The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 260, 5 November 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1870.

All Saints' Church. — Divine service will be held in the above Church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Resident Magistrate's Court. — Several cases of interest were heard in Court to-day and will be reported by us on Monday. Farmers' Club. — The monthly meeting of the Farmers' Club at Stoke -will take place in the Schoolroom on Monday evening next. Confirmation. — The Bishop of Nelson purposes holding a confirmation at St. Michael's Church, "Wnimea West, tomorrow evening at the usual hour of half-past six. Ciieist Church. — We are requested to state that tlie morniug sermon at at Christ Church, to-morrow, will be preached by the Rev. E. C. Bailey, late of Manchester, who has just arrived in the the colony. There have been some splendid crushinga lately at the Coromandel diggings, several claims yielding from 7 to 17 ounces to the ton. The quantity of conHaken out of the minps nfc tho Bay of Islands is from 160 to 200 tons daily, for which the company by whom the mines are worked, pay the Government a royalty of 6d per ton. Thk total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle, N.S.W., during the twelve months encled on the 31st August last, was 494,480 tons, of which New Zealaud took 76,483 tons. A correspondent writes from Taranaki to an Auckland journal as follows : — lt is reported in town that Te Whiti had gone mad. It is said he has been buried and risen agaiu. Te Whiti says he has been to heaven, and seeu the seven golden candlesticks. He maintains that he is appointed to be King, — that peace is to prevail on earth. His natives look upon him as a prophet, aud reverence him with superstitious awe. Musical Criticism. — The Ly Helton Times has recently given offeuce by one of its musical critiques, and at the foot of one of the published letters on the subject we fiud the folio wing editorial note : "For the last dozen years we have been so perplexed in our endeavors to satisfy the musical world, in the way of criticism, that we are now thinking of inviting every performer to critcise his or her own work, and see how that will auswer." Mr. Heller, in Wellington, administered a dignified and well deserved reproof to certain occupants of the front seats, who kept up a line. of conversation during the musical portion of the entertainment, greatly to the annoyance of the audience aud the performer. Some people in the back seats called out, asking Mr. Heller to play the "Last Rose of Summer," but he declined, saying he had played what was in the programme, and would play nothing more, as during the time he was playing he had been disturbed by the whisperiug and talking going on amongst people who should have known better, or if they did not know better should be taught it. The audience heartily applauded Mr. Heller, and seemed thoroughly to appreciate the justness of his remarks. The Lancet, in referring to a railway accident tbat recently occurred in England, mentions it as a curious fact that all who were asleep at the time escaped uninjured, natures anaesthetic ensuring them, not only against fractures aud contusions, but even against the bad effects of shaking and concussion. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a form of supplication to Almighty God, praying that the horrors of war in Europe may be assuaged, and peace restored. It is to be addressed to all the Bishops of the Southern Hemisphere, with an earnest hopo that they will recommend their people to add this prayer continually to their private and family supplic.itious. A well known political econonomist 'says: — "We pay best — Ist, those who destroy vs — generals ; 2nd, those who cheat vs — politicians and quacks ; those who amuse vs — singers aud musicians j and worst of all, those who instruct us— ministers aud editors." A Canny Scot in Fiji is said to have bought 16,000 acres of land at 5d per acre.