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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 209, 4 September 1871, Page 2

Steamek Alhambra. — This steamer, we observe, leaves to-morrow at midnight, and not on Wednesday as previously advertised. H. M. S. Basilisk was compelled to get ! under weigh and cruise about the Wellington harbor on Wednesday last on account of the heavy gale that was blowing. Postal. — The Postal authorities desire us to call attention to the fact that a moil •will be made up for Wellington, to-morrow, by the brig Chanticleer. Letters intended for despatch by this opportunity must be specially addressed. H.M.S. Basilisk. — It is so long since one of her Majesty's ships visited us that our readers will, we are sure, be glad to learn that the Basilisk may be expected here during the night, she having left Wellington for Nelson direct at 9.30 this morning. Pedestrianism. — "Young Austin," who, as a pedestrian, has been creating some excitement of late in the sporting world at Canterbury and the West Coast, arrived in Nelson by the Kennedy, on Saturday. Since 1863 he has been most successful in his peculiar line, and we hope to see some matches got up during his stay in Nelson. Football. — The Wellington Advertiser says t — " It is rumored in sporting circles that the Nelson Football Club will shortly pay Wellington a visit, for the purpose of trying the strength of our local club. No doubt they will receive a hearty welcome and a good " licking." At any rate we hope so. All Saints' Organ Fund. — The concert in aid of this fund is to take place to-morrow evening, and we are pleased to learn that a very large number of tickets have already been disposed of. Those who are to take part in it are reminded that there will be a full rehearsal at the Provincial Hall this i evening. Religious Education. — A petition has been presented to the House of Representatives signed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, the Vicar-General, and some 200 residents, praying that religious education be recognised in the Education Act now before the House. A I similar petition has been presented from Catholics resident in Greyraouth. Probable Re-Appointment of Mb. Mooehouse. — The Post has learned '"on competent authority that the office of Chief Registrar under the Land Transfer Act, recently vacated by Mr. W. S. Moorhouse, has not been filled up, and that it is the intention of the Government, so soon as certain disabilities have been removed, to reinstate the former occupier once more. Lunatic Asylum. — On Friday evening Mr. Kiernau kindly displayed his dissolving views at the Lunatic Asylum, greatly to the delight of the patients, as also of (he numerous visitors. Some little disappointment was experienced in the customary dance not taking place afterwards, but this was prevented by the state of one of the patients who required the incessant attention of the warder and matron. A Travelling} Cat. — An instance of feline sagacity, says a Wellington paper, was afforded by the s.s. Phoebe on her present trip. A cat which has for some years been on board the steamer, went on I board the s.s. Rangitoto, lying at the Wellington wharf, at the latter end of last month, and was carried to Melbourne. On the arrival of that vessel at Nelson last week, puss disembarked, and greatly to the surprise of her old shipmates, presented herself on board tbe Phoebe on her going alongside the Nelson wharf, on the night of the 28th ult., having bad a tour of a month's duration. ! ! MBii^jHOLr' aWhAt at KekeBANGU. —An inquest waß held last

Wednesday, at-Kekerangu, on the body of Mary Elizabeth Lovegrove, a little girl of nine y«jars; of age. The evidence was to the follbwingVeffect :'-— Mr. Lovegroy^ was engaged in erecting a fence on the previous Monday evening, and about 5 p.m. deceased who had been with him left to go home, having her younger brother with her. • Some .quartef t o£ttn-bpur,* after they bad left, talking together, 'he heard the boy scream, aud saw him run along the fence, but. thinking tbathis sister had run away from him, and that he was running after her, he took no notice, but finished his work for the evening, and returned towards home. His attention was then called to something being, wrong, and seeing persons running towards the river, and hearing sounds of distress,- beimmediately ran down also to the Bluff, whence the boy's screams proceeded. There he found deceased, and picked .her up quite dead, and carried her to thehouse' where, on undressing her, he found the body much.bruised, and her neck broken. She had fallen from the top of the cliff, about 30 feet high, where she had been collecting flax-stalks for 'her brother \arid sister to play with, one of which was found with her body. The verdict was that she came to her death by accident. — Express. The Government and the Motueka Election. — On Wednesday,., says j.the Post, Sir David Monro asked whether the telegraphic wires had been used without payment by any member of the Government, or by persons authorised by. them, with a view to prejudicing his return. . The manner in which the question was met was neither more nor less than simply disgraceful to the Government, and a greater piece of special pleading than the newly returned Treasurer was guilty of could hardly be imagined. It is recorded that in old days it was customary when either plaintiff or defendant had a bad case to. enter on the back of the brief " no case, abuse the other side," and possibly this may have been the Ministerial feeling when they entrusted so able a colleague with so bad a defence. Literally they had no defence. They did, no,t care to own how far they bad tampered with the wires, or to what extent they had interfered with the election, the result of which ia now under investigation. The best that the Colonial Treasurer could make of the matter was that any telegrams forwarded during the time referred to, by members or others, were private, telegrams sent and paid for in usual course. ..... Even this was dragged out most reluctantly, so. reluctantly indeed that the statement left, a painful impression on the minds of its bearers that it was by no means as tr uthf ul ■ as U should have been. Mr. Yogel, in his answer, sheltered himself, or the offenders rather, under the secrecy of the telegraph, and simply said that when any of Hhi3 colleagues used the wires they paid for them. That leaves the' matter exactly w|iere it was, and strengthens Sir David. l&onro's case amazingly. '.. ' , „ Nelson Gymnasium. — The Hall which has just been completed on th6~.Govern-ment-ground in Harley Street was opened as a gymnasium on Saturday, when a large number attended, both in the morning, and in the evening. Theibrfilding, which is of a considerable *size^ being 80ft long, and 35ft wide, was erected with the intention of making it a drillshed, the volunteers subscribing £140 towards it, and the Provincial Government £100, but as the whole of it is not likely at the present tima to be required for military purposes, it was thought desirable, at an additional cost: of £50, to convert it into a gymnasium, with all the necessary appliances, consisting of clubs, boxing gloves, horizontal .: and parallel bars, inclined ladder, trapeze^ rings and ropes, vertical poles, jumping-bar, vaulting horse, single sticks, &c;\ The members of the volunteer companies are, of course, allowed free admision,; honorary members are also to be admitted- by ballot, on paying a subscription of 3si per month, or 7s. 6d. per quarter, and pupils attending the Nelson College and schools, over 12 yearsof age, are admitted , at Is. per month, or 2s. 6d. per quarter. The fact of over 40 . College boys,, and, an- equal number . of honorary metnbe.rs.i iug already , become subscribers shows how' greatly an institution of the kind . was > wanting ■ here, y Axt i io> structor has been engaged to supervise the exercises generally, and . those^ who .have shown that they excel, in ' any 'particular branch of gymnastics have beqn^old,, off to superintend and give instruction in that department. The members will be subject to a certain discipline, and, ( will have to. go through^ a.^TprdpeilpCodrse^" ''ex_ejr/ciitesi The gymnasium, wnicn will "supply a want-that has long been' felt here, will be open on Wednesdays and Saturdays 'from 3t05 in the afternoon] >ain ; d be t^eei^an^ja^ 9 inUhe eV'e'nrag.-OEver^thin'g; appears w have.ibeen*awAnged .with great care and forethought, and with a view to making it a thoroughly useful institution.