The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 200, 24 August 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1874.

The Tartar with the San Francisco mail, aod the Tararua from Melbourne, arrived in New Zealand last night, the former at Auckland, and the latter at Hokitika. Strange to eay we have received no telegrams either by one or the other. In both instances we are indebted to private telegrams for ihe information, no notice having been posted at the Telegraph Office up to two p.m. of the arrival of the mail, or the sailing of the Tararua, which left the Grey for Nelson at six o'clock this morning. [Since the above was in type, we have received the Tartar's telegrams, the first slip of which did not reach us until ten mioutes past two, although it was put in at the Auckland office at 826 a.m.] Supreme Court. — The civil sittings of the Supreme Court will commence, and probably terminate, on Friday next, the only case set down for hearing being tbat of the National Bank v. Mortimer. Artizans' Association.— Another entertainment will be given by tbe members of this Society to-morrow evening, when the programme of Thursday last will be repeated. Meeting at Richmond.-— The Good Templars will hold their postponed meeting at the Agricultural Hall, Richmond, this evening. The Adamant's Immigrants.— lt is satisfactory to learn that the whole of the immigrants lately arrived in the Adamant bave found employment, the only persons now left at the depot being a few women and children who are kept there for a short time until the husbands, who are engaged in distant parts of the province, are prepared to receive them. Para Para Company. — We are glad to find that the Select Committee on Colonial Industries bas reported in favor of assistance being granted to tbis Company, as will be seen by the following report brought up by the Chairman of the Committee :— I am directed by the Committee to report that, having taken evidence upon the subjects of coal and iron, in connection, with the Para Para Coal and Iron Company, Collingwood district, the Committee unanimously passed the following resolution :— "Thai the Government be urged to take into consideration the alternative proposals hereto annexed, with a view to the adoption of one of them, upon such terma as the Government think fit, in order to insure the establishment of the manufacture of iron in the Collingwood district; and that, failing such arrangements, the Government should earnestly consider the propriety of establishing iron works on behalf of the colony."— Proposals of Mr Anderson.— Ut. That the Government should make the tramway from the mine to the site of 4e works, a distance of three or four miles, which would be also available for the shipment of coal from this and other mines. 2nd. That the General Government advance the sum of £5,000, to enable the Company to take up tbe unsubscribed shares; the Company to give security to the approval of the Government. 3rd. That the Government guarantee interest upon capital paid-up and expended at the rate of five per cent for ten years upon au amount not exceeding £40,000; the Company to repay any such payments by the Government by refunds out of the bonus or out of future profits of the Company; the term for claiming the bonus to be eztended to 30th June. 1876. A Westport telegram to the Wellington Post says: —A Committee has been formed to secure the presence of the Provincial Secretary at the turning of the first sod of the railway. His consent has been obtained, ' and he has fixed the date for early in September. Mr Fitzherbbrt's Resolutions. — The following resolutions are to be moved by Mr Fitzherbert to-night, when he will, no doubt, more than atone for his silence in the recent debate which came to so sudden and unexpected a conclusion :— 1. That this House, having resolved that (taking the circumstances of the Colony into consideration) the Provincial form of Government in the North Island should be abolished this House further declares its opinion thatlan organic change in the Constitution involving the establishment of a central bureaucratic authority for the administration of Provincial affairs in the Northern provinces, in substitution for the rights and powers conferred on the people of the Colony by the Imperial Parliament, ought not to be made without first testing the opinion of the people through their constituencies. 2. That in order to give effect to the foregoing resolution, a respectful address be presented to His Excellency praying him to dissolve the present Parliament.