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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 207, 4 September 1867, Page 2

At the R. Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. H, Flowers was charged with committing a violent and unprovoked assault upon James Moore. Mr Keon appeared for the defendant. Both parties are residents at Wakapuaka, and it appeared that as complainant was walking) home after dusk on Sunday evening, to Mr Pierson's, he was overtaken by tKe defendant, who was riding hard at the time. As he passed the complainant wished him " Good night," which he returned, and then, recognising him, commenced to abuse him in the Jlowery language peculiar to some of the denizens of Suburban North. Flowers then turned his horse, and dismounting, immediately assaulted him in the most determined way. Moore, however, after a severe struggle, managed to get his assailant on the ground, when Flowers, seeing that he -was worsted, called a <^rge dog which

he had with him, to hia assistance, and Moore, seeing that the dog was preparing to spring upon him, took to his heels aud ran away. The defendant was remanded until Thursday, at the request of his solicitor, in order to produce witnesses. The notice which we inserted in a late issue relative to a group of wax flowers very cleverly made by Mrs Flood, of this city, has had the effect of elicitiug other specimens of that pleasing art, which have been brought to our office for inspection. Amongst these the most noteworthy is a bouquet of camellias, white and blush roses, hydrangeas, fuchsias, lilies, &c, very tastefully arranged and skilfully executed, the work of Mrs Baker, a pupil, we are told, of Mrs. Cordial, who must needs be a very able instructress. Mr Huddleston informs us that a pair of Australian magpies, not loug since imported by the Acclimatisation Society, have made their nest in the immediate vicinity of his grounds, and the hen-bird is now sitting. This, he believes, is the first instance known of these birds breeding iv this province. We may observe that it would obviously afford considerable encouragement to the Acclimatisation Society if similar instances, which may have come to the knowledge of persons living in town or country, were notified either to the Secretary of the Society or through the medium of the local journals. The letter of our Wellington correspondent states that the telegram from the Hon. Major Morse, received here last week, and which caused some consternation amongst the Volunteer Companies and their frieuds, had its origin in a notice of motion placed on the paper in the House of Bepresentatives by a Mr Armstrong, to the effect that the sum of £28,000, now on the Estimates for Militia and Volunteers, be struck out. Our correspondent adds that Mr Armstrong is a member of no influence whatever, and that his proposition will be sure to meet with a decided negative. The Wellington Advertiser states that Mr Fox leaves England for New Zealand in November next, and that Mr Morrison, Government Agent, is expected by next mail. The Bishop of Nelson sailed from Gravesend on June 5, for his dioceße in New Zealand. His Lordship took out with him a large party of emigrants. The Eev. W. H. Ewald, "M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, also accompanied the bishop as his private chaplain. We are glad to find t u at a requisition has been abroad to-day in the city, for the purpose of calling a public meeting for to'■morrow evening, to take iuto consideration the financial scheme proposed by the Government, to protest against any increase of the present colonial debt, and to urge the necessity of an entire revision of the colonial expenditure and taxation. Mrs Gladstoue has written to the Times to request subscriptions in behalf of a convalescent hospital. She points out how difficult it is for the poor of London who have been struck down by illness to recover iv the impure air and with the insufficient food which they obtain at their own houses. It is proposed to establish in ,the neighbourhood of London a hospital, to which the patients from other hospitals may be taken when sufficiently recovered. The prize given by the Emperor Napoleon to be competed for in the chess tournament, and consisting of a Sevres va6e, valued at 5,000 francs, is being exhibited at the International Club, Paris. The play commenced a short time ago, when the first game between M. Arnous de Eiviere and Mr S. Lloyd, was won by the former. If. the smoking Bishop (Fletcher) of Bristol and afterwards of London, was now alive, he would bestow his blessing, we think, on a certain gentleman who, "desirous to benefit his country and his kind," advertises in the Times that he " has instructed the Secretary to . the British Anti-Tobacco Society to offer £50 for the best approved essay on the history and properties of tobacco, and on its physical action on the human body, through its various modes of employment j and £50 for the best approved essay on the moral, social, and. economical results of the use of the use of tobacco." A man has just died in London who, for the last 17 years, had followed the profession of frog-catcher for the serpents in the Zoological Gardens. A woman in Chicago, on visiting her husband's office,;acd discovering long hairs in 'his* hairbrush; has sued, for a divorce.

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