The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1874.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 30, 4 February 1874, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1874.

Wakefield Steeplechase. — The entries for the various events at the steeplechase meeting to take place on the 19th iost., will he found in our advertising columns. The weights will be published to-morrow. The Campion Inquest. ■ — We aro informed that Mr John Cann, the chairman of the public meeting recently held at Takaka, bas received a letter from the Hon. the Minister of Justice informing him that he will cause an enquiry to be made into the manner in which the inquest on the body of the late Michael Campion was conducted. Australian Bellringers. — The talented Lynch family of bellringers were as successful as ever in their popular entertainment last evening, although the fireworks exhibition and tbe several balls which were the source of great attraction to the townspeople, materially allected the attendance. Mrs Palmer presided most ably at the piano. To-night the family will appear for the last time in Nelson, and we hope to see a crowded house on the occasion. Few companies that have visited Nelson have been bo well appreciated, and we wish the Lynch family every success wherever they travel. Funeral op the late Mr Kynnersley. — Mr Kynnersley's remains were conveyed to the cemetery this afternoon, accompanied by a large number of his friends and* of the general public. The hearse was followed by about twenty miners, who happened to be in town, headed by Mr Lowther Broad, Resident Magistrate and Warden. At their particular request the coffin was carried from the house to the hearse and from tbe hearse to the grave by Borne ,of themselves, indeed they were anxious to be allowed to oarry it the whole of the distance by way of showing their respect for the deceased. Immediately behind the miners were Mr Kynnersley's more intimate friends, followed by His Honor the Superintendent, the members of tbe Executive and the Provincial Council, and following them was the general public occupying a long string of carriages. The volunteer corps had expressed an earnest desire to take part in the procession, but the friends of the deceased requested that this might not be, as Mr Kynnersley had frequently expressed the wish that there might be no pomp or display whatever at his fuperal. The body was first conveyed to All-Saints' Church, where the first portion of the service was read. by the Rev, R. J. Thorpe, and from thence to the cemetery. The London correspondent of the Melbourne 'Argus' Bpeaking of the warlike preparations now going on throughout Europe says: — I am therefore not speaking without book when I say that diplomacy is compelled to contemplate the possibility of Russia preparing to profit by the coming moves of Frap.ce to set the Oriental question agoing, la .such a case all Europe will be drawn into the melee, and the wildest scope afforded fpr alliances and counter alliances. The reputation, of members of the Legislature for sobriety seems to be bad in Kentucky. Two of them were rather noisily drunk on a railroad train the other day, and when tbe conductor remonstrated, one of them promptly asked, "Do ypu know, sir, that I am a member of the legislature?" The conductor quietly, "Xowe got the symptoms "