The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 140, 12 June 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1880.

The Customs receipts afc the port of Nelson for the week ending this day amounted to £1174 15s 2d. General Davidson, who has been inspecting the Volunteers in the South, will return to Nelson on Tuesday, and hold an inspection of the town and country corps on Wednesday evening next. The Waimea and Stoke Rifles will be conveyed to town and taken out again by train. The ball got up under the auspices of the Tradesmen's Athletic Club last night was a great success, the number of those present being large, and the dancing being kept up .with great spirit until an early hour this morning. We presume tbat it is the intention of the Lynch family of; bell rin gers to visit Nelson shortly, otherwise Mr Harry Lynch would scarcely hava taken the trouble to telegraph to us from Gisborne:—" Bellringers conclude the most successful season ever known here this evening." That cunning old rascal Te Whiti is nofc to be done. Fora long time past he has been predicting, and [making considerable capital out of it, thafc the Governor of the colony was goiug to pay him a visit, and thafc they were going to have a friendly chat together on affairs in general and native matters in particular, possibly, something in the style of that famous interview between Father Tom aud the Pope. But the Governor has not been to Parihaka, md, having a wholesome dread of dirt, dried shark, and fleas, is not likely to pay a visit to this noisy old cock who once a month crows so loudly on his own dunghill, so thafc Te Whiti has lately rather lost caste as a prophet. Seeing this, he has fallen back upon his impudence and ingenuity, and is now solemnly assuring the natives that wheu he foretold thafc event he was only speaking figuratively, and meant that the telegraph line would soon be completed to Parihaka, and tbat by its means he |and the Governor wonld be able to enter into friendly converse I And we really shouldn't wonder if the natives were to believe him. Wb learn from the Poit that on the afternoon of Tuesday, on the evening of which day the financial statement was delivered, a meeting of the Ministerial supporters was held,||at which the general policy of the Government was discussed. Suggestions were made with regard to the property tax but no definite conclusion was arrived at, members declaring themselves quite satisfied to leave the decision as to the details of the financial policy in the hands of the Government, and promising their hearty support on the main principle of restoring the finances of the colony to a thoroughly sound and healthy condition. This is a point on which Ministers are understood to be absolutely immovable, and one on which they are fully prepared to stake, if necessary, their official existence. Aa 48 members are said to have been either present or accounted for, that in a House of 87 members (exclusive of the Speaker) would give the Government a clear majority of 9 in the event of a trial of strength. There seems to be a probability of Si William Fox at last gaining a point at which he has been aiming for a long time, Mr Hall having consented last night to introduce into the Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill a clause providing for the prohibition of the sale of liquor by public houses on polling days, the ostensible object being to render elections as inexpensive as possible, the rral one, there is no occasion to state, Sir W. Fox being the mover. From our English telegrams to-day ifc will be seen that New Zealand is not the only country where increased taxation has become a necessity, an additional income tax of a penny in the pound, besides increases in other directions, having been proposed by Mr Gladstone as Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A beer tax is also to be imposed. The good people of Invercargill should wire another address to the great English statesman, congratulating him upon baying followed the lead of New Zealand in this matter. Mr Turnbull is to move in the House of Representivcs, " That a return be laid before this House showing in round numbers tbe salaries paid by the Government to each of the. officers employed in the different departments, specifying the numbers receiving £200, £300, £400, £500, £600, £700, and £800 respectively. | The following late London telegrams ap- I pear in the Sydney papers :— The Radical j members of the Ministerial party are signing a memorial for the recall of Sir Bartle Frere from the Governorship of the Cape. Mr Gladstone evidently hopes that Sir Bartle Frere will resign, and the Cabinet are , divided on the question. — Intelligence has j been received that Mahomed Jan is collecting an army at Zurmut, and is shortly expected to I resume hostile operations agaiust the British j forces. —Many of the Jesuits who have been J expelled frora France have gone to |Switzerland for refuge, but are not allowed to remain, the authorities there having warned all members of the society to leave Swiss territory within a certain period. — The rebellion iv Burmah is spreading. The rebels are daily gaining accession to their ranks. King Thebau's troops are utterly powerless to check lhe rebellion in its progress. The town of Skubourge bas been burnt by the rebels in revenge for the encouragement it had given to the king's forces. Several villages have also been destroyed, and many of the inhabitants put to .death. — Mr Parnell has given notice of his intention to move in the House of Commons that Sir Bartle Frere be recalled from the Cape Governorship. — The Imperial Government has resolved to grant a sum of £30,000 for the purpose of the construction of a harbor and pier in Ireland in order to provide employment for the distressed inhabitants. — The Right Rev. Monsignor Capel, D.D., one of the most distinguished English Roman Catholic prelates, has been declared a bankrupt. — H.R.H. tbe Duke of Edinburgh intends to return to Ireland, ' his primary object beiDg to assist the work of affording relief to the distressed people.— An agitation is going on in Berlin in favor of emigration and colonisation as a means of furnishing an outlet for the surplus population in Germany, more particularly for the purpose of restoring and expanding the trade and commerce of the empire. The leaders of the movement suggest the Island of Borneo as an eligible field for German colonisation. — The serious aspect of affairs' in Birm-h. which promised to result in indiscriminate slaughter on the part of the rebels and of the

King's adherents, has induced the British Government to interfere, with the object Of preventing further bloodshed and destruction. The rebels have been communicated with by the military authorities of India, and have been ordered to surrender their arms and discontinue acts of violence. In return the rebels have been promised the fullest protection by the British against the vengeance of King Thebau, who has been fully apprised of the intention of the British.