The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 180, 1 August 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1877.

.Wb xemmd onr readers of the coacert to be gtven by Madame Moiler to-night. Her own skill as a pianist, and the assistance she is to receive from local amateurs will ensure a concert of more than ordinary merit. „ . '. Wb J* t * t0 acknowledge the receipt froth the publishers of the third uumber-of ".The New Zealand Country Journal " which fully maintains its. character as a useful and (interesting quarterly record of information on agricultural, pastoral, and horticultural matters. We are indebted to the Colonial Treasurer for a precis of the financial statement which was delivered last night, and is printed on the fourth page of to-day's issue. The summary, although scarcely half the usual length appears, ao far as we are able to judge from a hasty perusal of it, to be comprehensive and clear. r " s ' The polling for a City Councillor has been proceeding throughout the day, but very little interest appears to have been taken in the matter, and a stranger suddenly landed near the Council Chamber would never have dreamed that the people of Nelson were electing an administrative of their valuable estate. The official declaration of the poll will be made at tbe City Council Chamber this evening at eight o'clock. The Churchwardens of All Saints will he in waiting in the vestry this evening to receive the pew rents for the half-year The members of the Naval Brigade adverse that they will hold a calico and fancy dress ball about the end of this month. The proceeds will go towards supplying a summer uniform the contract for which has been ±fh by - Mr \ w ; Dee - ft fa Dearf y *"£! months since the last calico ball was held, and under good management there is no reason why the present proposed oue should not be as successful. The receipts of the Nelson and Foxhill railway for the four weeks ending Juno 30 amounted to £391 7a Id, made up of the following ltei us:~Passengera (2412), Maao n tickets, and parcels, £237 8s 4d; goods, 379 f tons, £153 18s 9d. ' c j The following railway receipts for the four weeks ending June 30 are published in omitteS- W<f ' Shillin « a and Peace are Kaipara to Riverhead, 17 miles ... £317 Auckland to Mercer, 43 miles ... 1496 Napier to Waipukurau, 29 miles ... 1040 Waitara to New Plymouth, 12 miles... 15 1 ioxton to Manawatu , „ fißi Wanganui to Manawatu ". "". 142 Wellington to Masterton, 20 miles '.'.'. 767 Picton to Blenheim, 18 mtles 319 Westport to Mount Rochforfc... * " 117 Brunner to Greymouth, 8 miles "'. 448 We understand that circulars were recently addressed to the officers commanding Militia and Volunteer districts in the Middle Island, informing them that their services would not be required after the end of July. If the Government have made up their minds that in the interest of economy the Volunteering system should be brought to an end they will possibly find themselves supported by a large majority of the House, but knowing as they must have done six mouths ago that the salaries of these officers were to be discontinued, they most certainly should have informed them of what was proposed. Instead of this they have been guilty of an uncalled for and wanton piece of cruelty in waiting until the last moment, and then gmng them notice that in four or five days time their pay would cease. The House will surely not tolerate an act of unfairness so gross as this. The /to of Monday says.— lfc i s rumored that a strenuous effort will be made to secure the appointment of Mr Stafford as AgentGeneral for New Zealand, on the expiration of Sir Julius Vogel's term of office in December next. Ifc i s known to be Mr btefford a intention to visit England shortly after the close of the session, aud it is understood that tbe Canterbury members are exceedingly anxious that he should be installed as Agent-General, as successor to bir Julius Voffel, and that they will strain every nerve to bring about the desired change If the colony is to have an Agent-General at all -and on grounds of economy we in some measure doubt the advisability of maintaining the office in its present costly and cumbrous shape— then Mr Stafford would be emphatically the best mau to hold the appointment. He is a statesman of the highest ability he is an admirable administrator, and possesses a special aptitude for carrying out a scheme requiring judicious and thorough retrenchment in any department. Such a scheme is urgently necessary in the case of the AgentGeneral's Department in London. Radical changes for the better take place in the disordered and weakened stomach the torpid Uvep, the dormai»fc p r congested kidneys tne irritated bladder, the overstrained nerves, the rheumatic joints and weakened muscles, when thafc supremely efficiently stomachic, anti- bilious remedy, nervioe blood depureut and tonic, Udolpho Wolf it's Schiedam Auomatic Schnapps is employed \°. r ??. their dwonlera or overcome their disabilities.— Advf;.