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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 180, 28 July 1873, Page 2

Musical Evenings. — Mrs G. Palmer of Wai mea- street, advertises a pleasant way of spending the evening} in the shape of mueical parties at her house, the admission to which is only one shilling. The first of these entertainments will tuke place to-raorrow evening. A successful attempt to obtain e£<*s o the brown trout has been made in Otago Snrae 15,000 were secured from the Shag iiver. A prisoner namet iDuffy, who was sentenced to twenty-^jfij&jashes in Dunedin gaol, received the£i raf| wuek. He suffered intensely. A paragraph in the Wangauui Chronicle states that the beef sont from that place by the Hulcione and M»lay, to England, has turned out a failure, in so far as the returns are concerned. Under the special settlement scheme a few farrilies from the Sbetlands were recently placed upon Stewart's Island. They have not yet had time to make themselves at home, but they are on thn whole satisfied with their prospects, fishing and curing fish, for which, it is to be hoped, a market will bo found. At a late meeting of the Otago Institute Mr J. N. Watt, R. M., a well known Maori scholar, stated the Maori language had been manufactured by Professor Lee, of Cambridge, and a missionary for the colony, who had confined the language to the forms used in a particular district. The translation of the Scriptures into this kind of Maori has resulted to a large extent in its adoption in the /• orth Island, but there still existed mauy dialectic peculiarities, a number of which he enumerated, and these were still more numerous in the South Islands. Ho had no hesitation in saying that the Muori language had as many consouaals in it as English. The JVestport Times of the 25th met says: — Latest information from the Lyell district states that the Exculsior plates are looking well, and everything about the mill is in satisfactory order, and tho crushing going on steadily. About 100 ounces of amalgam have been got out of ihe cover boxes and the skimmiog of the quicksilver ripples, obtained at such times as the stumpers are lifted. The other ripples and plates will not be touched until the finishing of the crushing. Up to Friday last 137 tons b^d been put through, all good weight stone. The miue is working well, but owing to the quantity of water, work has been knocked off in the lower shaft, much to the regret of the manager, as the reef there is three to four feet wide, all splendid stone and thickening as it deepens. TfiE Canterbury Jockey Club, in publishing the correspondence connected with the Peeress case, state : — lt was with regret that the Club considered themselves bound to pass the resolution, as the mare had proved herself one of the best and most honest horses that had performed on the Canterbury turf. They could not, however, but consider that Mr Walters had bought, for £300, a mare valued at £800; that Mr Walters is no loser by her, as the maro is worth fully £300 at the present time, as a brood m»re, and that, it the C J C. remove the disquulificatioo, her value would bo more than doubled, and thus Mr Walters would net on the Peei ess transaction a considerable sum of money. Had the Club considered themselves justified in removing the disqualification, they would have immediately published Mr Wai cere's letter; but, aa Mr Walters hud put in his admission of the facts, no doubt in hope of its influencing tho Club favorably towards him, and, as they did not feel in a position to

remove the penalty, they did not think is quite fair to publish what he deemed fit to communicate gratuitously. The Westland Register gives, in a recent, number, the following description of a scene iv the Hokitika Borough Council : — The services of the police were very nearly required last night during the seance of that august body, the Borough Council. Urged to madness by Councillor Birrett'a platitudes and personalities, Councillor Alcorn so far forgot himself as i,o stigmatise the offender as a " so-smii-.«o wind-bag." The wind-bag rolling toward fc the too graphic councillor, exploded wiih a great noise, and a voice issued from it exclaiming in well-known accents (with, the Barrett's twist) that if the calumniator would step outside he would " knock cotton balls out of him," a result which we imagine to be a trade variation of knocking sauceparjs out of a man. owever amusing this may be, it is not by aoy means to the credit of the Corporation, and gives occasion to ihe enemies of the place to hold it and its inhabitants up to undeserved ridicule.