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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 212, 7 September 1871, Page 2

Bijou Dramatic Company. — We remind our readers of the theatrical entertainment to be given at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. '\ v ' Nelson Hospital. — Br. : Boor arrived from Wellington by the last trip of the Alhambra to take charge of the Hospital, LuDatic Asylum, &c. The, Committee of management has, we understand, decided upon retaining Dr. Squires as consulting physician, and.Dr. Farrella as consulting surgeon, whenever their services may he required. Lyell. — The intelligence ! from Zala and party's Alpine reef, Lyell, is^most encouraging. The newly, erected crushing machine is working admirably, and the copper plates already*: carry! a coating of amalgam' of considerable thickneßsiOThe stone is being proved of excellent quality, and .there is every, , probability , ,that v the opinion of the .yaljie-ro^.the.^pyell f reefs, long ago confidently entertained by Mr; 2rala-and' liis party, will be fully justified by t the results.—^ ffle&pori^itries. \ •■ -:Tsbj N. : ZbaeanDJCbOss, for actffSf Valor yor^dec^ratjVje- distinction for signal acts j of gatlantry recommended by tbe commiiflionerg in tbe colony, and approved by

the HomefGovernment, is a silver Maltese ; cross,twith a six-pointed gold star on each tarmj**Jwitlxl thei- words > " New Zealand " by a gold laurel wreath, the cross to ba surmounted by a gold crown and attached to a crimson ribbon -by- a -silver bar aud ring. For additional acts of bravery or devotion a silver bar is to be added across the ribbon, having -a plain surface burnished, and inscribed. with a date of the occurrence '%r*w^ic^ c the v: bar is given,' and the mean of the action, if any. Thus writes a correipondent from the Ahaura : — The new Court House at this place is nearly completed. It is a pretty little structure, in the " Westeoasteresque " style of architecture, and looks for all the world like a cross between an Ebenezer meeting-house and a Highland shooting- { lodge.) However, as is represents., nearly all the money the Government has expended here for the last two years, we must look upon it whir thankfulness and reverence. The Charleston HZfrmld says: — Two of our townsmen, Messr*. Nahr" and J. G. Jackson, have, "from information we've received;" purchased th* schooner Janet Gray, now in port, for the Fiji trade, and I on this trip the little vessel will proceed I to Nelson, there to be fitted up prior to leaving for the Island*, apon one of which her purchasers are in possession of large landed interests. Mr. Jackson, we believe, proceeds with the Janet Gray from Nelson to Auckland, and from thence to Levuka. A Specimen Nugget, thickly studded with gold, was recently brought to Greymouth by Mr. M. Carroll, from the claim of Adam Smith, at Reefton. The piece of quartz, which is about tbe size and shape of an ordinary pear, if believed to be. the richest yet brought to town from that district. It augurs well for the future prosperity of tho place that the deeper the shafts are bting sunk, the richer are the specimens brought to light. In this claim, a half-share was disposed of a few days since for £200.'*— Greymouth Star. The Press corresposdent) writes from Timaru : — There is a lull just now in business of all kinds, Sons* time ago the grain stores were full to overflowing, but the great bulk of it has now been exported, the regular visits of Ihe Melbourne steamers having tended to reduce stocks more rapidly. A great change in the trade of this port has been caused by the operations of the meat preserving establishment, Washdyke, viz., the imports of ■ timber, coal, tin, lead, aod sbpper, and the exports to England via Dunedin of tinned . meat and tallow. The coasting steamers have felt the benefit of this ready cargo materially. . With reference to the New Zealand ensign, a communication from the War Office to tbe Governor states that a colony cannot adopt a local flag, while forming a portion of the Queen's dominions. Such a flag may be used for the sake of convenience, as a local essign, and would probably be carried by vessels having a colonial register, but tbe Imperial flag— the Union Jack — should be the distinctive mark or ensign of a British possession, thereby indicating the nationality and allegiance oi the inhabitants thereof. Mr. Card well does not think any colony can abandon its national emblems, and the Union Jack is to continue io be hoisted on all colonial forts, ,&c. Public Meeting at Abauba, — A public meeting was. recently held at the Ahaura to " take into consideration tbe gross mismanagement of the Grey Valley portion of the Nelson South-west Gold,fields by the Nelson Provincial Government, and to devise some remedy for tbe grievances under which the population of tbe mining and agricultural districts are suffering." The following resolutions were passed : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the Provincial Government , of Nelson for some years past has ruinously mismanaged the Nelson South West Goldfields, and has displayed a total disregard of the wants and interests of the residents thereon." — "That it is desirable that the General Government should assume the control of public expenditure in this district, in order that the money voted for rba4s,anc( f . other public. works may be im- , mediately expended."— ■" Tha* the General Government be specially petitioned to construct a main trunk road from Grey- \ mouth "to the Inangahua with Colonial Government*; , funds."-*-" That a petition, Betting forth the grievances of the district, be prepared and signed, and that the same, with copies bfresblutidns—^one,' two, and three — be forwarded to W. H. Harrison, Esq., M.H.R., for presentation to the General Assembly. A gentleman one day indiscreetly asked a lady how old she wai. " Let me see. I was eighteen when I was married, and my husband was thirty; and now he is twice thirty, that is sixty; so of course. I am twice eighteen, that ia thirty-six." ' For nmaiiukr of n«u* mjkWA page.