The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY. MAY 11, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 110, 11 May 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY. MAY 11, 1871.

Telegraphic. — We have been requested • to state that a telegraph station has been opened at Hampd&9 in the Province of Otago. ' Last Night's Council. — The only resolution on/ the paper having been disposed of last night, Mr. Gibbs moved tin second reading of the Executive Bill, when Mr. Donne, Mr. Luckie, and others, stated that it being the evident, wish of 'tbe majority of the Council that (he Bill should become law, they would offer no opposition to its progress. It was then read the second time, committed, read the third time and passed. The Estimates will, we presume, be considered this evening. Lost and Found, — A gentleman in business in this town was surprised yesterday by a visit from Police-sergeant Nash, who enquired whether he har] lost anything, and on receiving a reply &i the negative, produced a letter addressed to the gentleman in question containing two £5 notes which he had picked up in the street that morning, it having been dropped by the loser on the previous evening, who, however, had not, up to that time missed it. Nush, we believe, di.i not leave the house without some substantial recognition of his honesty in returning the lost notes. A LARGE school of whale. J , estimated at over 100 in number, were observed in the Bay off Petane beach ou Saturday forenoon last. The live stock export from Port Ahuriri for the. mouth ending 30ih of April, comprised 105 head of cattle and 1,540 sheep. The s.s. 'John Perm' has been purchased hy the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company for the sum of £7,500. A correspondent writes as follows; in yesterday's Cross: — We should never ftfce an opportunity of showing the world the high state, of morality that exists in the city of Auckland. I would, therefore, suggest that the entertainment to be jriven to the officers of the 'Nevada' should be conducted on teetotal principles. " In connexion with the recent panic at Adelaide about poisoned mutton, the Adelaide correspondent of a border paper tells a good story of a certain medical gentleman who was in the habit of receiving presents of kangaroo and other game from a friend in the country. On one occasion he received without letter what he imagined to be a hind quarter of a young marsupial, and he accordingly bad it cooked in the most approved style, and pronounced it delicious. Judge, however, of his horror when two days after he got a note from his friend informing him that he had forwarded some diseased mutton* for analysis aud report. Of course, aij/e\ such intelligence, the iEsculapian and his family were .-sieved with violent spasms, and results of a serious nature were apprehended, but happily digestion and other functions had done their work, and no ill consequences.