The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 114, 16 May 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1871.

'- \ Flour. — Messrs. N. Edwards & Co. quote Rod & Hounsell's silk-dressed flour at £15 per ton. Nelson and Foxhill Railway. — We understand Mr. A. D. Austin has received, instructions from the General Government to commence the survey .of this line of railway without delay. Miss Edith Palmerston.— An excellent aud entirely new programme has been published for Miss Palmerston's entertainment to-morrow evening. Seats may be secured at Mr. Stanton's. Collapsed ! — The last crushing at the Culliford battery resulted in not one particle of gold being obtained from twenty tons of quartz. In Nelson there was a voice heard, lamentation, and weeding, and great mourning. • ■. Startling.' Intelligence. — The Colonist of this morning has the following alarming paragraph :• — " Wellington Lighted with Gas. — It is comiug near us." &c; &c. The mantle of that very uncomfortable prophet, Dr. Cumming, must surely have descended upou the editor or sub-editor of the.- Colonist. Imagine Wellington lighted wiih gas slowly but surely coming down the Bay and the feelings of the Nelson people when anticipating the inevitable collision. Nothing that the great Scotch divine has yet predicted can come up to the horrors of such a denouement. Last Night's Council. — Several resolutions asking for sums of money to be placed on the supplementary estimates having been postponed, Mr. Gibbs moved, That in the opinion of this Council the Upper Motueka Valley Road Board district is too large, and that it is advisable the Upper Buller tract of country should '''be' constituted a separate Road Board district. After some little discussion the resolution was shelved by the previous question being put and carried. On the order of the day for going into Committee ou the Estimates being called, Mr. Gibbs moved that their consideration be postponed until this evening in order that the Select/ Committees might sit. This on a division, was carried by 12 to 5. The Council then adjourned until this evening. .. -