The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 284, 11 December 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1879.

Though not numerously attended, the meeting held last night to discuss the property tax was very much in earnest and to all appearances thoroughly unanimous, and we should not be suri rised if it led to many other meetings being held throughout the colony during the recess, so that the matter will be thoroughly ventilated and argued oh both sides, and a clear expression of public Opinion will have been given before the House meets again. There was a remark mode by one of the speakers last night in reference to tbe debates on this question— and the same idea must have occurred to all readers of Hansard— to the effect that a desire to fix the blame of the present unsatisfactory condition of our finances upon the party to which the speaker was opposed was far more apparent in the numerous speeches than any wish to work all together with a view to extricating the colony from that unfortunate condition. If the leading idea in the minds of members was tho good of the country instead of the success of their party, the removal of the existing difliculties would be found to be far more easy of accomplishment than under present circumstances appears possible. An entertainment entitled " Mirth, Magic, and Mystery," in which Signor Ewini and Miss Amy Thornton are the principal performers, is advertised to take place in the Masonic Hall to-nigbt. It will be seen by a notice in another column that the Waimea Rifles will parade for inspection at Brightwater on Moday the 22nd mat., instead of the 15 th aB previously advertised. The Dramatic Troubadours wbo have afforded entertainment and amusement to so many during their stay in Nelson, will give their farewell entertainment to-night, and to thoae who have not Been their inimitable burlesque of H.M.S, Pinafore, we can heartily recommend a visit to the Theatre Royal. The troupe leaves for the North in the Waitaki to-morrow. The entertainment to be given for the benefit of Mr Glover takes place at the Temperance Hall to-morrow evening, when a large gathering of the numerous friends he has made in Nelson may be looked for. A prisoner named Madeline Miller was brought up from Westport by the Kennedy this afternoon, having been committed to gaol for three months on a charge of vagrancy.