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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 179, 30 July 1874, Page 2

Our readers will see by advertisement that Mr Haßelden, of Wellington, will dehver a gospel address to children at the Temperance Hall this evening.

The hats and coats taken from the Wesieyan Church on Monday evenirg, were found in an empty shop in Nilestreet yesterday. Good Templars. — Members of the Order are informed that the Lodge will open at teven o'clock instead of halfpast seven to-morrow eveniog, for the election of officers and oiher important business. Loyal's Variety Troupe. — This company of gymnasts, singers, trapezists, &c, aro shortly to arrive, and will give three entertainments. They are spoken highly of in the Auckland papers. We notice that Mr Patterson has opened a registry office for the engage - ment of male aod female servants. Such an office will probably prove very useful. Dramatic Entertainment. — Our readers are reminded ot the entertainment to be given at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening by the City Rifle Company. The little negotiations for the purchase of the Ino, although failing in a direct degree, have resulted in being of advantage in another respect. . The necessity for the local proprietorship of a vessel to trade between Westport and Melbourne has beeu diecussed, and the discussion has ultimated in eight Westport and Charleston firms subscribing their names ac investors, to a total amount of £3200, for the purchase of a suitable schooner for the Melbourne trade ; Charleston men subscribing £800, and Westport £2400. The business has been quietly arranged, without parade or sound of Trumpet, and will no doubt result in material advantage to the port, and to those most directly benefitted. — Westport Times. A Hokitika telegram dated July 21st. says :— The new rush at Greenstone, between Hokitika and the Grey; ia turning out most satisfactorily. The prospects are improving daily, and already six leeenI eeen claims have struck payable gold, and others are being driven. The back country is bting taken up, and au extensive goldfield is expected to be opened. The miners are flocking there from all parts of tho coast. Favourable news still cornea from the Mokihinui, north of Westport. The reef io the prospectors claim is materially improving as it trends its way towards No. 1 north, and sanguine shareholders assert that if it continues to improve in the ratio at present indicated, the reef will be all gold before reaching the northern boundary. At the river Messrs Seaton and parly are actively pushing en the construction of the coal wharf, and anticipate to be able, iv a few weeks time, to supply coal io any quantity to skippers calling in the port. The following letter, in reply to the resolution passed at a public meeting, relative to the proposed removal of a Warden from the Grey Valley, haa been received by Mr Haselden, from the Premier: — "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June 26th, enclosing a copy of resolutions adopted by a public meeting, presided over by you, at Reefton ; and io which, in forwarding the views of that meetiug. yon urge that injury would be done to the Grey Valley district by the removal tht nee of the Goldfields Warden. In reply I have to state that questions as to the location of Wardens are entirely for the decision of the Provincial Governments ; and that I do not doubt your representations in the present case will receive very careful consideration from the Provincial Government of Nelson." A correspondent informs the Auckland Herald that in one of the American States there is a municipal law in existence, aud ia always stringeutly enforced, by which the owners of houses occupied by prostitut93 are subjected to heavy penalties after due notice has been given by the police apprising them of the circumstance. The law stands somewhat in thia wise. The owner of a house may be ignorant of the character of the occupant to whom he has let or leas pd it. If the occupant be a prostitute or other notorious bad character, the landlord is not long allowed to remain in ignorance of the fact. A certain number of days are allowed for him to disprove the charge. If he succeeds in this, it is oi course dismissed. If not, he ia bound under a money penalty to rid hia house of the occupants within a number of certain days — twenty-one we are told is the maximum allowed. Failing to Comply with the law, the penalty ia enforced by sequestrating (he tenement and disposing of it by publio sale. Where it is proved that the owner of the house was aware of whom he was letting it at the time, of tbe nature of the occupancy being agreed upon, iv addition to the money penalty, twelve months imprisonment with hard labor may bs added. This law, it is said, has kept the towns and cities of the States in which they are in force free from the infection of prostitution. We have referred to the subject, believing that it is not altogether impossible that soma such enactment might be passed in the present session of tho General Assembly. It is notorious throughout the provinces of the colony that the most respectable thoroughfares of the towns and cities are unsurped by women of infamous character, to the exclusion of those who would become respectable residents; As an instance n proof of this, we may mention that we have a letter iv our possession in which the writer states that some little time back he offered the landlord of a tenement in

Hobson-street 16a a week (ho extrem 6 rental), for a five-roomed cottage which he refuaed to take; but who, within a few days afterwards, let it to three or four notorious pro3litutes for £1 10s per week. Now, had this man. who is wealthy, well-knowh, and holds' a good social position in the Commuuitv, felt that he waa subjecting himself lo a heavy penalty and a long term of imprisonment, he would, we think, have hesitated before entering upon suoh a disreputable covenant,— -Herald..