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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 208, 13 September 1879, Page 2

Mas. Emma Hardinge Britten, a lecturer of extraordinary ability, purposes paying a visit to Nelson in the course of a few days. Her elocution, action, and delivery, are described as " feminine in their mode, masculine in their vigor, and angelic in their sentiment, 1 ' and her lectures are spoken most highly of by the press wherever she has been. Mb. Pitt, one of our City members, and Mr Richmond, M.H.R. for the Suburbs, will be amused, if not gratified, to learn that the Aew Zealander, the Wellington Ministerial organ, has in its list of new members classfied them as "Doubtful." We understand that judgment will be delivered in the case of White v. the South British Insurance Company at 1 1 o'clock on Monday morning. The following note, dated Takaka, 11th instant, has been addressed by Mr Gibbs to Mr Oswald Curtis:-" I very much regret that yourself and other friends should have been put to so much inconvenience in landing to-day. If I had only known of your coming l and where you intended to land I would have I

wff* 1 ca **e io have made proper provision, "ill you convey ray best thanks to those who took so much trouble in the cause. Iu i all this I cannot but feel the most sincere 1 regret that I shall not at present have you ' beside me in your usual seat " Amon'o the other grievances that our re- i preservatives will have to bring before the < Government, is the manner in which Nelson is treated in the matter of the mail service, i another flagrant instance of the customary < tii&regardof our interests having just come i to light. The Arawatn, which brings to i .Nelson the incoming, and takes away the 1 outgoing, Suez mail, being detained at Port 1 Chalmers for an overhaul this mnn'.h. the 1 Union Company, in order that Nelson should 1 not be the sufferer, arrauged for the Rinjra- 1 rooma, which leaves Sydney 011 Wednesday 1 next, to come here in her stead, never for a 1 moment doubting that she would be allowed t,he satne privilege «ts that ficcoJ-cled to the Arawata, when carrying the mails, of exemption from pilotage and light dues. To 1 their surprise, however, the Post Office authorities refuse to gr^.nt t,ho exemption, 1 And in consequence the Ringarooma will not : come here as intended, thus depriving i passengers from Nelson of the opportunity of travelling by one of the larger boats, and « necessitating the despatch of tl:e Suez mail on the 19th instant, three days earlier than, but for the action takeu by the Post Office authorities, there would have been any necessity for. The following Special London telegrams appear in the Poet: — The proceedings of the Irish Home llule agitators, who are stumping the country, inciting the people by means of seditious and inflammatory speeches, is severely commented on in the Press. The leading London journals strongly urge the Government to suppress the agitators, pointing out that their harangues may have the effect of arousing the excitable Irish peasantry to the commission of serious outrages. — Lord George Hamilton, Parliamentary Undersecretary ot State for India, in the course of &n able speech at Sheffield, denounced the Liberals for their unconcealed sympathy with the Home Rule agitators in Ireland He urged that their object was to embarrass the Government by any meaus, even at the risk of encouraging sedition and rebellion. The speaker also entered into a lengthy defence of the policy of the Government. — The Marquis of Hartington, in discussing the causes of the present great agricultural depression all over the United Kingdom, expressed the opinion that the only permanent remedy for the state ot things complained of consisted in a complete revision of the present system of leases, so as to put tenants of farms on a more satisfactory footing in relation to fixity of tenure, compensation for improvements, &c.—A report has been received from the Arctic Expedition fitted out under the auspices of the Swedish Government, stating that the explorers have succeed* ed in finding a north-east passage to the North Pole. — In consequence of the adverse feeling of the bankers, the issue of the New South Wales new loan will probably be postponed. — The prospectus has been issued of a loan of £200,000, bearing interest at six per cent., about to be floated for the construction of a harbor at New Plymouth. The minimum is fixed at ninety-five. — The British advance on Cabul is delayed, owing to the difficulties of transport. The mortality of camels during the last campaign was very great, and has left the British forces without the means of conveying guns and stores through the difficult couutry that has to be traversed before Cabul is reached. Immediate steps have been taken to supply the deficiency, and as soon as meaus of transport can be obtained, the advance will be pushed on as fast as possible. — The massacre is attracting considerable attention in the columns of the Golos and other Russian newspapers. They seem generally agreed in thinking that the complete conquest of Afghanistan and the breaking up of its power as an independent State is now forced as a fatal necessity upon the English Government.