The Nelson Evening Mail THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 142, 22 June 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1871.

San Francisco Mail. — This mail is due at Auckland to-day, consequently the telegrams may be expected here via Tauranga to-morrow. Winteu, Wea.tu.er. — We had last night the hardest frost we have yet experienced this winter. The thermometer was down to 29°, being within two degrees of the iowest poiut yet registered in Nelson. Winter Evening Lectures. — The second lecture of this series will be delivered at the As?embly Room-tomor-row evening, by Mr. F. C. Simmons, who has chosen as his subject " Our Language and Race." Culliford Company. — We remind the shareholders of the meeting to be held at the Oddfellows' Hall, this evening. News has, we believe, been received from the mine, hut whether favorable or, otherwise we have been unable to learn. * . Nelson Artizans' Association.— We are iuformed that by the last mail from Wellington the Artizans' Association received copies of the Gazettes, Hansards, aud all the other volumes that are usually supplied by the Government to public readiug rooms. Nelson Original Christy Minstrels. We must congratulate the Company who who made their appearance at the Assembly Room last night on the complete success of the entertainment, both as regards the very large audience and the excellence of the performance. The opening overture from the Caliph of Bagdad was capitally played, and afforded lull scope to tlie eccentricities of the heroes of the bones and tambouriue, who handled their instruments with all the zeal and energy of professionals. That most absurd of all absurd songs, " I saw Esau " was most amusingly rendered by Mr. M'Cabe, and was, of course, encored. The gems of the first part were, without question " The Moon behind the Hill," and " Beautiful Isle of the Sea," su^g by Mr. Rider, who possesses a very fine voice, and knows well, how to use it. Tbe choruses to these two songs, and indeed throughout the evening, were a little shaky, and iudicated a want of more practice, but the audience was too well pleased with-the entertainment generally to be disposed to criticise any particular portion of it. The second part commenced with a dance by Mr. T. Chittenden, which, as his dancing always does, gave great delight. Glees, ballads, and comic songs followed, after which came the farcical little sketch entitled the "Troublesome Servant," most amusingly acted by Messrs M'Cabe and Stevenson, and the entertainment concluded with a "Plantation Walk Round" by the Company, who, if tbey were as well satisfied with the results of the entertainment as was the audience with the performance itself, will not allow last night's to be their final appearance before the public. '""•■""^ A Hint to Editors. — " I read Dyers' letter," says Addison, sneeringly, " more for the style than the news 5 the man has a 'clever pen, it must be confessed." This is the proper distinction ; the clever man is read ijot for his information, but for his Btyle — that flashy succession of periods ; that laboring after effect ; that ransacking and conglomeration of all possible things ; that '-twinkle-twiukle-little*star " species of composition which plays about the imagination like a will-o'-the-wisp; and at length, after leading the reader a dance over bogs 'and "• quagmires, lands him at the very spot from which he set out.