The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 85, 9 April 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1872.

The Governor was to have left Napier for Taupo per Cobb's coach on Saturday. The Telegraph Line will shortly be extended to Reefton. Richaud Mulvena and two horses were drowned while tracking a boat across the Arnold river. Mr. Fox has been made an honorary member of the Christchurch Society of the Sons of Temperance, and was to lecture oa total abstinence on Saturday last. All Saints' Concert. — We have been requested to remind tbe ladies and gentlemen assisting io the above tbat there will be a full practice this evening, at eight o'clock, at the Harmonic Hall. Steamer Albion. — We are requested to call attention to tbe advertisement stating that the Albion will sail for Melbourne via the West Coast to-morrow evening, instead of Thursday, as previously advertised. The Markets. — The following are the latest quotations to hand • — April 5. Hokitika : flour, £l7; oats, 3a. to 3s. id.; barley, 3s. 6d. Business stagnant. Christchurch : flour, £11 to £12; wheat, 4s. 4d.j oats, le. Bd. to Is. lld. ; barley in good request at 4s. 6d. ;, The Westport Times of Friday !at»t reports the discovery of a leader or reef

about five miles from Mount Rochfort, and 20 miles from Westport. The specimens sent in to town were small, but gold was visibly distributed tbrough them. San Francisco Mail. — In this morning's Colonist there is a telegram dated Auckland, April 8, iv which it is slated that tbe Luna zoill sail for the South with the English mail. In this case there is but little hope of our receiving our portion of it by the Albion to-morrow, as the sailing of the Luna was yesterdayspoken of in Auckland as an event that was yet to take place. Oddpellowship. — Richmond is busily engaged in making preparations for a great holiday on Friday nexi, when the raising of the standard of Oddfellowship in the Province is to be celebrated on a graml scale. The matter has .been taken in hand in a thoroughly business-like manner by a number of gentlemen whose signatures appear in the advertisement with a multiplicity of prefixes wliich, although they ere altogether unintelligible to the uninitiated, have the effect of inspiring them with a certain amouutof awe aud respect for those who have earned the right to appropriate to their own use so many letters of the alphabet, aud Friday next is likely to prove that which it is intended it shall be, a gala day. The proceedings commeuce at 11 o'clock with a procession, after which como sports for all the little fellows in the district, whether odd or even; then follows a tea at 4 o'clock, after which a public meeting will be held, Mr. Barnicoat taking tbo chair, and, last but not least, the day is to be brought to a close, and probably it will be safe lo assert, that the next oue will be opened, with a ball in the Agricultural Hall. We trust that the day may be fine, and that all present will thoroughly eDJoy their holiday.