The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1368 THE SUEZ MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 239, 8 October 1868, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1368 THE SUEZ MAIL.

The following summary of the intelligence received by the Suez Mail appeared in the Examiner this moruiug. Several items that have been before published we omit: — The Duke of Edinburgh will leave Flymouth in October, and will visit New Zealand. Princess Teck has given birth to a son. Lord Napier made a vigorous speech, denying that King Theodore had been deceived as to the demands made upon him. The Emperor of the French has entertained the Duke of Edinburgh,Lord Stanley, and Lord Lyons, at dinner, at Fontainebleau. Afterwards Lord Stanley had a long interview with the Emperor, who made a few pacific remarks. The Times has criticised the rewards given to officers of the Abyssinian expedition. The new Colonial Society held a meeting at Willis' Rooms, and elected Yiscount Bury, President, and Sir Stafford Northcote, Yice-President. The New Zealand medal will be distributed very liberally. The old Atlantic cable has broken, 80 miles from Heart's Content. The Great Eastern has been engaged to lay a new cable between France and America. A great fire has occurred at Southwark. Hops valued at £30,000 were destroyed. The Government intend to compensate Abyssinian prisoners. General Peel is to be raisedto the peerage. The Hon. Lieutenant Meade, late of H.M.S. Esk, has been killed ;by the explosion of a torpedo. Brigandage is active in Italy. Fourteen persons were shot for conspiracy to effect the death of Prince Michael, of Servia. Crops iu California yield more per acre than has ever been known before. At Yarmouth, in Canada, salutes were fired and the American flag hoisted on 4th July. The overseer at Salford has placed 1200 women on the new electoral roll. Others followed this example, and 5000 women claim votes in Manchester. England won the Elcho Challenge Shield; Admiral Farragut has been entertained by the Duke of Edinburgh on board the Galatea, and afterwards visited Osborne. A man, reported to be a Fenian, has been apprehended at Lucerne, on a charge of intending the assassination of the Queen. He was found to be insane. War between France and North Germany is still imminent. There has been a dreadful railway accident. The Holyhead mail train ran into a train loaded with petroleum, which caught fire; 30 persons were killed, including Lord and Lady Farnham. The Emperor Napoleou held a grand review in Paris; Lord Napier was present. The son of King Theodorus is to be educated for the Indian civil service. Mr Du Cane, Governor of Tasmania, sails in the Sobraon. Dealings in Stock Exchange Aug. 13 consisted almost entirely of sales, and the tendency of the various markets was flat. Rate of discount in market is lg to 2; consols 93§ for money, 93| to 93g account. Wool 2d to 3d lower; supply excessive. OBiTUARr.— Mr Cooke (Jacob Omnium, editor of the Saturday Review), General Franey, Dr A. P. Saunders, Dean of Peterborough, Duke of Devonshire, Fieldmarshal Sir Edward Blakeney, General Scott, Earl of Shannon, John Pearce, Geo. Cattermole (Royal Academician), Earl Bantry Lord and Lady Farnham, Lord Lisle.

As we stated some time ago, the postal contract between the New Zealand Government and the P. and O. Company expired last month, and necessarily involved the termination of the contract entered into by the Government with this journal for the supply of the telegram containing the news brought by the Mail via Suez. On the arrival of ihe Omeo at the Bluff on Wednesday evening we consequently did not receive our usual telegram, we are therefore indebted to our contemporary the Examiner for the summary of news brought by the Suez Mail, and supplied by its Wellington correspondent, which appeared in its columns this morning, and which will be found to contain several poiuts of interest. A letter appears in the columns of this morning's Examiner, signed 'An Elector,' &c, addressed to the editor of the Evening Mail, which is prefaced by a statement on which we desire briefly to remark. The writer of the letter, which was left at our office on Saturday evening, called on the following Tuesday, and saw the proprietor, who was at that time very busy, who told him that it was too wordy, that the subject had been fully aud fairly treated in his paper, and recommended Lira to send it to the Examiner, as he did ' not believe in Mr Stafford,' or hurried words to that effect. To no one have the columns of this paper been more open — often to the annoyance of our readers — for the last two years than to the writer of the letter, the noninsertion of which in the local daily paper appears to have caused him so much chagrin. We learn by telegram from Wellington that an attempt by Mr Reynolds in Committee of Supply to force a dissolution, was defeated on division by 30 to 11. Colonel M'Donnell has resigned his command, and will be succeeded by Colonel Whitmore. We understand that his Honor the Superintendent has intimated bis intention to call a public meeting of his constituents, in order to afford him an opportunity of laying before them his views in reference to the events of the session. The precise date of the meeting has not yet been mentioned, but we believe that it will be announced in a day or two, and that it will probably take place early m next week. The dramatic and musical entertainment to be given this evening at the Oddfellows' Hall is one of more than ordinarily attractive character, including the brilliant comedy The Wife's Stratagem, and a farce Wiuning a Husband, in both of which Mr John Black will appear, vrith. a musical interlude of very varied and amusing character. In the Legislative Council in the discussion on the Nelson, Cobden, and Westport Railway Bill, the Hon. Mr Holmes eaid that the bill was objectionable on several grounds. When the Assembly first passed the bill it was distinctly understood that the whole line along the West Coast to the Grey should be made; whereas, if this bill was passed, the principle of last year's bill might not be accomplished, namely, opening up a through traffic to the goldfields on the West Coast. Besides, the quantity of iand to be given for what was termed a railway was excessive; in fact it was only a tramway. The price for the laud was only 3a per acre, and it was said to be rich in minerals. These arguments were cornbatted by some members, Major Richmond asserting that the land was not worth 6d. per acre. The New Zealand Herald of the 3rd inst., gives the following particulars of the sudden death at Auckland of a man named Edward M'Clusky, a Canadian aged 39 years, who is stated to have been for some time past a cabdriver in this city, and to have only recently arrived in Onehunga by the John Penn steamer. It appeared from the evidence taken on the inquest that on the afternoon of Saturday the 26th ult. he had been conversing with some friends at the Greyhound Hotel, Queenstreet, and had beeu left alone. About 6 p.ra. a person named Wilson, on entering the room, found the deceased upon his knees by the side of the bed, with his head lying upon the bed. On trying to arouse him, and receiving no response, Wilson imagined deceased to be ill, and called oue of the servants of the hotel, when it was discovered that the unfortunate man was either dead or dying. The police were at once communicated with, and Dr Nicholson was quickly in attendance, who at once pronounced the man to be dead. The police at once took charge of deceased's property, amounting to between £30 and

£40, and on the following Monday, an inquest was held on the body, a post mortem examination having taken place, and a verdict of 'Died from apoplexy,' was found by the jury. «3^The interest which is generally felt in the attempt to acclimatise the trout in the waters of this province, which has thus far resulted so satisfactorily, leads us to regard with some curiosity the progress of similar experiments in the neighboring provinces. This is especially the caßeas regards that which is now going on in Southland, for Mr Howard, the Curator of the Acclimatisation Society of that province, and the indefatigable Secretary of our own local Society, Mr Huddleston, met at Hobart Town, engaged on- the same mission — to procure trout ova for their respective societies. It seems that Mr Howard obtaiued his ova from the ponds at New Norfolk and left Tasmania direct for Invercargill in the Prairie brig on the 21st of August, while Mr Huddleston left on the 12tb, in the Southern Cross for Melbourne en route for Nelson. In spite however of the vicissitudes to which the ova brought to this province by the latter geutleman were exposed through their transhipment aud detention at Melbourne the Nelson ova were hatched a week or ten days before those brought direct to luvercargill, a fact which may be regarded as of good augury to the future success of the experiment. The trout ova brought to Southland were placed at Wallace Town, under the charge of Mr Howard, and 200 of them were hatched on the 28th ult., it being expected that the remainder would be hatched during I the week. From a report which appears | in the Weekly Times of the meeting of i the Southland Acclimatisation Society, [ held at Invercargill on the 21st ult., we I perceive that Mr Howard in his report describes the boxes and tank contrived by Mr Huddleston for the conveyance of the ova, and employed both by him and Mr Howard, as being as simple and perfect as it is possible to be. It is perhaps not too ; much to say that had our neighbors in i Canterbury made use of similar apparatus, j they would not have had to deplore the i loss of their trout ova. If it be true, as Rochefoucauld says, that there is something in the misfortunes of our best friends which does not altogether displease us, we may be pardoned for referring to the fact that all the perch brought to Invercargill died, whilst 22 out of the 27 brought to Nelson survived the voyage and are in a very healthy condition. The Auckland papers state that on his Honor the Chief Justice sitting in banco on Wednesday week, application was made for the discharge from custody of one Henry Walters, who had been sentenced to be imprisoned in Mount Eden Gaol for two years by the Resident Magistrate at Coromandel. The ground of the application was that the Magistrate had exceeded his jurisdiction in sentencing to more than six months, and his Honor directed the prisoner to be at once discharged. The intention of Madame Anna Bishop to visit New Zealand is now placed beyond a doubt, Mr J. Bennett, the lessee of the Prince of Wales Theatre at Auckland, having announced thai he has secured the services of that accomplished vocalist, who is now giving concerts to crowded audiences in Sydney, as also those of the Japanese Jugglers, whose wonderful performances have astonished the European and Australian worlds. The Melbourne papers * state that at a farewell dinner given on the 18th ult., to Mr W. S. Lyster, by the Athenaaum Club, which was numerously attended, Mr Aspinail taking the chair for the Mayor of Melbourne, who was prevented by his political duties from being present, Mr Lyster intimated his intention, after taking his company to California, to visit the principal capitals of Europe, and to return to Victoria with the best talent he could possibly engage. Mr Lyster reviewed the state of the lyric art in Australia, and concluded by thanking the members of the club and the public at large for the generous support that had been so freely accorded to him. The Sydney Morning Herald gives tho following statement of the circumstances which led to the retirement of Mr Parkes from the Premiership of New South Wales: — -Just on the eve of the assembling of Parliament, the Cabinet has come to pieces. Mr Parkes has ceased to be Colonial Secretary. The immediate cause of this secession is a difference of opinion with his colleagues as to the suspension of Mr Duncan, the collector of customs, by the

Colonial Treasurer. The facts, as currently reported, are that a case of soft goods being seized for containing perfumed spirits, and the seizure being confirmed by the Treasurer, was, on the private application of the parties to- the Treasurer, ordered to be restored. The order was demurred to by the Collector, who was thereupon suspended lor insubordination. The Cabinet has sustained Mr Eagar, and Mr Parkes. dissenting from the principle iuvolved, has retired rather than give it his sanction. What other changes will follow from this Cabinet change remain to be seen. A medical gentleman was engaged by the New South Wales Government a short time ago, to travel through the United Kingdom, the coutinent of Europe, and the Uuited States for the purpose of visiting the various lunatic asylums, and collecting information with regard to the treatment of insanity. He returned to Sydney the other day, bringing with him the results of his search for information, which will be presented to Parliament next session in the shape of a report. The silver mines lately opened in South Australia appear to promise well. A new lode of quartz iron, 3 feet wide, has been discovered at the Potosi mine, which yielded 27 ozs. of silver to the ton. Favorable intelligence has also been received from the St. Arnaud Mine, the manager of which has brought down an unusually large quantity of bullion. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders has also beeu called, for the purpose of making arrangements for prosecuting operations as vigorously as possible. Vigorous efforts are being made by the Tasmauians to extricate themselves from the state of fmaucial depression under which that colony is now suffering. Amongst other projects, is the formation of au association for the accomplishment of the following objects: — 1. The construction of public railways in Tasmania, and to expedite the formation of a main line between Hobart Town and Launceston. 2. To encourage all public measures having for their object the improvement of agriculture in Tasmania. 3. To stimulate aud foster the establishment of Tasmanian manufactures. 4, To support all projects tending to develop the mineral resources of the colony.