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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 159, 10 July 1867, Page 3

We are. glad to find that the Provisional Committee appointed at the meeting held on Friday last, for the purpose of initiating a company for the erection of a Theatre and Public Hall in this city, have not been idle. All the members of the committee, including Messrs. Stanton, Gully, Dobson, Eout, aud Younger, met on Monday night, and seem to have entered upon their duties con amore. The first consideration which presented itself was, naturally, the site, as being likely to influence the character of the building, and after deliberating upon a number of sites offered to them, the committee decided on recommending to the General Meeting a site in Hardy-street, on the ■west side, and near the corner of Trafal-gar-street, as being the cheapest, most roomy, and most central. The second consideration was the necessary amount of accommodation, with the character and area of the building. With reference to this branch of the subject, it was decided that the plan submitted by Mr. Handyside would require very considerable modification, and the committee having resolved on a general idea of the kind of building required, each member undertook to provide ground plan sections and elevations by Friday next ; fhe general idea being a room about 45 feet wide, by 65 feet deep, with a stage 25 feet deep, by 60 feet wide, having in its rear a capacious " greenroom," with dressing rooms on each side, a semi-circular tier of boxes, with a gallery above, the boxes opening into a corridor affording access to two retiring rooms, under which, on the ground floor, will be a vestibule and two entrances. The third consideration brought before the committee was the probable income and cost of erection, etc., and haviDg carefully taken nto consideration the necessary expendi- t 4?

ture for lamps, stage apparatus, and sufficient decoration, also the cost per annum of hall-keeping, lighting, rates, etc., they found that the probable income, by comparison with the receipts in past years from various sources, would realise nine per centum, and .this without the rents! of the shops, as proposed by Mr. Handyside. The cost of constructing the building, &c, would not be higher than Mr. Handyside's plan, viz , £2000. The committee, we under- . stand, intend drawing up an explicit report of their proceedings, and are very sanguine of the ultimate success of the project. A correspondent, referring to the article which appeared in our issue of yesterday, advocating the planting of the New Cemetery, asks us to specify what trees or shrubs would be most suitable for the purpose? We should be most happy to. furnish any, information in our power which might tend to further so desirable a consummation, but would suggest that reference should be made to our local horticulturists, who would be far more competent to supply the information required, and who would, we are confident, cheerfully comply with such a request. At the same time we may state that Mr Loudon, the late eminent landscape gardener, to whom the laying out of the Kensal Green Cemetery was intrusted, recommended for this purpose trees chiefly of the fastigiate kinds, that is to say, trees the foliage of which slopes gradually from the top, roof-fashion, which neither c I cover a large space with their branches nor give too much shade when the sun shines, and which admit light and air to neutralise any mephitic effluvia. Of these are, the oriental arbor vitas, the evergreen cypress, the Swedish and Irish junipers, etc. For the same reason, trees of the narrow conical forms, such as the red cedar, and various pines and firs are desirable. In advantageously situated cemeteries, like that to which our correspondent refers, some of the larger trees, I *"*• -such as the Cedar of LebanoD, the Oriental plane, the purple beech, the dark yew, and the floweriug ash, sycamores, mountain ash, hollies, thorns, and some species of oaks, such as the evergreen oak, the the Italian oak, would find places in due proportion, aud most of these, we imagine, can be procured from the Nelson nurserygrounds. Intelligence has reached Wellington of the destruction by fire of the extensive establishment known as Denison House, in George-street, Sydney. The damage sustained is estimated at £15,000. The disasters caused by the floods in New South Wales had been fearful, with much loss of life, whole families perishing. A New York letter of the 30th ult., says an extraordinary conspiracy against insurance companies has been brought to light. A man named Richard Eainforth insured his life last year in three offices for the gross sum of 14,000 dollars. Ou the 22nd of February he died, as was alleged, at Chicago, of typhoid fever, and a will was found devising his property (which consisted of the amount of insurance) to certain persons named as executors. A brother of Eainforth came to Chicago to make inquiries into all this, and from what he heard he arrived at the belief that the deceased had met with some foul play. The detectives were set to work, and they succeeded in unravelling the following series of incidents. Eainforth and the executors named in his will were all concerned in a scheme to defraud life insurance companies. The first part of the plan was that Eainforth should insure his life and die. A few months after the policies were completed, Eainforth pretended to be taken sick and was put to bed. A medical man who attended him subsequently signed the certificate of

death, was an accomplice in the plot* In the afternoon of the . day of the supposed death, another medical man was called in for a consultation, and it is stated that he examined the patient and gave his opinion that he could not survive 36 hours. A barber was sent for to shave off a moustache and beard which the sick mau wore, for, as he said, " he did not fear death, but he desired to die clean." At half-past 5 o'clock, several persons being in the room, Kendall, one of the party, cried out " Poor fellow^ he is gone!" At that hour he died —that is to say, he disappeared. The medical man laid out the corpse. At seven o'clock Eainforth was no more, and a body was brought in from the hospital and laid upon the bed. It has since been discovered that Eainforth is in frequent correspondence with the executors, and with a woman whom he was courting; but he has not yet been arrested, and the insurance companies have probably lost their money In a car this afternoon I heard a man say to another that Eainforth and his colleagues were "real smait men," and no one can deny it, Out of the ninety-four young women Miss Eye is now sending in the Atalanta to Melbourne, twenty-four are orphans, and twenty-nine have only one parent living. The next ship for single women will be the White Star, to leave Birkenhead on the 25 th of May. The Geographical Society of Paris has given its gold medal for the current year to our countryman Sir Samuel Baker, for his discovery of the Albert Nyanza. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Premature Decline. — The unwary and thoughtless may save themselves a sea of future troubles by an eariy recourse to these excellent curatives. All blotches from whatever cause arising, all enlargements of the glands wherever situated, irritating sores and debilitating discharges, may be safely and certainly cured by employing Holloway's Ointment and Pills, in accordance with the instructions wrapped round each pot and box. _Jb timidity need deter the weakest from applying to these rpstoratives, which exert the threefold qualities of purifying, regulating, and repairing, without disturbing the stomach, annoying the nervous system, or Tendering confinement to the house necessary. Holloway's medicaments will stem the source of many maladies, which, when neglected, perpetuate misery. 2766