The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 133, 5 June 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1879.

The famous Tooley-atreet tailors have found a bumble follower in Mr Hutchison, the newly elected Mayor of Wellington, who comes before the colony as the Belf-consti-tuted adviser of His Excellency's advisers, as will be seen by the following telegram, which we received from Wellington la3t night :— - *• Mr Hutchison, the Mayor, will' wait on the Premier to-morrow morning to urge upon him the advisableness of doing •■ everything possible to keep peace in' the colony, because in the event of war the \ securities of the colony xn\Y be depreciated, and it will be impossible to raise a new loan." Surely the force of impudence could not " very much further go. The representative of some six hundred and odd Wellington . ratepayers taking upon himself to dictate to the Government what is the proper course to pursue in a time of difficulty and danger such as is the present ! Is it likely that the Government would enter upon a native war [ without frequent and anxious deliberations, ' and is it probable that they would have considered the matter so lightly and carelessly that there could be anything left for Mr Hutchison to tell than that they had not , thought of before ?. Is it possible that a Hutchison was needed to. warn them that -war -would depreciate colonial securities and prove an obstacle in the way of raisitg a < new loan? Mr Hutchison,. we believe, is, for the time being, a supporter of the Grey Ministry, and yet be pays them the exceedingly poor compliment of considering it necessary to remind them that such consequences as are mentioned in the telegram would result from war. What fools he must think them 1 On the other, what must they think of him ? If the Premier is not too much afraid of offending a supporter, poor Hutchison is likely to cut a sorry figure as he leaves his presence to-day, for if ever a man laid himself open to, a thorough snubbing, this Hutchison has, and if there ia a man who can administer such a snubbing as the Mayor of Wellington deserves, that man is Sir George Grey. The only possible excuse for the insolent interference of tbia man is that he is frightened out of his senses by the prospect of there being no loan foe. another year. He knows full well to what a large extent Wellington is dependent for its prosperity upon the expenditure of public money, and rather than . deprive that city of the share of the loan that would naturally fall to it, he is prepared to see the settlers in the disturbed districts driven from their homes and ruined. To protect' them means the commencement of hostilities; to begin to fight is equal to a postponement of the loan; a postponement of the loan would produce the elongation of the [Wellington weekly list of bankrupts, and in endeavoring to prevent tbia Mr Hutchison has made fcimself the laughing stock of the colony. Thb Government steamer Stella left Wellington for Nelson at four o'clock this morning. The object of her visit is to take on (board the tents, camp equipments, &c, used >at toe late Eifla Association meeting and jtransfer them to New Plymouth. This is

another indib'aifon thai the Government anticipate trouble in that part, 1 kild they »fe now adopting a wise course in making preparations to meet the storm when it bursts. At the Magistrates' Court this morning, before A. J. Richmond and H. E Curtis, lisqs., J.J.P., Michael Clluarton was charged with obtaining from W. Coppin, of Motueka, £1 on a valueless cheque for £5 upon the ftaiional Bank, and sentenced to four months' jdiptJsouuient with hard labor. The wonder is that anyone could have been taken in with the cheque, which was signed "Mr Michael Cullartom" a form of signature not usually adopted by ttiofce Going business with it bank.' Tub programme at the Theatre Uopil last uigut consisted ofpffenbach's Opera fiouffe, tho " Grand Duchess," which to thost? wbo can enjoy an evening's amusement offers ; irresistible attractions. The consequence was ' that there was again a large audience, and the satisfaction expressed with the performance appeared to be general. Madame. Le Couteur acted her part well, and displayed a keen sense of the bumor of the opetd,and sang with considerable spirit especially in the well known song, " to, now the sabre !" Mr Florence, the rapidly prorifoteet recruit,' was inimitable, Mr Browning was exceedingly amusing, and the miuor parts being all ! well sustained, the whole opera from beginning to end. was very pleasing, and passed off without a single hitch of any kind whatever. To-night there is to be a treat to which. many are looking forward in the opera "Martha,? which, if we remember rightly, has not yet been performed in Nelson. ;As there are likely to be a good many bbjections to the Land - Tax Valuations throughout the colony, it may not be sufficiently known that the Act provides' that lists of ali objections must be sent by the Department to the Appeal Court, where, if the objectors fail to appear in support of, or to succeed, in their objections, costs will probably be given against them. The local Times Bays : —The football team to play against the Nelson College Club will be chosen from the following players: — Messrs Bealt, Dempsey, Bruce, Wyatt, Hyauis, Treweek, Lechner, Williams, Kivell, Emerson, Andrews, Hutcheson, Fitzgerald, Penney, Mclvor, Kidson, Nixon, Gudgon Fulton, and Grimatone. As it will be the first time that a foolball team has visited MarlbotoUgh, the result is looked forward to with interest. Messes Sharp and Pickering advertise a sale by auction to-morrow at half past one at the house lately occupied by A. R. Oliver Esq., in Shel bourne-street, of household furniture, piano, and effects. The death of Baron Lionel Rothschild is announced in our London telegrams to-day. The following notice of him is from Men of the Time: — v Rothschild, Baron Lionel Nathan de, M.P., son of the late Baron Nathan Mere de Kothschild and brother of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart., partner in the well-known banking firm of Messrs. Rothschild and Co,, was bom November 22, 1808, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father, June 28, 1836. He was first elected one of the members, in the Liberal interest, for the City ot London, in August, 1847, and though again returned in June, 1849, in July, 1852, and in March, 1857, was not, owing to the exclusion of. Jews from the House of Commons, permitted to take his seat and give his vote as a member of the legislature until 1858, when the standing orders were set aside by a resolution in favor of himself and his co-religionists. Baron de Eoihschild retains his seafc as one of the representatives of the City of London."