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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 251, 22 October 1874, Page 2

ii.IA;-; 77ij .-L.-M ;■; .' ... Ex-Governor Colonel Gore Brownie bas become a director of the New Zealandf'Trdst and Loan Gompßtiy.'^ '«)'• r AT ;the. ;Lyttelton. regatta t jtp{ .-tak?-, place on the Ist of January, there wiii be a rece'fdr Bailing Vesß.l_ of an^'Vig, except cutters, underjlSO tons register for _5100, and. la-sil ver „C u p^v alued at; £20; also a^our-oared, jwhalebpajt f^ ; The Dunedin Star tiears that ciofonel Moule go'eibome.'ana tbat fcrajoi* "iSf&r--don is likely to r.eeTve'the 1 'Urfd-.ii' Secretaryship of.Defence. •;• -i ."tut 7. Two publicans have been fined for Sunday trading ait Grey teWb, province of Weili_g.ott.ii_a dn_ case the evidence watf tbbtdf w ho said the-pdblicMi bad .sfu__a ! td stipply Mb,' afc& •' WaF^ lodger in the house had given hibi-_6o_e beer/ whicb he.drank on the premises',?

. Commcfii.ftg ujionr^ecent evenis/in Nelson, the &,V R. Argpp says:— The 1 Provincial Secfetary.lbt^elson is play-, iogthe §art ojfjßofebast^s Furioao witn , re^rkabla^cesii^.^E. pm jibe tig»& that ha asltoed^office^as^heif of m Executive he bas ridden rough ahol over his colleagues, and officers, not even excepting his Honor tho Superintendent himself. Responsible .Government in the ca|e of\ th| $e|sotl Execdtive has meant nothing more nor less since its establishment than tbe arbitxary r _ex.erci,Be__Qf_power™by—Mr T O^Conor. Whether what is termed adExiecuii^e Council is ever held we do not know, but if it be it is only a solemn farce^-tbenF-is only -one" will" and that must be obeyed. IQurjngthepßst year the San rFpanciacp ai in t.-jhai coined 74 ton* goldiaml 140 tons stiver, viz., 22,30P,000J0l gold coin, and 2,500,000 J0l silver. The price of meat was, saye the , Argus, maintained on Tuesday nt the Arahura sales. Some bullocks, fed on the West Coast, the property of Friend and Coles, fetched the enormous figure of from £32 to £33 10s. - - -- , "-;;- -i- ( , *■- ~""r",~jT" - Charies Dyer sentenced to) de^th, B t Aackj«nd, for the/ murdeir' qf JEJlizi Battetsea, when leaving the dock 1 pointed at the constable whose evidence 1 chiefly convicted him, and said, " That '■ \ JH an is my murderer." He protested that the occurrence was accidental. A correspondent of the Wairarapa Standard having lost a large number of sheep, jnade enquiries into the cause, fjle'fpuod $ veorm in the jaostriis of one he was cleaning leading to the brain, and then cut open the head of one that had just died, and found another in it the same shape and size. The worm was about half an inch long and very much like those grubs found in rotten wood. He found similar worms afterwar ds in others. - A Napier telegram says : — One thousand trout ova per Rangatira have heen , tekfocfttp .(mntryiT fp M pla'cea .in'a •" ioq^tjajii strejetoi. iib^{e_aict!lloca|ity. o'f which the ahthdrities desire fil keep secret for the present, for obvious reasons, considering the fate of the last shipment. During last year the Staughton Vale distillery (Victoria) produced 9,99.7. .gallons of pjbof spiritslfrdin beetreorjl _ J-JA colonjST-lhred sh<*ir_.-b_Qrn butlk.cli\f (15th Duke of Derrimut), ten months old, was sold at Melbourne on Sept. 22nd, for £525. We (N. Z. Times) regret to learn from a private source that tho proceedings of Mr H. H. Hall, the manager of the Australian and American Steamship Company, in connection with the passengers by the Mikado, have been of a character lively to prejudice the public, i againstjthe line^ftjmd lap td\dam^geiis' prospects. The public are aware that the passengers by the Cyphrenes when they arrived in San Francisco, were informed that their through passage tickets would not be recognised by the American railway authorities, and that, after some delay, and in some instances at great inconvenience, they were able ; to proceed only by paying the railway fare a second time. We understand that on the voyage of the Mikado — by which Mr Hall proceeded from Sydney to America—the passengers became aware of the difficulties those who pro-" ceeded bylhe Cyphrenes had met witb, and that at Honolulu they " interviewed "Mr .Hall on the subject. He informed thfcm that jfl, any difficulty arose he had specie enough with him to make- matters right,and would $o soAt Sao^ FrabciSco- ii wasTound-- that* the through tickets would uot be recognised. Mr Hall promised to arrange matters, and to meet the passengers in the afternoon.; ''He '^ id | hot do so, but called at the' Occidental' Hotel, where a lady and : daugbter-^who were through passen- ' gers— were and left-a card intimating that he would see the lady, and "the lather passengers, at ten o'clock on the following morning. That promise, again, he did not keep; and on inquffy^it 'was -found that " on r the^ to a station some distance from San Francisco, and had there got on board the evening train for Chicago. Mr Hall bad with him. it is stated, a con--B»;dpr^bl£^njapjnt p^m^ne^, an<Lbefpre.i reaching San Francisco" bad 'received from the piir^^ljlthej^one^.he had taken on the tripV^Mr Haii, L it will also be renj^bered^^hep^^ pn the ppssage up, gavejinatrucfcioh3!t6! remove the bupya^.a l tha't :, hiirb6ri'afed- ! so well wer,™,!^^^ that ouljfftq^jfjthaj; .wfticn, ,marked'..ihp ii Macgregornreef' .orn ipafichih; was: deftJ Thess matters n dd 7i no6' .beak- fo .lKforMr Hall.'* 3 ™ 1 '- w™"-'; »&•■ "'v- '•<'''' *T.u The*s__ro_tar*i Toiafr Mercurty eays! apropos o.fpS^dielcbgsidb 1 that tijbfc' *' pliicfe ! impossibility 4Jk'n\mi\m^isk*tf&WK.{ keeping up> .__■&; dignity: of ilhiaTofficeK oft; the reduced- vdte*^* We- btiVlJ ''it; '-Ibbwhat we;;ass^ Mat! Mr Weld sfl<;eiv l ed; ) |ft5 r l^s,«r/ap.jqf, jr^. from his No W;, (Zealand i stations -laSti year t he R! ha_»d_om~e ! <sf •• >iJIB,OOO' We do not __?fep^ibfe^fiis'" ; ' r i ni;' '^*^Jbrit_ a|_!o^ ! of the stiqgfije|[s.^ a sufficient guarantee io£n7Mc'. Weld's i independence?*'" 101 i,lj! ■ ■'■•i<'i---l , m;' '■'>; ?.'i'Al lhe Apejricflis^p^perg,,, jreiqprd ythej death. ,ofi.Mra,T Ellen iiLydnsiaiii New] York, at the--J great -'agb tif ri'3' yearWV l She was bortfat W^rr^ in'^KPn'g*,^ County, Ireland, in 1761, and was married there, in 179&. to the .ilXajted S^tes years pjcCwith' her hjisbancl-' _ler p^embVyWd^he^ r ffen^ai H tte_lth ; '¥$&' gooift almost to tfieTfe-t. 1 c! i

The Victorian Government'bts been; f atteniptin s Its utmost to au^pressf r lotteries, which ihe authorities find i^ only aootner\form of eambliug h,>ne^ Qf »te -wnrst phases^ Lptteri^<gr§W! bidden up that-colonyJ excepting for charitable objeetaV-biit this proviso is made use of by unprincipled men to convert what was intended solely to serve a. good purpose ;to some very different accoutf.. i Articles worth, we will say, £500, are announced to be drawn by lot in 10000 shares at £l per ticket. No one cares to esafhinriuto the matter. All that is known or wanted to be known is that something .SSS yj-^M?.. Jnio .. 50Q . , so vereignsumay, by a stroke of luck, be procured for 20 shillings sterling. The evil results of this have been experienced in Victoria, where it has been discovered tb_, sh^p boys almost innumerable ; have robbed their, employers', Hills, [( servant v npaids 'haWappropriated tbejr mtstresses'jeweilery and clerks" manipulated" cash-books to enable them to run; the chance 1 bf owning th© winning number. The law officerß ; h?ve tried to suppress the evil, but the proverbial coach and six has ibeeordriyen through every Act which has been passed. The evil continues to extend in opposition to all law, public opinion, and good morals. The greed of unearned gain is so intense that it has only to be.ahpwn there is;s obtain something worth a hundredfold in excess ol what? is given to obtain it; that hungry feeling, are aroused on nil sides' by those craving to become participators ina scheme which offers: a tempting prize. So it is in Victoria that some tumble-down cottage, with, peHiap ', a bad title, the intnusic.wortb of whicli does not exceed £10Cf, ; is raffled for £300; a quantity of doubtful jewellery is dealt with; in- the same way;- while worthless effects, under the name of art unions, are annunced, and -Snd ready subscribers. The wildest schemes are sat 'on foot— all got up in the true spirit of gambling, and all tending 1 ., denporaliza the people. : The evil hae extended in Australia northward to Sydney, and still further northward tc Queensland. It 'has found-^its to the south of this" colony, und has reached ;Nbrth as , far as Auckland. The ppjice denounce :the evil, r btit .have not the necessary .powers to step in and prevent their /continuance. Special legislation; we are fold, Tis necessary, and. we can. only hope that- the subject will meet with attention in the, next session of the i&eneral -Assembly. The pojice authorities assert that there, is H^' n S -..more undermining to Wi morals of our young men than .the spread of fchese lotteries under the name of artunions and other" high-sounding designations; and they caution all employers to prohibit .hose . in theii service' from taking part in them. Il will be understood in; the foregoing remarks that we do not intend to fntend to include those "drawings" foi really genuine works of art.— Elemld. The Richest Man in San Francisco.—*The chief bolder of personal estate in this city is Coh_modore : Vanderbilt, who is estimated at 40,000,00. dollars, the largest part of which. Is in railway property, says a.' Frisco paper, He owns enough in the Conuecticul river and New Haven roads to be a director in each, and he also owns the

Icjiftrolliagj i&t lo _t^n' the Central, >Ho|,od, *a£|piak e Jsore, besides hia l? t( !t V 1 P hl^ at #Mißßi 88 ippi, and y^i rt fHJ oadß i^ a8 »Wof George l^ody^aligiCde almost the entire '%ulk of hts enormous wealth after his 50th year. A stronger statement cab be made of Commodore Vanderbilt, for he made the largest part of his money since he was 60 years of age— that is, within the last score of years; for wben the war broke out he was not worth 5,000,000 dollars. The incessant aiid enormous increase of "faitfoad values, api r t^ie colossal extentnfr his operatioi.e,"haive brcfaght a-Tncreaae so stories of priental mßgic,. rr ,WheQ the stock of the Central was doubled, it added, at least, an additional ten millions ■Ss: q fKWj.H H * be6^QOO,OOO doUaca-peF^art^^^