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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 105, 7 May 1867, Page 2

The adjourned parish meeting, for the purpose of electing three nominators to represent the parishioners in Synod, will take place this eveuiug, at the Bishop's School-room, at 7 o'clock. The members of the Nelson Artizans' Association will perceive, from an advertisement which appears elsewhere, that a meeting of the society will be held this evening, at the Infant School-room, at 7 o'clock. We hear that it is the intention of the Maungatapu Monument Committee, in I, order to defray the expenses both of the j erection of the memorial, and of the medals 1 to be presented to all those who formed ; members of the search party, to request .the assistance of the members of the Harmonic Society, in the organisation of a grand concert, to he given shortly at the Provincial Hall. We are quite sure that such an entertainment, embracing all the talent at present available in Nelson, and got up for such a laudable object, would not fail to receive the most liberal support from the public. Although no official announcement has •yet made its appearance of the names /of the gentlemen nominated by his < Honor the Superintendent as mem- ' bers of the new Sanitary Commission, i pursuant to the resolution passed at the \ meeting on Eriday last, it is generally \ understood that it will include the following names : — Mr. Blackett, Provincial Engineer : Mr. R. Burn, Chairman of the Board of Works; Captain Rough, Collector of Customs; Dr. Cusack; and Mr. Hunter Brown.

/ We are glad to learn that our tovvnsi'man, Mr. John Scott, the contractor for I the Bank of New Zealand, has obtained j the contract for the reservoir for the new I water-works. We hear that both Mr. I Henry's and Mr. Scott's tenders — the ; lowest sent in — were for £1449, aud as I neither party seemed inclined lo with- \ draw from the contest, the matter was \decided by lot, when Mr. Scott proved to be the successful competitor.

We understand that the return rifle match between the City Rifles No. 1 and the Waimea-west Volunteers, will come off on Saturday week, the 18th instant, when Ave trust that we may be able to chrouicle a more satisfactory result, at least as far as our local esprit de corps is concerned. '• — -.. The New Zealand Gazette contains a notification of the resignation by J. 11. Levien and C. Canning, Esqrs., of their appointments as Justices of the Peace. A notice also appears -in the same Gazette, notifying the disbandment of the "Waimea-east Company of Rifle' Volunteers. Private letters received by last Panama mail state that Mr. Fox, late Premier of New Zealand, was, at last advices, travelling up the Nile, and intended shortly to" proceed to Jerusalem. The West Coast Tiives of the 2nd inst. says — Rumours were afloat last evening, which, if proved of proper foundation, will doubtless bring back numbers of the diggers lately gone northward. It is reported that another shaft, 40 feet deep, has been bottomed on the Eight-mile rush up the river, the prospects of which are remarkably <_ood, and that consequently a heavy rush has set in, the Kanieri being completely deserted. We wait with impatience the report of the gentleman we have despatched to view the ground. The following appears in the Greg River Argus of the 30th ult. : — An anecdote has been related to us which forcibly illustrates the predisposition of the miners for tbe Nelson province, in consequence of the more liberal policy and greater attention of that Government. A party of men were selling a parcel of gold to one of the banks in this town, and when the customary enquiry was made as to which province the gold had been brought from, the men replied "Nelson." Now it happened the buyer knew that the men were working on the Canterbury side of the river, as he had seeu them washing up only a few days before ; be therefore asked the men what reason they had for making such an assertion. They replied that they thought the Nelson Government "deserved a good turn as they treated the diggers so much better, and made roads for them." We are informed that the feeling exemplified iu this anecdote is very wide spread indeed, and that it is a customary thing for diggers to " try it on." and if possible "swindle" the Canterbury Government of its proper shave of the export duty — which share is, we may state, regulated by the delarations of the sellers as to the province of which their gold is the product. The Grey River Argus of the 2nd inst., mentions as an evidence of the auriferous wealth of the Maor 1 Gully district, that a party of men who have been working in Liverpool Rill's Gully, and who came down to Greymouth the other day for the first time during twelve months, report that after spending over six months in driving a tuuuel, they struck gold about seven weeks ago, and their first washingup yielded sufficient to pay all their expenses for the long time they had been at work, ami leave them £150 besides. They have returned to work their claim, which is expected to pay well for many months to come. It is stated that a telegram has been sent to the Governor by the Otago Government, asking him to place matters in the same position as they were prior to the arrival of Mr. Bradshaw, or call a meeting of the General Assembly at once. It is understood that the Governor has replied, stating that he will lay the subject before the Ministry. The decision of the Ministry is anxiously looked for. The Taranaki papers announce that Mr. H. A. Atkinson has been returned as member for New Plymouth in the House of Representatives. The Independent says, it will, no doubt, he very gratifying to the talented author of "New Zealand, the Britain of the South," to find another cause of resemblance between the Britain of the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere. Strafford was impeached in the Parliament of the Ancient Britain, and it would appear from a recent telegram from Otago, that Mr. Stafford is to be impeached in this, the Britain of the South. There is only the difference of an "r". as yet: Perhaps, as time developes events, contrasts may arise. Strafford lost his head, possibly Stafford may lose his tail ! It is proposed to publish in Auckland an edition in one volume of the " Practical Statutes of New Zealand." The work has been prepared by AV. M. Wilson, Esq.,

irom Melbourne, barrister-at-law, and is now ready for the press. The edition will contain the whole of the ordinances and statutes (verbatim) of New Zealand which are in general operation throughout the colony. The enactments which have been repealed, or which are of limited, local, or temporary application, will he omitted. All the acts in force on any subject will he brought together in chronological order under titles alphabetically arranged : for instance, under the title Court (Supreme), all the acts in force relating to the Supreme Court; under the titles Court (District), Court (Resident Magistrates'), all the enactments in force on these subjects. A full index to the whole work has been added by the editor, whose sole aim has been to produce a book which would be of use to gentlemen engaged in the practice or administration of the law.

At a meeting of the Horticultural Society of New South Wales, held during the last month iu Sydney, the following remarks were read by Mr. G. Mortimore, gardener to T. S. Mort, Esq., on the cultivation of the toraatoe, a fruit of very general acceptance, most easy of cultivation iu this climate, and which does not appear to have received that attention from our Nelson gardeners which it certainly deserves : — " I propose to state to you some of the uses of this valuable fruit; and as to cultivation the plants will suit every one, for they will grow almost anywhere and anyhow. The fruit are eaten with beefsteaks ; they are used for gravies, sauces, hashes, etc., and enter largely iuto the sauce called chutney. They are excellent in tarts, just before they begin to color, with the juice of a lernou, or, if no lemou, a little tartaric acid may be used. They are likewise made into jam, and are found to be very wholesome when eaten iu a raw state. I am quite sure they would be largely used for jams if only introduced. At this season of the year when fruit is scarce, they are doubly valuable, and in sheltered situations the plants will remaiu in fruiting the best part of the winter. They should be sown ,^n the beginning of September. The boles should be dug four feet apart and some mauure put in, tbe soil fiiled up, and half-a-dozen seeds sown in each hole. As soou as they proceed iu growth sticks should be placed round the holes to keep the vines off the ground, for in wet weather they rot as they color if not kept off the soil. Ia dry weather, if water is couveuient, give them a liberal supply of it, aud they will amply repay the trouble. If extra fine fruit is required, the vines should be thiuned out aud stopped above the blossom." For the edification of our housekeepers, we give the following recipes for making tomatoe sauce and jam : — For making tomatoe sauce. — Put the tomatoes into a jar aud place it iu a tolerably cool oven till they are soft, then strain them through a sieve. With every quart of juice mix half-a-pint of the best vinegar, add eschalots, garlic cut small, whole allspice, cloves, bruised ginger and peppercorns according to taste, a few capsicums, and plenty of salt. Boil the whole well, and when cool, bottle for use. Four pounds of fruit will make a quart of sauce. For making the jam. — One pouud of white sugar to one pouud of fruit, put them over a slow fire, and before adding the sugar pour off some of the watery juice, to twelve pounds of fruit, put the juice and peel of four lemons, the peel to be cut in shreds ; boil eight hours, keeping, it well stirred ; proceed with as other jams.

An appalling boat accident has occurred near Madras. An extract from a private letter gives tbe following details : — On the Sunday before Christmas Day, Mr. MTver's two daughters, along with Colonel Temple, Captain Hope, and Mr. Bostock, tbe P.O. Company's agent, went out in a little boat on the Adyar River about six o'clock to have a row. In returning home, as it was getting dark, the boat struck on a sand-bank. They all got out till the boat was righted, and had no sooner got into her again before she went down, bows foremost, and they were all drowned except Mr. Bostock. The same evening Miss Kate MTver's body was found. She had only arrived by the previous steamer from England, after completing her education. The elder sister's body was not, recovered tillTuesday, when it was found in, the surf. She was to have been married to Captain Hope on the 15th of January. This melancholy occurrence has cast a gloom over. the community, and much sympathy is felt for the poor bereaved father, Mr. MTver. The Governor's dinner for Christmas Day, and all the balls, &c, have • been put oft. Lord and Lady Napier and the Com-

mander-in-Chief attended the funeral of the jmor girls, who were buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at St. Thomas. Colonel Temple was a brother of Dr. Temple, the head master of Rugby School. Captain Hope served in the Crimean campaign, and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann, and at the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He had the Crimean medal with three clasps and the Turkish and Sardinian medals, also the Sth class of the Medjidie. Captain Hope was 34 years of age.

The city of Moscow was lighted with gas for the first time ou the 27th December. At 2 in the afternoon a large number of persons who had been invited were present at the consecration of the gas factory, when aTe Deum was sung. The guests, after partaking of breakfast, proceeded to the Kremlin, where the lighting was to commence. The people had gathered around a gas lump opposite the the Cathedral of St. Michael, near the Czar's bell. A platform covered with red cloth had been erected and was occupied by a military band. At half-past 4 the mayor ascended the platform, took a taper intended to light the lamp, whilst one of the other gentlemen turned ou the gas, the band playing the national hymn. The music had not ceased before tbe whole Kremlin was lighted, as well as 2,016 lamps in the streets of the city.

Cardinal Cullen has published his opinion on the Sunday sale of intoxicating liquors. The law, he says, which forbids the sale of other articles on that day should make no exception in favor of liquors. Almost all the crime of Ireland, he adds, is traceable to drunkenness, which can never be successfully combated until the public houses are closed on Sundays. In the Roman Catholic dioceses of Cashel and Ferns the bishops have induced the people to refrain from selling or buying drink on Sundays.

The year ISG6, says an English paper, was marked with events so momentous and so astounding as to distinguish it above all others during the last half century, ancl pre-eminently constitute it the annus mirabilis — the veritable year of wonders. Thrones have fallen; kingdoms have vanished ; princes have become exiies ; the powerful have become weak, and the weak have become powerful ; the seasons have been calamitous ; inundations and colliery explosions have been widely destructive; famine has carried off many thousands in our Eastern posessions ; financial panics have shaken tbe foundations of monetary and commercial houses ; and disease of man and beast has added to the misfortunes which have pervaded every month of the year.

A new census having been obtained of tbe population of the City of Londou ancl the " Liberties," remarks the Athenceum, the results are very well worth noting. The total day population is, it appears, 283,520 ; that of the night uot more than 113,387. Non-residents, but daily occupiers, amounted to 170,133; these entered and left the city during the day. Of customers, clients, ancl others, there were 509,611 persons who resorted in one day to the metropolitan -centre. The persons frequenting the city daily in twelve hours, from 6 o'clock. a m., to 6 o'clock p.m., were 549,613 ; in sixteen hours, from 5 o'clock a.m., to 9 p.m., 679,744; and in twentyfour 'hours, 728,986. As the total British army, without commissioned officers, is 115,473 men, some notion may be got of the vastness of the multitude which flows in and out of " the city" daily. A population exceeding by 6000 that of the county of Hereford, which is about 107,000 persons, remains in London city during the night — being the " still water" of the enormous tidal wave. The day people of London exceed iu numbers those of the entire county (extra-metropolitan) of Surrey by more than 10,000. A population about equal to that of Oxfordshire (171,233) flows iu and out of the "walls" during the day. The ''customers" of London in sixteen hours exceeded by 22,000 more than double the number of tbe whole population of Manchester (244,000) in 1861. For comparison's sake, take the numbers of the people of several large English cities aud towns in 1861 : — Birmingham, 212,621; Liverpool, 269,742 ; West Derby, 225,845 ; Bolton, 30,269 ; Bradford, 198,475 ; Sheffield, 128,951 ;' Leeds, 117,566 ; York, 59,909; Newcastle, 110,968.

The Glowworm says, that at last, after years of expectation, have the celebrated lions made their appearauce at the foot of the Nelson column, Trafalgar-square. They have arrived one by one during the

past few days, and their advent has beeu duly chronicled in the newspapers. The greatest care has beeu taken to preserve the health of the noble animals, whose conception has cost Sir Edwin Landseer so many years of studious work, by enveloping them iu large white sheets, and so they have remained until Thursday morning ; wheu, having had a good night's rest, the animals were uncovered in the piesence of Lord John Manners, Sir John Thwaites, Baron Marochetti, and a large concourse of spectators.

How Artemuus Ward Vindicated His-self.-—I know one man — and he's a man of varied 'complishments — who often reads my articles over twenty times afore he can make anything of 'era at all, Our skoolmaster to home says this is a pecooliarity of geuyus. My wife says it is a pecoolLarity of infernal nonsense. She's a exceedingly practical woman. I luv her muchly, however, and humer her little ways. Its a rekliss falsehood that she henpecks me, and the young man in our naborhood who said to me one evenin' as I was misteniug my diafram with a gentle cocktail at the village tavern — who said to me in this very langwidge, "Go home, old man, unless jou desires to have auother teapot throwd at you by B. J." probly regrets havin' said so. I said, " Betsy Jane is my wife's front name, and I permits no persou to alood to her as B. J. outside of the family circle, of which lam it principally myself. Your other observations I scorn and disgust, and I must polish you off." He was a ablebodied young man, and removin' his coat he inquired if I wanted to be ground to powder ? I said " Yes, if there was a powder grindist handy, nothing would 'ford me greater pleasure," when he struck me a painful blow into my right eye, causin' me to make a rapid retreat into the fire-place. I hadn't no idee that the enemy was so well organised. But I rallied and went for him, in rather vigria stile for my time of life. His parents lived near by, and I will simply state that sixteen minutes had not elapst after the first act, when he was carried home on a shutter. His mamma met the solium procession at. the door, aud after keerfully looking her offspring over, she said "My son, I see how it is distinctfully. You've been foolin' round a Thrashm Masheen. You went in at a place where they put the grain in, cum out with the straw, and you got up into tbe thingamyjig, and let the bosses tred on you, did'ut you my son?" The penof no living Orthur could describe that infortuit young man's sittywation more clearer. But I was sorry for him and I went and nussed him till he got well. His reg'lar original father bein' absent to the war, I told him I'd be a father to him myself. He smilt a sickly smile, and said I'd already been wuss than two fathers to him.

Tbe law for the suppression of the convents in Italy was carried into complete effect on the last clay of the old year. The correspondent of the Times, of January 10, writing from Naples, says : — " As regards the uuus, as many of these as are desirous of continuing tbe life of the cloister — there have been scarcely any exceptions — are permitted to remain iu the monastery, a sufficient number of tbe same order beiug collected to tenant a building. Those who desire to retire to their families are permitted to do so, receiving their pensions, but I have not heard of a single case where this alternative was adopted.

The Economist remarks : — That a Government which one year ago had no internal revenue at all, whose taxgatherer never came to the homes, or intervened in the dealings of the people, should be able to raise _360,000,000,0r any such sum, is a miracle. In any other country the ba'-e attempt would have caused a revolution/ But in America these taxes are borne as patiently as any taxes are ever borne in any country. There is no more idea of resisting them than there is of declaring a monarchy. No endeavor has been made to sweeten the impost by nicety of adjustment, or by delicate "selection. Congress simply laid a tax on everything it could think' of, and let it hit whom it could. Yet this financial decimation of the people excites little murmuring. The Americans are little apt to imagine that the acts of their Government can be tyrannical. They are the acts of the persons for whom they voted, of their agents, and there is no semblance of the bitter feeling which prevails in most countries at taxes imposed by a superior authority felt or fancied to be other than the people. The Americans, too, have the money ; everybody is well off, and everybody seemingly wishes that the Government should be well off also.