The Nelson Evening Mails. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 197, 19 August 1880, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mails. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1880.

A special meeting of the Education Board was held to-day for the purpose of considering the economies that will have to be practised in consequence of the new financial airaogementa of tbe Government. We are

not able to-day to give the fresnlfc of their deliberations as the Board sat up to a late hour in the afternoon, but we are able to state that it was decided that whatever.reductions in salaries may be deemed necessary will not take effect before the ist October next. We also understand that the reductions will not be made indiscriminately, but that, wherever possible, the surroundings of those to be affected by them will be taken into consideration. A supplementary Suez ruairwill be forwarded to Wellington by the Murray tomorrow afternoon, closing at four o'clock. This will give an opportunity of replying (o letters by the inward Suez mail, which will reach here to-morrow morning. At the monthly inspection parade of town and country Volunteers last night, there were 283 present, the, various corps numbering as follows -—Artillery 53, Stoke Rifles 62, Waimea Rifles 38, Navals 36, City Rifles 25, Artillery Cadets 40, City Cadets 27, Band 13, and Staff 2. After the parade, Captain Bunny, the officer in command, said it was time they should decide whether they would continue their services without capitation allowance. The Artillery, and City, Stoke, and Waimea Rifles stated that they were still willing to serve. The Naval Brigade expressed their willingness to do so also, but preferred to wait until their halfyearly meeting, which takes place next week, before giving a decided answer. The ratepayers of the Waimea and Stoke sub districts are invited to attend a meeting to be held in the Richmond Agricultural Hall to-morrow evening, for the purpose of taking into consideration matters of importance to the districts named. TnE enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of a prisoner in the Nelson gaol has been further adjourned until the arrival of the late Warder Atkinson from Wanganui. Telegrams announcing the opening of the London wool sales, regarding which no little anxiety is felt by those engaged. in pastoral and mercantile pursuits, will be found in our English news to-day. The prices, as was expected, are lower than at the last Bales, and the bidding is described as having beou "hesitating." The members of the Assembly are getting iuto bad habits, and the probable consequence will be hasty aud ill-considered legislation. The House sat until half-past four this morning, and the jaded members evidently did not relish the idea of meeting again in the afternoon, so that the adjournment was made until 730 instead of the usual hour half-past two. A meeting of the Nelson and Howard Lodges, 10 0.F..M.U., will be held in their Hall to night at seven o'clock. Mn. Mabin reports that at his sale yesterday at Richmond there was a good attendance, but the competition for the different lots of stock offered was not very keen. Some cattle, principally heifers in fair condition, sold for £5 per head. A pen of last year's lambs sold at 5s 9d. A pen of sheep, principally ewes, realised 4s 7d. There were several horses for sale, but the prices offered being considerably below the owners' estimate of value they were withdrawn. The following items of Melbourne news were brought by the Arawata which arrived at the Bluff on Monday : — A number of people now recognise Kelly, whom they have seen frequently during the last two years on racecourses and at hotel bars. It is stated that he actually visited Melbourne last July, aud slept at an hotel in Bourke-street, where he conversed about the Kellys. — The Cricketing Associations of New South Wales and Victoria have sent telegrams to the cricketers in England. Both associations congratulate them, and express their sympathy at the unfriendly treatment of the All England Club, and are very desirous that that they should challenge an All England Eleven.— An. Austrian band, numbering 60 performers, is now en route per s.s. Cuzco. Two Sydney gentlemen have engaged them as a speculation.— The A*gus speaking of the appointment of Sir Hercules Robinson as Governor at the Cape says:— The whole of the colonies regret the loss of so judicious an adviser in politics. — The important will casej: White against Hoddel,-haa bccir-amrcabTy settled. The plaintiff takes half of the Elizabeth-street property, valued at a quarter of a million, and receives half the rents for seventeen years. — The acceptances for the Melbourne Cup number 76, being five less than last year. An article from the Fost of Monday last, in which it was stated that the Government intended to drop certain measures and to do certain things, having been reproduced in the Colonist this morning, it is as well to give publication to the following authoritative contradiction which appeared in the N. Z. Ttmes of Tuesday morning : — " The town was convulsed with rumors yesterday afternoon, concerning sudden and inexplicable changes in the Ministerial sessional programme and general policy. Nothing less, in fact, than the abandonment en bloc of Government measures was talked about, in order, so said the man in the street, that Farliment might be prorogued on Friday next. It was also averred that the Government had decided to continue the subsidies to local governing bodies for six months longer, in order that the Local Public Works Bill and the Rating Act, 1876, Ameudment Bill might be dropped. As these rumors were in the mouths of men who should know, they received acceptance as genuine in more than one quarter occupied by quidnuncs, and were blazoned forth with startling sensationali ism. It was moreover stated that the property tax would not be levied, and so on. Whilst we rejoiced exceedingly at the near prospect of the termination of a dreary and unprofitable session, we yet recognised the absurdity of the wholesale slaughter indicated, which meant nothing more nor less than flagrant dereliction of duty on the part of the Government and shameful abandonment of measures indispensible to the proper administration of public affairs. And we are authorised to state that there is no truth whatever in the bundle of canards so industriously propagated for a short time. We did hear, a day or two since, that the question of the expediency of continuing the subsidies to local governing bodies, under certain circumstance that might arise, bad been under consideration, but even that was a mere rumor not worth publication, and certainly not worth entertaining now. As for Parliament proroguing on Friday next, that is quite out of the question. It is possible that the prorogation may be accomplished by the following Friday, but even that is dependent upon the complacency of the House, and the good sense of members not to factiously obstruct the business brought before them."