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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 141, 21 June 1871, Page 2

Oulliford Company.— The adjourned meeting of shareholders in this company will bo held at the Oddfellows' Hall tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. Mr. Mabin reports town section No. 403, with dwelling-house thereon, as having realised, at auction, to-day, the sum of £200. On the passage up from Sydney to Auckland, the Nebraska was only 4^ days — the fastest trip on record. The steamer Hero lakes over 5h days; The Quean has assented to the South Australian Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister, in consideration of the strong feeling expressed by the Colony in favor of it. The Nelson Original Amateur Christy Minstrels. — The "Original" Nelson Minstrels will give one of their attractive performances at the Assembly Room this evening. A glaace at the programme is quite sufficient to show that a most pleasant entertainment may be expected. Last Night's Entertainments. — Mr. Stodare gave the second of his performances at the Assembly Eoom last night, on whftfh occasion the programme was much the same as on the previous evening. He will give two more entertainments with a change of programme on Thursday and Saturday. — Mr. and Mrs. Hilton's farewell concert at the Oddfellows' Hall was well attended. They left for the West Coast this morning in the Charles Edward, aud will return to Nelson in about six weeks. Thames Goldfields. — The following is the latest news from Auckland : — 17,500 ounces of gold arrived from the Thames on the 13th. The mines are still producing heavy returns. The Caledonian is as rich as ever, and shares closing at £188. The next dividend is expected to be £15 to £20 per share. The Thames Company's shares sold at £30; Tookey's, £30; Alburoia, £10; Poverty and Charleston, £8 10s ; Belfast's £7 os.; Otago's, £3 10s. ; Rising Junction, £3. The next crushing will be good. Cures, 215.; Red Queen's, Bs.: Nonpareil, £5. The last company has declared a dividend of Bs. Canterbury Lunatic Asylum.— An entertaiumeut was recently given to the inmates of this Asylum at which an audience uumbering over 300 was present. The musical portion consisted of selections from " The Messiah," and possessed peculiar attractions from the fact of its being the first oratorio performed in Canterbury with an organ, one having recently been erected in the asylum. In addition to the organ there was a band of fifteen instruments, while the chorus numbered over forty voices. The whole thing was a great success, the audience, both patients and visitors, being delighted with the treat afforded to them. The Queen of the Thames. — The following telegram from Sydney appeared in the Australasian of the 10th instant: — The steamer Maitlaud arrived to-day, and brought news of the wreck of the steamer Queen of the Thames, bound from Melbourne to London. She was totally wrecked at Struy's Bay, near the Cape of Good Hope, on the night of the 17th of March. -The vessel was then 26 days out. They saw land in the evening, and a fixed light, whiah the captain mistook for the lighthouse on Cape Agulhas. About 11 at night the shore was seen about half-a--mile distant. Mr. Goyder, SurveyorGeneral of South Australia, says in his evidence before the Court of Inquiry, that he anticipated danger from the proximity of the vessel to the shore. Before midnight the vessel struck heavily on a reef. The sea was then calm and the weather clear. The boats were launched, the purser and two sailors were drowned, all the others reached the shore safely. Some of the crew acted in a ruffianly manner, and \ pluudered the passengers' luggage. Mr. Moore chartered a steamer and conveyed the passengers to Cape Town. The vessel and cargo were sold for £16,000. The purchasers chartered the steamer Bismarck and obtained two cargoes of wool, which was all wet, some being heated. The vessel's hull drifted over the reef on to a sand-bank; it held well together, and' there was a possibility of floating her off. The majority of passengers proceeded to England in the Bteamer, Briton. The resident Magistrate held, an inquiry, and acquitted the officers of blame. The Government being dissatisfied with this finding,' ordered a new inquiry before Sir Thomas

M'Lear and the Captain of the Sirius. Captain Macdonald, however, refused to give evidence, on the ground of a previous acquittal. Lectures on Commonplace Subjects. — The Greymouth Star is " delighted beyond measure to learn that the Committee of the Greymouth Literary Institute have succeeded in arranging for a course* of lectures to be delivered through the winter season." The following is given as the subject of one of them : — Mr. Bolter (on his return to the West Const) will lecture on "Finance, or the Art of Making a Fortune without Capital." Mr. Bolter will give several instances where this has been successfully accomplished. A, he says, buys of B five tons of flour on a month's acceptauce, at £20 per ton. A then sells the whole to C at £17 for cash, and buys ten tons of sugar from D, at £38 10s. per ton. Terms: One third cash, and the balance by a bill. A opens a store, and gets it it well stocked by E, who takes a bill of sale over it to secure himself. A realises on the greater part of\ the stock, and meets Bs bill for flour, from whom he orders twenty tons more upon the same terms as he obtained the first lot. By selling a portion of this at 25 per cent, less than coat, he meets D's bill for sugar, who, having the greatest confidence in him, sells him fifty chests of tea and ten quarter-casks of brandy upon time. A then pays a portion of his debt due to E, who holds a bill of sale over him, and doubles his orders. Ais now in a good position, He realises,- upon the whole of his stock by selling for cash at one-third of the market price. He then takes a cabin passage, and in another Colony is enabled to start as a capitalist. Mr. Bolter himself is a capitalist.