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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 28, 4 February 1868, Page 2

The Panama Mail will close to-morrow at 10 a.m.; for registered letters, money orders, and newspapers at 9.30 a.m. We have heeu requested by Captain M'Tavish to state that, owing to the present very inclement weather, the usual parade of the No. 1 City Rifles will not take place this evening. The very inauspicious state of the weather on Monday last, the day appointed for the celebration of the Anniversary of the Province, rendered impossible the carrying out of the programme for the Foresters Fete at the Botanical Gardens. It was therefore determined that the dinner should take place in the evening at the Oddfellows' Hull, the tea and sports heing postponed until Wednesday (tomorrow) should the weather prove favorable. Upwards of 80 persons sat down to an excellent cold collation provided by Mr Edwards, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, his Honor the Superintendent being in the chair, A. Pitt Esq., M.P.C., occupying the vice-chair. The usual loyal and appropriate toasts were given and duly received, interspersed with some excellent songs, and the guests did not separate until an advanced hour of the eveuing. The fire-hell pealed out a few miuutes past ten o'clock on Saturday night, it having been reported thafc a small cottage in Hope-street, at the back of Mr. Wilkius's premises in Hardy-street, and occupied hy two carpenters, was on fire. The Fire Brigade with their engine were speedily on the ground, but the lire, which arose from a heap ot shavings, which had by some means become ignited in the absence of the inmates, was easily extinguished, and the services of the Brigade, as also of the smaller engine, which was also on the way, were thus rendered unnecessary . The Taranaki, which will convey the Panama mail to Wellington, had not been signalled when we went to press. We understand that the Phoebe will in all probability not leave till Thursday morning. The Provincial Government Gazette of the 31st uit. contains notifications of the appointment of John Chapman, as Poundkeeper of the public pound recently erected on Section 118 Waimea West ; that forms of application for registration under the Medical Practitioners' Act, 1867, can be obtained from the Assessor for the province ofNelson, Dr Cusack, and musfc be made before the 9fch of April next, iv order to insure entry on the forthcoming Register; notices of the assignment of the estates of John and James O'Sullivan, of the Picton Road, Marlborough, hotelkeepers and contractors, to Henry Dodson, auctioneer, and George Henderson, merchants' ageut, of Blenheim, and of that of William Robiuson, of- the Big Bush, Blenheim, farmer, to John' Mack Robinson, storekeeper of Blenheim, in trust for the benefit of creditors. The Gazette also notifies that Charles Henry Gottlieb Nees, of Charleston, engineer ; Frank Fisher, of Westport, auctioneer ; and Wm. Wallace, of Nelsou, watchmaker, bave filed declarations of their insolvency. Notice is also given of the assignment of the estate of Thomas Corbett, draper, of Nelson, to Thomas Sherlock Graham, of Dunedin, and Thomas R. Fisher, of Nelson, for the benefit of creditors. We regret to find from an article headed 'The Night Side of Buller Life', which appears in the Westport Times of the 31st ultimo, and which gives but a sorry account of the charitable dispositions of the people of that township, that Mountedtrooper Doris, whose plucky conduct in the bushranging case on the Blackwater River will be in the memory of oar readers, is now lying in the huilding, which is by courtesy styled ' the Hospital,' suffering from a contusion of the groin caused by a fall from his horse while riding on the south bank of the Buller. It adds that be is going on as well as can be expected, though some time must elapse before his recovery. James Douglas, charged with the wilful murder of Hugh Carmichael at German Gully, on the 6th of December last, was fully committed for trial at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Hokitika, on the 26th uit. The prisouer is an Amencan, from the State of Maryland, and is alleged by a fellow confinee in the lockup, at Hokitika, named Thomas Williams, to have made a confession of the murder to him. Mr W. H. Harrison and Mr Comiskey have both announced their intention to come forward as candidates for seats in the Comity Council, of Westland, in compliance with requisitions presented to I them.