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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 234, 29 September 1873, Page 2

The Post of Thursday last contains the following mysterious paragraph : —lt is rumored in town that a painful scandal in connection with a member of the Legislature and honorary member of the Wellington Club is likely shortly to form the subject of legal investigation. The Committee of the Club is already said to have taken action in the matter. A northern contemporary states that at the Thames a peculiar action at law in regard to the forfeiture of mining shares is about to be tried. The directors of the Bird-in-hand Goldmining Company are to be sued for the recovery of certain shares which they forfeited for non-payment of calls, on the ground that at the time sucb forfeiture was made the directors had not themselves paid their calls, and were consequently disqualified from acting in that capacity. ... Mr Nicholas Chevalier, who painted a picture of the procession on Thanksgiving Day, by command of the Queen, has been requested by the Prince of Wales to accompany His Royal Highness to Vienna. Mr Chevalier will spend some considerable time there in making sketches of the exhibition. For remainder qf" news see fourth page.