The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, EEBRUARY 11, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 39, 11 February 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, EEBRUARY 11, 1876.

A cbicket match was played oil Tuesday last at Motueka valley between the Dovedale and Valley clubs, and resulted in favor of the latter with two wickets to go down. The scores ,were : — Motueka Valley— rlst -innings, 45, second innings 62, total 107; Dovedale—lst innings , 72, second innings 32, total 104. The man Reidal, who was the most , injured of any of the victims of the Hutt outrage, has taken a decided turn for the better, and there is now every reason ; to* believe he will ultimately re- '■■ cover, but only to be a cripple. Smat . has been committed for trial on two charges of attempt to commit murder, and not of actual murder as reported by telegraph. A supplementary Suez mail was despatched this morning by the Luna, which will overtake the Arawata at "Wellington. ".' ; A woman named Elizabeth Banks was this morning brought before the Resident Magistrate on a charge of vagrancy, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. . ¥e accidentally omitted to mention yesterday the sale of gate, booths, &c, in connection with the Waimea South Steeplechase Meeting, at which the various privileges realised £63.53^, being about £10 in advance of what they sold for last year. .. . Thk trustees, of, the. Nelson,. Sayings Bank offer a premium of £10 for the.design of t a building .calculated to suit their requirements. Particulars may be obtained from Mr H. D. Jackson. The search for the body of the unfortunate girl Annie ITreeraan, who : was drowned in the harbor on Wednesday night, is still being continued. Her hat was .found on a sandbank yesterday afternoon, and this morning a hair pad, supposed to have been worn by the • deceased, was found attached to one of the hooks used in dragging for the body. ■-'•'■•-■ ''■..*■ A new reef has been discovered' in the vicinity of Macetown, <3fcagb, by Mi? T. Hall. !Rich- specimens have been. 'obtained from the reef, and Mr Hall gives it as his belief that the stone*, will yield, ten ounces to the ton. It is reported by the Mokihinui correspondent of the Westport Times that , there has lately been marked prosperity in alluvial mining in that district. A goodly number of claims have been • opened up — some payable, and some others reported payable. • The correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says that the Government account shows the monthly loss on the Auckland-Mercer railway, to be £880, with interest, making a total charge - against the province of £2856 monthly, and failing any land revenue to meet deficiency, the General Government continues to seize the goldfields. reve- , nue, although there is an urgent demand.for work on the goldfield to keep- ' hundreds of unemployed in bread until the flooded mines resume work. The province is left absolutely penniless. A man named George Pound was arrested (this afternoon. He had been drinkmpr heavily, and was suffering from delirium tremens. Mr Crawford j remanded him for a week. — Post, Feb, ! 4. „ Sir J. Vogel had arranged with the officer in charge of, the cable on board the Hibernia, that if the Cook Strait cable was not repaired on arrival of the steamers, they would repair it, and if necessary supply a temporary cable from the surplus cable. The G. R. Argus is informed that the Coal-pit Heath Company, BrunnertoD, have, wbitst sinking tbeir air shaft at 66ff. struck the ooal, and are now down I6ft through it without any indication of it running put. This fact , is a favorable indication that the main shaft will- reach a permanent and extensive seam. A sample of the coal hos been shown to us, and it is quite equal to any of the specimens produced from the other mines in the district. In a day or two we hope to be able to give further and more detailed, parti- : culnrs. During last year the timber turned out at the sawmills in Otago numbered no less than 12,474,741 feet, and the royalty paid to the province by the owners of the mills amounted to £1550. I We (Argus) have much pleasure in | chronicling the inauguration of a new industry, or more properly speaking, the utilising a fresh field for the enterprise and the legitimate investment of capital in the Grey Valley. During the past week a flock of nearly 1000 head of sheep of prime quality and insplendid condition arrived at Ahaura from the Amuri, in charge of the Messrs Newcome of the Haupiri Flat; and consigned to Messrs Garth and Co. The sheep were specially selected from the flocks of the best breeders in the Amuri and Canterbury, and are intended to stock that portion of the elevated open country on the summit of the Paparoa Range, extending along the sources of Langdon JTord, Blackball,

MopnligJjt, Baxterf i| acTd Caledonian Cre|]cs.^^r v^^.|^artb*^n.June last ye^.| applied /uqder^the of thonevf;^W"aste jL^Qs £.$ of Nelson iorKVa -ydepaaturage licen'Bje r over some * 10^0,0C||a^rea*of the Highlands,; -and*ioM to tryl^t^y^l'Sxperiment aa i&\ whether lowland bred and reared sheep will thrive and increase profitably on our local and mountainous pastures that this importation has been made. /:'*._ The:following is the substance of the reply given by the Minister' of Justice to the Christchurch Law Society relative to the appointment of Mr Malet. to the office of Registrar of the Supreme Court at -Christchurch:-— '• I regret that a Society for which I have so high a respect should disapprove of the' appointment made by the .Government, but I feel sure that a Jshort experience of Mr Malet's services will induce them to change their opinion. The ment was not made without great con- : sideration and inquiry. I have myself had ample, opportunity of appreciating the great ability in conducting business : which Mr ;. Malet has; shown in more, than one capacity. Whatever technical , difficulties a man must always - meet with in undertaking a new office, will, in this case, soon be got over, especially as I am sure Mr Malet may reckon on the unfailing courtesy of the Canterbury bar." We take the following from the Otago Daily: Times :— The New£ Zealand Insurance Company has' already earned for itself a high reputation throughout the colony for prompt and liberal settlement of claim?, and its directors seem determined that it shall rank equally high in this respect among the home insurance offices. Advices received by last mail report that Messrß Ross and Glendining's London office received, ob early bb November llth, from Messrs BoWley and Bristow, the Company's London agents, a cheque for £10,710, being ihe amount of their policy on goods per Strathmorp. Within the last two years tbe same firm ..has received from the New Zealand Insurance Company about £20,000 in all .in payment of marine losses, inoluding : a large amount fbr total loss per Su'rat, which was settled in the same prompt and liberal manner, the company in both inßtanoea waiving its right to the full time allowed for settlement— representing a considerable ahm for interest upon such large amounts. It is gratifying to learn from the report of tbis Company, just published, that, not-withstanding the exceptionally heavy losses it* has recently sustained, -the directors bave been able to declare a handsome dividend to the shareholders. The local paper says the stewards of tbe Wairarapa Jockey Club haviog finished taking all the evidence 1 avail" able in tbe Korari Fishhook case have convened a meeting of the members of the club generally for Wednesday evening next to consider it. We believe the evidence of the different witnesses examined is very conflicting, and that the club will have no easy task in deciding upon the statements which will be laid before it. Judge Weston is determined to maintain |the dignity of his Court. Yesterday he reproved, one of the constablesjjin attendance for not wearing white Jgloves, and administered a lecture to one of the audience for coming into Court with his hat on, and making a noise with his boots, remark •ing that as people took off their hats when entering public halls it was only proper that they ahould, do so in a Court of Justice; as to the boots (the noise of which the offender said he could not control) his Honor said that when he was practising at the bar he had, when a similar necessity arose,

"walked on tiptofe" in order riot to Jnter^pt the^Court. 4f the offence, '|-wa^TOp*eat^d'b^ho-dld commit him fp-p . Sconiimpt.lJ^W, , :-.-.-.| ; .; '^fle w^fij milking,tha river arid fell i*?*»J% * t^'^Ws^* ter petyppraSs epitaph ' ot thn milkrritkh, who 'was "drowned in - : that city the other day, (jpior continuation see fourth page.}

*-"'■■ '■' -***• >I■•• '. . : I Mr Moody, who lately contested, a. sjeat in Wellington, has furnished: the,: Taranaki Budget with an account of liis electioneering experiences. He says " once start on the track as ad IyLH R., and you will have to; bid farewell to peace, happiness, sleep, or com- - fortr of any kind, and in their place you will be Desfored with a lot of smirking, loafing, pandering, flattering parasites. *j 4 * * I assisted in the general election in England in 1868, which resulted in the disestablishment of the Irish Ch'tirchr— the last election decided liy open voting, and t say deliberately that I never met with such despicable political- characters as have crossed my path during the recent elections in "Wellington. I say, this not in bitterness of spirit afc being; at the bottom of ilhe poll, for I never expected to be Otherwise. I went into it for a purpose. My purpose was gained." i Mr Douglas M'Lean, son of Sir Donald, has accomplished the feat of travelling froin Wellington to Napier on a bicycle in six days. (The route taken was by the West Coast, and tjhrough tbe Forty-mile Bush. The roads were much cut up by drays after the recent rains,, and travelling was. consequently slow, until within forty or fifty miles of Napier, which Mr. M'Lean ran in one day, with a strong headwind againßt him. I The Evening Post of (Tuesday has the following :— lnformation received froin private sources makes the. non7 arrival of the Grenada at Auckland a matter for considerable Apprehension, apart from the very serious public inconvenience caused by the non-delivery of the English mail. It seems the Grenada, brought a number of passen- ; gers for New Zealand. It is considered unlikely therefore that she would proceed to Sydney on finding the City of San Francisco gone when she arrived at Kandayau; as that would involve the detention on board of the New Zealand passengers for at least a fortnight, whereas, by coming down to Auckland, the Sydney passengers would be delayed 6nly a day or two at the most. It is argued that for this reason, and also from the fact that the City of San Francisco left word for the Grenada to follow her to Auckland, the latter boat would be almost certain to act on these instructions, and come by way of Auckland as did all the previous boats, the Vasco di Gama, the Colima, and the City of San Francisco. Hence the non-appearance of the Grenada, which; is reported to be a fast vessel, although days have elapsed since her due date, has given rise to tbe apprehension, that she may. have fallen foul of one of fjhose coral reefs, which so nearly proved fatal to the Macgregor and the Tartar* It is to be hoped that this is not the case. I The Southern Cross gives a report Of a spirit seance on Saturday night, at whioh Packer, murdered at Epsom, ! was present^ and told the audience thai S' hen. killed he was thinking of mother, rothers, and sisters. He asked them io send* his; love to his mother, and told {hem that they would find the murderer at a settlement three miles from pokeno. It is rather unfortunate that Packer's mother has been dead some sime, and that there is no settlement in he position indicated. i A country settler appeared recently * in tbe Auckland Police Court on two charges of breaches of the railway Regulations, the first, for persisting in remaining on tbe railway verandah fphile the train was in motion; and the second for persisting in takiog dogs into a passenger train* Both charges were proved, and tbe defendant was fined in the former charge 204, with £3 10a costs, and in the latter 20*, with £3 7s 6d costs. • At the Assizes at Tamworth (says the News) the other day, a witness was giving evidence in an aboriginal mur-der-case, and was asked in his ex-emination-in-chief, what the prisoner 1 said. The witness began, "He said be k "" I want you," interjected Mr Simpson, rather testily, " to give us his exact words, in the first person, if you can.'* " Well," brusquely replied the witness, with a humorous ' in his eye, and speaking » japidly, "he said ' Gear ghnie oooleer boomallah,' if you oan make that out." ' A general laugh greeted this retort, and ' the learned Crown Prosecutor, recover- • ing his momentary discomfiture, asked | the witness to translate, which he did, while his rubicund querist was doubtless reminded of Hamlet's " How ' absolute the knave ia! We must speak 1 V by the card."

; Mr JosepE Attgttatds tfofe (says the Tdraaaki Herald) issfie; ,nagie~\qf the dew member for Eden^a- distr-i6t;< formany years represented by Mr R. J. Creighton^andiwe do; not think,] if w-a sire to judge by the speeches delive red at thp';nominafti:on,^ th^ti the elector* ; liav^shbwir any-great wfsdonrm return*^ ijng Mr Tole. He, has no political creed, and announces himself as-a sub^* sjervient iolloW,erio£ Sjjj .George -Grey. He says • — " I have adopted as my political creed those principles,, propounded by Sir George- -Sref. I hope--you will not thinkutanjtelleetualritnpo'tence on my part when I say it would be impossible for me to lay out an independent course of conduct fdf my own guidance." Poor young man ! he will have much to answer for, after he . lias followed his leader through one session of the Assembly. According to : the Orots, this family of Toles have somehow " rigged " the electoral roll . for Eden. Mr Taylor, nn ; .opposing candidate, is reported to have said that • he " had the curiosity to look oyer the" Electoral roll ; arid' he 'foufltd • tMafi oo fewer than five persons named Tole, allthe brothers of one family, were entered ■ for one small piece of property, about five acres in extent, valued ai about £60, and situated somewhere in the outskirts of Bomuera. Upon this property the five brothers paid -rates to the ■ amount of 4s 2d per year, or lOd & year each. They had five votes, however, for that small sunvand that was, i the ' great stake' which Mr Tolehatf inf the district, and of which Mr Tole and his supporters had talked so'muehi," This is a specimen of how they, manage matters in Auckland; which, to say' the ' least of it, is not very creditable to the parties concerned. A young girl, named Denny, has ! recently died at Bradford from hydrophobia, ; contracted /by. her permitting a dog to- libk her^hand^andiface. (The. animal belonged to Denny's aunt, who ■succumbed herself to the like malady from a bite from the same dog in August last, soon after . which the . animal was destroyed. Shortly^ previous to the attack on the aunt the girl bad permitted it to fondle heryand it is tq :< this circumstance, only lthaV -tlie. origin., of the present case can be traced.