The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1873.

The Golden Eleece Goldmining Company has declared a dividend of 2s 2d per share. Mesmerism.—- Dr. Carr proposes to give two more of his popular lectures on Monday and Tuesday evenings next at the Oddfellows' Hall. Particulars are furnished in the advertisement. Cricket.— Wakefield v.Motueka,— We have received a telegram, dated Motueka, 2,50 p.m., stating that a capital match is being played between these two clubs. In tbe first innings Moteuka scored 28 and Wakefield 49. Motueka bad just commenced their second iDningß at the time mentioned, when rain had begun to fall. lotaito Communication. — The General Committee met last night for the purpose of considering tbe draft report prepared by the Sub- Committee. After considerable discussioD, it was considered that the report was scarcely sufficiently comprehensive, and a fuller and more detailed one was ordered to be prepared to be presented to the Committee at its next sitting. Habmonic Society.— The new piano recently ordered by the Harmonic Society from Messrs Broadwood and Son, arrived from London by the Cbaudiere, and was landed and taken to the Society's room yesterday, and played for the first time at the weekly practice last night. The instrument, which has arrived in perfect order, is one of Broadwood's beßt Grands, has a beautiful rich tone, and gave the fullest satisfaction to all who heard it last night. As tbe sum of £40 has still to be raised to complete the payment, it has been determined to give a concert in aid of the fund, which, as will be seen by advertisement, is to take place on the 6th February.' The Minerals op Nelson. — The Nelson Province, which is singularly destitute of pastoral and agricultural capabilities, is as remarkably rich in mineral wealth, not only in gold, but also in silver, copper, iron, zinc, lead ; antimony, and chrome. An interesting and valuable paper on the subject has been read at the Nelson Scientific Association, by Dr TattOD, who has devoted some years to mineral and chemical researches, with a view to aiding the development of the resources of the Province. He exhibited largely, and obtained special honorable mention at the Exhibitions of Dunedin and Melbourne. In an able treatise he shows how economically and profitably the minerals could be ■worked. Coal, too, is abundant and excellent, and only needs to be developed by capital and labor.-- Silver* s Circular, October 11. A Creditable State of Th-ngs.— ln the r iJarlbprqiigh Express of the 18th inst., there appear certain advertisements bearing the signature of "W. Hi Eyes j Commissioner of Crown Lands." . In, the npx't column ithere are two others Ywhich run a8 Y follows ;:r-- Notice.---- My wife,; Eleanor- Eyeß, haying left Ymy Y^hpuse and retdpyed my children therefrom .without rpy^consept, Ihereby give .notices that I : will noV te' responsible l for' any • debts contracted by her.— rW. H. Eyes. Jan* 13th|--1873 .---^Notice;--- My husband, William

Henry Eyes, having advertised in the public newspapers that I have, left bis house and removed his children therefrom without his consent, Thereby notice ' to all' whom it may concern that he ordered me out of his house, and that the children left with me of their own choice. — Eleanor Eyes. Blenheim, Jan. 15, 1873. The Blu-'f must be a dull place to live at, but like all small towns it makes the most of everything that offers in the way of novelty. The great source of excitement is the arrival of steamers from Melbourne. Then the passengers are food for much curiosity. Their appearance furnishes pabulum for critfeism and inquiry, and a man of any note furnishes topics of conversation for a day. A member of the j House of Representatives does for two days, a Cabinet Minister for a week, while a prince or foreign potentate would keep for a year. On the arrival of a Melbourne steamer with the Suez mail the excitement is intense. The rival telegraphic agents for Greviile's Telegram Company and the Press Association strain every nerve to obtain poseseion of the wires. They meet the steamers with well-manned boats and race for the shore, while the inhabitants of the Bluff watch the result with great anxiety and bet. The Auckland Star says : — "Another of Shaw, Saville, and Co's old tubs came rolling into harbor yesterday afternoon. The poor old barnacle- covered Harvest Home, which has run its course on the Southern trade, has by that eminent firm of shipbrokers been laid on to confiding &Dd long-suffering Auckland. This ancient specimen of marine architecture is owned in Liverpool, and was built somewhere about the year 1855. Her classification (if she has any) we have not been able to find, although Lloyd's Register for the last four or five years has been diligently searched. She has had unprecedented fair winds nearly the whole bf the passage, and was not becalmed in the Tropics, having picked; up tbe SE. trades north of tbe Equator immediately on losing the N.E. trad os. With an ordinary vessel a remarkably quick passage would have resulted, but the Harvest Home, which could not thiak of doing anything precipitate, has prolonged a tedious voyage to something like 103 or 104 days.