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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 60, 12 March 1870, Page 2

Mr. Augarde quotes Culliford shares, £l ss. paid, at £1. Supreme Court. — The Court will be opened for the dispatch of business on Monday morning. The Charles Edward. — We are informed that if, on her arrival at the Grey, no news has been received of the Charles Edward, of which vessel nothing has yet been heard, the Kennedy will be despatched to Martin's Bay in search of the missing steamer. Woodroffe's Glass Blowers. — This Exhibition, which is quite a novelty in Nelson, nothing of the kind having been seen here before, is to open this evening, and from what is reported of it iu the columns of the local press in other parts of New Zealand, we may safely pronounce it well worth a visit. Among other curiosities will be exhibited two steamengines and a quartz-crushing machine composed entirely of glass. Pioneer Company. — A meeting of the shareholders in this Company was held last night, when the Secretary read a most favorable report from Dr. Hector on some specimens which had been sent to him for aualysis from the Company's claim at Collingwood, and which were stated by him to contain over 55 per cent, of copper. As there was every reason to believe that gold, in payable quantities, did not exist in the claim, it was determined to give up the gold-mining lease and apply for an ordinary mining lease to work, the copper. The meeting was then adjourned until it had been ascertained whether such a lease j could be obtained, and it was agreed that in the meantime a contract should be entered into for sinking a shaft on the lode of copper under the superintendence of Captain Cock. The Pomp of War. — A member of the Armed Constabulary, formerly a resident in Nelson, writes to his friends here from a certain station iu the North Island, giving an account of his present mode of life, which does not appear to offer many attractions to youths of an ambitious turn of mind. Not being a mounted trooper, our informant is not required to wear the elegaut but unaffected uniform of shirt collar and spurs, but, as a member of a respectable infantry company, he usually appears in the light and airy costume of half a red blanket tied round the waist, a few rags hanging about his legs, "just for decency's sake," and a round forage cap without a peak. Such is the dress — the work seems to consists of hunting up sly grog sellers, which appears to be a not very exciting employment, and our volunteer plaintively remarks, that when he joined, it was under the impression that he was to be "a soldier not a bobby." The arms principally used are stated to consist of pick and shovel, and the writer of the letter is of opinion that, with the exception of the absence ot the mystical letters N.G. on a prominent part of the clothing, and of many little comforts enjoyed by the prisoners in Nelson gaol, there is very little difference between the life he and his comrades lead, and the dress they wear, and that of the gang of hard labor men, who are to be seen walking through the streets of Nelson twice a day on their way to work.