Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBEE 7, 1880.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 245, 7 December 1880, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBEE 7, 1880.

A correspondent draws attention to the very insufficient water supply at the Hospital where, it is Baid, there is not enough to allow of the patients performing their ablutions. "We have not, since the receipt of the letter, been able to make enquiries, but, if there is any truth in the statements it contains, it is high time that some steps were taken to remedy so great an evil. The proposal to lay down a main past Sunnyside and Mr Pell's house, and by that route to the College, Hospital, and Lunatic Asylum, all of which institutions are very indifferently supplied with water, haß been discussed more than once, and some such plan will have to be adopted ere long. Thkbe was a large attendance in the back seats and gallery at the Theatre last night, when the Comedy and Burlesque Compauy made their first appearance before a Nelson audience. The performance commenced with the well-known and popular comedy drama" AH that glitters is not gold" under the name of " The Factory Girl," which was ■well played throughout, Miss Lizzie Morgan, who has a most pleasing manner and appearance, looking and acting exceedingly well as Martha Gibbs, throwing herself completely into the character, and moving the audience almost to tears in the last scene, where she sacrifices herself to Bave the daughter of her old friend and benefactress. Lady Letherbridge and Lady Valeria were fairly though \ somewhat tamely represented by Miss Amy v Johns and Miss Lizzie Lawrence respectively. Mr R. Love as Stephen Plum at Vnce established himself as an immense favorite, and we are not at all sure that before ..the curtain dropped he could not have svayed his delighted audience as completely as might Sir George Grey at the close of one of his most impassioned addresses. The übiquitous, saucy, faithful V -foby Twinkle found ah able representative „- y: i ifrMr J. "Wilkinson, whose appearances on ; V ' *?,? stage, and they were very frequent, were ; .tqiiiie \suflicient to call forth peals of laughter, VnJ ro irresistibly comic and clever was he in • Sis', by play. Sir Arthur Lascelles was fairly . represented by Mr Alexander, but neither ■i ' ■ ■ .■'.. • "' ,

Mr Redo as Jasper, nor Mr Warren as Frederick Plum, appeared to be thoroughly at home. Probably en some future occasion we shall find them in more congenial characters. The burlesque which followed under the name of " 11.M.5. Pinbehind " was a'queer medley of " Black-eyed Susan " and «• Pinafore," and we find it impossible to give anything like a description of it. The trio " Never mind the why and wherefore " and some of tho most popular choruses from , " Pinafore " were creditably auug and most favorably received. Miss Lizzie Morgan as Black-eyed Susan or tbe Captain's daughter —for really, like Captain Corcoran and Ralph i. Rackstraw, the two were hopelessly mixedsane and aoted very prettily ; Dame Hatley, 1 who took care to let it be known that she was wo/ Little Buttercup, was highly amus- ■ ing-, the poor old lady's violent attacks of seasickness being natural to a degree. Mr Wilkinson represented " Captain Korkeran," , ; and would have oreated a favorable im preasion : , but for the mistake he made in supposing i that there is something so attractive in the personation of a drunken man as to justify the prolongation of tho Scene beyond nil resonable limits. Mr Alexander was the Admiral and sang^ "X am the monarch of the sea ' with very pood effect. Mr Love \va9 "William" and " Ralph " combined , and rendered valuable service in keeping up the life of the piece throughout. The sister's, cousins, and aunts found representatives in Miss Amy Johns and Mias Lizzie Lawrence, the former gaining considerable applause for her dancing. On the .whole, the entertainment, though rather long, ifc being half past eleven before it concluded, was a very amusing one, and the audience appeared to bo thoroughly well pleased from beginning to end; the effect however was Very much marred at times by the ecceutricities of the gas which kept up a vigorous game of bo-peep throughout the greater part of the evening. Tonight the performance will Commence with the Irish comedy " His Last Legs '* and conclude with " Pinbc-hind." A meeting of those interested in cricket is to. be held at the Masonic Hall this evening for the purpose of considering the desirability of securing a visit from the Australian Eleven, and also for making arrangements for sending a Provincial team to Wellington, Wanganui, and Blenheim about Christmas time, it is to be hoped that there will be a large muster, and that assistance will be forthcoming, as in all probability such a team could be Beut away this year as would fully maintain the reputation which Nelson baa gained in the cricket field* A.meeting of citizens for the purpose of making tbe necessary arrangements in connection With the next meeting of the Rifle Association, to be held at Brightwater in March next, will be held in the Council Chamber to morrow evening. We quoted the other day from a letter which appeared in a Wellington paper showing what sort of stuff was allowed to defile the water in the reservoir from which that city is supplied. Since then other letters have appeared, tbe substance of which is thus summed Up by the Post :— " Now we have it on clear and irrefutable evidence that the carcases of sheep and dogs are lying by the score scattered about tho water- \ shed of the Kaiwarra stream, by which our main reservoir is fed. Besides these dead animals, there are some thousands of living ones — sheep, dogs, and cattle— all of which add their excreta to the other pollutions which are scattered over the hillsides and the valleys, the drainage of which supplies the reservoir. It is admitted that the slowly rotting remains of these dead animals and the excreta of the living ones are being washed day by day into the reservoir, aud thence into tbe bodies of human consumers, conveying with them the ova of the repulsive and dangerous entozoa to which we have referred, as well as all sorts of disease germs. That is a state of affairs which ia proved by the most conclusive evidence, and is not to be explained or theorised away by scores of chemical analyses. No amount of demonstration that the water is theoretically not so bad as it might be, can get over the plain and now admitted fact that it contains tbe washings of this horiible purtrefaction and of all these excreta." Reporting the arrival at Wellington of the murderer Tuhi, the Post says :— The pier was soon crowded with spectators eagrer to get a glimpse of the notorious native, and it wns with some difficulty the police were able to keep them back. The arrangements made for his removal from the vessel to the gaol were carried out without any fuss, and the whole proceedings were most orderly. When the Hinemoa was made fast and the gangway thrown out, Colonel Reader went on board and ordered up the prisoner, who was in the forecastle nnder the charge of three armed constables. He was then uicrcbed to a covered cab at the f oofc of the wharf, and driven off to the. gaol. Although so much horror has been manifested at the brutal murder of an inoffensive lady by this scoundrel, not a single expression of indiguation escaped from the spectators on seeing the self confessed murderer for the first time. Tuhi is a fine-looking young man of twenty-four years of age, about sft lOin high, of muscular build, and carries himself very erect. His face is hairless, and there is nothing very remarkable about' bis . features. His garb was scanty. He wore no head covering, and his feet and legs as far as the knees were bare. He had on a chocolate-striped cotton shirt, and a checked shawl wound Maori fashion round the loins. As he came on deck, a broad grin gave a sarcastic aud defiant expression to his features. The scar on the ankle referred to at the trial was exposed to view, and was still running. Several Maoris assembled oq the wharf to see Tubi, and one fat old dame made a terrific lamentation, during which the word " pakeha " was frequently uttered, followed by the shaking of her clenched fists. As soon as Tuhi passed near her, Bhe endeavored to console him by informing him in the Maori tongue that he "was going home to his father." On his road to the Gaol he seemed to be much interested in what he saw. He gazed hard at some of the principal shops, and frequently remarked " Kapai Poneke." , He also seemed pleased at the appearance of the Gaol, and exclaimed " Kapai 1 kapai 1 " While on board the Hinemoa, Tuhi gave a further reason for committing the murder. He said that when Miss Dobie gave him the money, and was going away, she said she . would tell the soldiers. To prevent her doing this he killed her. He could not understand why all this fuss was being made over the matter. He knew he had to die, and wanted to be killed without further delay.