The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 135, 7 June 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1872.

Evening- Concert. — We would remind our readers of Mrs. Palmer's concert which is to take place at the Assembly Boom this evening. Complimentary Dinner. — A complimentary dinner is to be given to Mr. Luckie by his late Committee at McGee's Hotel, this evening, at 7 o'clock. Anchor Line of Steamers. — We hear that Messrs. N. Edward & Co. have added the Wallace, of Dunedin, and the Murray, already well known in Nelson, to their little fleet of steamers.

Westport Land Purchase Enquiry. — The Council, on meeting this morning, adjourned until 4 o'clock, when the Committee appointed to enquire inlo the purchase of land at Westport by Mr. O'Conor, expect to be in a position to bring up their report. The Suez Mail. — A telegram to the Colonist this morning explains the nonarrival of the Suez telegraphic news of the Albion. It appears that the G-alle boat, the Nubia, arrived at King George's Sound four days before her contract time, and consequently thnt the brauch boat was not in attendance to convey the telegrams to Adelaide. The Nubia with the mails' therefore was in advance of the telegrams which had not reached Melbourne when the Albion left. Interpkovincial Football Match. — A telegram was received last night stating that the Wellington team are to leave by the Phoebe on Saturday The match will therefore be played on Monday or Tuesday. The Nelson men are not in as good practice as they ought to be, but we hope they will be able to give a good account of their opponents. — To-morrow afternoon a match will be played between the College, assisted by four old Collegians, and the Nelson Club, and as the sjides are pretty equal, a well contested game is expected. Drawing Room Entertainment. — Another very excellent performance was given by Mr. Hoskins and Miss Colville last night, (he audience, we were sorry to see, being but a limited one, owing no doubt to the state of the weather. In the first piece, "My Wife's Lover," Mr. Hoskins acted the part of M. Sangfroid to perfection; in the comic sketch from the " Hunchback " it was not easy to say which was besfc represented, Master Modus or his coquettish little cousin Helen; and of the third piece "A Silent Woman," we can say no more than that the audience were kept in constant fits of laughter from the rise to the fall of the curtain. There will not be another performance until Honday next when, it is to be hoped, the weather will be more propitious, as none who are fond of such entertainments should fail to pay Mr. Hoskins and Miss Colville a visit during their present stay in Nelson. Local Committees of Education. — The election of members of the various local Committees of Education throughout the province takes place to-morrow, at noon, in the country districts at the schoolhouses, and in the town at the Court-house. We should like to see a little more interest taken in this matter than is usually the case, as on each annual occasion there is the same very limited number of ratepayers to be seen in the Court-house, the public generally seeming to be of opinion that it is not worth their while to iu:erest themselves in tho proceedings. There is no questioning the fact that the work is well done, and that, perhaps, ihe best men that could be obtained ore annually elected members of the Committee, but it is by no means a desirable or a safe habit that the ratepapers are gradually acquiring of leaving the whole matter iv the hands of about a score of their number. Last Night's Council. — The Council, on its meeting last night, adjourned until this morning, in order to allow the Westport Land Purchase Enquiry Committee to continue its investigation. Mr. O'Conor asked the Council to appoint one or two of its members to examine into matters of a purely private and confidential character, referring to his own pecuniary affairs aud those of another person, whereby he could show that he was not in possession of the purchase money for the sections until a telegram was put into his hand in the Committee room. The Council expressed an unanimous opinion that in the first place any evidence to be offered must be open and public or it would be of no avail, and secondly that it would be highly improbable that any two persous would accept a position in which they were required to give an opinion without being allowed to state on what that opinion was based. .The subject then dropped and the Council adjourned.