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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 201, 26 October 1866, Page 2

Want of space prevented us from noticing yesterday the grievauce which the Rev. Mr. Gariu has paraded in the columns of the Examiner. We plead guilty to the charge of having neglected to state that we could insert no more correspondence on the subject. Having inserted an explanatory letter from the Rev. Mr. Gariu, which was due to him, and finding that it called forth replies to suck an extent as to swamp our columns, and raise a theological controversy, we deemed it necessary to exclude all further letters from the vev. gentleman aud the numerous critics whom his expositions had provoked to enter. upon the arena of debate. The Rev. Mr. Gariu is a voluminous, if not a luminous, writer, and has a sharp eye to business in all his communications to the press. He has found so powerful an auxiliary in the Examiner in his efforts de propaganda fide, of late, that he can well afford to appear but seldom in our humble columns.

When alluding to the Nelson, Cobden, and Westport Railway Land Act, a few days ago, and not Laving the Act before us, we committed an oversight in stating that the entering into stipulations with contractors rested entirely with the Superintendent. It will be nacessary that the Provincial Council should meet and pass an Act authorising the Superintendent to enter into contracts, before he will be empowered to do so. The words of the Act, are as follow : ;< It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, when any person shall have contracted with the Superintendent of the Province of Kelson, for the construction of a railway from the Port of Nelson to Cobden and Westport, pursuant to auy Act or Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Pro r vince of Nelson which may hereafter be

passed, authorising the Superintendent to make any such contract." Tho next step to be taken is for the Council to authorise the Superintendent to act, and the sooner the better. An error occurred about the middle, of our police report yesterday. The correction is : Mr. -Hamilton was requested to put the question through, and not to his counsel ; and he said he would not put any questions at present.. Mr. O. Curtis has invited the electors to meet him this evening, at the Provincial Hall. The occasion is an important one, and we doubt not there will be a large attendance. In consequence of the Assembly meeting at a distant place and the reports of its proceedings being furnished in so meagre a manner, the great majority of the constituencies know little of the manner in which their represents tives have discharged their parliamentary duties. Hence the desirableness of such meetings as that announced to take place this evening, when the representative will give au account of his stewardship, and the electors will have an opportunity of recording a verdict ot praise or blame. """'By the arrival of the Nelson, to-day, we have news from the Buller district. We have it on reliable authority that a rush has set in for the diggings there, and that the mining population is rapidly extending in the direction of Nelson. It is said that only a few miles of country lie between the place where miners find profitable employment, aud the road that leads to Nelson. The best judges have foretold the extension of the diggings iu this direction, and the prophecy is about to receive fulfilment. It is stated that a population of at least two thousand arc settled on the spot, and that from one to two hundred payable claims have been taken. The number will shortly be doubled, if reports are to be relied on. In proportion as the mining gets nearer to Nelson will be the public anxiety in reference to the opening of communication by laud with the auriferous district. _, We shall never have done with the Maun^* gatapu murderers. The Sheriff has something to answer for, for instructing Mr. Hornby to dispose of the relics of these notorious criminals, by auction to-morrow. We fear this sale will furnish an opportunity for the gratification of that morbid curiosity, against tbe indulgence of which Mr. Justice • Johnston inveighed in such solemn terms. To be wrapped in the opossum rug which protected the person of "Tommy," and to be possessor of the gun with which "Dick," did such awful deeds, will be an object of ambition to some. We shall expect to hear that the relics have realised a large sum on their intrinsic merits, and without the aid of that rhetorical artifice which our friend the auctioneer knows so well how to employ. The Resident Magistrate was occupied a considerable time to-day, in rehearing the case Pike v. Wise, which had been decided in favor of plaintiff, in default of the appearance of defendant on the 15th instant. On Wednesday the Magistrate consented to hear the case, on Mr. South's showing that the defendant was prevented from attending by the want of communication between Hokitika and Nelson. After hearing evidence to-day the Magistrate suggested a reference to arbitration, to which all parties consented ; Mr. Pitt being appointed arbitrator, his decision to be final. Our telegraphic correspondent at Wellington has just informed us that the Beautiful Star arrived last night. The captain says he saw on Cape Farewell Spit a barque of 400 tons lying on the north side, about four miles from the Bush End. He stood in, saw no one ou board or on the shore. The masts were all standing and the sails bent. The vessel is supposed to be a collier from Newcastle, probably the Salamander, for Nelson. This is no doubt the Juno, the crew of which were brought to Nelson on Wednesday last by the master of the cutter Ann, thev having been rescued by the master of the Wild Wave. Yesterday after the Resident Magistrate had decided that the casts belonged to Messrs. Tatton and Knight, he gave orders that they should remain in the possession of the police for the present. The object of the order

was, we presume, to prevent any more litigation on the sujbject, as well as to retain the casts in safe custody. The Companionship of the Bath, for services in New Zealand, is about to be conferred on Sir H. M. Havelock, V.C.; L'eut.Colonel Trevor j and Lieut.-Colonel G. D. Pitt. The Wellington papers states that his Excellency the Governor has left Patea for Munawapou, to direct the adoption of active movements against the rebels. The New New Zealand Examiner of the 21st August, states that the gross profits of the Bank of Otago for the year, after bad and doubtful debts, amounted to £36,555 2s 9d ; to this was added £206 125., the balauce carried from last account, making a total of £36, 162 Us. 9d., from which have to be deducted expenses of management, leaving a net profit of £14,781 13s. 6d. Preparations are being made at the Wairarapa, to give the Hau-Haus a warm reception, should they commence warlike operations. A post-office has been opened at Paroa, Saltwater Creek township, West Coast. The Evening Post says a case of cholera occurred on board the Wild Duck, on her way from London to Plymouth. Mrs Sprowle was the person who was attacked and died. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will meet at Auckland on the 28th November next. A concert given at Hokitika for the benefit of the funds of the Roman Catholic Church, realized £170. Miss Julia Mathews was the principal vocalist, and was enthusiastically received. Mr. Crosbie Ward's services have been secured by the General Government to visit Sydney, and arrange finally as to the terms of the Panama contract. Mr. Ward was a passenger in the Airedale. We understand that Captain Mellish has been appointed Sheriff of the province, and Mr. Guy as Returning-officer for the District of Picton, in the room of the late Mr. JDpwnes. An excursiou train, containing about thirty ladies and gentlemen, left the Railway Station at Invercargill on Wednesday, the 3rd inst. for the Bluff. This was the first train that has run the entire length of the line since its construction, and consequently some interest was manifested. At halfpast twelve o'clock the train, consistiug of one carriage and engine, left the station for the Bluff, at which place it arrived about ten minutes past two o'clock. The train left the Bluff at four o'clock arriving in town at twenty minutes past five. The trip was most successful, and the running of the train perfectly smooth and easy. The Lyttelton Times says: — Some idea of the trade between New Zealand and Victoria may be formed from the fact that the exports from Melbourne to this colony for one week ending Bth September, were £37,570, or at the rate of nearly £2,000,000 per annum. How much of this was for Canterbury we have no means of ascertaining, as the ports to which the goods were sent are not stated. During the same period, we sent to Victoria goods valued at £1183, of which sum about £700 is represented by timber alone. Our figures are taken from the Victorian Journal of Commerce.