BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 124, 29 May 1869, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ABUTTED. Picton— May 28: Storm Bird, from Nelson, at 5.15 p.m. Wellington. —May 29: Storm Bird, from Picton, at 2 a.m. Lyttelton. — Slay 29: Phoebe, from DuneJin, at 11. SO a.m. Napiee.— -May 29: Wellington, from Anck- . Jand, at 2 a.tn.; Lord Ashley, from Auckland, at .11 a.m. Westport — May 29: Murray, from Greytnouth, at 10.45 a.m. Greymoctk.— May 28: Murray, from Ilokitika. SAILED. Picton.— May 28: Storm Bird, for Wellington, at 7.45 p m. Wellington. — May 29: Frowning Beauty, ■ for Newcastle. Xyttelton. — May 23: Ahuriri, for Wellington. Geei-mol-tii.— Mar 28: Murray, far Westport, at midnight; Kennedy, for Hokiuka, at 10.30 a.m.

From a General Government Gazette return, we extract the following : — ln Auckland there are niue licensed brewedes and twenty-four spirit merchants. Hawkes Bay, three breweries and twenty spirit. merchants. Nelson, eighteen breweries and thirty-nine spirit merchants. Marlborough, three breweries , and teu spirit merchants. Canterbury, fifteen breweries and fifty-one spirit merchants. County of West land, seven breweries: Hokitika, two breweries ; Gr< j ymou<h, three breweries. There are also fifty-five spirit merchant in Westland. Otago, twelve . breweries and oue hundred and thirty-two spirit merchants. Nelson beats all the other provinces in the number of breweries and Otago in wine merchants and spirit merchants. - : Mr. H. Armstrong-, in his farewell address as late member of the Southland Provincial Council says : — 'l hope never again to hear the cry of 'separation'' raised — it is . a cowardly i«nd selfish one. If our positions were reversed, and -we, had , the, Maori to cope with here, we should feel hurt and aggrieved if our fellow colonists in the North, Island left us to .struggle alone. Want of an increase to her population is telling very severely upon this colony ; no new blood comes in to keep up the flow ' of circulation, and impart a more healthy tone, physically and socially, to our weakened constitution, and it is not likely ♦6 flow "iii. New will not be favorable know^ as a field for emigration until the native difficulty is overcome by tn# umteff efforts' of "all classes of both island/^untU tt * has -been discovered that ,jthei|iegislatioh and a {ministration for some : ; .'''2oo,ooo.'. peqple'dopj jipt require the niachi-i \ !i nery ;f^rVa,:thous|n^ftime/ : that number™ :^\iiitil,Otago;ceasea^ Southland. and Can terburj as a formidable jealousies and sel-. |? ;^liueßSfdie out,, ajod" -bur provincial poli- : l^l^ans/^^rk^ together : fbr ; the common goodii ;.; - ;•" ;';V' - : :- ■ .' .;.-,. -„,■"