NELSON RACES.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1174, 8 May 1874, Page 4

NELSON RACES.

The Nelson Mail gives the result of the second clays racing at Nelson as follows: Handicap Hukdlk Back. Tommy Dodd ... ... ... 1 Butcher Boy ... ... ... 2 Monarch ... ... ... '3 Nelson Gin?". Kalcapo ... ... ... 1 Yatterina ... ... ... 2 Distiuct Plate. Monarch ... ... ... 1 Azalia 2 Hack Eace. Doglmrty's Kate .... ... 1 tree Handicap. Kalcapo ... ... ... 1 Yatterina ... ... ... 2 Calumny ... ... ... o Consolation Handicap. Calumny ... ... ... 1 Azalia ... ... ... ... 2 THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. "An Elector" thus writes in the open column of the Colonist :—" The annual farce will commence at the Government Buildings, on Tuesday next, at mid-day. I fancy I hear the Super reading the opening speech. How he will congratulate the representatives of the peoplo on the large influx of population this Province has received since the census 1871 was taken, and tell of the mighty stream of immigration that is coming this way which has taxed considerably the abilities and the activity of the able body of theorists by whom he is surrounded, to make fit and proper preparations for these expected new chums. He will tell of the vast and important results that will be forthcoming from the recent Executive jaunt on the West Coast; and that it is false that there is dissatisfaction in that part of the Province through the non fulfilment of promises made by himself and his colleagues [vide the Ipangahua Herald of April 2.5, and. the Grey Biver Argus of the 2Sth of April.] The speech will likely dwell in glowing language on the steps that the Executive have most energetically taken to develope the iron deposits at Collingwood, and the numerous coalfields in the Province; and that speedily thousands of tons of iron aud coal will be proceeding from the mines. We shall be told (perhaps) that the Harbor Board has beeu productive of much good, and that the improvements made under its supervision, have materially increased the shipping of the port. That the Government has made some lucky speculations in City properties. That it is a base slander on the Province to state that it is short of funds, or that there htfs been an overdraft at the Bank; that the Province in every respect is prosperous, and its people never more so than at present. The speech, perhaps, will wind-up by telling of the great retrenchment that has taken place in departmental —(particularly the Executive)—aud miscellaneous expenditure ; aud how those avaricious uewspaper proprietors who charged five shillings per inch for space, and made a one-inch advertisement extend to five inches, have been severely punished ; and how that the Govern meut advertising is now printed as cheap as four-pence half-penny and twopence halfpenny per inch I —a glorious 'indication of the prosperous condition of trade in this Province I Afterwards, the Councillors will occupy two or three months in talking and reporting on a number of subjects that they belioyo will be conducive to the prosperity of the Province, hut will one eighth or one tenth of their propositions be carried into effect by the Executiye? And so will the Provincial legislative farce continue, and be enacted year after year, unless the people arouse from their political lethargy, and insist upon a radical change at head-quarters, and make Ihe mere theorists make way for practical men of business and progress."