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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 298, 9 November 1875, Page 2

With reference to the M'DonnellBrissenden affair, on which we commented yesterday, the N. Z. Times says :— The Court has found, and the Governor has decided, in strict accordance with the evidence. Colonel M'Donnell plainly departed from the course which a man should pursue under circumstances similar to those in which he was placed. His departure is very correctly attributed to his state of mind at the moment he received the letter, and to the highly improper advice he afterwards received. The code of political warfare may, according to the dictates of some, justify the retention of another man's letter. The code of honor between man and man is less fine in its distinctions, and according to that Colonel M'Donnell has been judged. A Timaru telegram of Friday last contains the following electioneering items :— Mr Teschmaker has consented to stand for Gladstone in place of Mr G. B. Parker. He i3 a runholder, a man of means and education, a member of the Board of Works and Provincial Council, and is well known for activity in sports of all kinds. He advocates abolition. He is likely to be opposed by Mr James Bruce, a sawrailler at Waimate, a very old settler, who would represent the farming and freeholding interests as sgainst the squatters. Mr Bruce is also an abolitionist. Mr Stafford is sure to be returned without opposition for Timaru. For Geraldine, Mr Wakefield and Dr Kayner are understood to be candidates, but neither has issued an adddress. The boundaries of the new district are not yet known here. Mr Wakefield is editor of the Timaru Herald, was among the early Canterbury settlers, and has had a long political training as secretary to Mr Stafford's and other Ministries. He is a strong abolitionist. Dr Rayner is an old settler at Temuka, who has for many years been a member of the Provincial Council and Board of Works, and taken an influential parfc in local affairs. He is understood to he a provincialist. The following theatrical news ftom India will be read by those interested:— The Lewis dramatic company have had ' a very favorabla reception in Bombay, j — Calcutta is on the qui vive to wel- ' corce Alice May acd her operatic compaoy. — The Carandinis, after a successful spell in Ceylon, have left for Madras and Calcutta. Says the Melbourne Argus :— After giving the matter a fair trial, Mra Colclough haa been driven by the logic of circumstances to admit that her attempt to establish a oheap lodging-house for women is an utter failure. With a candour which is highly creditable to her, she admits, in a let'er which we published oa Thursday, that we knew more of the matter tban she did, wben we foretold that the institution she was desirous of establishing would be liable to great abuse, and that, in fact, such a home would probably become an asylum for loafers. We do not mention the matter in order to approve our prescience— indeed, we should have been very glad had our predictions been falsified by the facts. We are always sorry fot the disappointment which must accompany the failure of generous efforts, and it is for this reason, in part, that we feel it our duty to prevent the waste of social power attendiag raigdireoied energy,