The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 231, 30 September 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1870.

Penny Headings. — Over 150 boys were present at the Temperance Hall last evening, the whole of them being highly pleased with the readings provided for their entertainment. Farmers' Club. — Wo call attention to an advertisement which appears in our columns, iuvitiDg the attendance of those who are desirous of forming a Farmer's Club, at the Stoke Schoolroom, to-morrow evening, at 7 o'clock. Christy Minstrels. — This far-famed company of minstrels arrived from the West Coast in the Kennedy this morning, and purpose giving an entertainment at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. The favorable impression they created on their last visit to Nelson will no doubt ensure them a good attendance. Mr. George Cotterell. — We would remind our readers that this talented gentleman, assisted by several well known amateurs in Nelson, is to give a farewell performance at the Assembly Room this evening, on which occasion we hope to see a bumper house. The programme speaks for itself, and needs no laudation from the press to commend itself to the favorable notice of the Nelson public. Sporting. — By \ the Taranaki, which sailed last night, Mr. Redwood shipped five of his celebrated thorough-breds to Canterbury, to take part in the meeting which is to come off during the early part of next month. The horses to whom is entrusted the credit of Mr. Redwood's stables are Peeress, XXX, Songstress, Bashaw, and Day Dawn, and as they have been placed under the care of Mr. E. Cutts, it is quite certain that the fullest justice will be done to them. The name of Redwood is in itself a tower of strength in all matters connected with racing ; and with so formidable a team at his disposal ' we have no doubt that the prestige which, thanks to that thorough sportsmaD, Nelson has already obtained throughout the Australasian colonies for the excellence of her race horses, will on this occasion be fully upheld. Gas Company. —It gives us much pleasure to state that the question of supplying gas for the town of Nelson is at last likely to assume a practical form, a meeting of those who are interested in the formation of a Company having been called for Monday evening next at the Masonic Hotel. We are informed by Mr. M. Lightband, who has recently been on a visit to Christchurch, that Mr. Wright, the engineer who constructed the gasworks in that town, has offered to come up here for the purpose of preparing plans and specifications, and furnishing an estimate of the probable cost of the plant required for our use; and further, so convinced is he of the remunerative nature of such a speculation, that he is himself prepared to take up one quarter of the whole number of shares. It is also said that a gentleman in Wellington is prepared to invest £1000 in the undertaking ; but, although ifc is satisfactory to find that no difficulty is likely to exist in carrying out the scheme, we confess that we should like to see it made a purely local affair, and to find the names of every householder in Nelson included in the roll of shareholders, in order that tbe almost certain profits to accrue from the speculation may be retained in the place. We most heartily commend the proposition to the notice of our readers, and we have no doubt whatever that within eighteen months, at the outside, from this date, we shall have so far made an advance in civilization that the darkness of our streets will no longer be rendered visible by the uncertain glimmer of kerosine lamps, but that we shall find them illuminated with gas, obtained, we venture to hope, from the produce of our own coal fields. The irrepressible Captain Hayes, of Black Diamond notoriety, has once more turned up in his capacity as a kidnapper, after various reports of his death by violence, shipwreck, and sundry other causes,

received from time to tim 6. A newspaper published at Samoa says : — Captain Hayes is charged with having brought away, against their will, eight boys and nine girls, from Mauahiki, besides the mother of one of the boys, who begged to be allowed to come with her child, and one man seems to have consented to come. He is also charged with having brought away, under false pretences, nineteen natives of Pukapuka (Danger Island), having pretended to engage them to work in Samoa for six months, at the rate of five dollars a month, but at the same time making them put their mark to an agreement to work in Fiji for five years at the rate of two dollars a month. There is also another charge against Captain Hayes of having brought away, unpaid for, 20,000 cocoa nuts, and other property — valued at 500 dollars — from Manahiki, which he offered to convey to Rakaauga as a favor to the people. The natives cf Manahike were confined below, and not allowed to communicate with the Pukapuka people while the Atlantic was off that island taking on board the nineteen natives." Had Him There ! — The Gaulois reports a conversation which took place lately at Ascot between the Princess of Wales and a French attached who was over-elated at the victory of the French horse Somette : — "That admirable race, Madam," said he, "revenged us for Waterloo." " True, " answered the Princess, "but at Waterloo you ran better still."