NELSON EVENING MAIL. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1893.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 124, 27 May 1893, Page 2

NELSON EVE NING MAIL. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1893.

Mr W. P. sbevbß mado a speeoh iv Danedin last Tuosday evening. Most parts of New Zealand, including Nelson have had samples of his speeches, co that it is hardly necessary to Biy that the last one wa?, like its predecessors, deoidedly olever aud very much taken up with himself. Mr Reeves says that the .Qovernment has been aooused of having pome to an end of its resources, of having no more work to do, or as he puts it, of being like Disraeli's row of exhausted volcanoes. This charge he denies most -strenuously. The Government, he says, has still plenty to do, and he proceeds to give a list ot the measures which he himself intends to introduce, almost entirely ignoring his colleagues. Whab they will have to do is alluded to iv the most sketchy Bort of manner. People who have dealings with Mr Reeves, on matters connected with the departments ot which he is political head, canoob fail ta notice his frequent use of the first personal pronoun. No French sovereign that over reigned, not even Louis tho fourteenth, could have identified the State with himself more thoroughly than MiReeves tries to do. State grants are spoken of by him as if they were personal gifts from himself, and iv evory respect Mr JReeves makes it plain that he considers himself aud the Government to bo one. Of course a Government which sets up as its business the reformation of everything must dangle reforms before the eyes of the electors, especially on the eve of a general election, and Mr Reeves gives a very pretty list of projected changes. He lays down the principle that the powers of the State are^to be used in all sorts of directions, with the object of making people healthy, and j wealthy, acd wise. The Faotorieß Act j is to be made more stringent aud wide reaching; the Shop Hours Bill of last session is to bo reintroduced, and there is to be a bill which will ensure that every man Bhall have his wages paid if be earns them. It wilt be interesting to find out how he proposes to deal with bankrupt employers. If he is successful iv their caso perhaps he will bring in a bill to tako the brceks off JHighlanders. His pet measure for compulsory arbitration in cases of dispute between omployers aud employed will of course be brought forward again. Altogether Mr JReeves is quite right in saying that the Governmen d, or at least the j most importaut member of it, has plenty | of schemes to lay bofore Parliament, and on his principle there is no reason why it ehould not go on inventing them ior ever.

On Thursday afternoon a number of our leading singers gave a concert at the Hospital for the entertainment of those of tbe patients who could attend. The programme was a varied one and waa very much appreciated by the inmateß of the Hospital, who are desirous of thanking tbose ladies and gentlemen who so considerately have their services ia affording such pleasure to the patients.

Members of the Independent Order of Rechabites are notified by advertisement that the Tent meetings will in future be held in Sigley's Hall, Hardy-st., beginning on Tuesday, 30th fust., when the the Rescue (female) Tent will meet there at the usual hour.

Mr J. H. Newman has received a telegram from the Lyell stating that the weeks crushing from the United Alpiue ie 532 ounces of amalgam from 232 tons (top plateß;.

The Wellington Evening Post says that it has come to the knowledge of the police that an ingenious, although old-fashioned, swindle is being worked upon a number of Wellington tradesmen. The modus operandi is somewhat as follows :— A well-dressed and gentlemanly lookingindividual presents himself to the shopkeeper and gives an order, in some cases amounting to several pounds, for goods, which are to be delivered at a certain address, and to be paid for ou. deliveiy . The customer's appenrauce and mmuer seems to indicate respectability, and the tradesman Ke:s no reason to doubt his bona fid'B. The

or.ler having been taken, tbe customer retires, but returns ogam with a compaDio", whom he introduces to the proprietor of the estblishment r>s a friend who wou!d like to give an order on similar terms, Tlie go^ds are made up and taken to the address given, but the messenger is informed that Mr Si-and-eo will c 11 and p-:y at ths shop. In a number < f cases the goods bave been left on the f nth of tliis promise, whioh is never fulfilled ; in others, the messenger has been more wary, and delivery haslnot boon given- Goods of the value of £20 or £30 hive been oMained from soma tradesmen. The same little swindle was worked in Sydney Inst year with cansideroble success, until the polico swooped down upon the perpetrators, some of whom received heavy sentences from the Court when brought up.

A BIBLE olass sooial in connection with the Baptiet Church will be held next Wednesday evening.

A new scale of fnres, ratee, and obnrge? of the New Zealand Government railways will oome into operation (says the Post) oa the sth prox. Theprinoipal alterations will be us fallows :— The single suburban fares at Christchuroh, Dunedin, and Wellington fnr one and two miles ore reduoed ; tbe rateß for fresh fish are reduced ; and on* the Napior Tnranoki ni>d Wellington Bectio.i goods of Class D, which are at present oharged as Cla?s C ratep, ore to be charged at tbe D rates, lha effect of this reduction on the sections named is ns follows: — 25 miles, reduoed from 12* 81 per ton to 10s 10J; 50 mi'es, from 22s lld to 17s od; 75 miles, from 29s 8d to 23s 2 J; 100 miles, from 33s 7d to 26s 6d.

Alluding to the arrival ia Lmdon of the Uuion S:ei»m Ship Company's vessel R>tokioo, under charter to the New Zealand ShippingJ^Compauy, with a valu >ble o ,rgo and specie, the Eu. opean Mail Bays :— " This vessel is the first steamship owned in New Zealand whioh has entered the port of London, and it is probable that her successful trip may iuuugurata a new service. Ths Uniou Company of New Zealand is one of the most steamship companies iv the oolonies, and ib will probably before long spread itself all over the colonial and American work 1 . "

Mr JH. Otterson, assistant-olerk to the Houieof Representative?, haa oompleted a most useful parliament vry bo3k of referenoe, It is an index to the prinoipal resolutions passed and motions negatived, withdrawn or lapsed in the House of Representatives from 1854 to 1892. It will ba found a most exoellent guide to parliamentary history for a period ot iQ years. The labour involved iv produoing it must have been very great. To members of Parliament aud othera concerned with referenoes to proceedings in the House for the period it oover?, this complication will be exceedingly useful. The Canadian Government has sold a mammouth cheese which had been manu« factured as Canada's special exhibit to the World's Fair. The cheese is the largest the world has ever seen, and weighs close on 12 tons or about 26,88G1b. This marvel of the dairy was made from the milk of 20,150 cows, milked by 2777 dairymaids, the milk weighing about 250,8801 b —the equivalent to over 112 tons— or fully 29,554ga1. The Canadians are justly proud of it as being typical of the wonderful production of the Domfnion. TO-MORROW'S SERVICES. The JRev George Bond will preaoh at S6, John's Wesleyan Ohuroh morning acd evening. The Rev T. Bray will preaoh at the Baptist Ohuroh morning and eveniufr. Mass will- -be oelebrated at Sb Patrick's Ohuroh, Belgrove, at eleven o'olock in the morning. There will be vespers at St Joseph's Churoh, Wake Held, in the evening. The Rev 0. Lyon will conduct the servic s at the Congregational Churoh morning and eveniug. The Rev J. H. MoKenzie will preach at the Presbyterian Ohuroh morning and i.gThe Rrv'J. H. MoKenzie will conduot services at Richmond iv tho afternoon. Mr John Griffith will preaoh a -5 the Christian Meeting House in the evening.