The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 120, 12 May 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1876.

The firing by the meiribers of , the Naval Brigade for the electrorplated teapot, presented to the Company by P. 0. Burn, will take place at th& .Maitai Butts to-morrow afternoon. The adherents of Trinity Presbyterian Church are reminded that the annual congregational tea meeting will take place at the Temperance Hall this evening. Tea will be on the table at six o'clock, after which a public meeting will be held, when the accounts for the past year will be submitted. Several Iministers are expected to address the meeting. . - , A. meeting- of the Artillery Company I r was held at the Nelson Hotel last night, Captain Pitt in the chair. The following appointments were made for the ensuing year: — Committee, Sergeant JVlajor Wimsett, Sergeants Bird and Kissel, Corporal Sedgwick, Gunner M'Cabe, Bandmaster Oakey, and BandsAvery ; Secretary and Treasurer, Lieutenant West; Auditors, Messrs Gtoulstone arid "W". "Watts. It was .decided to fire a feu de joie on the morning of the Queen's Birthday, and that a Volunteer Ball should be held in the evening. Pour new members were entered on the roll, and a , vote ,of thanks to Captain Pitt brought the meeting to a close. The Grreymouth butchers met with a serious i loss on Thursday. A flock of sheep was being driven from Hokitika '..to Grey mouth, and while swimming the flock across the Teremakau, which was in slight flood, l£o of the animals, were washed out to sea and drowned. Three potatoes grown this season by Mr J. T. Davis, of Tikorangi, in the Taranaki Province, on virgin fern land, weigh five pounds. The seed was Circular Head and Hbbarton. One measures twenty inches round the long way, and ten and a half inches round - the narrow part; The Wangauui Chronicle contradicts a'report which had previously been circulated in Wanganui 'to the 1 effect that Dr Grile:*, the Resident Magistrate, intended resigning his situation, on account of ill-health. The. Chronicle at'ds that Dr Giles' health has greatly improved of late. An ' Otago paper states that Mr \Feratid, of the Clyde district, is meeting with success in the manufacture of wine. He has already made, this season, 2000 gallons of wine and 400 of cider, besides tinning , a large quantity of fruit for market. It would be well for, the colony if we had a few more settlers of Mr Peraud's Rtamp. ''-,'■ A barn at St. Leonard's Marlborough, belonging to Mr Thomas Redwood, was burnt down. on Sunday evening last, together with the contents, comprising a few tons of hay, and some 50 bushels; of oats. It 'is' supposed to have resulted, from the" 'carelessness of some, person who was sleeping there. It l is stated in an Auckland paper that Ministers are considering the,propriety of summoning Hugh Carleton, Esq., to the Legislative Council. While we; would gladly see such an able and experienced man in either chamber of the Legislature, the Government would, we, think, act wisely in adher-nj strictly to the rule by which' they have been , guided lately — not to make any fresh .appointments to the Legislative Couhcil, so that that body may gradually, be reduced to a minimum, and the inevitable change in its constitution thus be rendered easier.- — Argus. z '•■•■■

A new crime has developed itself in connection with one of the % most valuable agencies of, modern iCertain inexplicable interruptions having occurred in the cable ,'cornmum« cation of the new - company which has recently laid down a line across the Atlantic from England to the United States, the causes of these accidents were investigated by scientific men, when it was ascertained that Jthe fractures were the result of violence, and that, in one instance at lea3t, the cable had been deliberately chopped in two. The legitimate surmise is, that the scandalous outrage must have been perpetrated by persons who were suborned to commit the offence by the agents of a rival company — a conjecture which suggests some very unpleasant reflections with respect to the deteriorated tone of commercial morality in the mother country.

Most of tho shadows that cross our path through life are caused by our standing in our own light.

The Inangahua Times mentions, as an instance of the mildness and. lateness of the seison, having been shown a ripe strawberry, which had just been picked from M.v Parry's garden, on the Buller rosdr- Inj inany lqcaflities the potato topsare yet green, while other root crops have not yet arrived at perfection. The following singular advertisement appears in ,an Auckland paper : — " I think Ufc a great^ pity; that publicans should encourage married men to Btop at public-houses and spend money when their own homes are open to receive them, and I hereby give notice to a certain person in Auckland that if said conduct is not at once stopped the names in full of everybody connected with the affair wiH be published. — Mrs C." r

, At a njeeting ofminers held at JSeefton on Saturday evening last it vras resolved to form a permanent Miners Union in the Inhangahua for the purpose of protection against unjust aggression from whatsoever source, and that such union should include all classes of working men without reference to the nature of their occupation. A Provisional Committee was formed, and letters sent to Clunes and Sandhurst to obtain copies of rules from the Unions in those miring centres. The following telegram with refer-, ence to the break in the submarine; cable was received in Melbourne last week from ,Eort Darwin: — " The Govern ment [Resident having placed the Plying Cloud and Larrakeeyah at Mr Gtott's disposal, he started with two clerks this .morning to try and pick up" the cable. I have rendered evpry assistance in getting appliances 'made for picking up by giving him the use of our blacksmith. 'Should they succeed in getting the Banjoewangi side of the cable Mr Q-ott remaining purposes" out in the Elying Cloud, and engaging the steam launch Darwin to run between here and the vessel, with messages till further assistance arrives.

Th3C; QCTEENSLA.ND,' RUSH. It wlllv be remembered that the steamer Albion took away from this colony- to Sydney 120 passengers, whose destination was Cooktown, though the failure of the new rush had been reported in the- New Zealand newspapers on the authority of the Queensland Government: Prom a Newcastle paper to .hand: we Vaily Time*) take .the following ex- . tract, being a communication from a special correspondent of the Cooktown HerdlHi^-" Monday, "17th April> 7 am. — Mr Commissioner Sellheim, -who. returned on Thursday from the Mitchell River, which he was unable to cross on account of its flooded state, gives a very discouraging account of the rush as to 'alluvial.' The reefs are said to be good and plentiful, but they require energy and capital to develop them. There is, an immense' number of 'men, numbering about 800, camped on the other side of the Mitchell, with 20 ozs of gold among them. They are waiting for the river to go down, iso that they can cross and return back again. They pronounce the rush a * duffer' as "to alluvial gold, and say that all the gullies, and ravines were worked put, some time back. Rations am exhausted. ; Packers are rather nervous about proceeding to the rush with loadin'g, as^they are afraid of being rushed. Any. man. who wishes to better himself on those goldfields must be provided ' with at least one, if not more, horses, with rations to last two or three months, as also fire? arms, tools, and a little ready cash as a standby. If, like many scores who have come up here penniless and unprovided with anything, either rations or money, they think to succeed, I say they are mad ; they risk their' health > and lives, arid have actually t6 face' starvation. I strongly advise (truths fully and honestly) all men who are short of means, if they are in. J any'' employment whatever, to remain in it until some further and more encourag-. ing news is heard.— Byreston, 14th April, 1876." ■■ ■

The London Times of the 29th March has an editorial ,on the. subject, of ttie adventures of ; ihe .bui> lvors of ibe emigrant ship Strathtaore, which concludes thus : — "The Teasel which at • length ; arrived to rescue her was a United States whaler, on her (Jourse to the Spa thf Sea fisheries. Her !?»^ B .JP»! we are told, gave up tho chance of the season's profitsifor the auke of the poctf creatures he found at the Qrozets, and who needed an amount of care they could not hay« received ; if he had not. taken them with himT We are sure the English nation will judge as it deserves of thps&criftce to which Captain Gilford submitted, and' will not fail to do honor to*' the deed and to the niari:" A tourist recently 1 returned from the Lakes in the Taupo country, states that the following notice is to be seen fixed up in a publio place at Inland; *Wairoa — -a settlement at the head of Lake Taraweru — which tourists ordinarily use as a stopping-place for, the night when paying a visit t'o^he natural 3 wonders of the neighborhood :— " Te Wairoa, District of Rotomahana, 14th April, 1876. — This is a notification of mine to the Europeans who intend visiting Rotomabana for the purpose of viewing the wonders there, .that you do not come to the Wairoa on a Saturday or Sunday on your way to Rotomahana. It is a setting on ope Bids of the law of the Creator, the Lord, of the heavens,: and the earth, and ail created; things. Should : any persons of the European race transgress and trample on this law , of mine, they will be subjected to a fine of £l each.' Any money' bo collected, will be devoted towards the propaga-' gation of the Gospel amongst my own countrymen . — Kerehoma. Te Wharetotara, a servant of the Lord,"

worn Mauritius ?pers pato date 9th*" ult.ivWe;(MeibJ3rne= f itjr^KJy)| learn that" the' island haO ibeen J visited by two severe cyclones, ; and ; that great iojury had been done tq the shipping in port, and also tothe growing crops, the young* "canes 'having lun&ed considerably. * The vessels had got adrift from their mooringß, and the wrecks were congregated together in almost inextricable confusion., ..The; appearance of the shipping, Writh masts, bowsprits, jibbooms, and stanchions gone, and wales nearly chafed through, was as if they had been mixed, up in bo me. naval en-?., gagement. The damage done was supposed to be to the amount bf £12,000 or £15,000. The first of the cyclones ' was experienced on February 18 and 19, and created a strong alarm during its whole duration; but the amount of damage occasioned has-been since care» fully investigated, and the general opinion which prevails is that the evil may be in great part, repaired if the remaining part of the season continues favorable; The other "oyclbne Which passed near the island was felt from the 24th to tho27ih, and travelled at a ;, distance. , jTbis ) cyclone ;waS accompanied by abundant rains, which were welcomed, the more bo as the Weather begin to prove; drjfv ; These,, rains have in a great measure repaired the damage experienced on the 18th and 19tb, and if the weather would only prove favorable op to the end of April, a large crop for the Cdleny (3OO;O6o;pO01bs perhaps) might beexpected. ' ''- • In a bpok.of" travels published in London.^'recently_ under... the title «of «« Rambles , of a" Giobe Trotter," the author, E. & Laird, describes Hokitika frqni the sea as follows :—" We arrived off Hokitika about 4 a.m., and I got up and "went on deck* - Although I had heard of 'the grandeur of "the West Coast 'scenery, I had no conception that it would be so rugged and '-"Void; -I' bave never seen anything to equal it in coast scenery, not even in the Strait of Magellan. You might have been suddenly/'transported into the bea^rt of Switzerland, for, rising above the surf* beaten shore, was ;a comparatively low, blue range of hills, backed by snowclad , mountains, and towering above all, were the snowy peaks of Mount Cook, respectively 13,700 and lS,3odft high. The sun had just risen behind the mountains, and rosy-, dawn had thrown « ; slight pink coloring over the higher dome of the giant, and it gradually overspread f the ;■ surnmits] *ofl ; the| other mountains, until the whole was bathed in ■the lovely tints of the rising sun. It was a heavenly morning — not a cloud, not a rippre~aod tbe, only: sound wai the ceaseless roar of the* waves. as rthey dashed on the beach, .and I was indeed fortunate to see what is considered one of the sights of the world to such perfection.". .... H 1 On the night 1 of the r3th of April l %- diabolioali attempt was made to run the night train from B^thurst downwards offj the rai(s>| The Wditerji Itidf pendent gives the* following 1 particulars :— Qqeof the men connected with the Etelso station, had occasion late in tbe evening to corae'tb Baihurst, and taking a short' cut homewards 'along the line happened, out of, curiosity, to "100k ;' at the points. The night being as clear ins day, he observed i that the - locks were . wrenched off, and that ibe points were open, and a large blue metal stbnei inserted between them. It js needleWitp: say that matters were rectified at once, «nd that the circumstance 'was reported to the police. It is understood bow one mai may take the life, of another in a moment Of paßsiob, ' but it fairly biffles comprehension how any man can coolly and premeditatedly endeavor to, destroy numbers of bis fellow men, who| .. perhaps have never done him any harm, and who probably he does not even know. The Marlborough Times of Tuesday last says: — The Lyttelton returned to this; port ,last Saturday morning after i her trip to Tbe BrotheHsfnd^thence* to' Wellington. She reached The Brothers at 8 o'clock on Thursday morning, seven Ihpurs after icjrpssing the7W;airj|i)> 'bar. The Brothers sre a group of islets in Cook 'a Straits, only two of which are of any jsj^g, and^ it is^the northermdet 'one of these thafc the-Lyt-teltenjj proceeded, to, it^being ..there^tbe ; General Government ore having »; lighthouse erected. The island, which is only some six or eight! acres 4 in ? dreap has « steep rise frqra the .beach,, attaining a good height, and from its summit there- is a splendid view over theJStrajt.' There, on the summit, the lighthouse will be placed, showing a red light right over C.ook's.Rock^ The. fjbunda- r tions ♦for 1 the ' Qitruciure^'haW r; been" laid, and everything is ready for proceeding with it as soon as the 1 Luna- is at i liberty <'i> to ; 'Mtend' ■ to the persons; engaged ;in' the> wdrk;' We understand that; a*: soon? as ithe! lighthouee is floished the light- at; pre-:; sent, on the island of. Mana will,, be, shifted to Cape . l E^mont,..tbe^ , Majpa! being a low-lying island aVd the ligbt of no use there. The Brothers are bare of treei, or vegetation of any kind^; except a little grass, but nevertheless,, the one visited by, the Lyttelton f was, : not without living creatures, some specimens of which were brought away by Captain Scolt. ; They consisted of a , number of large lizards and a penguin: Tho latter was, only ; an ordinary spe,ci™eD rJ ?f ' lt * kind, and not a large one either; but the lizards were remarkablylarge, and, almost justified the worthy Captain's jocose way of speaking of them as " young crocodiles." One of them measured fully 21; inches from the " tip of his snout 1 to the end of his tail ;" another measured 17 inches; and others .who were not brought under the tape seemed to vary in length from 16 in. to Hin. ip .length, :^