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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 138, 2 June 1876, Page 2

A| meeting, for the purpose of forming a Christian .Union,' was held at the Temperance Hall last" night,; and was ■.well; attended; ,. clergymen of various denominations as well as a number of laymen being present. A -eecentliT published General Grovernment Gazette ' contains" returns of the value of imports, and exports at the various, , ports of New Zealand during the quarter, ending M#rch ;3^ arid' they certainly are not calculated'to encourage the belief which 'we • wpiilcL all' of us fain indulge that the colony is making, rapid progress. On the contrary, we are. forced by the inexorable logic of facts and figures to admit that retrogression, is the order of the day. During the period named there were imported into the colony goods to the value of £2,079,267, ; The figures fot the -<?ot-; responding quarter ;of last,;year were. £2;494<j667. ; The^value of the exports - for the first' quarter of this -year is set down at £2,595,935; for the corresp6ndirig v qua¥ter of 1875,' at T £2",638;482J The tailing off in the value of the twe principal items of export, namely, wool . and gold, was :— Wool, £72,294 ; gold, £34,121. .Grain shows an increase as follows:— Barley, £7481; oats, £6209; wheat;' £9o6l; ; The following gentlemen have been gazetted rangers under "The Protection; of Animals Act, 1873" :---J. B. Brace, E. Davidson, Godfrey Thomas, Samuel Saxon, Charles Canning, S. H. 1 Pikel, Roderick M'Rae, Conrad Saxton, Hogh Stafford, "William Wells, John Oldham, William Oldham, T; Mackayj .A. S. Collins, Charles Lewis, W^liam Wastney, A. G. Jenkins, C. B. Wither, Joseph Sheph'ard, "-'Jf Marsden ; Walter Thompson, T. Nicholson, E. R. Rives, J. G. Knyvptt, and R, C. Ellis,; / The following ;is Lord (Jarnaryon's despatch re the Abolition Bill : — " Downing-street, 17th February, 1376. —My Lord,— l have to acknowledge the receipt of your, despatch, No. 72, of the 25th October, enclosing a copy of ' an Act to Provide for the Abolition of Provinces/ to which you have assented on her Majesty's behalf. I concur in thinking it a wise ! cpurse ' to delay the operation of so 'important a J measure until the general election has afforded the ;constituencies an opportunity of expressing: their opinion, and I trust that if it should be endorsed by them it will be, found as > advantageous.. in its operation as has . been anticipated. I have now to inform you that her Majesty will not be advised to exercise

her power of disallqwrittc^with respect to thisAct.—lvhaVe, &p., Caenaevon. —Governor the'Mpst Hon. the* Marquis of Normanby, K.O.M?G., &c| &c." Among the expoks from the colony , during; the- first Quarter; of this year v were 1 1&;248 rabßitlsltinV of. the value of £1714. Mr Millar, F.S.A., has been lecturing in Wellington on " Water Supply and City Sewerage." A fancy ; bazaar -"in raid of a second Presbyterian Church- was' held at Invercargill last week, and realised over £600. It ended with an auction and spelling bee. , A Berious stabbing case is reported v from Hampden,' Otago. ' A man named * Charles Mains stabbed his wife in six places. None of the wounds are dangerous unless/erysipelas sets in. A telegram from the meteorological observer at; Wanganui, dated, May 30y states that a very bright and continuous " light was seen during the previous night in the direction of Tongariro, which is supposed to indicate a volcanic eruption of unusual intensity. 1 \ ; The Lyttelton Times ;pt the 27th Afay saysz^The i Survey^orifjreneral, Mr X J. ThomsbW,^V daily ex)iecte4 in this .province to make, arrangements for the .establishment. of 3 System of standard i surveys on -a" platfuniform with thaV*.to be put i& force bver j;He-~whble colony: : B[e will/make a general examination of /the ( surrey maps and records, so as to be able. to form an opinion as to^ the condition of the existing surveys, arid to make suggestipns for 'their iuiure management^, - - The following- particulars are giveri by the Post, of the suicide on board, the Taranaki, which was telegraphed to us a day, or two ago : — A very melancholy occurrence took place pn board the Taranaki last night* during /herr voyage from ; Lytteltpri to ( this portf no less than the disappearance of one ,of the saloon passengers, 1 named "W. H. ; Bass;who went on board at Lyttelton with the' intention" or proceeding to Auckland. When, the unfortunate man joined the steamer he' >was Jevidently j much under the influence of liquor, and it. is supposed that he imuatlha've been attacked during the night by a fit of {deUrJum^rep^ens, and that he jumped overboard, for he was missing y;tliis v mornipg,,.,,while a brandy bottle .baliT empty was^ found in his berth. Bass, who 'was about 30 years of age, was the mate 4 of a- small vessel* trading out of Lyttelton, and. had a. wife and family at _ the MaqlikSiu^ „ The- Stew^ds fonjboa^ the Taranaki, seeing his condition, wopld .not sripply him with any liquor, but he had taken a bottle of brandy on board with him;;H>About '? midnight P he' '- : became very violent, and was assisted on deck,] as >he iiaid? that >iff left y the^djhe^ would soon come round. He was never seen afterwards. -„ .A Tauranga.-cprrespondent .of, the New Zealdrid' Herald writes : :-^The Pirirakaus, the Hauhau natives residing in the ranges .at. the bask;, of Tauranga, haye s been frequently i&town ofjtlate, and were always accompanied by strange natives from the Waikato, Ngatihausas, Ngatimaniapotos (Rewi's people), &c. These Ngatimamapdtqs brought) with'them s6me : fine' 1 8pecimens , of 1 quartz" iri\ which gold was visible, and to a aoy'icV, like me they looked ' splendid. These! specimens ' they .asserted came from: T ; uhua, and they added, that the stuffwas very easily obtained. • , ';' ' " : '[ '.'; The chess i tournament betweepj Auckland and Dunedin has ended in an unseemly squabble. The St'ar> refers; to it in the following terms : — The Auckland chessplayers met at the Telegraph' office 'to' finish the game's, but the Dunedin players did not attend,, and after sending a telegram asking them to play their match out on Mon> day, the Aucklanders returned to their homes.' The Dunedin players 1 are i raising all sorts of quibbles. By telegraph they now charge the Auckland players with having exceeded time, limits. We are informed iha&'one of theiiv own players took one hour and a half to make one move, while conditions state thirty moves in two hours.. The Auck-, : . sporting community are , characterised By the tr ue^ English love of "fair play., 'The chess player's ' have" 'got'B^oedln'* up in a corner 'arid : aref -fully 'pfe'p'afed $o give, the. latter a r good thrashing, but, in c Dunedinites.qiear ,pu*;, haye r fairiy ; bolted off the fieliJj; and scattered them Tr selves over the country in >sucb". a> manner, (bat a telepraphic message cannot find them out^ and. when it does a,t .last, a puerile, childish quibble comes ; up, instead of their chees men coming up to thescratoh themselves like men. '•' '«-»• n *i ' ' ' " '"' • '<■ '■'% Sir George Grey appears to be determined to proceed with his obarges against the Ministry of countenancing illegal land sales, as Will be seen by ' the following extract frpoij the New;,, Zealand Herald "irr:*' 1 It .'will ,.be remem- . ber*d tbaf on a former occasion ; the i Superintendent of Auckland was stopped from; taking .prpoeedings by the. fact that the name of , the Crown wss [ required— he, as Superintendent, not having such an interest as would entitle, him to sue. The technical difficulty has now beeen got over by his Excel'le'ricy the Governor haying -consented that the, Superintendent .shoul- use, the name of the Crown in the proceedings'. Oh Tuesday last.i we published a letter; from the Superintendent to the Governor, on the subject of the dealingsbf the Ministry with certain native lands. To that letter;, as we, stated, his Excellency replied that such matters could be dealt with by the law or by an appeal to the ■ Assembly. Sir George Grey again wrote back;; thaiakirig^ the Governor' -for saying. ,tbat^,thiß. law 1 , deiVyftylfc.. such matters/and stating that 'he pre'T S *. su.med no technical objections would .be .< allowed by his Excellency: to stand in

the way of bis taking action. 'The s (|(|yer|ior N EgpliSd, (htft...Jie> > woulcl: not , v|i^rp^iße any iechdical x objecl.ion in the #ay of j legal prooeediDg^ by his Honor Ji Su|eriniende)iit. Iq consequence of a, IM is, iwe^believe; the iiitention of, N (3^rge impisdiatery to'ta.lce; . pro- ' ceedings. His Honor Judge Gillies is now on hia way to Aucktand, bo that we presume the case will come before the Oourt within a few days." CX terrible/calamity occurredihrough; #deiti*uctib\i by fire o l f a charitable^ institution in New York with large loss ~£XJi(&r , „jQ 5 c , ., f? leg ram d esc rib ing .the scene after the fire, Bays :—" Six teisn were driven this morning to the Elome i for the Aged of the Little Sisters Hjf-the Poor-in; Brooklyn,-, where the ,. terrible fir ; e r took plaq.e,yest,er(|ay, and into these were placed coffi n scon'tainihg '■ eighteen bodies gathered from the .rajns.'^ The spectacle' was a-sad and >" sickening one. Whilo the bodies were being borne to the.hearee the blood from the haU-rbfteted remain ib« oozed through' the seams thereof,. besmear lng/thi sidewalks. three bodies, were identified; the others were so charred it^was impossible to tell one from the other. ' (.For continuation of oewt set fourth paige^ ' ~