The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 9, 10 January 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1874.

The Eev W. Canuell will preach in the Wesleyan Church, Hardy-street, to-mor-row, morning nnd evening. City Rifles. — The third competition for the Company's champion Bilver medal will take place at the Maitai Butts on Monday morning, commencing at halfpast five. Hope and Ranzau Library. — The annual meeting of subscribers to this library will be held at the Institute, on Monday evening at half-past seven. Wesleyan Church, Wakefield. — Sermons in connection wifch the anniversary of this church will be preached by tho Eev, T. Buddie to-morrow afternoon and evening. On the following clay there will be a tea party and public meeting. Perseverance Company. — The Lady Barkly arrived from Collingwood last night with the results of the first crushing at the Perseverance Mine under the new management, namely, 100 ounces of gold from 550 tons of stone. Charles' Panorama. — There was another capital house at the Oddfellows' Hull last night, when a number of valuable yifts were again presented. There wili be another performance this evening. Nelson Waterworks. — In our advertising columns will be seen an announcement that the 27th clause of the ■- Waterworks Act" is (,o be strictly enforced. We are given to understand that this notice is issued because certain inhabitants let their water-taps continually run, some of them night and day ; whilst others are in the habit of fastening the hose they use for garden watering, and letting tho water run for hours together, and that some have even cut trenches or have wooden troughs through which the water is permitted to run all night through. Now we do hope that the offenders against the 27th clause will agree with us as to the necessity for this public notice, for we feel assured that no one would like a fire to take place in any part of the town and that the water supply which should quench that fire should fall short through the culpable infringement of the conditions under which water is supplied to them. According to the 'Argus' the chief local event of tbe Lyoll on Christmas day was oue of a most gratifying nature. About 2 p.m. there was a stampede in the direction of Mr Ryan's store, and the news quickly spread that tho Maruia gold had arrived. Rumor for once did not err, it had arrived, and there it lay — six goodly sized Christmas cakes, weighing altogether 1383 ounces, and consisting solely of virgin gold. Such a yield coming soon after the truly magnificent return obtained from the Break o' Day, gave a zest to the formal salutations of the season, and Christmas was all the more merry, because of a prosperous and a bappy new year. 1126 ounces of melted gold from 152 tons of Break o' Day stone, and 1383 ounces frojd 300 tons from the Maruia. Such was the welcome news whioh heralded in the Christmas of 1873; and with the mines giving such splendid returns there is no room for doubt as to the future of the district.