The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1876.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 164, 3 July 1876, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 3, 1876.

We publish to-day* the last of a series ot interesting and well written articles ou the " The Financial Condition of the Calory," which have appeared at intervals in our columns during the last four or five weeks. The object of these papers has been to expose the unnecessary and puzzling complications that characterise our | public accounts, and all who have read them must allow that the writer has •succeeded. in making out a very good case, and they must further admit that he could not have acquired so intimate a knowledge as he evidently possesses of the many blots that exist in our system of keeping accounts without devoting a considerable amount of time to their study. He has not been content to deal with mere generalities in his endeavors to prove, the unreliability of the various returns, but has in many instances quoted chapter and verse in support of his statements. In addition to this he has not only accomplished the difficult feat of placing his figures j before his readers in an intelligible and readable form, but has succeeded in investing them with an interest which, when treated in an ordinary manuer, they do not possess. "We take this opportunity of thanking him for his contributions which, we can assure him, have been rpad by a great many, and have met with general approval. The Directors of the Richmond Hill Silver-mining Company have received advices from the mine down to the 29th ultimo. The shaft was progressing steadily, and had attained a depth of 42 feet 6 inches. The excessive hardness of the rock bas necessarily rendered the sinking operations very slow, so that the intended depth (50 feet) can scarcely be reached for another fortnight. The indications continue favorable, much of the stuff cut through yielding silver. The shaft remains practically dry, though now 23 feet below the river. A fresh of unprecedented height, which occurred on the 22 nd ult , carried away the bridges, but did not flood or injure the shaft. Mr H. P. Washbourn has discovered several vertical quartz-reefs on the lease, all showing galena and copper ore ; they will warrant some expenditure to prove their value, but neither these nor a powerful lode lower down the river, yielding a large percentage of lead, will divert the energies of the company from their present single object, the payable development of the silver lode first J discovered;

It is notified in the- Government Gazette that the time' during which quail may he shot has been extended to the 30th mat. \ The ship Campe*down, 80 days out from London, with 400 immigrants, has been signalleJ all day, and will be boa-cried by the Immigration and Health Officers to-morrow. The following are the names and callings of the passengers for Nelson :~Married couples : J. Cullen and wife, farm laborer; C. Derry and two children, agricultural implement maker ; J. Hartshorn and wffe, blacksmith; T. Jones, wife and child, wood turner ; J. M'Whom, wife and three children, navvy; J. Odlin, wife and three children, joiner ; J. Thompson and wife, shoemaker. Single men : J. Thompson, shoemaker j T. Everard, baker; li. Wallshan; farm laborer ;■ J. Heerin, laborer; E. J. Kell, painter; W. Johnson, gardener. Single girls: H. Best, .E, Scannell, B. Spillane, M. Moran, B. Moran, M. J. North, C. Thompson, domestic servants. 7 We observe in the late home papers that the selling price of Cape of Good Hope 4i per Cents is quoted at 101, while New Zealand Debentures bearing a similar rate of interest are offered at 93}'to'94£: Advices received . from Fiji during the last few weeks have reported disturbances of a serious character in the islands. We are in a position to atate, however, on the highest authority that the accounts have been ludicrously exaggerated. Aftbe ati absence, of some; years Dr Carr, the celebrated Mesmerist, returned to Nelson by the Taranaki this morning, and purposes ■ giving a series of seances illustrated by new and interesting experiments, the first will take place at the Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening next.