The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 144, 15 June 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1875.

The timo ofthe Lady Barkly's sailing for Collingwood to-day, has been altered from three to half-past six. We call attention to the auction sale of mining plant to be held at the Decimal Company's mine oo Thursday. The steamer Lady Barkly will Bail for Col--1 lingwood at 6.30 p.m. to-day. Mk. Short, will preach in the Baptist Church this evening, when the subject of his sermon will be " The almost Christian." An entertainment, consisting of musical selections, readings, &c, will be given at the Wesleyan school-room this evening. The programme, which will be found elsewhere, should prove an attractive one. Mr. Cavanagh will deliver his second lecture on "The second coming of the Lord Jesus," at the Masonic Hall to-morrow eveuing. His Exckllency and suite, accompanied by Mr Huddleston and Mr Greenfield, had a day's shooting at Dr Renwick's farm at Stoke yesterday, but the birds wore by no means plentiful, a brace of pheasants aud six or seven of quail being the .total of the game bagged. Tbe Licensing Court for the town, which was adjourned until to-day, has, at tbe request of Mr Stallard, against whom certain charges were preferred by the police, further postponed its sitting until Friday, in order to enable him to procure rebutting evidence. ;We had the pleasure last evening of ' witnessing'a very creditableillumioat ion in honor of his Excellency the Governor's visit, affixed to the front of the Photographic Studio of Mr D. M. Isaacs'. The device, which was imported nt a considerable expense by Mr Isaacs, is mado of gas-piping, and has 1300 jets, and the quantity of gas that it consumes must be very large. We certainly recorr.mend our readers who have not already seen it to do so. '•' Local Committee. — The retiring members afc "Waimea West were Messrs.

W. Dron, H. Ford, and J. Mercer. Messrs. R. Andrew,' T, Ford, and M. Newth, jun., were elected to, fill their places* „ '\ ■■-..,''■• V' •• Public Ball —At a meeting of citizens held at the Council Chamber Jnst night, it was decided to give a public ball to His Excellency on Friday evening next. The list of stewards will be found elsewhere. .:'••'. Cjirist CnTJHcit. — One or two pproyem'eiifcshave recently been made in this building that are worthy of notice. Some few weeks ago the very desirable work was completed of lining the tower, which now present?. . the appearance of a very neat dome, instead ofthe Ugly square hollow that swallowed tip the Sounds proceeding from:, the e,hancel;,.where the' cnoii? afe Seated.. On Sunday evening the elegant chandelier, comprising forty burners, presented to the church by the Bishop of Nelson, was lighted. for the first time, with very excellent effect. The proceeds of the bazaar, recently held for the purpose of providing funds for lighting the church with gas, will be devoted to obtaining ornamental lamps from Melbourne or London, the delay that has hitherto occurred in ordering them being owing to the want of accurate information as' to the precise number required, until it was seen what amount of lights would be supplied by the chandelier. In the interval, the church will be lighted with temporary burners. We understand that steps are now being taken by some of tlie ladies of the congregation to provide funds for erecting additional stalls for the choir, who, by their musical abilities and constant attendance at the practices are succeeding in giving a, nigh tone to the choral portions of the services at. Christ Church. The T-yttclion Times, in an article on the respective merits of the Suez and San Francisco mail services, «mys : — "The American mail routes have always been unfortunate. The Panama route promised great thinge, but ended iv a collapse ; hitherto the San Francisco route can hardly bo said to be a success. Not to mention the miserable failure of the contractor last year, the irregularity of the present service is a great nuisauce. When the steamers do not break down, or. show themselves too weak to contend with adverse weather, some accident is almost sure to happen to tbe railway through America ; at one time tho line is snowed up, at another, inuudated or .partly washed awoy by ihe sudden melting ofthe snow. The Suez service is just as remarkable for ita punctuality* Auy London merchant or banker who' has dealings with these colonies, knows that every fourth Monday -his business letters will reach him ; not once in the course of tbe year is there any delay. In the same way, the steamers generally reach Melbourne about two days under their contract time. At thepresent time/therefore, When the question of a fortnightly mail to Australia, via Suez,' is being agitated, and we are makiug a . new contract for the conveyance of our mails, we cannot help thinking that it would have been only wise on the part of our Government to have adopted the Huez route. At an influential meeting held in London, with a view to the establishment of this fortnightly mail, it was said that, by leaving out Malta as a pluce of call, and by steaming direct from Aden to King George's. Souud, letters could be regularly delivered in Victoria in forty days from, leaving London. Therefore, our letters would reach us in this island in fortyeight days after they were posted. , Considerable surprise has been expressed that Sir George Grey should have addressed a letter, on political mutters to the editor of the Wairarapa Standard (a country journal published 50 miles' from the seat of Government.) It mny not be generally known that Mr Wnkelin, the present editor of the Standard, was in early days in the confidence of Sir George 'Grey. He was in 1853 4 secretary to Dr Featherston, and previous to that period, editor of the Independent. He is an able, writer, and bis knowledge of the political hißtory of the colony second to nonb. . — Auckland Star. A fishing company is about to be started in Napier. The work is to be performed by natives of.the Shetland Islands, who have been used to fishing all their lives, and the required capital — a few hundreds for boats, nets, Acis to be raised in £5 shares. A new form of bribery, corruption, or undue influence, we hardly know nnder which head to class it, is reported to have occurred in Marlborough, in connection with the now pending election for Wairau. The Express sa}^: — A person went to a 'working man to whom he was indebted, and showing the money, said to this effect, " Now, put your name on "Ward's Committee, aud I'll pay the account; if not, you'll have to wait." ....,, ; The Daily Southern Cross concludes a leading article thus -V~ H If the Government means total abolition, let them say so, and prepare their bill accordingly, and stand or fall by the result. That is true administration. Peoplo will know then whore they are, and where the Government is; There .will" he only two regular camps,' insteadofHwo camps. and a ' cave,' which would absorb many pf their own supporters, who from being cordial may bo turned' into discontents, because of the want of that directness of aim and. clearness of object which aro tho main powers in all great measures and all great political changes. This course has the merit of that 'simplicity' ; which is erroneously claimed for a half- j ;and-half -measure. The time for ' ela's- ! ticity' has gone by, and' if the Govern- i ment hope to maintain credit and secure |

respect and support, a firm stand ought to be taken bn total abolition. The r . telegram states that ,, that is what jthey..mean, if soMet them openly and'unmistakeably declare that meaning at' the outset." A singular case of damages against the Gas Company at Greymouth is likely to b,e heard shortly, if. not amicably settled before reaching Couri. , It appears that on one evening during the present month the Gas Company had not sufficiently purified the gas, and so filthy was the smoke which left the flame that in one instance at least the paperhangings on the wall and ceiling, together- with the mouldings, were rendered.; quite dark in color in the course of a few houre. It has therefore been contended that the Gas Company is liable for the damage, and an application to that effect . has already been made to its directors. An Auckland paper says :— Mr H. Olson, whose name' is a'&sbciate'd with tomato sauce, has left our shores to settle in Australia. Mr Olson', as our readers will remember, was the victim of two fires, which consumed a large number of bottles of sauce, but had the one redeeming feature, of leaving the enterprising sauce-maker with several thousand pounds in cash out of the coffers ofthe insurance companies. It is stated that, when he left Auckland, Mr Olson was the happy possessor of £7000 sterling, a condition which, if correct, speaks well fpr the, profitable nature of his investments, for six years ago he was working as a mechanic at a wage not likely to leave any large surplus after household expenses were paid. The Mount Rochfort coalfields will, ere many months have passed, -be connected by railway with the port, and the one object on which the Westport people build their future prosperity wili be accomplished. The whole line has been surveyed, as also the branch lines. At Roche's lease, Waimangaroa, a tunnel of 200 feet hds been driven in a 20 feet seam at a high level, and now a tunnel is about being commenced 40 feet lower down the hill; the branch line. of one, mile te_ chains has been surveyed by the Government, and the line will be constructed by them with as little delay as possible ; when this is completed the coal eau be trucked in the pit's mouth, and brought straight away to the ship's ' side . by the iron horse, so that the, cost of carriage will be but trifling. — Buller News. Sir. Hercules Robinson has, says an exchange, stated it as his ' deliberate opinion :that s as the islands of the Eijis : are within 50 degrees of the Equator, the conditions are unfriendly to European life, and prohibit the employment of white labor. Under the most favorable circumstances Piji eau. only become a colony somewhat similar to Ceylon, or Java, or the Mauritius, producing tropical products by means of black labor,, under white; supervision and superintendence. Under no circumstances can the place develop like Aus,.traila,. or ; ., New Zealand, or North America, into a permanent home for the Anglo-Saxon race.' The bulk of the community can never be people speaking the "English language, but must be composed' of Orientals' of some description, as they alone are capable, of laboring and living under the vertical fays of a tropical sun. ' ' f v The Melbourne correspondent of the New Zealand ' Times tells the following story: — "We have at present a most sensational episode in criminal law. A man named Sperrin was some short time since convicted of indecently assaulting a girl, and was thereupon sentenced to ten years', hard labor and sundry floggings. He has undergone some weeks of histerm of imprisonment, and haa also suffered the first instalment ofthelash. It now turns out that he has possibly been the victim of a vile conspiracy ; and the mother and daughter, upon whose evidence he was convicted, have been tried at the Police Court, and after a patient and full examination they have been committed for trial fpr > perjury. The spectacle of a man suffering the torture of the lash and the pains of imprisonment, while those who brought him to such terrible doom now lie waiting their trial for having sworn his liberty away, is sensational enough to afford ample food for gossip. In the course of a leading article on the effect of Mr Vogel's absence on the. policy of next session, the Lyttelton Times remarks:— •' Now, in the first place, it is not by any means certain that Mr Vogel's absence ia temporary. He caunot he here for the session— that is certain. After, the session he may find it more to his interest to remain where he is at present. The colony haß no particular claim to his services. He has served it well, and brought its affairs to a condition of great, prosperity. But these are not reasons why the colony should monopolise his services, and we do not imagine it all likely that he will think so either.' I hear (writes the London correspondent of the Star) that the Prince of Wales may ut some not very distant day pay ; o visit to Australia and New Zealand. His Royal Highness intends to visit India in November next, and he will stay in that country till April, wheu hewill return to England, , His Royal Highness is passionately fond of travel, and one of his dearest wishes .is to be able, some day, to say that he has . visited every country, over which he will one day be called upou to rule. Tbe Prince has visited, I believe, every capital in Europe-~-mauy, mure thun once; ho has. .been up the Nile; he has ,|?dooe" Palestine and the Crimea j( ,be has traversed Canada and the United

States of America; he is about to visit India; and ere long~-though probably not : for a year or, two--he will,--. I believe add Australia and New Zea- v land to the" foregoing^ long list of bis travels. The Army and Navy Gazette hears that Count Schouvaloff, on the occasion of a vißit to some London barracks in which a battalion of the Guards are quartered, eiclaihied,- *' I now see why England can never hate an army!" He explained bis meaning to be that, rich as England was, it would be quite .impossible for her to maintain a large establishment on a scale of such luxury and comfort as he saw our private soldiers enjoying* It must he remembered that, although Count Schouvaloff is here as a diplomatist,, he is a soldier, and is more proud of hie officer's coat than of his ambassador's uniform. He served in the defence of Sebastopoh Messrs Moody and Sar.key, or some of their friends, are proposing '.that.. the American revivalists should undertake the conversion of the* British Legislature. It is proposed that the service shall be held in her Majesty's; Theatre, and a circular requesting the attendance of members, of both Houses will be issued by two gentlemen, members of the House of Commons, who are ou the committee. It wonld be rather interesting to see how a converted House of Commons would behave itself. A twelve-year-old girl is on trial in the United States for the motiveless killing of three children.. She fed them on rot poison "just to see them die" as she explained* A Western editor, thinking to stock bis depleted larder, advertised, "Poultry taken in exchange for advertising." Tbe villai'lotiS compositor, Beeing his opportunity to pay tip n long .standing grudge, set it up. "Poetry taken, etc." — and since tbat time the office-boy has been clearing fifty cents a day from the waste paper man. A recent article in tbe Spectator deals with the question of mortality produced by coli. It is known that a cold spell kills off many of ibe popu-. lation, owing to congestion caused by undue exposure of the body. The writer does not believe that the "hardening" process of bathing is so Leneficial as is contended. It is not to be assumed that cold strengthens children, but tbey are strong enough .to bear it. It is a mistake, be says, to suppose that it is the cold climate that causes people to be strong, the fact being tbat the weaker children die young. (For remainder of News see fourth page)

The Registrar-General's report on 4he vital statistics of the boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, NeK eon, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Hokitika, during the month of May, is published in the Gazette. The total births for tbe month were 258, and the deaths numbered 2111 Of these therb were at Auckland 37 births and 48 deaths; the Thornes, 24 births, 29 deaths; • Wellington, 57 births, 25 deaths; Nelson, 23 l births, 12 deaths; Christchurch, -36 births, 39 deaths; Dunedin, 68i births, 44 deaths; Hokitika, 13 births, 14 deaths. ; According to the returns,, .the , deaths from zymotic diseasesTwefe 81 in May, against 80 in April. There is to be found, boweveiv a considerable difference in tbe causes of ; death. Measles were still epule'rnic) ih some places. The deaths from this canse had decreased in Auckland from 18 to 5; but had increased at the Thames from 4 to 12. This disease also caused ,6' deaths, in Hokitika. Typhoid fever caused 27 deaths in . May, against 16 in April. Tbe largest number of.- deaths from this cause occurred in Christchurch. A large increase in the deaths from local diseases, especially of the respiratory organs, is noted. These latter increased from 15 in April to 30 in May.—iV. Z. Times. It is estimated that there are in the country parts of France 6,000,000 cats which the peasants do not feed, and that these kill , in the course of a year not less than 2,190,000,000 birds, of Which : 100,000,000 are game birds; but there is no tax on cats and no game law against them. „ (1 Fjlprentino, an Italian, who once fought a duel with Amedea Achard and, wounded \him, said that on the morning of the duel he bad prayed to -the Holy Virgin that he might wound his adversary, aod that "his success was, no doubt, due to tbat circumstance," At the last Oxford and Cambridge sports, held at Lillie Bridge in the presence of 10,000 spectators, the University athletes completely eclipsed the times and distances of previous meetings. For instance, Mr G. H. Hales, of .Cambridge, threw the 16lb. hammer ( 127 ft (the longest amateur throw on record); Mr C. C. Woodland, of Cambridge, won the 100 yds race in 10 2-5 Bees; Mr Ni Gr. Glazebrook, of Oxford, ,won the running high jump by clearing ! flft 9£in;'MrE. A. Sandford, of Oxford, won the rhiie race in 4min 34 4-5 sees; Mr A. B. Loder, of Cambridge, won the 120 yds hurdle race in 16 4 15 f fcecs- Mr S. S. Brown, of Cambridge, put tbe 161 b weight 86ft 2in; Mr H. K. Upcher, of Oxford, cleared 21ft O^in in the long jump; und Mr W. R. H. Stevenson, of Oxford, won the three mile race in 15min 30 2-ssecs, being a magnificent performance. Oxford won; sis events to three. M. Thiers can neither eat nor talk without a footxstove under his feet, andj the, apparatus, to dissimulate its true character, is made in the form of a little valise that ajw.ays goes with him. Easier j cards have; been' introduced by the London stationers, engraved ie the form! of: crosses in great variety,' and many of them of great beauty. •:Some of them isell as low as twopence' eacb, otbera aa high as balf-a-crown. The College? of William and Mary, in "Virginia, - which was burnt during the war by federal troops, having in vain appealed to the Congress for aid, it is now proposed to raise a fund to rebuild this ancient institution, of which Jefferson ,waß s graduate. A London journal, The lobacco Plant, has a fine caricature, showing the-Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli •as the great god Pan charming all the beasts; Mr Bright as a lion, Mr Lowe /fis^a bear,(Lord Darby as a w«tch-dog, and other Whigs and Tories as wolves, foxes, pole cats, &c. „ > British law; believes in " propputy," says the New York Herald. Many. ". houses were rendered uninhabitable by i the great explosion in Regent's Park, . London, last year, but the Judges decided that the tenants, though thus put out of doors, must pay the rent all the came. An undertaker's raaa while driving! back a cab from a funeral in London : waa apprehended by the police for being I'/drUnk. In his cab were found five ,wp men, also in a state of intoxication. The burial they bad been, attending was that of a pauper. Small fines were 'Idipbsed of theparty. M. Rabatau; Mayor of Marseilles, made a tour of inspection in the hospi- ; tals of that city, and caught the smallpox. So pow he knows the condition of the hospitals. Hospitals are so fatbarbarous in France that small-po* - patients are not separated from the others. A sportsman in India writes home by l-jJQBt mail r-r-'*' I hit a tigress (Bft 6in) ..thp other day in the chest with a spherical ball.from my 12-bore double r barrelled * Dougal ' rifle, 4drs of powder, '"at 'about 70 yards off, as it was standing i; facing me, end on, and the bullet went clean through irom end to end. I '•' Bhould not have thought that this was . possible." ' ;; ' . . ' " _Beaagß~eggga~^~gag ae —as-" 1 ' — — — — »