The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 135, 9 June 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1871.

Volunteer Inspection. — Colonel Harrington is announced to inspect the Wakapuaka Volunteers to-morrow, at two p.m. The full penalty for non-attendance is to be inflicted. Waimea' Farmers* Club. — We are requested to call attention to the alteration of name as above from the " Waimea East Farmers' Club," and to correct any impression that may have got abroad as to its exciusiveness; farmers from all the Waimeas are earnestly requested to cooperate with the present promoters; and in furtherance of this object, we notice that they propose holding a 'meeting at the Institute, Richmond, on Tuesday next, and at the Bridge Hotel, Waimea-east, on the fourth Tuesday in the month, \ Convicts and Fenians. — The Colonist has the following telegram dated Christchorch, June 8. — Four con victs\ 'landed by the barque Queen of the South, hove been ordered back to Western Australia, and are kept in custody. until the vessel sails. Four Fenians, who arrived by the same vessel, have been set at liberty, on their own recognisances, on the under-

standing that they will proceod to Sydney. The Act of Parliament under which the men were arrested makes no distinction between political and other offendere. Eclipse op the Sun. — The Post says that a total eclipse of the sun, the last which will be visible in this part of the world during the remainder of the present century, is to take place on the 15th December next, and a scientific expedition, under the orders of Professor Ellery, is now fitting out in Melbourne for the purpose of going to Cape York to observe it. Dr. Hector has, we believe, been communicated with, and any scientific gentlemen who wish to join the expedition will, we learn, be permitted to do so on application. The cost will not exceed £25 each. The expedition is to leave Melbourne in November next, calling at intermediate ports for the convenience of those wishing to join. [A letter to this effect has been received by the Superintendent, and was read out at .the late meeting of the Scientific Association.] A Negative Compliment. — The Lyttelton Times says in a recent article that "we can still say that no Cabinet Minister of New Zealand has stood in the felon's dock, no member of its Legislature undergone a sentence of penal servitude. " Exportation of Stock. — We learn from a Southern contemporary that " three Leicester rams and five'ewes, bred on the New. Zealand and Australasian Land Co.'s station at Clydevale, have been purchased for exportation to Wallavalla, Washington territory, United States. A man named Anderson had his jaw broken whilst eDgaged iv a fight at Eangiora, Canterbury. It appears that he had been endeavoring to part two others who were quarrelling, but was interfered with by one or two more, and amidst the general scuffle he received either a kick from one of them, or a blow from a stone, causing the fracture. The race from Napier to Auckland between the steamers Wellington and Nevada, terminated in a victory for the former vessel by 40 minutes. Both vessels left Napier at 12.30 p.m. on Thursday, 18th May, and arrived at Auckland on the morning of Saturday, 20th, the Wellington at 6 o'clock, and the Nevada at 6.40.