The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 89, 13 April 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1872.

Agricultural Association. — The directors and stewards of the Association are reminded of the meeting that is to take place at the Richmond Institute this evening at 7 o'clock. ' Telegraphic, — We are very glad to be able to inform our readers that Auckland has at laßt'been placed in direct telegraphic communication with the rest of the colony, the first message having been flashed through from the Northern capital to-day. We may also mention that a mail leaves the Opunake station for New Plymouth every day at noon, and from New Plymouth for Opunake at the same hour, so that a reply may be received to-morrow to a message deepatched from here before 12 o'clock to-day. The Rev. T. L. Tudor.— The marriage of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd Tudor took place on Tuesday the 9th inst., at St. Thomas's Church, Motueka. The deserved popularity of the reverend gentleman, and the interest felt iv the wedding of the highly-esteemed bride, attracted a large concourse of people. At half-past ten, a.m., the happy bridegroom, attended by the officiating clergyman and other friends, made their appearance. It was a source of joy to the old settlers to behold one identified with the earliest history of Motueka taking from the scene of his former labors a lady who has won the hearts of all classes. The bride, accompanied by her sister, who was herself a bride, and a galaxy of bridesmaids, arrived punctually from North wood, and were greeted at the church gate by the children of the Sunday-school, who strewed the pathway with a profusion of flowers. The chancel of the sacred edifice had been tastefully decorated, ami, impressive as the solemn service of the church always is, it waß rendered still more so by the devout behaviour of ail present, many of whom were Mr. Tudor's quondam parishioners. — Communicated.

At a Native Meeting recently held at Ohinemuri, the Superintendent of Auckland made a most persuasive speech to the assembled chiefs in the endeavor to obtain their permission to erect the telegraph across their land, hut was met with the following reply from one of them, Hone Te Kuti by name : — The fault of the disagreements between the Maoris and Europeans lay with the latter, as they brought guns and powder into the island. The Maoris then did not know the use of them, and now they had only very lately seen the use of the wire but they had not seen the end of it. It might be used as an instrument of evil. A gun could only kill at a certain distance, but with the wire a man might be shot nt Wellington.