The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1875.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 326, 7 December 1875, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1875.

As the Murray is to leave for the "West Coast immediately after the arrival of the Taupo, it will be necessary for passengers to be on board this evening. The outward San Francisco mail will be despatched from Nelson on Thursday, the 16th instant. The presentation to the Rev Father Gaj'in of his picture, recently painted by Mr Lindauer, will take place at St. Mary's to-morrow evening. A meeting of the saw millers in the neighborhood will be held at Upper Moutere to-morrow eveniug. The quarterly Licensing Court was this morning adjourned for a week owing to there not being a quorum of commissioners. There was but very little business to be transacted. Mr. Joseph Henry Levien was the only person nominated for the Mayoralty yesterday, and he will therefore be elected without opposition. Mr. Augarde has been nominated as City Councillor in the place of Mr Carter, resigned. We have not yet heard whether there is to be any opposition. There must have been a very severe thunderstorm somewhere yesterday afternoon and evening, judging from (he distant peals tbat were beard and the vivid flashes of lightning that were to be seen in Nelson. For about an hour between nine aud ten the latter were almost incessant, the sky being lighted up and the distant mountains rendered distinctly visible. One most brilliant and peculiar flash was noticed by those who were watching the storm. The heavens appeared to be rent open from the horizon to the zenith, and three bright tongues of fire, looking almost like snakes, shot forth from far away at Bea aud appeared to reach almost to the centre of the town. Viewed from tbe hills above Nelson the storm presented one of the grandest and most magnificent sights it is possible to conceive. The Thames Advertiser of Thursday last criticises Sir George Grey's address to the Auckland electors as follows : — " The policy of the Opposition for the future has not been defiued, and we cannot see how either of the schemes ■ proposed by Sir George Grey are to be carried into effect. He appears to believe that the choice must lie between Auckland as a separate colony, with a Governor and Parliament of its own, aqd tbe separation of the two islands, with a Federal Government at Wellington. Are these schemes practicable, or either of them? Will the people of the colony feel that they can secure greater liberty or greater freedom by separating the islands, and what are the advantages that are to accrue? These are the questions that will be asked by practical colonists, and we feel convinced that a large majority of electors in both islands will give an emphatic answer in favor ot unification. It will bo urged that by separation the South would for ever secure its land fund ; that the establishment of three large Parliaments instead of one would be a foolish waste of public money, and that the revenues would be absolved in keeping up a useless army of officials, and in defraying the cost of government. What the people of Auckland expect or hope to gain by separation iwe canuot conceive. The provmce can*

not lose its land fund, because it does not possess one of any magnitude; it cannot lose any of its general revenue, because that has gone already. It cannot lose much power, because that bas been gradually withdrawn, and can never be recovered. But the Auckland province has everything to gain by being united to the wealthy provinces ol the South, and by having one common purse for the whole colony." The following is from the Otago Guardian :-We would not do Sir George Grey the injustice of classing his utterances amongst those of the Sir George Bowen order ; but if the brief telegraphic summary supplied by our Auckland special is anything approaching correctness in text, we think Sir George must be charged with the, perhaps, pardonable error, of allowing his feelings to outrun his judgment, when he stated that although he had beeen through the beqt cultivated and most fertile districts of Otago and Canterbury, he was thoroughly convinced that there was no place in the colony equal to the district around Auckland for beauty and fertility. For argument sake only (not upon any other ground), we will admit that Sir George Grey is right in the conclusion he has formed ; but, tbat being so, he might very well be asked to inform us why, under tbe circumstances, Auckland is so entirely dependent upon Canterbury and Otago for its produce supplies. Canterbury and Otago, in great part, supply the Auckland market with butter, cheese, bacon, hams, potatoes, flour, oats, aud wheat ; and a failure of .either of these crops in the South means a dearth and advanced prices in Auckland, which, under no circumstances, could assist the Southern provinces with supplies were they, through any cause, to require them. If then, Auckland is more fertile than the South, there must be a very great want of energy amongst its residents in making use of the advantages they possess. Auckland, at the present moment, notwithstanding its fertility and its beauty, is the best produce customer either Canterbury or Otago has. Referring to the prize which the New Zealand Shipping Company has offered for competition ht the forthcoming Lyttelton regatta, Mr Joseph Newman writes to the Auckland Star as follows: "Sir— 'Be just, then generous,' is an old motto, and the Directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company will be wise if they adopt it in practice. In your issue of yesterday we are informed that their Secretary, Mr Gould (an honorable name and wealthy family, bear in mind), is directed to inform the Lyttelton Regatta Committee that their Directors bave authorised him to offer them twenty-five guineas for their annual gala. Couple this with the fiuancial position of the Company, the shares being offered at 20s per share, 50s paid up, and a further call of 50s now due, which they may find it difficult to collect. While the Company's shares are in this position the Directors will fiad it difficult to get the shareholders to acknowledge the justice of their proceeding. As a shareholder, interested in the future well doing of the Company, I think Mr Gould and his wealthy friends had better be liberal with their own funds, aud leave the funds of the Company for some legitimate purpose." Mr Newman is the Chairman of the Stockbrokers' Board. It has bepn stated (says the Pall Mall Gazette) by several of the Indian papers that the Princess of Tanjore iotends to pay her respects in person to the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his Royal Highness* visit to Madras. This report ie, however, authoritatively contradicted. It may not, says the South India Times, be generally known that the Princess is a " gosha " lady, which, being interpreted, means that her husband is lha only favored individual of the sterner sex who may behold ber and live. If her Highness, therefore, did determine to visit the Priuc, she would have to gaze on b 8 royal countenance, aod converse with him, through the keyhole of aome retired apartment adjoiniug his reception room. This arrangement, it is considered, would be both awkward and inconvenient. There are, however, many women in tbis country — not "tfosha" ladiea — who, in the pursuit of knowledge, are not above applying both eye and ear to the keyhole, and derive much pleasure aud consolation from the practice. The treatment of enlarged glands in horses consists, if no active inflammation be perceptible, of an embrocation composed in equal parts of olive oil, tiucr, opii, spirits of ammonia, turpentine, and camphor; mix these thoroughly together, and apply twice each day. If inflammation be perceptible in the parts it must first be subdued before applying the embrocation, through hot fomentations. To prevent annoyance by flies, wash the skins with suds of carbolic soap, es thia comes recommended by good authority and without caution or expression of fear of any evil consequences from its repeated use, it may be well for thoee having horses, mules, or oxen in use to use tbis simple preventive. Even where provided with the usual fly drivers we find parte of the animal exposed; for instance, the nose, neck, breast, belly, back of the forelegs, flunks, legs; where this wash may be used to great edvantage. Many animals are worried with flies so that they become thin in flesh, Cowa, calves, sheep, swine, dogs, etc., all seem to agree in their aversion to being bitten by the flies;, and wiU esosj-Q it if possible.