Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1890.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 148, 24 June 1890, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1890.

Mr Goschkn was in a very happy mood when, at the annul dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce on fche 30fch April he m ule a speech in response to the toast of " llor Majosty a Ministers, " with which fche Chairman cm pled the name of the Chin ccllor of the Exchequer, *' whose career had been a succession of successes*." Referring to the prevailing labour difficulties, lie m-ide some very sensible remarks which are worth repetition. He said : — *'l cannot say how your admirable efforts after a Labour <. .mciliafciou Board will ultimately succeed. But that they may succeed and biiug about such accommodations between labour and capital as the best well wishers of the c mntry may desire, must be fche heartfelt wish of every friend of his counfcrj'. We cannot exaggerate the disasters to all portions of the commuiiity from those interregnums of activity which occasionally take place. Those who kuow this qu'stiou best will consider that the interests of labour and capital are not antagonistic. To a great extent they have a common foundation ; and when I hear spec hes made about tbe falling off of our commerce and the diminution of our exports, I sometimes wish that I had a mass meeting of working men before whom I could say, ''Look at our competition, and see whether in the face of this competition capital and labour ought not to make friends in this country. Fancy, if capital should make labour sluggish or discontented from paying au insufficient wage 1 Fancy, if labour should frighten capital by exacting more than oapital can afford 1 Whichever party presses this matter too far— and it may be pressed too far on either side — on that party rests the responsibility of imperilling fche commerce and industry of this country. Your efforts, whether they be successful or not, are worthy at least of the consideration of all men who wish for the peaceable, progressive course of our commerce and industry, with a fair and equitable division of profit between the man who has the money and the man who has the hands and works."

The Chancellor created great amusement by his humorous comments upon the reoeption of his recent budget by various individuals, 11 The Chamber of Commerce, " he said,

"ha? discussed the important point as to how fur it is right to deal with the lightening of indirect taxation. In old times i* wss oon* sidered that tbat was a matter with which one might profitably occupy himself for the benefit of the publio. I was bound recently at the Mansion House, with the frankness of after-dinner utteranoes, to mention that a gentleman who eigned himself ' M.D. ' had denounced coy budget in tho pimple wor Is '•D n your tea and curran*s. " Now, there you have a number of leading ar icles put inio a very pithy and terse sentenc n , and if I do not Rpprcei.te the sentiment, at least I appreciate the t*tyle of my anonymous corrrspondtnfc. But I hava a companion piofuve, for that is not th-** only anonymous letter whioh I have received. The oonstruotion of the sentences of another let'er showed me at once tbat it was a geuuiue letter, and was what it professed to be, the writing of a lady. There was no doubt from the general style of tho letter that it was written by a pleased woman. She dated ber letter from Devoushi*e, and she said : 'Here iv Devonshire we eat a great m-ny oakes, and we dunk a great deal of tea. I live in a house whioh will benefit by tbe reduction of tbe house tax, and I assure you I look upon tbis as the truest and beet Budget that has ever been proposed for the benefit of hard' working people. " This letter was signed a ' A Mother of Eight, ' I bope you will not think me guilty of any inordinate preference for style or sex if I say I prefer the piofuro of the * Mother of Eight ' to the pioture of the cursing ' M.D. * Another letter whioh I received from Brighton c<m9 from a b;--ch .lor, I think. He esid : — ' I never drink (ca, I do not Jive in a house., and my brother has just oome back from Australia, and co I done benefit by the reduced postage, and I consequently doa'c see what bent fit at al I am to derive from tbe Budget.' I expect that this was p/ecisely one of the men win ought not to ba particularly relieved from tnx'tion. Ho dated from a club, and th 9 probability is that ha was not oaugbt by any of tho nets in whioh ladies and gentlemen are subjected to taxation for tho benefit of their ODUUiry. "

We are pleased to find that Miss MorgaD, the very clever teacher of drawing and painting at the Girls' College, and two of her pupils, Miss N. Jones and Mis 3 Nellie | Rochfort, have been taking honours at the j Auckland Academy of Art, of whioh the former has been made an " Associate " and j she was also unanimously voted first for the " Genre " subject by the ballot of the mem- ! bers. Miss Jones nnd Miss Roohfort ob« tamed second awards, the former for studies of trees and fruit, and the latter for a drawing from life and from the antique. Two of Miss Morgan's pictures were also selected as Art Union prizes, and a third would have been sold but for an unfortunate mistake that occurred. Of five figure paintings in oil sent to the Exhibition by this young lady, the Herald says : — '* they are far above the average of this class of painting hitherto exhibited in Auckland " The Star has the following complimentary notice : — ■' Miss Morgan is a very clever young artist. Her study of the little maiden waiting for a dancing partner is decidedly above the average. Why it was christened " Very Shy " is hardly sufficiently explained perhap', but after all the title of a pioture is of the least possible importance. She doesn't look particularly shy, but perhaps she may be. One can never tell. The writer would have thought the picture re presented "A Young Coquette." It is, however, in her two studies of dancing girls that Miss Morgan has seared such a signal success. The "pale beauty of burlesque" in black ballet skirts, carrying a canarycoloured tambourine, might even convert Mr Varley. The pose is graceful and unstudied. The girl looks as if she had sat down to rest and meant resting, but, her creator being an artist, she has done so gracefully." We heartily congratulate these young lady artists upon the good repute they have obtained and trust that it may encourage them to persevere in their studies and prove but the forerunner of many similar successes at Art Exhibitions in other part 3of the colony. One of Miss Morgan's piotures, we understand, was purchased by Sir George Grey who is no mean judge of works of art of this description. A CONOEItT of a miscellaneous nature will be given on Thursday evening next in the Girls School, Brightwater, by the local glee club. A MEETING of the Southern Star Lodge will be held this evening, owing to it being the festival of St John. The drawing in connection with St. Mary's Art Union will be held at 7 o'clock this evening. The members of the Prince Albert Football Club are requested to attend at the Princess Rink at 7 o'clock this evening. At a meeting of the members of the Wakatu BoatiDg Club held at the Trafalgar Hotel last night there was a numerous attendance, Mr F. Trask, tha President, beiog in the ohair, and Mr J. SooU. the Vice President, also bsing prtsaut. — After a -me discussion relative to tha c. eotion of a new boat shed, the ma'.ter wa3 d. ferred.— Mr Orr pnsankd his trophies, consislin,. of four handsome medals made by Mr Hunte*-, of Bridge street, to ihe members of iLe winning orew, namely, Messrs Burrougb, Hale, Low, and T. Brown, and spoke in high 'erois of the services rendered by Mr Hart as ooaoh, and oon gratulated the Club on the progress it was making. — The President thanked Mr Orr on behalf of the Club, and the health of Mr aud Mrs On* was drunk with all tbe honours.— The health of the winning orew was then proposed and responded to, and the meeting was brought to a close. We are sorry to learn that Mr H, D Jackson, who has been confined to his bed for some time by an attack of heart disease, is to-day seriously ill, a ohange for the worse having takes place during the night. He is, however, somewhat better this after* noon, and we hope to be able to give a better report to morrow. We learn from Mr Stanton, the looal agent for the Norwich Union Insurance Company, that he has received advice to day of the total destruction by fire last night of the house on the Appleby road occupied by Mr Songer. The building was insured in the Norwich Union lor £200. At the R.M. Court this morning the only c^ses were: — Adams & Kingdon v. Antonio Wet*:, clnim for £1 9s lOd for legal expenses. Judgment for amount claimed and costs lis. Chittenden & Co. v. F. Rose. — Claim for £,2 17s 5d for goods supplied. Judgment for amount claimed and coata 6s. A LOCAL iv yesterday's paper respecting a concert to be given at Wakefield next Friday was not very clear, owing to the in definite instructions received. The entertainment will be a repetition of that reoently given at Richmond. We have received from Mr Oakey, wh» is the sole agent in Nelson for ita sale, a copy of the " Breaking Waters Waltz," by Harrison Russell. The music is pretty, and the time throughout is excellent and thoroughly well marked. Thk members of (he Harmonic Society are notified thnt M-o concert which via* adva-t'sed f r to mo now is postponed, also the praotice which wis to have taken place to-night. The Shelbourne strset schoolroom was crowded last night on the occasion of the second of the winter evening entertiunmeuts. Among those who sang— most of them receiving encores— were Mesdames lloulker, Percy Adams, Patterson and Britfcain, the Rev ,7. P. Kempthorne, Mr Fell and Major Webb. The choir also sang a couple of glees, one of them, '-The House that Jack built," meeting with a fcremondous reception. A ladies' trio was als. eiithiniistio'illy applauded. Mr Patterson rcoited "The Diver" with great spirit and craphasK Dr Cressey read a paper on : * Babies'' from a series of sketches entitled '• Idle Thoughts of an I le Fellow," l-y Jerome. The essay, which was evidently written by ono who had a practical knowledge of the subject treated, abounded in humour, and between the author a*id the reader there appeared to be j strong sympathy, so that it was done full justice to, ard thab the audience were highly amused could be testified to by. anyone who happened to be within two or three hundred yards of the building at the time. The whole entertainment went off with great spirit, and there is every reason to believe that those which are to follow will be equally well patronised. Tub attention of our readers is direoted to tbe advertisement of the New York Life luaur* ance Company whioh gives some telling figures, We have been favoured with a copy of the •15th annual report (certified to as oorreot by the Superintendent* of Insuranoe), whioh shows the company to be stretohing away ahead of all its previous achievements. The sum of two and a-half millions sterling ratuTied in one year to its policy holders and affording protection to its 150,000 members to tha extent of one hundred mi lions of pounds sterling, is abundant evidence of the work tho Sooiety is doing all over the world, An unblemished reoord of 45 years, doing an enormous endowment and annuity business (a certain proof of unbounded confidenoe), aud having scoured exoeUent results on ita matured oontraots, should be convincing proof of the advantages it offers We are informed Ihat although paying away thousands of claims annual y, the Company at this moment has not a single penny of death loss in litigation or dispute. The distriot agents for •hia province are Messrs Bisiey Bro,, from whom all information may be obtained. Mr Counell, (speoial agent) is also in Nels.n at present.

Something big is always being reported from that great country, America. Yesterday it was a cyclone which carried away a schoolroom full of children, portions of whom were picked up in various places a considerable distance from where they were pursuing their studies when the storm struck the building. To-day we publish a telegram announcing that a mountain over 13,000 feet high is missing and nobody knows what has become of it.