The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 7 June 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1879.

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Robinson and suite arrived by the Hinemoa this morning, and were met on the wharf by the Mayor ajid a number of other gentlemen. A carriage and pair were in waiting, and the party drove to the College, where Sir Hercules, we understand, intends placing one of his aona. After lunching at His Worship the Mayor's, where they will also be entertained at dinner this evening, they took a run through the Waimeas by the two o'clock train, and will return to town at five. They will leave for Wellington in the Hinemoa at 9 o'clock tonight.

Although there is no news of great importance from the disaffected districts this afternoon, the telegrams that we have received within the last day or two all seem to point to a probability of a general outbreak on both sides of the island, Taurahga and the Wafrarapa both contributing yesterday their share to the budget of native news, Jwhich is now looked for daily with considerable anxiety. From Taranaki we hear of several private communications having been received, the^ writers in every instance expressing their opinion that there muat be war, and that very soon. It is to be hoped that when it does come the Government will find themselves in a position to protect the lives and property of the settlers in the disturbed districts.

The Customs receipts for the week ending to-day were £691 3s 6d.

Two mistakes occurred in the report of the proceedings of the Education Board published yesterday, the words in italics in the following sentences having been accidentally omitted:— "That if the boy Lloyd be readmitted after making such an apology," &c; and " The Town Committee having proposed that the First Division of Toi-Toi Valley girls' school, and the First Division of the Town schools, be constituted High schools for girls and boys respectively," &c. The Theatre Royal last night was not so well filled as on the previous evenings, though the performance of the opera " The Bohemian Girl " did not appear to be affected by the uncrowded state of the benches, but passed off quite as spiritedly as any of those that bad been given before. The reason of the thinness of the audience probably was that many were reserving themselves for the treat provided for to-night in the performance of " II Trovatore," which is an immense favorite with the people of Nelson, many of whom are looking forward with great pleasure to hearing Mr Florence sing " Ah, che : la morte," which alone will be well worth the price charged for admission. A special train leaving and returning to Poxhill at convenient hours will give residents ia the Waitnea an opportunity of being present to-night. The Company leave for Wanganui in the Lyttelton at the close of the performance. Miss Fidlejr will give her evening lesson at six o'clock on Monday night instead of seven, as previously advertised, in consequence of the Masonic Hall being engaged after eight o'clock.

A sale of work in connection with All Saints' Church is to be held in the pariah Institute early in July. Contributions of work, &c, should be addressed to Mrs Gully, Trafalgar-street south.

At the recent election of auditors for the City of Wellington, Mr H. J. L. Augarde was one of three candidates, but the ratepayers preferred to retain the services of the two gentlemen who had acted in that capacity before. The sesult of the polling was :— Stevenson, 342; Elliott, 327; Augarde, 182. The Westport Colliery are going to send from their mine a sixteen feet pillar of coal to the Sydney Exhibition. The N.Z. Times understands that five GatHng guna are on their way to Wellington from Home to the order of the General Government. It is rumored that they will be worked by the Naval Brigade. A Boston telegram, dated May 10, says:— The wool market has taken a sudden and unexpected turn, and the past week will be remembered as one of themost exciting for several years past. It was a decided surprise to both manufacturers and dealers, who were equally astonished at the result. If there had been a concerted movement on the part of manufacturers to clear the market of all that was desirable in the way of fleeces, the work could not have been done more thoroughly. Fleece wool advanced f^lly two cents per. pound, and sales of pulled, comprising 62,000 pounds; exceeded the transactions of any previous week for a very long time, but do not indicate any change in price. "

This is what the Dunedin Morning Herald thinks of the Savings Banks on schools scheme:—" Saving is in itself no virtue, and may very easily become a vice. It is an excellent practice for young people to save part of their earnings, and it is a good thing to teach them that it is a duty to do so : for their can be no real liberty and independence for either rich or poor without a certain amount of. prudence in regard to moqey ; but for heaven's sake let children.be children in: heart and mind as lqng as they are Children in years— simple, joyous, unselfish, =and not .detestable little money-grubbers. Children have no business* with money-' in nine cases out of ten they learn to love it farj too soon; indeed nothing strikes. a new chum more than the 'cuteness and— if we must say it— the downright greed' of our colonial youngsters, and it does seem as if this proposal to establish savings banks in schoolswere a base pandering to that intense! and vulgar worldliness which i 3 characteristic of all new countries. It is time enough to teach our youth to take care of their pence when they begin to earn them , to turn the innocence and simplicity of little children into the love of money is only too Burely to make it the root of evil ; it is to posion and debauch the infant mind, and teach it (to use a strong metaphor) to be lewd before it knows what passion means. We sincerely trust that our schools will be kept pure of the abomination." >.