The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 133, 4 June 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880.

Wb received the following telegram from a correspondent in Wellington this afternoon :—" With reference to the question put by the Nelson members, the Government stated that it was impossible to give a categorical reply. Until the Government could see their way through their financial difficulty they had thought it indispensable to suspend this railway and many others. Tho Government are determined not to incur any further liabilities of this character until they can see their way to fulfil them." A serious case of stabbing occurred at the Port yesterday afternoon, regarding which, we have ascertained the following particulaM : Police Constable O'Brien who was on duty at the time, was informed about halfpast three that there had been another row at Antonio Wett's house—here we may state that rows between Wett and his wife are of frequent occurrence, the woman, by her intemperate and immoral conduct, frequently driving the unhappy man almost to distraction. The Constable went to the house and knocked at the door, when in a weak voice, Mrs Wett told him to come in, and on entering he found her leaning against the sofa with nothing on but her chemise and flannel, the remainder of her clothes, which were saturated with blood, having been taken off and laid on the floor. In the small of her back waß a deep wound from which the blood waa Btill flowing, and on a closer exam ination of her clothing the Constable found that the knife by which it was inflicted had cut its way through the whalebone in the stayß, and to this obstruction it is probably owing that the woman was not killed. Having obtained assistance and Bent for Dr. Collins, the Constable proceeded to the wharf where he arrested Wett, who said that his wife waß drunk and had annoyed him to such an ex-

tent that he had thrown a butcher's knife, which was on the table, at her. Wett was brought before Mr;Bt. E. Curtis, J.P. this morhingj when the Superintendent of Police asked for a remand until Monday as the wounded woman was not yet able to appear. Mr Bunny, who appeared for the accused, asked for bail, but it was refused. The Hinemoa, which, it was stated^ was to bring tho Nelson nnd West Coast portion of the San Francisco mail from Wellington to-morrow, was despatched last night to search -for the missing schooner Colleen' Bawn, Tho mail, however, may still be expected to-morrow, as the Grafton, which left Lyttelton for Wellington last night, ia advertised to sail from tho latter port for Nelson direct thia evening. We understand that Messrs R. Levien, H. Buckevidge, and W. Wastney have been appointed Justices of the Peace for the colony. The Railway Commissioners aro now at Russell, whence they will shortly return to Auckland, and then proceed by way of Nnpier to Wellington, where they will draw up their report. An excellent resume of the new Licensing Bill appears in the Post of Wednesday last, and aa the matter is one which possesses considerable interest for a large number of the public besides the licensed victuallers we republish it to-day in full. A correspondent writes that there was an unusual scene of excitement at Richmond last night, when the effigy of a certain resident in the. neighborhood, who recently figured as the respondent in a divorce case, was subjected to all sorts of indignities, and ultimately consigned to the flames amid the jeering and hootings of tho assembled crowd.