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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 224, 6 September 1875, Page 2

; The Excelsior Troupe are expected to arrive from the West Coast by the first steamer, and will give a series of entertainments in Nelson. The attention of those concerned is called to the advertisement inviting tenders for the inland mail services for the year 1876. Several complaints have been made of late regarding the discontinuance of the practice of keeping up until nine o'clock the signals for steamers that have arrived during the night. To those engaged in business the old plan was a very convenient one, and it would be well if the Harbormaster were to give orders that it should still be adhered to. The Sisters Duvalli will give another entertainment this evening, when the young ladies will take their benefit, and will consequently appear in some of their best dances, and sing their most popular songs. No doubt they will have a bumper house. A stbjl^ge trap accident occurred this afternoon in Trafalgar-street. A horse attached to a cart was drinking at the trough, near the Wakatu Hotel, when Mr Knight, of Appleby, drove down the street in his waggonette, and his horse shying ran th« wheel of his trap under the back of the cart and capsized it, horse and all, but without doing any great damage. Mr Knight's conveyance sustained no more serious injury than the smashing of a lamp. From the Waikato Times we learn that a most complimentary address has been presented by the residents of the Waikato to Mr Dugdale Walmsley on the occasion of his retiring from the position of manager of the National Bank in that district. The signatures included the names of almost every leading settler in the Waikato. Emigration to America continues to fall off, and we constantly hear of the difficulty immigrants already in the United States nod ia procuring employ* ment. To Canada, however, maoy are still going. Last week, 668 Russian Memuonites sailed for the Dominion. This week, 232 steerage passengers, nearly all with return tickets, arrived at Liverpool from Canada, having availed themselves of the Jow rate of fares to revisit their borne, as they atiil call the scenes of their youth They all speak in th« highest terms of Canada, both for the agricultural and working man, particularly those with large families, as it affords advantages never obtainable iu this country. We may say the same of Australia, too.— English paper. Dr Kenealy (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus) cannot let Tichbornia laet. Last week he gave notice of hie intention to aek Mr Cross, Secretary for the Home Department, sundry questions respecting that well-known character Mrs Mina Jury, and he has received his answer The nature of the questions you will learn from Mr Cros^* reply, wherein he stated that neither ha nor the solicitor to tbe Treasury was aware whether Mrs Mina Jary was or was not tbe same person as Mercivaoa Caulfisld, convicted of theft in Dublin in June 1847. Inquiries should, however, be made. He further said that the Government bad no desire to conceal anything about the expenses of tbe prosecution in the Castracase, bufc as the Houb6 had already determined on a division agaiuei a {return being i

msde of the atnoual paid for the prosecation, he oould not inform him what sum Mrs Mioa Jury received. The doctor was not satisfied, bufc promised" to bring the matter forward again afc th© earliest opportunity afforded him by the rules of the House. > The Taranaki News, of the 30ih ult., 6aya:~lha firm of Brogden and Son seem determined to carry ont their work of rjahhath desecration with a high hand; Yesterday again the work of .ballasting and bridge building at the Henui waa unblushingly carried on, as though New Plymouth was a heatheo town. Fourteen men who refused to labor yesterday on the line. wero this morning discharged. A deputation of ( these men, consisting of Isaac Surrey, George Battams, Thomas Hughes, Levi Pearce, and •— Harris, called at bur office this morning, to complain of the treatment they have received at the hands of the firm. They state that since the contract for the line has been taken they have been for months only partially employed, and now at the expiration of tha term all is hurry and drive* Th» Sydney correspondent of the N. Z. Times writes : — Mr Levy was returned for Central Cumberland over Mr M'Culloch, It is said that every vote polled coat £5, and that one pub-, lican'a bill against the lucky (?) winner was £500. Open houses ruled all over the electorate, which was large, and— thirsty. Temati Reins, of Wanganui, complains in the Waha Maori that Christianity and its ministers are dead on the west coast of the North Island, and that " money and ardent spirits" have taken their places. An English piper states that silke are being adulterated with salts of tin and cyanides, by which the weight of tha fabrics has been raised in some cases by 300 per cent. The silk is rendered highly inflammable, burning like tinder if touched with flame, and liable even So spontaneous combustion.