The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 149, 21 June 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1873.

The Ship Excelsior, 110 days out from London, arrived at the outer anchorage' this morning. Steamer Wallace. — Owing to bad weather setting in, the Wallace's departure for Blenheim has been postponed till tomorrow night. Volunteer Artillery Company.- — At a meeting of members of the Company held on Wednesday nighf, Mr Sadd was elected first lieutenant, and Mr Montalk sub-lieutenant. Public Meeting, — We remind our country readers that a public meeting will be held on Monday evening for the purpose of obtaining an expression of opinion as to the best line for the railway between Nelson and Stoke. Mr Ceobge Cottbrell's entertainment was given last night to a well-filled house, and the verdict of the audience, as expressed by many in our hearing, was, " he's better than ever." It is difficult to caricature that which in itself is a caricature, but Mr Cotterell was very successful in his attempt to satirise the comic singing of the present day, the vulgarity and silliness of which form its sole recommendations. •' Nofc so bad for me " was a fair type of these songs, and Mr Cotterell's rendering of it was but a very slight exaggeration of the style in which they are usually sung. The other portions of his entertainment were exceedingly good, and the whole was brought to a close with the farce " No. 1 round the corner," by two gentlemen amateurs. Mr Cotterell, we understand, has' entered into an engagement with the Carandini troupe, who will give a concert in passing through Nelson from Auckland, on Wednesday evening. Suburban North. — A pleasant evening's entertainment, in aid of the Clifton Terrace Library, was given in the -schoolroom on Tuesday evening last, J. Old bam, Esq., in the chair. W. Wells, Esq., delivered a highly interesting and instructive lecture on " The Elementary Principles of Geology," illustrated and made plain by beautifully-colored diagrams, which was listened to with appreciative attention. After the close of the lecture, a few amateur friends from Nelson, to whom many thanks are due, delighted the audience with a series of songs, choruses, duetts, and recitations. These winter evening entertainments are doubtless doing much good, not only in furnishing an hour's pleasant amusement, but by kindling a keen desire to gather up the fragments of knowledge more pointedly brought before the attention of the young people than can be done amidst the ordinary routine of daily life and toil. Other monthly entertainments will follow, of vhich due notice will be given,—-Com-municated. Judged by the entries, the next Melbourne Cup race will be a grand affair. Ninety horses have been entered : fortytwo from Victoria, twenty-seven from New South Wales, eleven from South Australia, four from New Zealand, two from Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland , one each. New Zealand is represented by Castaway, Calumny, Lurine, and Tambournij Queensland, by Judge Lutwyche'e Flirtation; Tasmania,, by old Strop; while the crack horses of '■■ Australia are well represented by The Ace, Hamlet, Javelin, Dagworth, Reprieve, and the Prophet, all five year olds; and among the fours will be found Patriarch, Blue Peter, King of the. Ring, The Arrow, and King of Clubs, all horses of some merit, although not, perhaps, firstclass when gauged by the wonderful Loup Garou. The threes will likewise be ably represented by Lapidist, Rose d 'Amour, Dagmar, Benvolio, and Triton, all fair performers; while among the aged contingent, although there is nothing of extraordinary brilliance, we find Nimblefoot, Little Dick, Lapdog, and Valentine. Out of the ninety, perhaps forty will come to the starting post.