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Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7264, 8 March 1892, Page 3

An unclaimed letter is lying at the Post Office for Miss Hooker. Nelson Farmers Co-Operative Association. — Several changes have been made in this Association lately, notably the change of premises. The Association having secured at a satisfactory rental those fine premises lately erected in Hardy street by Major Franlriyn, have closed the Bridge street establishment, and are now quite settled down in their new premises. The butchery business formerly conducted by the Association has been disposed of to Mr John Ingram, late constable at Richmond, to whom we have no doubt will be accorded a satisfactory amount of patronage. New Zealand Express Company. In our adver ; ising columns will be found an announcement by this Company with reference to the collection, carriage, and delivery of parcels. Rates are quoted for delivery between here and Wellington, and also to any part of the United Kingdom. Mr J. C. Burford, the Port, is the local agent for the Company. Correspondence. — "Guardian," your 'etter is declined, it haviog already been published. Official Visitor — We observe that Mr Robert Levien, J.P., is gazetted an official v'sitor of the Lunatic Asylum at Nelson. Presbyterian Church. — A well attended meeting of the congregation and adherents of this Church was held last evening, when it \ was announced that the induction of the Rev James M'Kenzie, now of Lyttelton, as pastor will take place on Tuesday, the 16th inst., when the Revs W. O. Robb, of Blenheim, and J. Paterson, of Wellington, will be present to conduct the services. It was resolved that a social for the purpose of welcoming Mr and Mrs M'Kenzie ba held on the Wednesday evening following the induction. A strong ladies Committee was formed to carry out the necessary arrangements. Qoorr Match. - It is intended that a quoit match shall be played at Belgrove on the 17th inst, St Patrick's Day, between the local Club and a team from the Nelson Quoit Club comprised of Messrs Cresswell, Barltrop, Flett, R. Hall, Jackson, H. Nalder, Wigzell, P. Martin, and T. Hall. It is expected that *he players will go in for steady practice. P. and 0. Guide Book.— Messrs J, H. Cook and Co., tbe Nelson agents for the P. and 6. Company, hive sent us a copy of the Guide Book for Passengers, whioh was printed for the Royal Naval Exhibition of last year. The work ia question is beautifully got up, an j the illustrations are very fine as well as numerous. In addition to affording a variety of information serviceable to passengers, the , Guide gives an interesting account of the growth of the great steamship service known all over the globe as tbe P. and ,0., and the illustration showing the b.b. William Fa'woett, 206 tons, 60 h.p., the first P. and 0. Bteamer, built in 1829, enables a comparison to be. made with the modern floating palaces. At the end of tho book a very interesting article by the -author of the " Light' of Ada " is reprin'ed Mr F. N. Jones, of Nelson, who, as is wellknown, prosecuted the protest againßt Brandy on behalf of the owner of Rirus, underwent a very severe operation last Monday at the surgery of Dr. Wilkins. The patient has since been in a very low and weak state, but the doctor expects that be will be able to leave his room in the course of a fortnight. — Auokland ' Star,' Feb, 27th. The New Zi__land. Rifle Assooia.tion.— Tbe Wellington ' Post ' states that a number of Volunteers from other parts of the Colony who intend to take part in the annual firing of the New Zealand Rifle Association have j already arrived in Wellington, and others , will put in an appearance to-morrow. The arrangements in connection with the meeting are progressing satisfactorily, and Major • Sommerville believes that the ga_-_e_---g will be one of tbe best whioh the Asaooiation has t yet conducted. The opening ceremony takes ■ plaoe at about 2.30 next Friday, and as there is every likelihood that a half-holiday will be observed in the oity, the attendance of the ' general public should bo considerable. The . Mayoress has been asked to fire the firßt shot, but it is probable that indisposition will prevent her from attending, in which oase Mrs Seddon, wife of the Minister of Defence, will probably undertake the duty. Nelson Easter Encampment.— The Palmeraton volunteers had, in view of there-being ' no Government encampment this; year, deoided to attend the encampment to be held in NelBon, but Captain Hall te in receipt of a letter from Lieut.- Col. Newall, st.tipg that orders have been issued from- the Defence Depart- ' ment that volunteers will not attend the encampment. The New Governor. — Our new Governor, the Earl of Glasgow, is a firßt cousin of Sir James Fergusson, who was so unpopular i when Governor. Unlike Sir James Fergusson, , however, Lord Glasgow is said to be a man of Imost agreeable manners and easily accessible. He has no ariatooratio airs, and as a naval ■ officer was wy popular,—' Poet/

A TaS-lAotan Mining Gompa-.*.— The first general meeting of the shareholders in The New Great Eastern Silver Mining Company was held at Hobart on the Bth February, when tbe name of the Company having been altered from " The Great Eastern," inasmuch as a tin mining company of that name was in existence, the meeting adjourned for a week. . Some 20,000 of the shares in this Company are held in- New Zealand, about 3000, we understand, having been taken up in Nelson. At the adjourned meeting on the 15th February, Messrs "¥?• Murdook (in the chair), Waterhouse, E.*Mace, E. C. Mace, and about 40 shareholders wer.e present, and 35,000 shares were represented. Mr E. C Mace was appointed Manager, and Messrs Murdock. Ed. Mace, Waterhouse, Harrison, and Gellibrand, Directors, with power to add one to their number from New Zealand.' The Commercial was selected as the. Company's Bank, Messrs Elliston & Featherstone solicitors, and Meßsrs A. T. Bell and J. Harcourt auditors. Rules were adopted and confirmed, and _übsequently a Direotors meeting was held, when Mr Haslett was appointed mine manager. Mr Haslett, the report we quote from states, hails from New Zealand, and has been at Zeehan for three years, and a private correspondent' writes, " We are lucky to get suoh a man." Mr Haslett's instructions are to thoroughly inspect, the sec 'ion, run the lodes from the " Crown " and •• Western/' and after doing sufficient costeening to prove the course of the lode, to look out a si'.e for main shaft and permanent works. This report will no doubt be read with interest by the local shareholders. Duncan's Valley, neab Mahakipawa. — The Havelook correspondent of the ' Press ' wired on Tuesday as follows :— About a dozen miners returned from the new diggings at Duncan's Valley on Saturday, and give a poor report of tbe prospects. Men about to start in business are delaying operations. When off Cape Palliser last week, on the voyage from Lyttelton to Auckland, the schooner Louie passed through a considerable quantity of ashes, supposed to be the result of some volcanic disturbance. The London correspondent of the Dunedin ' Star ' writes : - A curious accident befel some of the distinguished luncbers on board the Euahine last Thursday afternoon. Being anxious to get back to town in good time, Mr Perceval, Sir John Gorst, Mr Levien, and Mr Leonard Harper arranged to return by a rather earlier train than the bulk of the company. They slipped quietly rif, and securing a compartment to themselves, fell into casual conversation. Presently, as luck would have it, the talk turned on labor raa'ters. Now, labor is Sir John Gorst's great hobby, and also a pet subject of Mr Perceval's. Mr Harper and Mr Levien likewise hold special views thereon, consequently in' a few minutes all four gentlemen were absorbed in vigorous discussion. Time and stations passed wholly unnoticed. At length, the rival disputants having satisfactorily demolished one another, Mr Perceval looked out of the window to ascertain their whereabouts. " Guard," he cried, " shall we soon ibe at Fenchurch street ?" " Fenchurch street !" replied that functionary ; " why, sir, you be going to the R'yal Albert Docks, and yer 'arfway there." And this proved to be the melancholy truth. Immersed in debate, the party had never noticed their arrival at the terminus, and were now being swiftly carried back again whence they came. Dejectedly did these four men alight, and ruefully smiling did they enter the train which presently steamed in, bearing the rest of the Ruahine roysterera. Theirs was indeed a sad case of ' more haste less speed,' and a striking example of the • shocking evils of political discussion.' Mb Pinkham: "How do you do, Mrs Willis ? You are the last person I expected to see in Florence." Mrs Willis : " Why, if it is isn't Mr Finkham ! Yes, we are spending the winter here. You must call on us often. You know just how it is -persons we never think muoh of while home seem like dear friends when we meet them in a strange place." A Yorkshire vicar once received the following notice regarding a marriage from a parishioner: " This is to give you notis that I and Miss Jemima Arabella Brearley is coming to your church on Saturday afternoon nex to undergo the operation of matrimony at your hands. Please be promp, as the cab is hired by the hour." The " operation " was performed m due course. A corbespondent of the ' St. Jame&'s Gazette ' writes : — You ask, " Doe3 Mr Booth travel in slate out of that £100,000, collected for the redemption of Darkest England, or does he do it out of his private income ? And if the latter, where does the private income come from ? You appear to have forgotten that Mrs Eliz:b:tu Orr 8011, of Glasgow , who died last year, appointed Mr Booth her ro-i-uary legatee, and the sum to which he thus became absolutely entitled was not much, if any, less than £55,100. The money was bequeathed, it was understood, for rhe purpose of the Salvation Army ; bu' the appropriation of it was l.ft solely to tho r. si 'uary legatee, wh > wou'd therefore te qui:e within his legal righ's in spending a few thousands of it on bis 'oir round the w.rld to beat up recruiis and gmher iu more funds." Tug ' Kumira Times ' considers "it is just as well tha Cou sty has dismissed its omplojee..." The net revenue, the ' Times ' estimates at £4000, whilst fully £7000 is required to work the County, which will have •' to live down to its income." No less eminent authority that the late Sir William Gull is responsible for the assertion that the benefit derived from a University education, such as girls get at Newnham and Girton, makes them and their children stronger and healthier. Also, that the percentage of childless marriages is less wi h the educated women, and the percentage of children that survive infancy is larger. Mb Chablbs Booth says that .0 per oent of the population of England that reaohea the age of sxty-five receive poor law re'ief before death. Below sixty the proportion i. only 4£ per cent. He would therefore pension everyone who reaches sixty-fhe at the rate of 5s per week. This pension, which would be paid to tbe millionaire as well a. the pauper, would entail the modest little charge of £17,000,000 per aonam in England and Wales. Twelve per oent on tha drink bill would raise the needed fund, but it is evident, says Mr Stead, that at present there is no ohanoe of the adoption of any suoh measure. Nothing will be done in the shape of State insuranoe until the managers of Friendly Societies are squared. Sojie months ago an advertisement eppeared in one of the London journals offering the services of a lady of title to introduce young ladies of money into good society. The other side of this strange.phase of social life is reflected in tho following advertisement which appeared in the Washington * Evening Post':— "A Western man of means would like to place his daughter as a friend in the house of some well established Washington society woman, whom he will handsomely remunerate for the favor. Address, stating in detail advantages offered, Western, this office." To this advertisement, which only appeared one day, 110 answers were recived ; the social advantages offered covered the entire range of life at the capital, and the price asked by these impeounious hostesses ranged from £30 to £150 a month. Fob the first time in his life Louis Cyr, the powerful Canadian, found his great strength set at nought at the South London Palace. The " Kanuk" was advertised to pull two horses weighing 1,6001b eaoh, but when H oame to the crucial teat one of the animals would.not pull at all, and the other, having things all his own way, made Oyr Blip all over the stage. To Bay that he was mad ■wenl-l but poorly express hia feelings. He tried to make the Btubborn animal put forth a. little effort, but the bru'e was obdurate, and so the tee. was abandoned. In order to please the audience Cyr introduced his oelebrated feat of holdirig aloft 3481b5, for 'which he got a hearty round of applause. The baok Jifo waß a wonderful one, the tray oontaining the biggest load it has ever been called upon tosustain— viz., 3,6561b, whioh beats all previous records by 151b. An ex-Masterton resident, now in Melbourne, thus writes concerning the outlook in that marvellous city :— " About half the people of Melbourne are out of work, and the distress is something awful. Hundreds of families cannot get a bit of bread to eat, and the Councils are serving out bread and meat to keep the p^ ople from starving This is the state of affairs in wealthy Victoria now. Melbourne has overgrown itself. There are scores of empty houses in the suburbs, and plenty of large buildings in the city have never been let. Houses and land are selling for half the price they were four years ago, and there are no buyers to. be had at that. We shall all have to come back to New Zealand again if times do not alter. When winter comes we shall . . starved out,"