The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 135, 12 June 1867, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1867.

We were compelled to defer the publication in our yesterday's issue of his Honor the Superintendent's speech, de- j livered at the opening of the Provincial Council that afternoon, and to content ourselves with a cursory enumeration of its leading topics : we are now enabled to place this able and highly satisfactory address before our readers in its entirety, j It is understood that the Estimates will be kid upon the table this evening. / We understand that arrangements have ; been made by the Government for a forfc- / nightly* overland mail service between Nehou and Marlborough. Mails will . close at the Chief Post-office, Nelson, on the 13ih and 2.Bth of each month at. 5 p.m., arriving at Havelock on the J sth and 30th, and will leave Havelock on the Ist and 16th, arriving at Nelson on the 2nd and 17th. The performance at the Odd-Fellows' Hall last night wore under the patronage of his Honor the Superintendent, who was present, together with a crowded aud fashionable audience, comprising a considerable number of M. P. Cs., and otlier local notabilities, accompanied by their families. -The programme was the same ns , that qf the preceding evening, the ludicrous disasters and naive utterances of the little prodigy a.s Pat Rooney, in the fai'ce of The . Omnibus, provoking alike the wonder and admiration of the audience, both manifested ih no sparing measure by , the genuine laughter and applause which followed upon each new sally or contretemps. The extraordinary novelty of such an, exhibition as. thai in which Little Marion/is the prominent , feature, and the 7 astonishment, which is' excited in every 7 iniud by the marvellous precocity of the

child, naturally Las tlie effect of monopolising a very large portion of the interest which is experienced in witnessing the performance of the whole troupe, and tbe consequence is that they perhaps hardly receive all the credit, to which they are eutitled. It is therefore only just to remark that, although not of quite such tender year. as the little prima donna assoluta ofthe party, the part which ihey play in the entertainment is hardly less marvellous, exhibiting, as they do, all the composure and ease of veteran performers ou the mimic stage. All the family seem so well up in their parts, so alive to every " point," and so completely at home, that the nervous dread of failure with which one is apt to regard juvenile exhibitions generally is entirely absent from one's mind when witnessing the performances of the Nathan Family. Mr Small, who inversally meets with a most enthusiastic reception, gave two of his best Irish songs, and the absurdities nnd extraordinary facial contortions of Mr J. Chambers in the ballet, were quite as mirth-provoking as on the previous evening. There will be no performance to-night, the Hall beiug required for the use of the Oddfellows ; but fo-morrow evening a new performance is announced, comprising Dion Boucicault's admired comedy, in two acts, Andy Blake, iv which character Little Marion is stated to have created quite a furore iv Auckland and elsewhere. A new burlesque. Will Hands and hys Dinah, hy Mr. J. Small, is also announced, with other entertainments. The following civil cases were heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning : — Charles Moore v. James M'Vickar. Claim £6 4s. for boots. Judgment by consent, half in one montb, and balance in two months' time. Wilson aud Richardson v. J. M. Farr. Claim £16 3s. 66., for goods supplied. Judgment by consent for amount, claimed, payable in a month. Eliza Simpson v. E. Wheeler. Claim £3, for wages as a servant in defendant's family. Mr. Thomas Snow appeared on behalf of defendant, and paid £2 Bs. into Court, beiug four weeks' wagesfadmitted, the balance — 12s. — being the amount claimed by the plaintiff, who had been discharged without notice, .through drunkenness, he objected to pay, but having no witnesses in Court to prove the offence charged against the plaintiff, judgment was given for the full amount, with costs. M. Preterre, the wellkuown dentist of Paris, states that after a considerable experience of the protoxide of nitrogen as ananaesthetic, he considers it a most precious agent. In oue or two minutes at most, a sufficient sleep is obtained to extract a tooth or to practise i.n opperation of short duration. After awaking the nausea, the loss of appetite, the .. helplessness, and the fatigue which ordinarily follow anaesthesia obtaiued by chloroform or ether never occur. — British Ifedical Journal.