The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 266, 12 November 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1870.

We are requested to remind our readers that two sermons will be preached to-morrow by the Rev. E. Bailey, iv the morning at All Saints', aud in the evening at Christ Church. Resident Magistrate's Court. — Joseph Saunders, charged with using threatening language to Charles Cullen, was this morning; bound over in his own recognizance of -£20 to keep the peace for three months. Canterbury Baces. — In yesterday's races the Nelson horses were not so fortunate as on the previous days, only one prize falling to their lot, and Peeress beiug beaten by her rival, Knottingley. The following is the result of the days' --,-iort. The Christchurch Plate of 150 sac-. <wo miles, Knottingley 1, Peeress 2 ; R.i'.vay Plate of 50 soys, won by Miss Fiat ; Metropolitan Handicap of 100 soys, one and a-half miles, Mr. Redwood's Misfortune 1, Southern Chief 2 ; The Selling Race of 40 soys, was won by Lyndon, and | the Consolation Plate of 40 soys, by Catapult. The English News. — Although it would be unreasonable to look for the arrival of the maii, which was due here last night, for some four or five days, it is quite possible that by the Airedale which is expected to-morrow, we may receive the latest English news, as it was reported that Messrs. Webb and Co. were about to run one of their large steamers down to New Zealand, just to show in what time the service might be accomplished. She was, we believe, to start at the same time as the mail boat, and we may therefore expect her at New Zealand three or four days in advance of her, which would render it quite possible for the Airedale to have the news on board to-morrow. Nelson and Cobden Railway. — The Anglo Australian in London thus writes in the European Mail of the 9th September : — Unfortunate, indeed, seems the scheme of the Nelsou and Cobden Railway,

New Zealand. Not long ago, I had occasion to record a contretemps between the former negotiators of the enterprise ; and vow I have to inform the Colonists that Mr. Brogden, the celebrated civil engineer, who but recently offered to undertake it, has abandoned it, in consequence of the difficulties that have been created in mercantile speculation by the Continental war. Oue can only hope that these difficulties may soon pass away, and that the Nelson and Cobden Railway will before long become a realised fact. Certainly, anyone who knows the nature, character, and resources of the country that it would traverse must have faith in its ultimate success.