The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1871.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 300, 20 December 1871, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1871.

All Saints' Church. — The last of the Advent week-day services will be held at All Saints', this evening, r. *. The Slave Trade. — Captain Coath has been convicted at Brisbane of kidnapping in the South Seas, and sentenced to five years imprisonment, and to pay a fiiie of £50. Spring Grove School. — The annual tea and public meeting in connection with this school is advertised for Friday evening next, when the prizes will be distributed, and the customary vocal and instrumental entertainment will take place. The Loss op the Rangoon. — A memorial, signed- by all the passengers on board the Rangoon at the time of her loss, was forwarded from Galle to the directors of the P. and O. Company in London, complaining of the insufficiency of the efforts mode by the company's officials to preserve their lives and properly. Italian OrERA. —It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers that the Italian Opera Company, whose advent has been so eagerly looked for by all lovers of music amongst us, is expected to arrive from Auckland by the Taranaki, tomorrow, and to perform the Barber of Seville, at the Oddfellows' Hall, in the<j eveniDg. Nearly the whole of the tickets have been disposed of, and a bumper house will welcome to Nelson the most accomplished compaiiy that has ever yet visited New Zealand. Dinner to Mr. H. Redwood. — A dinner ia to be given, this eveniDg, at the Oddfellows' Hail to Mr. H. Redwood, one of the earliest of our Nelson settlers, wbo is about to remove to the Province of •Marlborough. In matters connected with sporting, Mr. Redwood has been the means of niakiug Nelson known far and wide throughout the Australian colonies as the place from which have been sent to all the principal meetings horses that havo made for themselves a name second to none in the Southern Hemisphere, and have placed to the credit of their owner stakes to an amount in very few instances exceeded by the largest Australian breeders. As a generous, \warm-hearted neighbor and friend, he is known to every one in the province, and to a great many out of it, and there can ba little doubt but that the dinner to be given to him tonight will attract a large number of his fellow-settlers from both town and country.