The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 158, 2 July 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1878.

Thb poor creatures who are the inmates of the houses known as ths Taranaki Buitdings hare been left by a paternal Government to starve, and are at present dependent upon the charity of Mrs Carter, the matron, who has kindly undertaken upon her own responsibility to provide theril with rations and firing for a week, these unfortunate people are nine in number. Two of them are comparatively young men, but one of these is imbecile, and the other so doubled up with chronic rheumatism that he is quite helpless, being unable to do anything beyond a little knitting, by which he earns enough to keep himself iv clothing. The remaining seven are aged respectively 61, 65, 73, 77, 77, 78, and 81. All are totally unable to earn their living, and all were yesterday deprived of Government aid, and left utterly destitute; aud without a penny to purchase their daily bread. In addition to these there are many who have hitherto been receiving out-door relief with which to supplement the small amount they are able to earn. Money aid was up to Saturday last being granted to nine in town, two in Wairaea East, four in Waimea South, and seven in Motueka, in 9ums varyiug from ten shillings to £2 per month. One of the recipients was a widow with a very large family of young children, two of whom are idiots. They too are deprived of the little pittance by the aid of which they were ju3t able to keep the wolf from the door. There were also ten individuals in town who were supplied with rations. These have been stopped, and those who were in the habit of | receiving them must go hungry if not assisted by private charity. Hundreds and hundreds of pounds are spent on feasting a lot of Maoris, but old settlers who by illness and misfortune have been reduced to utter destitution are to be deprived of the means of keeping body and soul together. And this is called good government. We trust that the Mayor has telegraphed to Ministers laying before them in Tery forcible tern™ the condition in which thesa unfortunate peonle are left. We are informed by the officer in charge of the telegraph office that communication with England is interrupted owing to a break in the Port Darwin line north of Tennant's Creek, This accounts for the absence of cable news from our columns to-day. We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Postmaster of the "Postal Guide " for the July quarter. I The Rev J. Beckenham is to delirer a lecture at the Provincial Hall to-night. The subject is to be " Uncle Tom," and the pro- ! ceeds will be devoted to assisting Mra Barrer, ! who has been left a widow with a ]ar<*e family. ° As various rumors are afloat as to the movements of Mr O'Malley. the contractor for the Port Railway, we may mention that Mr Mabin has received a telegram from him stating that he will be here by the Wellington on Friday with the necessary plant for commencing operations forthwith. A Waxoinoi contemporary expresses its opinion of the value of Municipal Conferences as follows : — "About 29 Boroughs have decided to waste public money in sending a delegate to the proposed Borough Council Conference in Wellington. Wanganoi has not yet joined the League. Let us hope wise counsels will prevail, and that any important matter that wants attention will be entrusted to the Parliamentary representatives. These Conferences are expensive shams arranged for the object of affording favored Mayors or Councillors a cheap excursion." This opinion, we may add, is fully borne out by Cr Everett, who was the Nelson representative at the last Conference, and has since publicly stated that not a single' suggestion made on that occasion has been acted upon. The Pott of Saturday says:— The Rev. Mr Newtb, who has filled the position of Church of England pastor of the several congregations of Johnsonville, Ohariu, Porirua, Pabautanui, and Horokiwi for some few years, having been offered, and accepted, the cure of All Saints parish Nelson, on the eve of bis departure for that place, was Dresented last evening at the church at Johnsonville by the senior churchwarden of these districts with a purse of money, collected amongst his parisihoners, as a slight token of their esteem, aud regret at his leaving. Mr Newth, although not one of the strongest has devoted himself energetically to his work, which was beginning to tell in these scattered districts, in fact he ha 3 been the means of opening up the Horokiwi to church influences. We wish Mr Newth every success in his new cure. The Picton Press gives an instance of the manner in which the fees for Government advertising are awarded to that portion of the Press which gives its support io the present Ministry. An Order in Council to set right an error in the public proceedings connected with the borough of Picton, and had to be published instead of notifying this in the local paper it was published in the Marlborough Express, a Blenheim journal. "To readers outside the district," say 3 the Press, "it may be necessary to mention that the paper in which the advertisement appears is published nearly twenty miles from Picton, the only place interested in the slightest degree in the notice. Ihis will, give an idea of the extent to which the interests of the public are studied, but this with the present Government is a mere secondary matter when compared with rewarding a paper by appointing ita proprietor j to an office oi honor, and supporting the paper itself by laying out public money."

Sedentary pursuits are enfeebling. Nature never intended us to sitinadoubled up posture half our lives, and accordingly she revenges herself upon those who do so by upon them indigestion, debility, and very frequently lumbago and kidney disease. Persons whose avocations keep them indoors, behind desks and work tableg, can, however, counteract, in a great measure, the ill effects of such confinement by the nse of Udolpho Wolfe's Scutedah Aromatic Schnapps.-— Advt.