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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 6, 7 January 1874, Page 2

A number of larrikins were recently imprisoned in Melbourne for worrying a cat with a bull dog. The scarcity of female servants at Bendigo is so great that at one registry office applications had been received for 500. The Fiji correspondent of the Auckland ' Star ' writes: — The Bank has at length opened, and will no doubt bo a great boon to tho public. There are native sentries on the premises day and night, a standing insult to our little community. How valuable they are may be gathered from the fact that recently a white man went up and ordered him to give up his musket, which the sentry did. On the white man marching off with it, the sentry,, in piteous terms, expostulated thus: — " DonV, sir, if you take away my gun I will be clubbed,''' or beaten. A smart man at Sandusky put arsenic in a bottle of wine, hoping that a burglar would drink it, and his wife placed it among 100 other bottles. Tho smart man is now wondering which is the bottle.

i NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED, RASPBERRIES, immediately! 53—2 , ■ I. JOHNS. WANTED to RENT, a Four or Five-roomed HOUSE. Apply Mail Office. 26 WANTED, a respectable YOUTH. Must write a good hand, and be quick at accounts. 60—4 EDMD. BUXTON & CO. WANTED, a steady MARRIED COUPLE, without encumbrance. Man as Cook ; woman as General Servant. Good wages. Apply at the Mail Office. 61 LEVY'S AUCKLAND ROCKS in Splendid Condition, per LADYBIRD. CALL EARLY. 3141 LOST, a Silver-mounted AXLE- CAP 'The Finder, on leaving it at the Office of this paper, will be rewarded. 40 WESLEYAN CHURCEJ, WAKEFIELD. THE ANNIVERSARY SERMONS will be PREACHED in the above Church, on SUNDAY, January 11, 1874, by the Rev. T. BUDDLE, in the Afternoon, at 3, and in tbe EveniDg at 6-30 o'clock. On MONDAY, January 12, a TEA MEETING will be held ; Tea at Five o'clock. After which, a PUBLIC MEETING. Chair to be taken at 7 o'clbck, 68~4 EX HARVEST HOME. ANOTHER SHIPMENT of Bkoadwood's and Chappell's PIANOS, from'_?B_'.'~" "" Also, CORNETS, CONCERTINAS, and other INSTRUMENTS. W. DARBY, 64 Bridge-street, Nelson. PLANTS for Autumn, Winter, and early Spring use. Celery, Brocoli, Cabbage, Kail, Cauliflower, Savoy and Brussels Sprouts — first quality. WILLTAM HALE, 65 Tory and Hardy-streeta. PERSEVERANCE MINING COMPANY (REGISTERED). THE, HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING ofthe' SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held on MONDAY 1 , January 26tb, at Eight o'clock, at the Odd-Fellows' Hall, to receive the Directors' Report and the accounts for the Half-year ending 15th December, 1873. After which, A. SOCIAL GENERAL MEETING of the ; SHAREHOLDERS will be held, lor the purpose oi electing a Director in the plaice of Hbnky Hounsbll, Esq., resigned. 7 -yy JOHN R. MABIN, • y y ,<■' Legal Manager. Nelson, January 6, 1874 62