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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 242, 12 October 1868, Page 2

We would remind our readers of the meeting annouuced to be held this evening at the Provincial Hall, at which the attendance of the electors of Nelson is 1 requested hy his Honor the Superintendent, for the purpose of giving expression ; to his views ou the events of the present sessiou of Parliament. We learn from our Wellington files that the House of Representatives have thrown out the Legislative Council Bill, which proposed to limit the number of members ia the Council and otherwise increase the powers of that body, by a majority of 29 to 18. The death of Mr. G. I Macfarlau, the member for Lyttelton, is announced, from low fever, and Mr Rolleston, M.H.R., the Superintendent of Cauterbury, is also lying dangerously ill j from the same disease, several cases of which are said to have occurred iv the neighborhood of the Club, which is very unfavorably situated. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Nelson Board of Works took place on Friday evening last. AU the members were present, except Mr Percy, Mr Bentley in the chair. The miuutes of the last meeting having been read andr&oufirmed, the Finance Committee brought up tbeir report, which recommended that rhe assessment should be prepared as speedily as possible; that a reduction of three hands should be made in the number of day men employed by the Board, aud that the watering of the public streets should in future be let by contract. The report was, after some discussion, adopted. It was resolved that public notice should be given by advertisement in the Evening Mail that the terras of the Gorse Hedges Act 1861 would be strictly enforced. The Public Works Committee reported that the proposition made by Mr Osman to supply teams and drays for the carrying out of certain works in Murphy-street, provided the Board furnished the labor, should be accepted. The ordinary accounts having been passed, the Board adjourned until Friday, the 23rd instant. An inquest was held at noon to-day, at the Greyhound lun, Bridge-street, on the body of Thomas Cross, a sheepowuer in the Amuri, who died there on Saturday last, before the Coroner, Dr Squires, and j a jury, of which? Mr T. Tur'rell was fore- j man. It appeared from the evidence ad- j duced that the deceased, who had been staying previously at the Royal Hotel, took up his quarters at the Greyhound on Thursday last. He had been drinking

hard that evening, and the next morning complained to the landlady, Mrs Townsend, of suffering from pain in tbe stomach. He was supplied with a considerable quantity of the beverage known as ' shandy gaff,' a compound of ale and ginger beer, followed by brandy. A draught was also procured from Mr Tatton's, which he took, but ou Saturday moruing he still continued very ill, and more brandy was given him. No medical assistance, however, was summoned, and the man died about halfpast 11 o'clock that morning. A postmortem examination of the body was made by Dr Vickerman. who stated that he fouud the lungs gorged with black blood, with a fibrinous clot of blood, produced by habitual excess in drink, on the right ventricle of the heart, the constitution being generally diseased from tbe effects of past intemperance. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Died from the effects 1 of excessive drinking. The deceased, who was 49 years old, had, it is stated, recently disposed of his ruu in the Amuri for £3000. An inquest was held atDrumduan, Suburban North, on Saturday last, before the Coroner, Dr Squires, and a jury, on the body of John Ryan, a laborer in the employ of James Mackay, Esq., who had died on the previous day. It appeared that the deceased, who -was in his 26th , year, had been subject for the last six months to violent pains in the stomach, and so lately as the 28th ultimo, experienced a severe attack of this nature, from which however, under medical treatment, he recovered. On lost Thursday night he was again taken ill, aud gradually got worse until his death, which occurred about 10 o'clock the uext morning. Mr Mackay sent to town for medical assistance, but before it could arrive the deceased had breathed his last. Dr Cotterell, who had made a post-mortem examination of the body, stated that death was caused by tubercular ulceration of the intestines. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. Au inquest was held at Renwicktown on Friday lust on certaiu remains found ou the banks of the Wairau, above Renwicktown, and identified as being the body of Harry Vant, who was drowned iv crossing the river on the night of Sunday, June 21. There were no marks of violence on the body, which was in an advanced state of decomposition, the face being entirely gone, and the jury returned a verdict that the body was that of Harry Vant, who, it was believed, had met his death by drowning. The horse which the deceased was riding at the time was found at Baillie's station, both it aud the saddle being wet. The schooner Margaret Campbell, Capt. Scott, has made a capital passage of eight days and a half from Hobart Town, which she left on the 2ud inst., arriving off the Boulder Bauk on Saturday last, the 10th inst. She brings Tasmanian files to the Ist, and some curious animals, which are, we understand, for sale, including four kangaroos, a wallaby, a wombat, with parrots aud 'other small deer.' The Nelson Govern meut Gazette of Saturday last notifies that Philip Rooney, hotelkeeper, of Charleston, and Michael Roche, storekeeper, of Brighton, have filed declarations of their insolvency. We have been requested to call attention to the important sale of farming stock, implements, &c, to be held to-morrow by Messrs Lockhart & Co., at the Richmond Fairground. The District Court of Nelson, as well as those of Wellington, Wanganui, Marlborough, aud Hawke's Bay, were abolished on the 30th ult. A telegram from Hokitika received on Saturday last, states that on Friday last the town and river were visited by a heavy flood, and the raiu was still falling heavily. We perceive from our Adelaide files, that the Carandiui party were giving concerts, at the beginning of the present month, with great success in that city. The once far famed Gabriel's Gully, iv Otago, is now almost deserted. In the early days of the railway each passenger was furnished with a sort of cheque, torn from a book or printed sheet, as required, and filled up with pen and ink. It was a Northumbrian Quaker (Mr Thomas Edmonstone) who hit upon tha expedient of a ticket, which, being printed, saved time and prevented error. [A very interesting account of this discovery and of the discoverer wili be found in one of i tbe early volumes 6f Dickens's Household Words.]

When the Great Britain arrived in the Mersey ou her homeward trip, she was boarded by the detectives in search of Australian Fenians. The Liverpool Albion states: — Some person had informed the Home Offiae that several of the Australian Fenian head centres were on board — the men who plotted the recent attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh — aud that they wete coining to this country to nvike further attempts on the life ot Royalty. One ot her Majesty's gunboats awaited the Great Britain, aud we understand that, after au active ' rummage,' the would-be ceutres were von est. Iv one week in Loudon, 8 publicans, 13 greengrocers and coaldealers, 9 grocers, cheesemongers, and chandlers, 2 eatinghouse keepers, 2 bakers, 2 chemists, 3 marinestore dealers, aud 1 butcher were fined for usiug unjust weights and measures, the fines ainouuting to £35 18s. Six things are requisite to create *a happy home.' Integrity must be the architect aud tidiness tlie upholsterer. It must be warmed by ufifectiou and lighted up with cheerful ness, and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all, as a protecting glory aud canopy, notliiug will suffice exxept the glory of God. Spermaceti is said to be like a busybody, because it makes caudles (scandals).