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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 62, 14 March 1868, Page 3

The Suez Mail, per Otago, will close this evening, at 7 o'clock. Money orders and newspapers at 5. The arrival of the Otago, which will convey our Suez Mail, was telegraphed at Hokitika at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, and she may therefore be expected here early tomorrow mornins:, and will iv all probability leave on Monday morning. In reference to a statement which &p---peared in oar leading article of Thursday last to the effect tbat the cost of tho erection of the Maungatapu Monument had not yet been defrayed, we are iv formed that an appeal to the public for this purpose having proved wholly unsuccessful, tbe members of the committee felt themselves bound to supply the funds required for the payment of all liabilities in this regard. Hop-picking has commenced in earnest, the grounds belonging to Messrs Hooper and Dodson in the Wood having been cleared, and operations commenced in their hopgrounds on the Maitai. On Tuesday last Messrs Harley also began on their extensive grounds in the Wood, and we are told that the yield is likely to prove a very good one. We were indebted to an early practice of the Fire Brigade yesterday morning for the watering of the principal streets

of the city, which conduced so much to the general comfort under the very sultry and oppressive weather which prevailed. From our report of the proceedings at the fortnightly meeting of the Board of Works yesterday evening, it will be seen that the Board propose intimating to tlie Government their readiness to water the streets daily, provided the use of the water be granted them, and there can be little doubt, we imagine, of the acquiescence of the Government in their proposal. The firing of the Waimea Volunteer Company, postponed in consequence of the late inclement weather, took place to-day. We hear that Private Siicock had made 19, and Private Tunnicliffe} 18, in the first round, for the Ist class prizes. The Right Rev. Bishop Suter, iv the course of sermons on questions of the day, preaches to-morrow evening at Christ Church, on * Search the Scriptures.' The Rev. J. Crump will preach tomorrow evening, in the Wesleyan Church, Hardy- street. The new schoolhouse at St. Mary's, which will eventually form part of the convent for the reception of the Sisters of Mercy, is now nearly completed. Although the new building, which consists ot two spacious schoolrooms, with dormitories above, and which is attached to the dwelling house and offices, appears narrow for its height, we are informed that this has resulted from a desire to insure good ventilation, both for the dormitories and for the schoolrooms below. The building, besides being slated and plastered, is substantially built, and occupies a remarkably healthy position in the grounds at the east end of St. Mary's Church. We have been requested to state that the tea meeting in celebration of the opening ofthe school, is postponed until the termination of the preseut penitential season of Lent.