The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 153, 2 July 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869.

Supreme Court. — Owing to the indisposition of his Honor the Judge, the Court was this morning adjourned until to-morrow, at ten a.m. Steamer Phcebe. — A telegram has been received in town stating that the Phoebe has been detained in Pieton, and will nofc arrive here until four o'clock tomorrow morning. Pheasant Shooting. — A large number of sportsmen have this year gone over to Motueka to enjoy a few days sport among the pheasants. Of course, there was the usual annual assertion that there were "any number of birds" to be found, but we understand that the result of yesterday's Jshooting was anything but encouraging to (he ardent sportsmen who have left their books and desks in Nelson, to tramp through fern, flax, and Wild Irishmen, and that at a general emptying of bags that took place at Daly's Hotel, last night, the game did not appear in that profusion* which might have keen expected at the close of the first day of the season. ■ !-■!■■ (j« «•■ ■" « 111 I The Hera, which was the first woolship which left Port Underwood this season, sailing on Jan. 10, with the family of the late Rev. A. Russell as passengers, is reported as having reached London safely on April 17th. Whale Fishery in Marlbokough. — We learn, through a private source that our whaling friends in Port Underwood are likely to make a good harvest this season. On Friday and Saturday last no less than nine black whales were captured by two boats crews under the management of Messrs. Thorns and Allridge — the former securing five and the latter four. This must have been the large school which was observed off Kaikoura Jast week. — Kaikoura Herald. The Waieau Massacre. — A Wellington contemporary, in noting that Thursday, June 17, was theannivei'sary of the above unhappy event, says: — " We are glad to find that the Government have authorised his Honor the Superintendent of Marlborough to replace the slab on the monument that was incorrectly inscribed, by a larger one allowing more space for the names, according to a carefully corrected list. We have been courteously furnished with a photograph, and are glad to furnish our readers with some further information on the subject. The stone, which is six feet high by four feet ten inches wide, is let in to the inclined face of a pyramid built of brick and cement, ten feet square at the base, and ten feet high, surmounted with a stone capping . and a cross. The pyramid is immediately behind the graves, and overlooks the great plain of, the Wairau. The monument and. the graves will be surrounded by an iron railing surmounting a brick and cement wall. It is now some three years since that a reserve of jßight acres was fenced inraround the graves, pahly for a district cemetery, and partly as a site. for a school house; and the i*?lfa.Dgement;;;jbas..:beeni found .veryireonve':ment^foKithe neighißorhiopd;; v'^he^wboiev purpose 'oy}' ' OEpps ?