The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1873.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 296, 10 December 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1873.

College Sports. — The annual sports will be held io the College grounds tomorrow, and Friday, commencing each day ar, hnlf-pnst two. All Saints' Chuuch Fund. — The sale of work in aid of ihia fund has been unavoidably postponed until next week ; the days fixed upon being Tuesday, Wednesday, ami Thursday, Union Steam Ship Company. —In our advertising columns will be found the pro3pectua of a now company that it is proposed to establish at Dunedio, under the above name. We refer our readers to the proppectna in which full particulars will be found. ; Perseverance Mine. — We would remind shareholders that according to : advertisemf nt which haa for some time; pftet appeared in the columns of this paper, a call of 5a per share ia due this day by shareholders in the Company. By the last Mining Companies Act, the directors will have to take proceedings within founeen days after the call ia due, for all unpaid calls; and, " that any share on which a call due thereon shall at tha expitation of twenty-oue days alter the day upon which it. 6hall be du» tie unpaid, ehall thereupon be absolutely forfeited." Shareholders would therefore do well to p*y without delay, as the directors may now summons ou any day. Mr Curtis' 8 Meeting. —Mr Curtis - addressed a crowded meeting of ihe electors at the Provincial Hall last night, bur as the election wil! be decided by tb« lime the Mail is issued, and as the public have had % a sorieit of political speeches of l»te we do not consider it necessary to report what he said At the termination '. of the speech Mr O'Conor ascended the platform amidst great uproar and asked Mr Curtis three or four questions and got , hia answers. The meeting was the noisiest and most excited we were ever present at in Nets >n, and when an amendment moved by Mr Levcstam to a vote of confidence proposed by Mr Pitt was defeated by no overwhelming majority, the cheers and uproar were perfectly deafening. Indeed the excitement appeared to extend itself beyond the body of the Hall into the ladies' gallery, which was crowded, for when tho resolution had been carried, some wag shouted out, take a show of hands from the ladies, and the imitation was at once .responded to, and the waviog of numberless handkerchiefs seemed to show that among the fair sex at least Mr Curtis could couut many supporters. Affer the chair was vacated, Mr O'Couor held an impromptu meeting of his own on some matter connected with the Mount Rochfort coalfield, Mr J. Graham being in the chair. Shortly alter tho proceedings commenced, someone disposed for a iark got at the gas meter and turned out the light*, but this was speedily remedied by obtaining kerosine lamps until the gaa was lighted again, which was done as soon bs possible. Mr O'Conor having made his explanation, the second meeting broke up and so ended the most exciting political event that bna been known here. Vpper Mouterb. — The children attending Sarsu School were examined by Mr Hodgson (Inspector) on Monday the Bth instant, in the presence of several members of the. Local Committee, with the following result: — First ciasa— first prize, Geo. Cook; second prize, Eliza Hoffmann. Second class, first prize— Charles Killing, second prize, Henry Benseman. • Third clasa — first prize, Henry Buckraann, second prize, Ellen Talbor. Fourth clas? — first. prizH, Daniel Best, second pri^, Charles Bensemann. Fifth clasa — first prize, Walt* r Hf-wetßou, second prize, J^mis Beat. Special prizps — For writing Henry Bergman. Arithmetic-- - G'orge Cook, Geography — George Cook. Prize awarded by the teacher for general good , conduct — Man ha Heine.