The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 158, 3 July 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1880.

_UioN<_ the consolidated Bills prepared by the Comrniseioo appointed for that purpose — who, by the way, report that up to the present time they have in fifteen Bills absorbed 64 Acts of the Assembly — is the Adulteration Prevention Bid, in which are consolidated three Acts on tho same subject. The first part of this Bill, which has already passed the Upper House, deals wilh adulteration generally, and provides a penalty not exceeding £50 for the first offence, and imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months for the second, for anyone* wilfully admixing any injurious substance with any drug or article of food, and a penalty not exceeding £20 for selling any drugs or articles of food so adulterated. It further provides that any i erson selling any such article with which shall have been mixed any substance with intent fraudulently to increase its weight or bulk shall be deemed to have sold an adulterated article, and shall be liable to be fined accordingly. Part It. refers specially to the adulteration of fiour or bread. Any person putting into any flour any ingredient not being the genuine produce of the corn ground and dressed, or. any person offering for sale any flour of one sort of corn as the flour of another sort; shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £20 or less than £5. Baker's shops may be searched by a constable authorised by a warrant under the hand of a Justice, and if any adulterated flour or bread is found, or any ingredient used in adulteration, such flour, bread, or ingredient may be seized and disposed of. Every miller or baker on whose premises any ingredient for the purpose of adulteration _3 found is to be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 for the first offence, £10 for the second, and £15 for any subsequent offence. Part 111. defines the materials of which bread exposed for sale must be made, and prohibits the mixture of alum or auy othe improper ingredient under a penalty of not less than £2 nor more than £10 ; household wheaten bread is to be marked with a large Roman 11, and mix.d bread with a large Roman M. Those who complain of r sho|;t_ weight loaves willjje glad-toiearn^h"a^Dread is. to >" sold uy weight and not by the loaf, 'tne avoirdupois weight of 16 ounces to the pound to be used, and any seller of bread selling or delivering in hia shop or premises any bread which shall not have been previously weighed in the presence of the purchaser when required by him to do so shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding £5. Any baker or confectioner using impure, unsound, or unwholesome flour to be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20. Part IV. provides for the appointment of analysts, &c. The foregoing penalties, restrictions, and prohibitions are not new, but the consolidation of the Acts in which they were previously contained affords a good opportunity for reminding the public of their existence. We are glad to find that the City Council are at last beginning to think seriously about obtaining a stone breaker, by means of which the bard stones on the boulder bank could be turned to account, and something like decent metal put on the streets, instead of the soft rock from the Maitai, which a combination of a very little truffle and a very little rain is sufficient to convert into mud In a very short time. With such excellent material at hand the cost of [a stone breaker would very soon be saved to the Corporation. Arrangements, we understand, are about to be made for the holding of special evangelistic services in the Temperance Hall at eight o'clock on every alternate Sunday evening. A confirmation will be held' by the Bishop of Nelson at Christ Church to-morrow morning, and at All Saints' Church in the evening. Mr Lawrence advertises that he has recently imported a fine lot of Picton bloaters, to the excellent quality of which we can, after giving them a trial, bear testimony. A large trade in these fish is, we understand, being done this year. A musical and di am a tic entertainment, at which a large number of well- known amateurs will give their services, is to take place in the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening next. The proceeds will be devoted to St. Mary's Orhhanage fund. Many of the friends of Mr Bennett, who is well known in Nelson, where he for some years kept the Custom House Hotel, will be Borry to learn that he has lost his wife, she having died at Wellington early this morning. The preparations for the Exhibition to be held under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association on Tuesday and Wednesday next, are being vigorously carried on, and from the number and quality of the exhibits promised it bids fair to excel any exhibition of a like character previously held in Nelson. The paintings to be shown will comprise several that are about to be sent to the Melbourne Exhibition, and there will also be on view specimens of the minerals which are being forwarded to the same place. Special efforts are also being directed towards obtaining a good collection of New Zealand ferns. Ab a special train has been arranged for to leave Nelson at 10 15 p.m. on Wednesday, it is hoped that many country friends will take advantage of the opportunity thus afforded them of being present. At the Council meeting last night Cr Harley gave notice to move on the I6th iost. that a sum not exceeding £3000 be borrowed from the Gas and Waterworks accounts for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Maitai in Collingwood-street, the interest to be paid out of the general rates. "We are requested to call attention to Messrs Loveday and Heyhoe's advertisement of their clearing sale which appears in today's paper. In a supplement published with this issue will be found a short biography of Robert. Raikes the founder of the Sunday schools iv England, a report of the interview between the brewers and the Colonial Treasurer, an interesting article from the New York Herald on the Czar of Russia, and other reading matter.