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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 56, 7 March 1868, Page 2

Our readers will find in another colnmn, a requisition sigued by about fifty electors of Colliugwood, addressed to A. S. Collins, Esq., requesting him to allow himself to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of the Golden Bay District in the General Assembly, vacant by the resignation of Mr. A. J. Richmond, with which Mr. Collins signifies his acquiescence. We understand that about twenty additional names were omitted from the signatures to Mr. Collins's requisition, in consequence of a delay in the transmission of a supplementary list from Motupipi. The rare spectacle of the obsequies of a Colouial Governor took place on the 22nd ultimo at Adelaide, when the funeral of the late Sir Dominic Daly, who died on the 19th, took place amidst general regret. The body was removed privately to the Roman Catholic Cathedral at 9 a.m., where a requiem mass and office for the dead were celebrated, and at 2 p.m., the public funeral at the West Terrace Cemetery took place. Seventeen minute guns were fired after the body left the cathedral. The procession was a very large one, and was composed of Volunteers — cavalry, foof, and artillery — all of the 50th Regiment in garrison here, the members of the Legislative Council and Assembly, the judges, the clergy, the civil servants, and some 700 citizeus, all on foot. The coffin was placed on a gun carriage, drawn by six horses. At the grave 17 guns were fired, besides the usual volleys of the Volunteers. Wo would remind our readers that the monthly meeting of the Provincial Laud and Building Society takes place on Monday evening next at half-past 7 o'clock. The Anniversary of the Union Chapel Sunday School takes place to-morrow, when two Sermons will be preached, morning and evening, by the Bev; R. L. Vickera. The tea meeting, followed by the distribution of prizes, &o. to the children, will be held on Tuesday evening. The Right Rev. the Bishop of Neleen, in hia course of eermons on questions of the day, Will preach iu Christ Churchy

to-morrow evening, on the * Divinity of Christ/ It will be seen from an advertisement in another column that one of the leadmelting furnaces employed in the construction of the Waterworks in Ngatiti-taraa-atreet has been removed and broken, and a reward of £20 is offered by the Government for the conviction of the offenders. We learn that Constable Walker has reported to the Police authorities that it has been ascertained that the horse lately found in the bed of the river in Waimea West, riderless and with bridle broken, belongs to a man named Brock, who was stopping at Silcoek's Bridge Hotel, where the horse broke his bridle and escaped. There was only one case for adjudication at the Resideut Magistrate's Court this morning, one of drunkenness. A large concourse of spectators assembled last night to witness the first trial by the Fire Brigade of the new Waterworks, which have just been placed at their disposal by the Government for their occasional practice. A siugle jet from the plug at Mr. Stnnton's corner, sufficed to throw the water over Mr Snow's house, at the opposite side of Trafalgarstreet, whilst two jets attached to the same hydrant threw a large volume of water to a distance of 75 feet. Other experiments wero made with three jets from the same hydrant, and the water was projected to a height considerably exceeding that of the highest houses in the city. The great additional security which, in combination with the services of the Fire Brigade, is thus piovided for this city and its inhabitants is certaiuly a matter of legitimate congratulation. We have received a letter from a correspondeut signed 'Juryman,' complaining of the very dirty state of the room provided for the accommodation of the Petty Jury, during the sittings of the Supreme Court, suggesting that the delinquent juror, to whose undress the Judge alluded yesterday in Court, was justified by this fact in neglecting to don his holiday garb, in view of his possible occupation of the room in question. The General Assembly stands still further prorogued until the 28th May. The survey of the line of telegraph between Westport and Greymouth has been completed, and tenders will be immediately called for supplying and erecting the posts and fixing the wire. The coloni 1 gunboat, St, Kilda, it is reported, will commence the survey of the West Coast in the course of a few days. The rush to Queensland from Hokitika continues unabated, and every vessel laid on for Maryborough has been filled. During the past week over 500 people left Hokitika and Greymouth for the supposed El Dorado, notwithstanding the fact that the majority of the Queensland papers are agreed upon one thing — that the populotiou already on the ground is greater than the goldfields at present discovered will support. The Westport Evening Star of Wednesday quotes a letter from a Hokiiika correspondent under date of the 3rd instant, statiug that 1000 diggers had leit that port for Queensland since the rush set in. A telegram had been received at t,e Star office from the Bluff, which states that a party on Gytnpie Creek had bottomed ftnd obtained off the bottom 300 oz. It is likely, therefore that the rash will contiuue toe some time longer. The Westport Star of March 3rd, saya : — ' Because of a horse-whipping administered some time ago to Mr Apted, of the Westporfc Times, by Mr Commissioner Eyhnersley, Mr Apted has entered an action in the Supreme Court against the Commissioner Sot the modest sum of 31000 damage* Th© writ was »em4 on,

Saturday last, and we understand that the plaintiff has retained two of the most able members of the bar in New Zealand to conduct his case. The trial will take place during the next civil sittings of the court at Nelson. The West Coast Times of the 2nd inst. says that the erection of the Dobson Memorial is being proceeded with, operations having been eommeuced on Saturday last by Mr James Reynolds, the successful tenderer. The site chosen is the centre .of the intersection of Weld and Sewell-streets. Thfe monument will tako the form of aj obeliak quadrilateral, aud slightly pyramidal^, ymh an inscription on each side of the basement portion. The base on which.it will rest will be of three tiers, each oue foot deep, the lowest tier will be eight, the next six,, aud the topmost one four feet square. The height of the colurnn\ itself is 18 feet six inches. The whole of the material employed is Sydney freestone, which' is of a very durable nature, and best calculated to withstand the effect of the weather. The monument will bear inscriptions to the memory of those early explorers, George Dobson, Henry Whitcombe, Charles Townsend, and Charlton Howett. The West Coast Times of the 2nd inst. records two more deaths by drowning. Two miners, Patrick Dolan, aged 40, of theFive-mile Beach, and Thomas Corkhill, 25, of the Three-mile Beach, were iu Okarita on the 24th ult., aud left for the Three-mile Beach, about 6 p.m. on that day, and in attempting to ford the Threemile Creek, which was then in a high state of flood, got drowned. Both bodies were found on the beach next morning. A Christchurch. telegram in the Hokitika Star states that Hestor Hosken, ex Lancashire Witch, had confessed at the Resident Magistrate's Court, to haviug murdered her sweetheart, William James Thomas, at Port Lewin, Cornwall, in March 1867. The woman Hosken had poison on her when taken to. the watchhouse. She was brought up on the following day, aud remanded for medical examination. She is supposed to be insane. The Marlborough Express has the following: — We understand that an effort is on foot to get the Kaikouras proclaimed a port of entry ; the movers are sanguine of success. We trust that they may succeed, and hope it will prove beueficial to that rising district, as it will be to the province, by causing a large amount of duties to be paid there, which are at present paid iu Wellington. By latest advices from the East Coast of Otago and Canterbury, we learn that the stormy rainy weather which prevailed during the greater part of last mouth, has been succeded by calm summer weather with promise of continuance. The Invercargill Rifle Volunteers do not appear to have distinguished themselves iu the competitive firing for the Government prizes, the result of the shooting being but poor, and all below the score required to qualify them to compete at WeUingtou, 39 being the highest. ! It is stated that Bishop Selwyn may be expected to arrive in New Zealand iu July next, for a six months' visit. The firing for the Colonial Prizes at Pictou took place on Monday last, Color Sergeant Warner of the Blenheim Subdivision, scored 51 for the First Class Prizes, Privates Philpott and Essou of the Picton Company making 44 and 43 respectively, whilst Private J. Tait of the Blenheim Cadet Company, scored 38 for the Second Class Prizes. The firing by the Taranaki Volunteers for the District Prises has taken place. The highest score by the competitors for '. the first-class prize was 41, made by Cornet J. C. Davie* ; and the hi^heet for the

second class by Eiisiga T. Humphries, who scored 47. Madame Carandini and her daughters, •who have been giving a series of successful coucerts at Napier, left that place on ,the 29th ult. for Auckland. The Superintendent of Auckland has received a communication from Governor Sir George Bowen, informing him that his Excellency proposes leaviug Wellington for Auckland in H.M. s. 'Falcon' on the Bth March, aud thut he regrets, from the state of her health, Lady Bowen will be unable to. accompauy him. His Excellency further states that the Duke of Ediuburgh had personally dutimated to him whilst in Sydney that he hoped to arrive in Auckland about the 20th March or a little later. The London Guardian, in speaking of the great meeting held in the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford on the 3rd Dec. when Bishop Selwyn alluded to the fact that he was one of the three bishops who rowed in the first Oxford and Cambridge boat- . race — the other two being the Bishop of . Newcastle and the Bishop of St. Andrew's, says that the good Bishop omitted to add the further fact that the Cambridge boat, in which he and Bishop Tyrrell formed part of the crew, was beaten by the Oxford, in which Bishop. Wordsworth rowed. The heat at Rockhampton, near the new Maryborough diggings, has been so great of late that the laborers on the wharves and in the streets have been uuable to continue their employment. The workm *n of the corporation now leave their labor at 10, in the forenoon and resume it at 4 o'olock in the afternoon. Somebody who describes the Mormon temple at Salt Lake, now nearly complete, compares its appearance to that' of an old fashioued ship, without any keel, turned bottom up. The roof is supported by 44 piers of cut sandstone, each bine feet by three. The interior of the buildiug is thus described : — The stand for the speakers is at the west end of the building and covers 7500 feet of surface. The front of the stand is the segment of a circle. Before it are a seat and desks for the bishops and others who administer the sacrament. - The first seat in the centre of the stand or platform is for the Presidency of the State, the next for the Quorum of the Twelve, the third. for the first Presidency.-- Back of these are seats for a choir of 150 singers, with! the great organ, yet unfinished, behind, them. • On the right and left are seats ,,« for - from 800 to 1000 persons. ..The speaker's desk is 60 feet in front of the westerrr i^rs. ; In front of the stand, for 70 feet, t^e floor is, horizontal, thence to the ealt'iaud the floor rises with a grade, of one foot in 10. The room will seat down between eight and nine thousand persons. - ' The French ladies spend 8,,000,000 francs per year for corsets, 15,00^,000 for gloves, and 10,000,000 for bounetfc. False diamonds cost them l,Boo,QPo*francs, false teeth 1,500,000, glassieyes'sijOOO, masquerade dresses 730,000,', perfumery and cosmetics 22,000,0Q0, fans 5,000,000, artificial flowers 28,000,000. A precentor in one of the kirks of Scot land, by mistake commenced to sing a different psalm from that given out by the minister, the result being that, by the time the end of the second line was reached, matters came to a dead lock between him and the congregation. Instead of fainting, as he might have been expected to do, the precentor kept quite cool, preserving his presence of mind in the trying* circaihstanQes; and, as the eimpfe&c way of getting opt of the tli&cuUf, he turned round to the viiuieter, and made the appropriate remark — * Go ou with your eennou ; the "thing's stickit!'