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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 194, 20 August 1867, Page 2

1 ' »^^ _____ _______ _» As is almost invariably the case when the English Mail is due, our telegraphic communication with the South is suspended, through the injury which lately occurred to the line between Kaikora and Christchurch, and we shall probably hear nothing of the Suez Mail, which was due at the Bluff on the IBtb, until its arriva at Wellington. 1 Mr John Kerr, for some time a resident of Nelson, has been returned without opposition as member for the Pensioner Settlements, in the place of Colonel De Quincey, resigued. ' A monument has been erected to the memory of William Thompson,, on the spot where he died, by Mr Firth of Auckland, which has just been inaugurated, and was the occasion of a large gathering of the two Native parties. Considerable feeling of opposition to the Queen, and European party was manifested at the ceremony, and it is plain that difficulty and danger to the lessees of the land outside the boundary is by no means at" an end. In consequence of the unavoidable detention of Mr Justice Richmond at Wellington, the next sitting of the Insolvency Court is postponed until the 25th instant. We have received a communication from a correspondent, complaining ; t_ai tenders for the clothing of the Police Force in this city are hot called for "by the Provincial Government, and reminding us that such a practice is entirely at variance with that pursued in the other colonies. We believe that we are correct in stating that the sum voted for the Police clothing is insufficient to make up . the amount required, and they are obliged to make up the deficiency themselves. The Police are therefore allowed tp-obtain their clothing where they please, and this fact will probably account for the practice of which our correspondent complains. Some capital pigeon-shooting canle off on Saturday and Monday last in Mr Harness's paddock, adjoining the Stir, and : Garter, at Richmond. The attendance, especially on Monday, was numerous, and we observed amongst those present almost , all our crack shots. Several excellent matches were shot .off, and,, as .might j>e anticipated, the shooting generally jiivas very good, although the wind; w__tdb

-. ' -— _--_^ fr—T" 1 1 TffiTi — i — *^r high: to ;be pleasan t ; on . Monday. Ope match deserves, to. be. especially noticed, inasmuch as it brought out four or five of our. -best. Nelson shots, -headed by that veteran sportsman, Mr Henry Redwood, and thus afforded a high treat to the connoisseurs in such sport. Over 200 birds were trapped, the few that escaped testifying, to the general excellence of the shooting. Mine host of the Star and | Garter fully maintained, his. reputation in -the cuisine department, and it is confidently anticipated that the next match, which will probably come off in about a month's time, will be quite as successful as those which have just taken place. The Hawke's Bay Herald says the vice of drunkenness is fearfully on the increase among the natives residing near Napier. Day after day they are to be met riding home iv a state of beastly intoxication — the women as bad as the men, if not worse. Could no means be devised for checking an evil which is reducing these people to i a terrible depth of degradation? ] , According to an advertisement in the I Hokitika papers forequarters of mutton 'i may now be purchased there at threepence I per pouud, whole sides at fourpence, and I prime joints at fivepence. | A Chinaman has been arrested in Duue- | din charged with murdering his mate, a | fellow-countrymao, in New South Wales, I and also with escaping from the police. if The murder .occurred two years ago.