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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 78, 1 April 1872, Page 2

Journalistic. — The proprietorship of the Westport Times has changed hands, Messrs. Reid and Co. having re-purchased it. Mr. G-. B. Bakton has brought an action against the Otago Daily Times Company for £1000 expenses in the telegram libel case. Sports in the Botanical Gardens. — We remind our readers of the foot-racing, &c, advertised to take place ia the Botanical Gardens to-day. Good prizes are offered, and keen competition may be expected. Accident to Cobb's Coach. — The coach between Christchurch and Timaru capsized on Tuesday last, and Edward Garron a passenger, and a well known Tiraaru eettler, was severely injured. He was carried into an accommodation house and died at midnight. Farewell Dinner to Mr. Richakd White. — A complimentary dinner was given to Mr. White, on the occasion of his leaving Nelson, at the Trafalgar Hotel on Wednesday evening, at which about thirty of his friends sat down, the chair being occupied by Mr. J. Harley, and the vice by Mr. E. Everett. The health of the guest of the evening was proposed by the chairman and feelingly lespopded to by Mr. White, and was followed by a number of other toasts and poujis, the evening on the whole being a most pleasant and sociable one. Assembly Room.— Saturday night entertainments have always proved a failure in Nelson, so far as getting an audience together is concerned, and that of last Saturday was no exception to the general rule, but very few people being present, and this of course had a depressing effect upon the actors who, however, sustained their various parts with far more spirit than could have been expected under the circumstances. This evening, on which occasion Miss Clara Stephenson takes her benefit, the house will no doubt be better filled, and the performance, consequently a greater success. Nuggets at the Lyell. — A Westporfc telegram dated March 27th says : — A lot of nusgets have been found in alluvial ground at Irishman's Creek, at Lyell, near the Buller. One is of 28 ounces, one 8 ounces, and two of 12 ounces each. They were got by a party working a few hundred yards below the Excelsior Company's claim, and were sold to-day to the Bank of New Zealand. The Natives and the Teleg-raph.— A telegram to the Evening Post dated Kati Kati, March 26, says : — All the tribes of the Thames Peninsula have been routed up to attend the Hubanga over the remains of the chief Taraia. Ohinemuri and Hauraki are full of natives, and lamentations, feasting and dissipation, are going on on a wholesale scale. A letter has been received from the Maori King, forbidding the progress of the telegraph and roads. Grass Fire in Marlboroug-h. — The Express of Saturday last eays : — A terrific fire on the Vernon Run commenced last evening, and was spreading fast over the country when we went to press at midnight. From the appearance it would seem as if it had been fired on the flat, and the damage must be considerable. At 11 p.m., Mr T. Redwood came up for assistance to secure his homestead, and a large party of volunteers went down for the purpose. It is said that the fire was caused by persons who were out shooting ducks yesterday ; if- so the consequences will be very serious for them. The Rising Generation. — We would call special attention to an article which appearß in another column from the

Southern Cross on the subject of the " Street Boys in Auckland." A Nelson reader in perusing it will, we fear, recognise the description of someof the youths who are growing up in perfect ignorance of everything but that which is wicked and objectionable in the highest degree as being not altogether inappropriate to the lads that are to be seen in our own streets. It is true we have a better system of school teaching here than they appear to be able to boast of in Auckland, but the home education which should teach a boy to avoid the use of coarse, filthy, and blasphemous language as a thiog to be shunned and abhorred is, judging from the results, most lamentably deficient. A perusal of the article we now bring under the notice of our readers may have the effect of opening the eyes of pareDts who have hitherto been negligent of their duties towards their children in this respect to the heavy responsibilities they are incurring.