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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 80, 3 April 1872, Page 2

Concert. — A concert in aid of the All Saints' Organ Fund is to be given at the Provincial Hal!, on Friday evening, the 12th inst. The music will be entirely secular, and the programme, which is a most varied and judiciously selected one, gives promise of a really first-class concert that, independently of the object for which it is to be given, should be the means of bringing together a crowded audience. Wakefield. — The cricket season closed on Easter Monday, according to custom, with a match between the married and Bingle members of the club, in which the married proved the victors, scoring 171 to 107 of their opponents. The Wakefield club played nine matches this season, in seven of which they were victorious — the exceptions being the games with Wanganui and Foxhill — the latter, a friendly match, in which some of the Wakefield men played on the wiuning side. The Weather — The heavy storm of last night has supplied to tbe parched ground the moisture it has so long wanted. In the Waimea the quantity of rain that fell within a short space of time must have been something enormous, as tbe Wairoa river, which at 5 o'clock in the afternoon was not much higher than usual, rose during the night to a height that it has not been known to reach for many years. The water entirely surrounded the Bridge Hotel, and covered many of the paddocks in its immediate neighborhood, and trees of an unusually large size were seen floating down the river which quickly subsided again on the cessation of the rain