. Suddenly ono arose aud said — " Shall we?" "We shall/ replied the others, when, before they could recover from tbeir astouishment, captain and officers were bound and gagged, while ths handsome young men proceeded to rifle the vessel at their leisure.