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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 169, 22 July 1867, Page 2

We understand that a telegram has been received, announcing the arrival of the Euglish mail in Wellington. It is therefore just possible that the Nelson portion may be brought ou by the Phoebe to-mor-row, or by the Taranaki, which is due on the 2<±th. Judging however from the small consideratiou for Nelson interests

f which characterises the present Government, it seems more than probable that, as on previous occasions, the despatch from Wellington of our Suez mail may be delayed for the arrival of the Panama mail, due on the 24th instant. The City Rifles, No. 1 , held a meeting on Saturday night, at the Bank Hotel, Captain M'Tavish in the chair, which was numerously attended, for the purpose of receiving the Finance Committee's report and balance sheet for the past year. We are compelled by lack of space to postpone our report of the proceedings on this occasion until to-morrow's issue. An error occurred in our report of the proceedings in the Provincial Council on Friday last, whicii appeared in our issue of Saturday. Mr Kingdon's motion that the report of the select committee on Mr R. Crawford's case be adopted, was not agreed to, but was postponed until Tuesday next. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint E. Willcocks, Esq., Registrar of the Supreme Court in Taranaki, to the same post in Christchurch. E. Kenny, Esq., a legal gentleman, lately practising in Auckland, has been appointed to the Registrar of Taranaki. The Wanganui Times understands that Dr Hector will arrive at Wanganui in the spring, to head a prespecting party sent out by the Wanganui Coal Mining Company, which " will be supported by the Provincial Council — say £500 — together with the £500 subscribed by the shareholders, making £1000." a sum that will probably be sufficient to test the mineral resources of the district. At a recent meeting at Oarnaru, the Superintendent of Otago said — As to the railway system, he was sanguine of the success of Mr Young's mission, aud he hoped soon to see the railways commenced. It was surprising to note already how much attention the railway project was attracting in England. The other day, the agent of a large English firm had expressed his willingness to undertake the work. In a letter addressed to the Lyttelton Times, Mr Graham, the Inspector of Insolvent Estates at Christchurch, remarks on the valueless nature of the majority of the estates passed through the Court. He j gays: — From Ist May, 1866, to 20th \ May, 1867, there were 189 schedules filed ' — some of them exhibiting considerable assets — and yet only SI have realised any estate. The remaining 138 are valueless, and in most cases indebted to the sequestrator or solicitor for costs and expenses. A late Essex paper says that the important subject of the utilization of sewage is still under the consideration of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and it is still hoped that, in the course of time, the sewage which has proved so much trouble to London, aud cost so much to be carried \ away from the town, will one day prove a 1 "mine of wealth" by being sold for the '}\ cultivation of land. A step towards this ; desirable eud has been taken. A company has been formed to whom the northern ■I sewage has been conceded on terms by \ which the Board will receive payments in ; proportion as the scheme proves profitable. ; The scheme is the reclamation of the Maplin Sands, on the Essex coast, by means of this sewage, which, it is believed, will change a waste into a cultivated area. Experiments have been made which lead the Board to believe that the scheme will prove successful. The question of dis- - posing of the southern side sewage has yet to be settled; but there are applications for it on such terms that, while the money of the ratepayers is not spent in speculations, London will share the direct profits of the scheme, which, if successful, will tend to cheapen food in no inconsiderable degree. The Times' Paris correspondent, speak,i ing of his visit to the Paris Exhibition, | refers as follows to a small and cheap river | steamer: — "I went down the river on ; Friday to the Ballincourt, where the agri--4 cultural show iu connection with the I exhibition is to be found. It is about four 1 or five miles down the river, and one can 'if reach it by steamboat, omnibus or cab. I ?|went down in a boat which deserves a Hword of mention here. It is a small screw v ff steamer, about 50 feet from stem to stern, by an engine of four horse power, ■|f drawing but three feet of water, and worked ||by only two men. It belongs to the Swell dish Commission; there are hundreds of Athena in Sweden. Here the little craft is :f: a novelty, aud excites great admiration by y reason of its hatidiuess. It costs from to £400."

The Christchurch Evening Mail gives the following broad hiut :■ — "A friend of ours has mentioned, by way of a suggestion to telegraphists in New Zealand, that to order to iusure submarine telegrams reaching their destination it would be wise to forward duplicates by sailing vessels. We think that for inland messages duplicates should be sent per Cobb's coach."