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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 167, 19 July 1867, Page 2

We beg to remind those interested in the formation of the company for the erection of the New Theatre and Assembly Eooms, that the adjourned meeting, to appoint directors, &c, will be held at the Bauk Hotel, this evening, at 8 o'clock, and we hope it will be well attended. The Volunteer Fire Brigade meet for practice this eveniug, at 7 o'clock. After practice, the adjourned monthly meeting will be resumed. The West Coast Argus announces the appointment of Mr Sidney Dick, the present Postmaster at Hokitika, : as Postmaster at Nelson, and states that as soon as rf*"gentleman from Auckland arrives at Greymouth to take charge of the Postoffice there. Mr Stephenson, the present Postmaster at Greymouth, will goto Hokitika to relieve Mr Dick, who will at once proceed to his neAv sphere of duty. The Argus congratulates Mr Dick on his promotion, and states that his courtesy and assiduity in the discharge of his duties at Hokitika have gained for him the respect of all classes oi the community. f During the debate in the Council which /followed upon the vote for acclimatisation /purposes on Wednesday evening, Mr ! Wastney, on proposing an increase on the I sum set down iu the Estimates for this : purpose, alluded to tlie desirability of naturalising the Angora goat in this province. It appears that thirty-six of these valuable animals have lately arrived at Melbourne frouithe Cape of Good Hope. A Mr Barrv writes to the Arjj-us as foilows upon the prospects of the animal at t lio Cape*:— ; 'lu my own miud there is not tiie shadow of a doubt as to the ultimate \ value of these animals to the colony. They \ are more profitable than Merino sheep; \ they yield au equal quantity of wool of a '.higher market value, and require much •jless care and attention than sheep. They 'are not so subject to disease, and breed at least fifty per cent, faster thau sheep." Mr Bonar, the present Mayor of Hokitika, has been appointed Secretary for the Gohlfields uuder the Canterbury Government, the Uuder-Secretaryship to be offered to Mr Sale. It appears that great havoc bns been made in the Westland Estimates, 'several important votes having beeu either

reduced or refused altogether, which is attributed to the undisguised spirit of hostility displayed by the Eastland members. In the notice of Messrs Buxton & Co.'s new store, which appeared in yesterday's Mail, we omitted to state that the graining and other ornamental painting was intrusted to Mr E Webbe, of this city. We are given to understand that the paragraph which appeared in the Examiner of Thursday, with reference to the cutting of the bridle-track over Hough's Pass, was in some degree erroneous. No misunderstanding has, were are told, taken place between the men who had offered to perform the work, but the prospecting party, being uuable to come to any arrangement with Messrs Mackay and Snow, have decided on going ou tiieir own account to prospect the tributaries and gullies leading into the Upper Karamea, and will, on their return, report upon the track and also upon the result of their prospecting. *> The subject of sanitary improvement has been brought forward in the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council, especially with regard to the adoption of the use of earthclosets in the town of Napier, aud the Superintendent stated that the subject would receive early consideration at the hands of the Government. It is stated in the Tasmanian papers that a salmon, about three feet in length, has been seen in the Kiver Derwent by a man named Lapham, who says he bas had experience of salmon rivers, and has no doubt at all as to the character of the fish he saw. It is probable that the All-England Eleven, engaged by George Marshall to Visit the colonies during the ensuing summer, will include Wilbur, Jupp. Humphrey, Rosecroft, Lillywhite, and Pooley as wicket-keeper. At the quarterly meeting of the Chambers of Commerce of Gcago, the following resolution was passed : — That in the opinion of this Chamber itis desirable that stamp duties shall be abolished altogether, provided the General Assembly can see its way to the reduction of the general taxatiou of tlie country to the extent equal to the amouut at present raised in that form. A letter in the Melbourue Argus of the sth, speaks in the most favorable terms of the utility and beauty of the Oamaru stone as a building material, and recommends its adoption for the new Towuhall, at Melbourne. The writer adds that the extreme facility with which the stone is worked would go far to compensate the additional expense of transportation to Victoria, as the usual mode of dressing it in Neiv Zealand is simply to cut it into blocks of the required size by means of a crosscut saw, or, still better, by a circular saw driven by steam power. Although so soft on being first quarried as to be turned on a lathe into any shape, it invariably hardens on exposure. This stone is now used in many of the largest buildings in Dunedin, such as the new postofiice, and is exported to other parts of New Zealand. The Argus quotes the following important piece of news from the Launceston Examiner : — "Some of our readers may not have heard, and others may have forgotten, tbat one of Captain Gilmore's objects in his last visit to England was to form a company for the purpose of establishing a line of steamers between London and Melbourne by way of the Cape of Good Hope. We learn that the company has been formed, and they have already purchased six vessels with which to commence the trade. They guarantee making the passage in fifty-five days, which will be still further reduced to forty-five days if a Government subsidy is given. Such a line of steamers would be a great convenience for passengers and cargoes, and could scarcely fail to be remunerative. The first boat was to leave in May." The following clipping from Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new work on "New America " shows clearly that the red man is as difficult a problem to the Americau Government as the Maori is to us in New Zealand. It shows, too, that there is a Philo-ludian and a Miso-Indian party, just as there is a Philo-Maon and MisoMaori party — the ardent lovers being, in both cases those who are far away, aud look at the races through a haze of sentiment ; the stern haters those who are thrown in close contact with them, and live in hourly jfi%ardy of their lives, through their e,as.ily<- provoked and savage vengeance. Mr. Dixon says: — "One of

the great feuds which divide Eastern America from Western Ameiica — the States lying east of the Mississippi from the States and Territories lying west of the Big Drink — has its birth in the question — what line of policy should be followed by the Government in dealing with the red men ? The eastern cities are all for rose-water and baby-talk ; the western cities are all for revolvers and bowie-knives. Each section has its sentiment and its passion. In Boston, no one believes that a red ludian can do wrong ; in Denver no one believes tbat a red Indian can do right. Each party accuses the other of ignorance and petulance ; Massachusetts looking ou the red skin solely in his romantic light, as a representative of tribes and nations, dear to art and poetry, whicb are rapidly passing into the laud of dreams ; Colorado looking upou him in his prosaic aspect of a thief, a beggar, aud au assassin, who may have stolen white women and scalped white men. In Massachusetts, iu Bhode Island, in New Hamphire, almost everybody has made a sketch, composed a song, or read a romance, about the Indian; while in Colorado, in New Mexico, and California almost everybody has had a kinsman butchered, or a kinsw'oman carried off by tbat romantic personage — a difference which may very well account for the radical opposition of ideas as to a true Indian policy regarding him in the East aud in the West.